Soulmates

by Paulo Coelho on July 6, 2009

I’m in my fourth marriage. I’ve been married with three people that I really loved and I’m sure they loved me, but somehow our marriage didn’t work out together, so they left, I left, and now everybody is happy. Then I met Christina and we’ve been together for 30 years.

Sometimes it takes a lot of risks, because we’re in love with someone, we’re not happy and we know that there is someone out there who is connected to us but we don’t take the risks. Sometimes we are with our soulmates but we don’t recognize.

Let’s talk about soulmates!

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Veronika September 28, 2009 at 9:31 pm

I don’t think the expression “sometimes we are with our soul mates but we don’t recognize” is the prefect one. I believe it’s better to say “We deny to believe it or recognize”! But we do recognize our soul mates instantly, at least on intuitive level. Maybe I am a bit absolute with it and look from my bell tower only but… I did recognized my soul mate instantly, and I know exactly how it feels. But being a logical and rational person I refused to believe it at first because the story was of a mystical realm…And I was afraid to take a risk because it took a form of obsession (kind of Zahiric one :)))) however in a right time, actually which took even me by surprise, parts of a puzzle came to be together, creating one of the most complicated and yet one of the most beautiful mosaics. And today I can only shake my shoulders and think “Why would I ever doubt?” :))))))

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sunny suman June 21, 2010 at 1:49 pm

U r vry true. We deny to believe it though we do recognize it.

Begonia September 21, 2009 at 7:00 am

“Cada separacion es una connexion.”S. Weil

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Moonya September 17, 2009 at 8:42 pm

You’re in your 4th marriage… I understand your thoughts of having loved every woman of your marriages, and I can agree with these thoughts. I’m in my first marriage, and I’m scared, to be honest.
When I met my husband, I knew I’m going to marry him. We loved each other so much and 2 and a half years later, we got married. Later, I sensed something’s wrong – no, wrong is the wrong word – something’s not the way it should be. Anyway, I always sticked to my man, believing we were both meant for each other… believing, it might all go well for us. So we built a house together which should have been our home for the next 10-20 years. And then something happenend: I met another person. A person who was able to touch my soul deeply. I mean, nothing physical happened between us. It was a lot deeper and such a strong and exceptional feeling I’ve never known before. It was as if we were linked somehow. Then, few days later, I had to leave the place and the person – unable to keep him off my mind. It was so painful to think I never gonna see him again. So painful I couldn’t stand it. My entire life has changed – nothing was normal anymore. And I clearly could see what was missing in my marriage. And what my husband could never give me or I could never give him. Now, we’re almost separated. It hurts me a lot and I’m also a bit scared of my transformation, but I need to follow my feelings. Anyways, I truly loved my husband and I loved the time we had and I don’t regret to have him married. By the time we decided to, it was totally right!
But now I have to meet the other person again, and so I will. I need to find out if he’s …my soulmate… ?

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Moonya October 17, 2009 at 10:15 pm

I found out a lot. Maybe he really is a soulmate. But he’s not the one I will share my life with.
Nonetheless, I had to meet him – that’s very clear to me now. I had to meet him and thus change my life. To be able to take the decision to change my life.
An almost stranger, that was able to touch my soul, that I was so close to. And I’m so grateful I met him, though there’s no lifetime together for us.
I release myself from him now. But a part of me will always love him.

K September 16, 2009 at 7:21 pm

Here’s a thought—-There might be only one soul. All the different bodies and within them different souls?!! but it might be so that everyone, everything – livin/non-living is the part of a one soul. We just need to probe with-in and see through the apparent differences and discover our similarities. After-all we ALL are on planet earth in the universe. Deep inside beyond the dust of the bodies/matter it could be the same soul in everyone, could it not? The soul of Earth or may be the soul of the universe itself? I think we should try to know our soul better inorder to find the one soul that is there in all of us. Everyone here is a soulmate.

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Hicham Rizkallah September 12, 2009 at 7:29 pm

And it seemed like an old soul that was scattered long ago
And the wind blew the twins away from each other
Thousands of years jaunted in between
Bringing the soul embodied in two earthly shells
Mother earth generously decorated the shells with its jewels
Bringing up two equally interesting human being
The day they met, the soul blazed, and the spirits toasted
It was the reunification of the soul, the amalgamation of the oness
Like thirst to a well
They gripped from each other
Like ice cubes, they melted within
The soul glowed, shining in the darkness of the world
The shells walked a little, danced a little, and drank
However, The darkness was stronger, and the wind blew
The stronger shell held on,
And the weaker gave up
And the wind blew stronger
Drifting the two soul apart again,
The sparkle vanished, thirst grew, and the well flooded
Hands separated, the glow weakened
And the two shells continued life
Like nothing happened,
Like any other shell among their peers,
Lost and looking for the soul complementary

Lebanon, 15 August 2009

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marion chevalier September 12, 2009 at 5:42 pm

heaven and hell are weirdly the 2 scariest words on earth, when you see that most of the time people are scared of life and everything that it implies.Also they are scared of death. these two words are similar because they both remain of the unknown.
Personnaly heaven is where my soul would be free an not obliged to come back on earth which is my hell. Everyday i’m reminded to live a life that would help me to go forward in this life but also forward for my next life and stop this kind of processus where i’m standing still for a moment.
a french sentence says:”sciences sans conscience n’est que ruine de l’âme”, translated by sciences without conscience is like being a perishable soul..
Being a perishable soul would be the worst and even more i know that in this life i’m helped but i keep in mind that some days i’ve been like that which explains why i’m still here.
dear paolo i do hope that you’ll find something in this answer that would give you and me something to think, exchange, and love.
marion chevalier

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emma underwood September 10, 2009 at 12:46 am

blunt and to the point, but with no offense intended, how do you differenticated between someone NOT being your soulmate or ignoring the fact that they are, leading you further down the path of “loneliness”?

some say i am a “new” soul, others say im searching for something or is it someone or is it i have it all but am a lost soul? and how can i further my investigation, in depth and on going as it is?

cheers

emma

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Tania September 7, 2009 at 1:08 am

salve paulo…scusa se scrivo in italiano, forse non leggerai mai quello che stò scrivendo ma ci tenevo a dirlo.
i tuoi libri mi accompagnano da anni, ormai sei diventato un insegnante di vita, ho solo 22 anni ed in questi giorni stò leggendo l’alchimista e brida…
sono due libri favolosi e leggendoli mi sono resa conto di una cosa terribile…io non riesco più ad ascoltare il mio cuore, non riesco più a comunicare con me stessa e cosa peggiore, a 22 anni non ho sogni da realizzare!
vivere e lottare per la prpria leggenda personale? lo farei…ma non so quale sia!
questo è un piccolo sfogo che mi sono concessa..non so neanche perchè l’ho fatto!
anche io un giorno vorrei incontrare un maestro che mi insegni ad ascoltare me stessa, per capire i segreti della mia anima e dell’universo!

