Comments on: Coincidence…

By: Josselyn

Josselyn — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:34:20 +0000

There is no such thing as coincidence, only destiny.

By: Jane Stewart

Jane Stewart — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 09:10:35 +0000

Dear Paulo,

‘There are no coincidences’ – Paulo Coelho

Oh thankyou!!
With Gratitude,Love,
Blessings,
Jane xo

By: THELMA

THELMA — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:00:23 +0000

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/graphic-novel-of-the-alchemist-will-transmute-words-into-pictures/
Thank you, Paulo Coelho, for sharing this in Twitter.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

By: vida

vida — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:23:56 +0000

…………………………….

By: Mathilde otgaar

Mathilde otgaar — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 07:27:52 +0000

toeval bestaat niet…zeggen wij in nederland..

By: kanchana

kanchana — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:34:38 +0000

Wow! It’s really nice :) i love the book – The Alchemist. I’m Malayasian but I only manage to find thee easily at India on my vacation. It’s really worth every penny. A book everyone should read and share with others. Thank you mr.Paul.

By: Den Rod

Den Rod — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:15:36 +0000

I just broke up with my girlfriend and she meant a lot to me. It’s funny that she’d always tell me she was a mermaid. In fact she took me away from some world and now I start it all over again.
God bless me!
God bless us all!
Denilson

By: Den Rod

Den Rod — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:52:10 +0000

Dia 30 de junho, dia desta postagem, foi meu aniversário.
Engraçado que a vida toda eu tive medo e fascínio pela idéia de entrar na água e nunca mais voltar.

By: Gabriella

Gabriella — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:44:06 +0000

Dear Paulo, today I celebrate one year of love with “my” man…this year has been full of coincidences, most of them are realted to your books…this has been a year of love and sufference, at the same time. He is a big fan of yours and gave me all your books to read…(I’m waiting for next)..You have no idea about haw many times (expecially when I had health problems) the exact words, that you wrote in the book I was reading in that moment, helped me. Today I opened “by chance” the Warrior of the Light…the theme of the page is “celebration of victory”…yesterday I had the news I win my Battle with health problems…Maybe it’s real that you are a magician?
Thank you for writing and thank you for sharing your soul with us.

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 04:53:04 +0000

Brava, mi piace il tuo raconto, e la tua fede profonda.

By: Sônia Vianna

Sônia Vianna — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:19:44 +0000

Eu já quis ir de encontro ao lago, mas, o lago me fez voltar e me fez enxergar todo o mundo ao redor. Graças!

By: Dorathy

Dorathy — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:43:02 +0000

Wow, this is how I pictured it in my mind when I read the book… wow, you’re words must be really powerfull if everyone is recieving the same interpretation.

By: margherita

margherita — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:14:07 +0000

Caro Paulo,
che coincidenza, per l’appunto!
Ma non si riferisce all’argomento del giorno, bensì al fatto che manco da 21 giorni da questo blog: il tempo delle mie vacanze sul Cammino di Santiago.
Sì, ho percorso Il cammino di Santiago, ma in camper, giacchè la nostra salute non mi concederà mai di percorrerlo a piedi. Ed anche così è stato faticoso, ma alla fine ce l’abbiamo fatta: io ed il mio amore che oggi, 2 luglio 2010 festeggiamo il nostro 35° anniversario di matrimonio.
A questo riguardo , cari Paulo e Cristina, voglio farvi i miei personali auguri di buon anniversario del Vostro matrimonio.
Come dicevo prima, ho percorso Il cammino, non tralasciando di “passare” dal tuo vecchio e caro Mulino, ma tu là non c’eri, anzi, l’ho visto chiuso, forse abbandonato. Spero solo momentaneamente, giacchè ogni volta che mi reco a Lourdes faccio anche una tappa per lasciarti un tuo libro da autografare nella tua boite a lettres, che questa volta aveva la paletta rossa, ad indicare che è fermèe.
Peccato, perchè stavolta portavo con me Il cammino di Santiago e ci tenevo particolarmente a che Tu, con la tua consueta disponibilità e grazia me lo autografassi, visto che, quest’anno è dichiarato Anno Santo Composteliano con l’apertura della Porta Santa.
Attraversandola ho pensato a Te: senza il tuo libro dedicato non sarei ma giunta a Santiago, perciò ti ringrazio per aver scritto questo meraviglioso testo.
Ma, rimanendo in tema e scorrendo tutti i blog degli ultimi 20 giorni, ho pure scoperto che sarà presto in arrivo il tuo ultimo libro “L’ Aleph” che da quanto mi è dato capire dalla traduzione approssimativa di Google, dovrebbe essere nuovamente del tipo “personale”. Mi piace quando parli di te, Caro Paulo, anche se una parte del tuo essere permea dai tuoi scritti, sempre. Ma in alcuni testi la tua personalità viene fuori più chiara, più confidenziale e famigliare, come nel Cammino di Santiago, in Sono come il fiume che scorre, nello Zahir, quando presenti il personaggio dello scrittore che ha “smarrito” la moglie.
Mi interessa quello che racconti di Te perchè in questo modo ti sento più vicino e famigliare, meno star, più umanamente alla mia portata.
La mia sarà solo un’illusione?
Ti posso umilmente suggerire, qualora tu lo desideri e non la conosca ancora, di visitare la cappella di Notre Dame de la Goutte a Montardit? E’ sorprendente sia come capolavoro architettonico che come storia del suo ideatore, l’abbè Jane Marie Piquemal, uomo di grandissima fede, grande sognatore e infaticabile lavoratore.
L’ho scoperta per caso su Google Heart, mentre facevo la ricerca di un posto dell’Ariège per dare i natali ad un personaggio del mio ultimo romanzo che sto scrivendo, ben sapendo che nessun Editore lo pubblicherà mai, visto che io non sono una celebrità.
Ma lo scriverò ugualmente e con lo stesso amore che ci metterei se fossi una vera scrittrice professionista ed il mio Editore stesse aspettando la mia nuova fatica letteraria.(Sostenuta ora anche dallo spirito dell’Abbè Piquemal, che sento particolarmente vicino.)
Magia fatta dalla lettura dei tuoi libri che mi ha portata sulle strade dei Pirenei ed ha innescato una gran voglia di scrivere, oltre che di leggere sempre più, quindi, grazie Paulo. Hai operato un miracolo nella mia anima e la cosa mi rende enormemente felice.
Aspettando “L’Aleph”…