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E. Noyola August 30, 2009 at 5:07 am

Soulmates

I let the distractions of my life confuse my heart
And today I know you are the one
But now I must fight against your doubts
Doubts that have built a tall wall.

It was destiny that brought us together
But is your fear that is keeping us apart
I will wait here for you a little longer
Hoping you will realize in time I am the one…

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Zoltan Cserhati August 26, 2009 at 8:10 pm

Happy Birthday Paulo….take care

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maria August 24, 2009 at 4:11 pm

To all you and if someone knows the answer please tell me.
Soulmates are for real or just a romantic finction something to use as a remedy for the soul when nothing happens to our sex life?
Soulmate what does it really mean?
Once i believed in soulmates in fact i used to wait and wait for him to come.
And finally he came, he was atractive, he knew what i was thinking what i wanted to say and etc i lived in a dream.
I even thought that the very best next thing to paradise was his arms.
I loved him so much that i have done things that i wouldn’t normally do and i forgave even more.
Untill one day i found out that he cheated on me not only with one friend of mine but with every friend i had and with an enenmy too. He actually enjoyed to play this game.
The love he gave me, every nice and sweet talk he said to me he took it back and he added that he lied when he was saying all these, he was never in love with me, that i was not only the biggest mistake he have done but the least wanted and sexually capable compairing to my friends.
He became vicious to me calling me with names i don’t wish to say.
He never admitted of cheating on me and he actually said that i don’t see very well when i caught him in action with the other.
I suffered and maybe i still suffer of him in so many levels that stopped feeling beautifull and desirable woman in fact i am not but who cares right?As i told you I have many and much more beautifull friends than i.
As far as i am concerned because everyone has an opinion based of what he lived what he has experienced, soulmates bring pain and suffering and if you found your soulmate it doesn’t mean that you are the soulmate for him too because otherwise he would have stayed right?He wouldn’t cheat on me and do all these terible things to me
And maybe we are not all of us blessed with soulmates.
So after all these do you think that i should believe in soulmates?

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ZinZar August 19, 2009 at 4:40 pm

In the book “Brida”, you said there can be more than one soul mate. I agree on that. What happen when a man meets his two of soul mates at the same time?

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Carmen September 6, 2009 at 11:43 am

So you believe a person can have more than one soulmate, right ? That’s good. But it’s not the only reason to spend your whole life with someone. You need to have the same passions, the same interests, hobbies, etc … Suppose you do meet your soulmate, and you don’t have anything in common, and you meet another person, who’s not your soulmate, but that you can talk to on and on and never get bored. Who would you choose ? I would choose the second one, personally.
If you met two soulmates at the same time, you need to compare, and see who you get along with better, who you are more compatible with, because as romantic as the idea of soulmates is, it’s also good to stay focused and realistic and not get carried away.
I hope that helped you. If not, maybe someone else has better advice

Roxana August 19, 2009 at 3:18 pm

Soulmates are real and I’m happy that I’d found mine.

We travel and we search the whole life our soulmate and …we won’t find it allways. This is the sadest part of our search. Maybe we’ll have to give up and to open our hearts..and then it’s happening!

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Grettel August 18, 2009 at 5:30 am

Self-fulfilling prophecy?

When I was 4 or 5 years old I told my mother that “I was going to get married and suffer a lot (because of this relationship), then get a divorce and shortly get married again this time to my soulmate…” Now, at that time, my mom was worried about me talking like this, since I was raised in a loving home with happily married parents. Time passed and I completely forgot about this whole thing. But surely enough, I got married, had a precious daughter and suffer like crazy in this ill relationship full of psychological aggression.
7 years later I finally divorce this man and went through a long journey of deep soul searching and true forgiveness, which has been the most enlightening path that I`ve ever experienced so far… I am finally at a place where I am grateful for all the tough times and mostly for having the wonderful gift of being a mom. Recently my mother remember what I told her so many years ago. So far it`s been a self-fulfilling prophecy, so I am now peacefully expecting (since I am ready) that the second part of “the prophecy” will come to pass as well… I`ll let you know…

By the way, it would be really interesting to hear from your own self-fulfilling prophecys Mr. Coelho!

Namaste!

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Jana August 18, 2009 at 12:03 am

While searching for truth or freedom, in yourself you maybe can find, what you are, what you want and learn what life (may) teach(es) you. And when you feel, that love bears love you can feel and live what love could be like.
I once got to know (tears run over my face) a man, that was such an appearance, such a gift. He makes me believe in truth and freedom and love and it hurts so much, not knowing, if he is ok.
It was just an idea of being soulmates. I have to consider, I just catched a window of time, I dont even know him. But what I know, and what he was able to give in just a short time was so much, that I think, that is how love should feel like.
I would do anything to make him feel good. I would do anything to just see him one more time in my life.
He became my guardian angel.
I really hope and wish he had at least a tiny idea of what he had done for me and I wished I could do anything good for him.

I still dont really believe in fairy tales, but that reminds me a text a good friend sent me:

“People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person.
When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a
need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a
difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you
physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.
Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up
and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.

Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has
come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must
build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.

Thank you for being a part of my life,
whether you were a reason, a season or a lifetime.”

I am really in love with that strong feelings and thoughts, that I have to this man, I told you something about. And I admit, that I am in love with that man (he is not only a beautiful soul but also an attractive person ;-) ) but I keep on living my life, trying to be and become a good human being. To be someone that give love to others and maybe one day I find someone, that is able to give love without fear.

PS: thank you for giving us a place, where we can share thoughts like these

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Estella August 19, 2009 at 6:06 pm

Really LOVE your post!
Thank you for sharing

gita October 8, 2009 at 9:38 pm

Really love your post,
thanks for sharing..
love..

aditya damarwulan August 17, 2009 at 11:48 pm

Hi, Mr Paulo,

I have a story.
I met this girl for almost 3 years in my school days, at that time, I only have a small feeling of “love” to her, I never thought she was my ideal mate for me, but you see… time passed and 10 years later by the time I sign up for Facebook, I typed all the friends that I know, but when I type her name, it was’nt there, maybe she hasn’t joined fb yet. So out of curiousity, I asked her friend, but she didn’t know about her anymore, time passed….. I have a feeling to type her name again…. and she’s there. After I add her as a friend, I played a joke on her and told her my true feeling. She was surprised, and never thought I would ever like her. But at the end of the message, she told me to call her, I’m a bit surprised, calll her? for what? and my “tingling” feeling for her grows as I write her one of the passage from the Manual Of Warrior of Light, and guess what? She says that she wants to meet me, but I said to her that I’m on a tight schedule, I have to finish my bachelor thesis, whisc last for four months, during that time, I can not meet somebody, well actually that was my mom’s plot, she is too well over protective person, and she was like sigh… I have to wait for 4 months just to see this boy that I haven’t met for 10 years, and now he says that he like me? suddenly, somehow, I felt that this girl, I don’t know how or why, well she divorce 2,5 years ago because of some problems with her ex hubbie, and has one son 3 years old. so.. she is single now, that what she said. but I have a jolt feeling that I want to stay with her forever, is this kind of “soulmate” feeling or what? and since then I feel that she was the best that God have ever “send” to me, and I feel that no one can compare to herof being my “soulmate”, since then I always think about her, day and night, with my thought of her based only with my past memories with her, so I said, this is weird, I can meet her 4 months or more than now, and I already crazy about her? is this a “soulmate” to you mr Paulo, or is it just a passing crush feeling that will go away soon or later? I don’t know, but I kind of tortured by the feeling of wanting to see her, but my mom…. she won’t let me, not until I had my degree…. and find a job…. I guess that is more than 4 months. Well, all this time I communicate with her using facebook, and she seems to encourage me with advices that I have to be strong…and optimist..and so on, ut to wait for her that long….. I don’t even know whether I could make it or not, but it seems that my love for her, is never faded, so, that is my story about my feeling that I think that she is my soulmate, well, time tells……..
Thank you, Mr. Paulo for reading this, it means so much for me.

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beeba August 19, 2009 at 4:32 pm

Keep hoping. I had to wait for mine for 2 years. And my and ur story are pretty similar, we talked on facebook and msn for two years – but my reason is different: we were both living in different countries. I met him on a holiday and i saw and felt something about him that could not die. After 2 years, i travelled to meet him and we went out together for 18 months. After that, we got married.

Who knows? perhaps she really is your soulmate. How come you feel strong emotions for her?

Take care!

Maria August 15, 2009 at 11:52 pm

I have known my soulmate for nearly 10 years but I think I only realised he was a soulmate within the last 3 years or so. Only within the last few months is he probably realising that I am a soulmate to him.

We are both in long term relationships with other people and we have children. We are happy in our relationships but as two friends, we share a very special bond and many special conversations. We support each other and listen to each other and care for each other.

Soulmate does not necessarily mean the one you are partnered with in a relationship. Soulmate is a very special soul that has arrived on your path for a reason. Sometimes you do not always know that reason until some years afterwards when something happens in either of your lives which is when the soulmate comes into his or her own, ready, waiting there to help and support you and to offer guidance and love. At some point, you do the same for them in their time of need (be that need known or unknown to the person at the time).

Let me tell you this….4 nights ago, I went to bed with the specific intention of going on a journey to the Middle East. My soulmate was there on a business trip. I said a few words before sleep and did a lot of visualisation. I travelled astrally. I went to the Middle East. I travelled high above the earth, seeing land masses and oceans and also the silver thread that bound me to where I’d come from. I was above my soulmate, looking down, watching him sleep quite restlessly. This experience made me jump and I woke up with such a start. The following day, I felt totally moved by what had happened but also a little upset because I felt I’d given this person a restless night because of my journey. They are not as evolved on their path as I am and I felt they did not understand why they had a disturbed night. I felt responsible for this. However, I now know that if they were not meant to learn something themselves from this experience, that they wouldn’t have been there on that astral plane waiting for me.

Maria

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sırma August 14, 2009 at 8:47 pm

hi,
i heard that soulmate is not just a thing about love that all we think. we can have thousands or hundreds of soulmates or just one soulmate all around the world and they can be samesex or opposite sex.if we mediate to up our mood or to relax or plurify, also our soulmate group is affected and they will feel better. with this way people can bring peace on world.
i am not sure about this idea but it seems very rational.
thanx

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s_ela27 August 11, 2009 at 4:52 am

I knew all my life that someday that someone will come to me, the one meant to me; and i have waited a long time, I’ve tried loving those men who’ve passed through my life, and all the time i realized something is missing, that the one that i was waiting for is not yet next to me; finally, after years when everybody around me started families, i was tired of trying to find my loved one, my soul mate; I’ve quit the idea on finding him…but it happen…he appeared when i expected the least; and it was like we knew ourselves by forever; he came when i needed him the most; and we are together since then; but in order to be together, god or humans tried our love, our sincerity…and we won, because we were meant to be together; if there was a plan for us both i don’t know; if were my own desires that brought him to me, again, i don’t know; but i know today i am next to him, and we love each other; and we’ll continue love each other till at the end; and it doesn’t matter what or when that end will be, we’ll accept it, because him to me and me to him we were a gift, and gifts are not meant to be spoiled. I hope all of you will find one day his/her soul mate, because he/she is there, and is waiting for you.

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Sarah August 12, 2009 at 1:55 am

I’m so happy for you. I am in the same position and although some days I just want to give up on love, I do believe my soulmate is out there. I think he’s really bad with directions so if you come across him, give him a compass and point him in my direction! Wishing you a lifetime of happiness. :)

elvis August 10, 2009 at 11:57 pm

salut paulo,
je sais pas quoi dire, mais durant toute ma vie, j’ai senti de l’amour, du vrai, mais j’ai pas pu le devoiler, …

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Elvira, from Italy August 10, 2009 at 8:30 pm

Dear Paulo, you’re my favourite writer of all times and I’d really like to share my feelings about love with you. For a very long time I asked myself:is there someone who can truly, deeply, love me?and can you love someone, if you can’t love yourself?I don’t think so anymore.I spent so much time wondering where the other part of me could be but I never really let myself falling in love with someone. Never.Even when I was a little, lonely girl- because I wasn’t beautiful enough, I wasn’t funny enough, I wasn’t just..good enough.
Somehow, I believed and I still believe in soulmates. I just need to.
One day I hope I will find HIM -I don’t know where he is, what’s his name or what he’s doing- and, for the first time in my life, I ill start loving myself as well. I wish you all the best guys. Be always proud of you, no matter what because everyone, yes, you too, deserves to love and to be loved.

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sannimaarit August 10, 2009 at 7:36 pm

I don’t know why this topic brings tears right now. Not sad, not happy, but touched. I am on a tender edge of losing the trust in love in terms of a romantic couple. It is much easier to believe in our world uniting than we finding soulmates, it is simply just so unlikely. Yet the more time passes the more convinced I am about love being the only real and right power. I imagine my soulmate singing me a song I listen to every morning, and that musical relationship will last until I die :)

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Dracula August 9, 2009 at 11:44 pm

I live in an Arab country and have seen the measures people go through in order to find their soul mates. It’s intriguing and although at times, can be seriously annoying, the idea that everyone is just trying to find that someone, well its beyond amazing.

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Estella August 10, 2009 at 4:16 am

Oh..really. That’s interesting.

Sounds like pathetic people wandering the region just to get hitched.

Gotta start reconsidering going there now.

If reincarnation & your remark is true, I would blame it on well…

“Harem”

;)

Lissa August 5, 2009 at 3:19 pm

Amor é fogo que arde sem se ver

Amor é fogo que arde sem se ver;
É ferida que dói e não se sente;
É um contentamento descontente;
É dor que desatina sem doer;

É um não querer mais que bem querer;
É solitário andar por entre a gente;
É nunca contentar-se de contente;
É cuidar que se ganha em se perder;

É querer estar preso por vontade;
É servir a quem vence, o vencedor;
É ter com quem nos mata lealdade.

Mas como causar pode seu favor
Nos corações humanos amizade,
Se tão contrário a si é o mesmo Amor?

Luís de Camões

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Mark Santto August 9, 2009 at 12:14 am

VERMELHO

Namoro teus olhos.
Acaricio o céus de tua boca,
teus dentes, tua língua, tua saliva.
Encontro minha mão no teu corpo,
afago como se não tocasse.
Beijo teu seios ao redor do tenro.
Alimento todo o meu prazer.
Desço com beijos
até os grandes lábios.
Com teus dedos entre meus cabelos
sinto o desejo ardente de acender
a chama que molha a minha boca.
Ouço teus sussurros umectar.
A minha pele transpira,
expurgar o prazer.
Beijo-a com
o sabor do próprio pecado.
Quando tua boca
desliza no meu tórax,
começa a massagear meu prazer.
As nuvens
rompem o teto.
Busco-a e absorvo
toda a saliva
do meu pecado.
Começo a penetrar suave,
intermináveis formas,.
As horas são eternas.
O leito não existe.
A água queima,
tornando o nosso orgasmo
infinito.

@MarkSantto TWITTER

Thaislane Santana August 5, 2009 at 5:19 am

Das Vantagens de Ser Bobo – Clarice Lispector

O bobo, por não se ocupar com ambições, tem tempo para ver, ouvir e tocar o mundo. O bobo é capaz de ficar sentado quase sem se mexer por duas horas. Se perguntado por que não faz alguma coisa, responde: “Estou fazendo. Estou pensando.”

Ser bobo às vezes oferece um mundo de saída porque os espertos só se lembram de sair por meio da esperteza, e o bobo tem originalidade, espontaneamente lhe vem a idéia.

O bobo tem oportunidade de ver coisas que os espertos não vêem. Os espertos estão sempre tão atentos às espertezas alheias que se descontraem diante dos bobos, e estes os vêem como simples pessoas humanas. O bobo ganha utilidade e sabedoria para viver. O bobo nunca parece ter tido vez. No entanto, muitas vezes, o bobo é um Dostoievski.

Há desvantagem, obviamente. Uma boba, por exemplo, confiou na palavra de um desconhecido para a compra de um ar refrigerado de segunda mão: ele disse que o aparelho era novo, praticamente sem uso porque se mudara para a Gávea onde é fresco. Vai a boba e compra o aparelho sem vê-lo sequer. Resultado: não funciona. Chamado um técnico, a opinião deste era de que o aparelho estava tão estragado que o conserto seria caríssimo: mais valia comprar outro. Mas, em contrapartida, a vantagem de ser bobo é ter boa-fé, não desconfiar, e portanto estar tranqüilo. Enquanto o esperto não dorme à noite com medo de ser ludibriado. O esperto vence com úlcera no estômago. O bobo não percebe que venceu.

Aviso: não confundir bobos com burros. Desvantagem: pode receber uma punhalada de quem menos espera. É uma das tristezas que o bobo não prevê. César terminou dizendo a célebre frase: “Até tu, Brutus?”

Bobo não reclama. Em compensação, como exclama!

Os bobos, com todas as suas palhaçadas, devem estar todos no céu. Se Cristo tivesse sido esperto não teria morrido na cruz.

O bobo é sempre tão simpático que há espertos que se fazem passar por bobos. Ser bobo é uma criatividade e, como toda criação, é difícil. Por isso é que os espertos não conseguem passar por bobos. Os espertos ganham dos outros. Em compensação os bobos ganham a vida. Bem-aventurados os bobos porque sabem sem que ninguém desconfie. Aliás não se importam que saibam que eles sabem.

Há lugares que facilitam mais as pessoas serem bobas (não confundir bobo com burro, com tolo, com fútil). Minas Gerais, por exemplo, facilita ser bobo. Ah, quantos perdem por não nascer em Minas!

Bobo é Chagall, que põe vaca no espaço, voando por cima das casas. É quase impossível evitar excesso de amor que o bobo provoca. É que só o bobo é capaz de excesso de amor. E só o amor faz o bobo.

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Cris August 5, 2009 at 2:16 am

Intensamente eu trabalho,
Trabalhar para mim é muito mais que acordar de manhã cedo com uma obrigação certa de ir e vir,
É com prazer, acordar e perceber que tenho algo de útil e bom a fazer, e faço.
Intensamente eu conquisto,
Conquistar para mim é muito mais do que um desafio pessoal, onde a satisfação é só minha,
É o lutar por um objetivo, que faça bem a todos que estão ao meu redor, contudo estou sempre em busca de um novo objetivo e conquisto.
Intensamente eu brigo,
Brigar para mim é muito mais do que jogar palavras fora, magoar as pessoas ou agredi-las
É falar na hora certa , com a pessoa certa o que é certo, e principalmente ouvir a resposta e perceber se acertei ou errei, por isso brigo.
Intensamente eu choro,
Chorar para mim não é covardia, e coragem de expressar a quem quer que seja a dor que vem de dentro do coração, por isso choro.
Intensamente eu sonho,
Sonhar para mim é muito mais do que dormir acordada e frustrada, ao descobrir que era apenas um sonho
É planejar o meu amanhã de uma forma mágica e sincera de ser, e fazer acontecer por isso sonho.
Intensamente eu sou amiga,
Amizade para mim, é muito mais do que contar segredos ou falar da vida alheia
É ter com quem dividir as alegrias e tristezas, derrotas e conquistas, é confiança, cumplicidade e principalmente fidelidade, por isso tenho poucos amigos.
Intensamente eu amo,
Amar para mim é muito mais do que dizer “Eu Te Amo”,
É provar a cada olhar, a cada gesto, a cada momento o quanto as pessoas são importantes para mim, o quanto eu sinto a falta delas, o quanto eu as admiro, por isso eu amo.
Intensamente eu sou,
Eu sou assim, tudo que faço, faço intensamente, trabalho, conquisto, brigo, choro, sonho, sou amiga e principalmente amo intensamente.
Viver para mim é exatamente isso, fazer tudo intensamente, sem medo de errar, e mesmo se errar, sofrer pelo erro, mas sofrer intensamente, pois esse sofrer com certeza por mais intenso que seja, vai doer da mesma maneira que se não fosse intenso por isso vivo e sofro intensamente.
E é desta maneira intensa que sou o que sou, doa a quem doer, e nestas palavras estou sendo intensa mais uma vez,
Intensamente sincera.
Viva e deixe viver tudo intensamente, pois relações mornas são DIGNAS de pessoas mornas….

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Sousou August 4, 2009 at 12:42 pm

Cher Paulo,
L’amour est un attiseur de vie, sans lui la vie est vide, terne, donc éteinte. Il met le feu et donne un sens à notre existence.
Quand on aime et qu’on est aimé en retour, plus rien d’autre n’existe.
Tout mon amour
Sousou

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Marie-Christine August 7, 2009 at 7:20 pm

Sousou
Qu’il est beau ton nom.
J’aime ce que tu dis.
Merci/
Marie-Christine :)

Birsilah August 4, 2009 at 4:13 am

I believe in Love and I believe in Soulmates
As for my 26 years of living
I fall in Love a million times
and each time I vowed to myself that never will I do this again
never will I am going through such pain
but still I repeat same the mistake

Sometimes I consider myself unfortunate
Because I fall hard for someone
I see the good in them, the beauty in each smile
But none of them knows how to appreciate me
Always it was me who fell
and the other party will go on acting like nothing happened
Dating other girls, getting married and having children

All those tears for nothing!
The pain seeing them hand in hand with other girls
and then seeing them got their heart broken
and you felt as if your heart hasn’t got any more space for misery anymore
and they keep moving forward while you’re stuck in rewind

God knows how I prayed and begged
But it seemed that he doesn’t think that it’s the perfect time for me to even be close to a Soulmate
My Soulmate

I’m close to giving up
Because I am tired of waiting
I felt as if I’m left out
How can you live in this world without love?
It’s quite pointless
If I can’t find The Soulmate promised
maybe I’ll just be alone and travel
and give more love to children and strangers
I really hope that we’ll meet someday
before it’s too late

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traveler August 4, 2009 at 7:39 pm

Dear Birsilah Don’t worry you are not alone..
Some of us pay the price for having an eye to appreciate the beauty
for our extraordinary capacity to love, We are human afterall Although we know that the other person can never possibly feel for you the way you feel for them still to expect 10% of deserved is not a big crime but even this 10% does not come forth and then starts the scalded feeling… for the time being we assume the status of once bitten, twice shy but within sometime the internal buffer is replenished and once again we take our little boat to the violent unforgiving sea only to get little richer by each voyage..
~love~

Adriana Nazário August 4, 2009 at 1:25 am

I chose the song “I Wish You Love”. The music was written by Léo Chauliac, with French lyrics under the title “Que reste-t-il de nos amours?” by Charles Trenet.

“I Wish You Love”

Goodbye, no use leading with our chins

This is where our story ends

Never lovers, ever friends

Goodbye, let our hearts call it a day

But before you walk away

I sincerely want to say

I wish you bluebirds in the spring

To give your heart a song to sing

And then a kiss, but more than this

I wish you love

And in July a lemonade

To cool you in some leafy glade

I wish you health

But more than wealth

I wish you love

My breaking heart and I agree

That you and I could never be

So with my best

My very best

I set you free

I wish you shelter from the storm

A cozy fire to keep you warm

But most of all when snowflakes fall

I wish you love

But most of all when snowflakes fall

I wish you love

I wish you love

I wish you love, love, love, love, love

I wish you love

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star August 9, 2009 at 12:36 pm

beautiful song – thank you

Anirudha Saptarshi August 3, 2009 at 9:01 pm

Dear Paulo & all,

I want to share my observation on love. I think love is an expenditure & not an investment. See, when we make an investment we expect better return, however when we spend, its for the joy that we get out of it right then, nothing is expected in future. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not being materialistic. Let me give u all an example, when I do something for my kid, when I buy gift for her, is it that I’ve done something for her? No! I like to see her laugh & huddle me, I love the way she plays with it, so my gift is rewarded right then & there. Now if in future I give her an example that how I brought her every toy in the shop & how much I did for her, its sheer hypocracy.Similarly with all our relationships, we get what we spend immediately so why expect lifetime returns on it?

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Sonja August 3, 2009 at 1:55 pm

My dad left mum, for another woman, almost six years ago.
Since then, my mum is ‘single’.
He left her, and she hated him.
They are soulmates.

She never thought of being with other man.
And when someone said that she is seeing someone, which wasn’t true, he freaked out.

So… you see, they don’t know it.
But they are ment to be together, altough right now, they are apart.

Because, in that special day, when you say “I do.”, the heaven and earth goes up and down, and God Himself stands behind your back and takes care so you can keep your promise.

They don’t know it. Because they are blinded with problems of the past.

They can be forever apart. And not one of the perfect moments, he think he had with someone else, does not even exist.
Do you know why?
Because they are not soulmates.

Soulmate is a person that went through your pain and your happiness, it is a person that knows exactly what you feel, even if you don’t say a word.

Soulmate of a man is a woman that feeds his children with milk of her own breasts, that keeps them safe, that says their dad is a decent person, although he left her.

That’s what I see, and I know for sure.

Dear Paulo, you see.
You can live 100 lives, have 100 wives.
Feel really, really happy.

But, you can not blind God.

Because soulmates are almost fictional…
“Sometimes we are with our soulmates but we don’t recognize.”

Sonja

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marie-christine August 3, 2009 at 9:23 am

Dear Paulo,
There are so many good and valid replies to this particular theme.
It still does not answer the reasons why we go to certain places, why we meet some people and are indifferent ,others it just clicks.
I guess it has to do with chemistry… mystery in the making.

With Love,

Marie-Christine

Are you in Rio now, Paulo?
Say hello to Veronika .I hope “Veronika decides to die” will make people revise their views towards mental illness.
I will be thinking of you all. Best wishes.

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virgo32 August 3, 2009 at 6:03 am

i used to believe soul mates/love is real, out there, etc. it’s all what you make of it. and using the term soul mate is just a way to make the relationship sound better or worse.

people are selfish – fake – materialistic – about everything. money, fame, their looks, insecurities, etc.

there is no such thing as a soul mate or real love. u can only love someone, like ur sister, brother, friend, etc. but in a dating relationship, this is a temporary love.

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Gabriel Enrique Bonilla August 3, 2009 at 3:16 am

Encontrar mi alma gemela, o el amor de mi vida es uno de mis mas grandes suenos. En mi, en mi alma, siento y se que tengo unos espacions vacios que ni la familia, amigos, estudios, logros, el logro d otros suenos, viajes, cosas materiales, que nada en fin logran llenarlo. Un espacio que no es llenado por nada ni tan siquiera por mi busqueda y conocimiento espiritual. Un espacio que siento y se que es alguien que no esta y que temo no tener nunca. Un vacio que a veces me entristese, y que en parte me hace infeliz.

Muchas veces me pregunto si la he conocido, porque he pensado tenerlo en relaciones que he vivido. Me pregunto si tla vez esta y ignoro quien es.

Eentonces, como poder saber quien es?. Yo se lo que no quiero en mi vida y con que tipo de persona no podria ser feliz, Se lo que busco y lo que me llenaria. Hata he encontrado un ser especial en mi vida en estos momento, que creo que es,que quiero en mi vida, pero que no puede corresponderme. Alguien que desde hace muchos a~os la veia y habia algo en ella que me halaba,y no sabi alo que era. ASlgo que me hacia desear conocerla, algo maravilloso en ella y ahora que la conosco no me esquivoque, pero aun asi no estamos juntos. Como saber si es? A veces es hasta un martirio.

P.S. el poema que publicare en el blog, tiene que ver sobre ese tema en la vida.

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marie-christine August 3, 2009 at 9:35 am

me gusta lo que digas Gabriel Enrique.
Gracias
:)
Marie-Christine

Marco August 2, 2009 at 10:45 pm

Ciao Paulo,
I am 27 year old Italian guy. I have always been very introspective and with a passion to study and think. I ended up to study Management, then I did a Master and entered one of the most admired multinational in Marketing. After 3 years I realized that I was missing something. I lost the fire I had in myself. Since I started working I put apart my inside to be compliant with the work place and world standards and expectations. I started to live someone else life. I used to read your book when I was a teenager and I liked them. I read almost all your book. I now decided to leave my company and start a PhD. In this decision I was helped by the Alchemist, the Santiago path, and by other authors like The mond who sold his ferrari, Steve Jobs speech and Stanford, Randy Paush Last Lecture and 4 hour work week Tim. I wanted to thank you. And I would like to thank you in person. I am going to be in Paris, Geneva, Rome and California in the next weeks and months. If there is a chance to meet you I would be glad to thank you face to face. Then I would like to get your advice to open a website for people that pass through what I passed, that are struggling whether or not taking the risk to follow your life vs other people lives. And I am sure that having your contribute would be hugely impactful. Ciao! Marco

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ZinZar August 2, 2009 at 8:44 pm

Well, I have a little complicated story about my soul mate.I met this guy two years ago, and he has helped me understand what I am capable of,who I am. We are very strongly connected to each other but I love him with pure love which does not involve any lust. So does he.Before I came to realized, I had been through so many troubles realizing what pure love is.The love for him teaches me ‘Love’ is one fundamental key in life to understand other things. With him, my soul actually calms and I can sleep well every night and wake up very fresh in the morning. This is an amazing experience for me, to love and have a strong connection with someone. “With love,everything makes sense again”

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a friend August 2, 2009 at 4:46 pm

my life had been in a flux since last two years and i have been trying to find answers to lot many questions related to that one incidence that happened in my life which i cannot relate it now bc of lack of time. may be sometime later. Just when i was going through this very difficult phase of my life..i started reading paulo’s books. i started off with alchemist, then by the river piiedra, then winner stands alone,fifth mountain and finally brida. as i was reading these books , i started getting my lost faith in life and my confidence back. and it was when i read brida..i started to get answers to my very questions that i had. yes ”soulmates”.. i dont how true this is but when i relate to my story, now i feel soulmates do exist, and it didnt take me a minute to recognise my soulmate (thou at that point of time i didnt knew he is my soulmate. its only afer reading brida, i have known that yes he is the one) bc at the very first meeting, i saw a kind of light in his eyes, the eyes which were so very enduring.and even today even though i know we can never be together in this life, i am still captivated by those eyes which had spoken a lot to me even without uttering a word to me. but unfortunately we had to apart bc this life was not meant for both of us to be together.

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Rosaria August 2, 2009 at 12:10 pm

GRAZIE!

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Rico July 29, 2009 at 10:43 am

Hey Paulo,

I am a fan. You got me on the first two pages of The Alchemist. However, I don’t believe in soulmates. If indeed we have a soulmate then the idea of free will be negated. If there is someone who already owns my heart then loving more than one person would make me a cheater from my soulmate. If I am already destined to someone else even before I knew it then I don’t need to exert so much effort to make myself look good so the opposite sex would like me because I know I have a soulmate somewhere out there.

In relationships, however, I believe people are having trouble keeping them because they cannot fully commit to a love that is unconditional. If we can love someone unconditionally then there’s no reason for a relationship to fail. But this is just my opinion and we all have our own opinions.

Regards,
Rico

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Albin July 29, 2009 at 7:18 pm

Hi Rico!

I think you have got the wrong idea about soulmates. I don’t believe that you are “cheating” on your soulmate if youre whith another person. Maybe it’s not sure if youre even going to be together whith your soulmate if you find her/him.

But I think that your soulmate can teach you a lot about yourself, just being whith her/him. And if conditions are right you cold be a pair. Or maybe not, maybe it’s a bad match, but that doesnt matter. Just meeting your soulmate is a big and overwhelming experience.

But, of course I’m not sure bout this. But this is what I have experienced and many others to.

beeba August 16, 2009 at 1:28 pm

I actually agree with you. Unconditional love is essential in a relationship. But you have forgotten one very important thing: You don’t just have one soulmate, there are many for you out there and you just have to find them. You can even have a soulmate of your own sex. So it doesnt really mean that you dont have a choice, you do, but there is one person ( a soulmate) who can fill your gaps and complete you. This soulmate will understand you without saying a word. This soulmate is your other half just as Eve was Adams :) Have you read Brida? If not, then I suggest you do.

Lots of love,
Beeba

FAB July 28, 2009 at 7:48 am

Dear Paulo,
Have I ever tell you how clever you are?
Keep on smiling, sunshine.

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darin July 27, 2009 at 7:03 pm

Mr paulo
your soul is flying aroud my idea thank you & thaks god for giving you to us.

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Albin July 26, 2009 at 8:35 pm

Oh, I have to tell about another person I know. She is in a really bad relationship, and she is really sad, but she usally is a person with very much energy. I’ve allways felt that she is some kind of part of me, I’ve discovered and learned a LOT thaks to her just beeing herself. But when she is down, I can feel her pain, fysically. It really hurts. When I’m close to her I don’t even have to look at her, I can feel when she feels troubled. It’s a unique feeling that appears only when I’m whith her. Anyone who has the same experiences?

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Albin July 24, 2009 at 4:14 pm

A week ago I met a person, just for a moment here in my hometown. And I KNEW that I had to meet her again.

So, the day after I accually met her again and we talked for a while. She had felt exactly the same way.

We talked about many things and it was strange, it was like we allways had knew each other. I don’t know if I’m in love, but maybe I will be the more I get to know her.

I’m sure that it’s some kind of bond between us. I’ve allways been a little sceptical to soulmates but know I believe in it.

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Stephanie July 24, 2009 at 4:18 am

I discovered my soul mate a few years ago and although we cannot be together I cherish the experience greatly. A year ago I read “Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert. What she said resonated with me although it made me sad all the same…

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that’s holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave.”

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Albin July 24, 2009 at 4:19 pm

I met a person like the one Elizabeth Gilbert talked about. That was a good but painful experience.

Estella August 2, 2009 at 5:26 pm

Around three years ago, it started as a dream.

I dreamt that I was taking a bath in a very strange place – an ancient white bath hall where my servants are around. Then a lady arrived.

In my dream, I felt the feeling of joy to see her as she’s my closest friend but strangely my half-awakening conscious knew right away that she was my mom – my mom from the real life.

But in my dream she looks different – very pale european skin but long black curly hair and she was very very young and beautiful – yet I remember deep down she was my mother.

What is so vivid in my dream was that she dressed with strange outfit – long white cloak and covered her head with white headdress and turquoise ornaments across her forehead and as a necklace. Pretty the same kind of outfit my survants prepared for me to dress after I finished bathing.

I can’t remember much of other detail of my dream but when I woke up, the memory of my dream persisted in my thought for weeks.

Finally, I decided to make a search on the internet. I wanted to know was there really kind of outfit in the history. I searched for hours then I found pictures of sculptors with headdress in the same style my mother wore in my dream.

While I found out what country and museum that sculptors was. TV displayed a documentary of that country and city – a city of a rose-sand ruins in amidst of a desert in the middle east.

I was amazed but then later bought a travel guidebook of that country. I was never in the Middle East before. However, the more I read, the more I wanted to visit the country. But fear and bad news about the region kept me for years from it.

I shift my interest to other countries but then one day my curious triump my fear. I ran away from my family and kicked off to that country – alone.

I made it to the far-flung country and a city that very rare people in my country ever visited and met a man. He asked the right question – why I choose to be there. I lied to him that I saw the city in a documentary and think it’s beautiful. I didn’t want to appear like new weirdo or something to tell other people about my dream.

He liked me almost instanly and I feel strangely acquaintant to him a lot. I felt I could read his gesture and told what will he do or just one glance of his eyes, I can tell how he felt or what was he’s thinking. But the most important thing was that I fear him. It was like I knew instinctly that somehow this man would hurt me badly someday.

Sad but true, thing starts beautifully ended up in disaster. Love, lust, lies, fear, cheat, anger, pride, no need to say more. What left to me was broken heart and soul, which made living or dying no different.

I had to spend almost a year to pick up the pieces of myself before I told myself that I was ready for forgiveness & moving on.

If you ask me if he is my true Soulmate – I’ll say yes. If you ask me do I love him – I’ll say yes, a lot even now and with every atoms of my soul.

On my way to find books to read last two weeks, I stumbled on Paulo’s books – Brida & Elevent Minutes by chance (Actually I planned to search for hate-men type of book but also got these two.)That made me understand what happened a lot better.

But if you asked me about Elizabeth Gilbert – I’ll say..

“SHE’S BLOODY RIGHT! STAY AWAY FROM YOUR TRUE SOULMATE!! THEY USUALLY –CK UP YOUR LIFE.”

(Pardon me but thanks for the reading…Haa..love this blog though ;)

Val August 4, 2009 at 12:46 pm

“But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that’s holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life”.

..thank you for sharing this thought….I met the person I love at the worst moment..he was angry with the entire world and sad for everything..I became the mirror of his pain while helping him to restart..now he is going toward a new life, with somebody else that doesn’t remind him his pain…at the same time he was a mirror for me..in this reflection I discovered my limits but also that I was able to see life with an optimism hidden inside me..
…too sad at the moment..his solution was to go toward the new life deleting me and the dark period he had gone trough..
You had given me a new perspective on soulmate and the not so obvious “happy end”..

JM August 18, 2009 at 6:51 am

Hi Stephanie!

Thank you for sharing that thoughts special this part…
“Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave”

Based on my experience, I can strongly agree with this because it happened and is still happening to me for the fact that I can’t get over it yet.

I have this ideal man since I was a child. I have perfected the details of his character in my thoughts even the events how we will share the moments together.

Then, at the time when I am physically and emotionally ready to have such man, I suddenly and unexpectedly met him up. He was a friend at first until I totally lost control of all my senses because gradually I realized that I am having my ultimate dream. He made me feel the MAGIC, TRUE LOVE and EVERYTHING (as in everything) I have ever wanted. All the events I was imagining really happened to us. He gave me a new life and self. I believe that he has felt the same with me. I believe that he is my soulmate.

But I have chosen to end everything that’s binding us because he is already a family man. Actually, at a point in time he is ready to give up everything for me but I disagreed. I have chosen to do what is right. Until now, however hard I try to be sane and convince myself that I have done the best thing for us, it still hurts a lot. I guess a lifetime is not enough to forget him.

I am just wishing that I could meet someone who will fill my life… my destiny.. (it’s a different topic though)

So (as for me) you can meet your soulmate but you cannot always be together. (I’m happy for those who can stay together) That’s the sad part of my life I guess. But I am still grateful that at a certain point in my life, I have met him and he changed my life!

I will always thank GOD..
May HE bless us all..
Good day!

Elaine Stevens July 22, 2009 at 2:20 pm

I don’t know if I would recognize my soul mate if I met him or her. I see long term relationships as a matter of loving oneself through the other. I have never understood about soul mates. I chose my husband because he was my best friend and I didn’t want to live alone.

I was sexually abused for most of my childhood by the boy in the family into which I was adopted. My husband had patience with my post traumatic stress symptoms and I had patience with his sexual issues. In fact sex and money have always been the divisors in our relationship. My explorations into the sacredness of sex and the conscious use of its power has helped me to heal and thus him as well. I assume this means we were meant for each other… but we’ve never had a grand passion.

We have been together for 26 years now because we tolerate each other’s differences and neither of us left when the grrr times happened. Our soul melding has come from time rather than any mystical connection that I can ascertain.

He is the earth to my air. He is the rational to my irrational, so perhaps there is more of a balance than I realize, but I see our relationship as a series of choices rather than a mystical calling. We are comfortable together. I wouldn’t hurt my friend to follow some grand passion, however. I couldn’t live with myself.

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Talisa July 22, 2009 at 4:28 pm

I am happy to read your story, Elaine. And it is refreshing to read the peace and the process of your soul friendship… That is absolutely wonderful!!! I wish for that myself…

Ioanna July 22, 2009 at 11:36 am

i believe in love.and i believe in the magnificence of the universe.and thats what brought my soulmate to me.ive never had such a strong connection with a person in my 21 years of living.situations split our paths.i am with another boy.whom i also love but it seems not as purly as my first love.my soulmate hates me.because we are no longer together.and i am a fool.even though i can no longer connect with him in many ways why do i still love him so?why cant this love we have for each other die?maybe it would be better. i prefer it rather than being hated by the male version of me.is that what a soulmate is?a reflection of myself?the one i can connect with to the highest level because he understands and feeds my needs and i his, whatever they may be, spiritual, sexual etc etcetc.isnt that selfish?do we need other people in order to express ourselves?because we are all made of energy, energy that must chnage form, and move like waters in a river.
i felt like such a traitor the first time i verbalised “i love you”to my current love, who no i dont consider a soulmate.a traitor because i felt like all my promises and words of magic and love for this other person were shitted on the moment i let these simple words come out.how could i have loved 2 ppl at the same time?
how do two people that are hurt move on in a civilised manner?there exists a black hole within.and it cannot be filled, because i will never physically be a child again and mentally.with him my inner child roared wildly.i was fearless next to him.different.but ..this is beginning to sidetrack.
am i a fraud of feelings?
with tons of respect and love
ioanna

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Natalie July 22, 2009 at 11:57 am

The “I love you” – is different… No love is the same… THough if its a lie I wonder what would make your heart sing?

I beieve you can love two – because you have a big heart!

I want to hear that inner child roar again…

I like the sound of that :-)

xox

Natalie July 22, 2009 at 10:45 am

Rumi speaks of soul mates here – my favorite piece of his:

http://www.youtube.com/user/orgasmicallyintegral#play/all/favorites-all/0/BJ1LrJI2U7w

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Mari Raphael July 22, 2009 at 1:17 am

No livrinho que li sobre almas ou chamas gêmeas de Elizabhet C.Prophet existem vários pontos de percepção que é salientado nos relacionamentos. A parte interessante que eu achei que têm muito a ver é a seguinte :
…” O nosso EU Verdadeiro, o nosso Santo Cristo Pessoal e o Santo Cristo Pessoal da nossa chama gêmea são magnetos que nos aproximarão da nossa chama gêmea- neste mundo e no próximo. Jesus disse : “Mas eu,quando for levado da terra, atrairei aminha chama gêmea a mim”.
Assim, temos de retornar uma vez mais a firmação do apóstolo Paulo : ” a carne e o sangue não podem herdar o reino de Deus”.
(1 coríntios 15:50) E a carne e o sangue não nos garantem uma relação harmoniosa com ninguém, nem mesmo com nossa chama gêmea. O que vai garanti-la é a nossa determinação em trabalhar muito essa relação.
Devemos entender, então, que as chamas gêmeas, por terem percorrido a terra inteira em todos os tipos de encarnações e circunstâncias, e por condições cármicas, podem ter choques de personalidade entre si. Quando estes são superficiais, e conseguimos alcançar o cerne da questão, então, estamos no comando da situação e nos tornamos co-criadores com Deus.
Portanto as chamas gêmeas também criam carma entre si em várias encarnações, e esse carma precisa ser equilibrado quando elas finalmente se reencontram. É por isso que pode existir, entre chamas gêmeas, uma enorme sensação de ser sido injustiçado.
Assim, é necessário que estejamos preparados para encontrar a nossa chama gêmea. Precisamos de uma boa dose de autocontrole. Temos que amar o Amor para respeitá-lo, para mantermos a nossa paz e a nossa harmonia quando os antigos registros de brigas vierem à tona para serem resolvidos.
Será necessário que nos agarremos ao nosso Sonho, que não pronunciemos as palavras duras, a crítica cruel, a humilhação, e tudo que possa destruir a matriz do dom mais maravilhoso que a vida nos dará – o amor perfeito.
Temos de ter uma dedicação a algo maior do que a nossa chama gêmea, e esse algo maior é Deus. Temos de amar primeiro a Deus, e estarmos bem seguros da nossa senda e do nosso serviço; e devemos ter a certeza de que não vamos aceitar a discórdia nem a encenação do ego humano, com suas indulgências e exigências – nossas ou do nosso companheiro.
No mais não podemos nos iludir de que nossa chama gêmea seja nosso oposto, mas sim, alguém bastante parecido conosco.
Se decidirmos ser inteiros em nós mesmos -, então, com o magneto da nossa integridade, atrairemos a integridade na outra pessoa.
Grande beijo,
Mari.

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Alexa July 21, 2009 at 11:38 pm

Dear Paulo,

I am currently reading “Brida.” When I read Wicca’s paragraph about soulmates on page 29, I wrote it down in my dream journal where I can read it every day. When I read Wicca’s words about soulmates for the first time I felt like she was speaking for me. My soulmate died in September. He would be 20 years old now, and I am 20 in a week. He is why I keep the dream journal, because I continue to talk to him in the Dreamworld. I have spend the entire year completely lost and confused as to why a love so real was taken from me physically. I spend days wondering how it will be possible to ever find something like it again. It is so hard to work a relationship to that point, and personally for me, very difficult to feel romantically and emotionally comfortable with people. As I continue reading, Wicca and Brida are allowing me to recognize that I may have another soulmate. My guardian angel is an old soul, and she has been with me through many reincarnations. So, I truly believe now that there may very well be someone else in the world for me. As I still love Luke, I am slowly able to look back on him and simply smile.
You opened my eyes and my heart, Mr. Coelho. I needed that knowledge.
Thank you for your words, as always.
Alexa

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phoenix July 22, 2009 at 6:38 am

A guardian angel!!…We often come across this word in writings of Paulo and some christian literature but honestly speaking I have never met my guardian ever….Though I feel I have necessary level of insight into my being so i guess sensitivity should not hamper the perception, can anybody help me in meeting my guardian angel?

francesca August 3, 2009 at 4:59 pm

Dear Alexa,

I do understand how you feel. But, there will be always love in our lives if we are open to it. But I think you know that deep inside.
What a beautiful special love you share with Luke. Know that you will always carry him I your heart with you and that he does the same with you. Love manifest itself in many forms. Believe that love will find you again and is already with you in your heart. Every relationship is unique, it makes no sense to compare them. Love just is… and you will feel/share it again with someone special… good luck!

Damien July 21, 2009 at 1:19 pm

When soulmate meet the soul tame.
Love

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