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:38:04 +0000

I share Carolena’s thoughts. I hope the graphic edition retains the original text.

Slightly off topic, I have an idea. A special 25th anniversary illustrated limited edition of The Pilgrimage, cf the special limited edition of The Da Vinci Code.

Next week, and the following week, I will be at a talk on El Camino de Santiago, the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. http://twitpic.com/21sals

By: kealan

kealan — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:34:54 +0000

its looks great; can’t wait :)

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:14:31 +0000

Very touching, beautiful comment of Annie. I remember now that one spring day we played on river shore with my brother, smaller than me. At once I could not see him. I went along the river and after a truck of tree poor brother desperately was moving his arms, with no sound of voice to ask for help…was in water till his had.I helped him out, and I saw in movies they put blancket on people rescudes, so I get a fur of mine to put on him. I think I just saved his life. The funny was that the fur was white, and it was spring. Everybody on street watched in surprise at him…He must look like a polar bear.
Love
Alexandra
As for my part, I also was rescued once, from a pool. While kid, I was at pool and went on slide, but at end I slip and hit my head, losing consciousness in water.
Parents were searching me, my brother saw a man carrying me in arms and put me near a tree.
I only remember I had a strange vision, thinking I am dead, and two light being talking among themselves. I was happy…thats weird.They said I dont have to come in that time. Could be there were Angels? Than I woke
in a hospital bed.
Sometimes I think at the man helped me, who might be.

By: Josephine

Josephine — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:41:54 +0000

we divide everything into parts and then we’re not able to put the pieces together again..

By: katie

katie — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:04:12 +0000

makes me goose bumps :o)
big hug.

“So it was with life. In order for the more substantial pieces of wood to catch fire, the kindling must burn first. In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.”
The witch of protobello

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:37:29 +0000

Enjoyed reading all comments and the links shared!

I watched videos of Hafiz poetry in motion, read two poems by Rumi, then viewed few pictures posted by friends earlier. At the same time, thinking of this post about Synchronicity, The Alchemist, as well as The Witch of Portobello.

Then noticed Carolena’s name and decided to look for The Experimental Witch video in YouTube. And it was there, so glad Carolena!
Immediately afterwards, found a video in response to Paulo’s video forum: Your Opinion on Strangers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P47RRwARZIQ&playnext_from=TL&videos=MTcxYrpT-bA&feature=grec_index

Paulo’s original video forum (Your Opinion on: Strangers):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Z5jBds8As&NR=1&feature=fvwp

I think that the young man responding looks like the young man portrayed by the artist!

Enjoying the synchronicities more than words can say; expansion!

Love to All, Thankyou,
Jane xo

By: Gabriella

Gabriella — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:44:16 +0000

I really believe that nothing happens by chance.

By: katie

katie — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:19:38 +0000

“So, when an event C happen their concern is what other events (A or B,…) happened simultaneously..”

cool. this means that they think in a n-dimensional space ….

for example, n=3, they look at all triples of events that happened at the same time….

By: Annie

Annie — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:49:07 +0000

Thank you dear Tarek, Katie and FernandaBJS for your comments! :D
Anyway, if we look it on an other perspective,in the end what we see is a beautiful transformation, from a ‘difficult’ person to a beautiful flower… and that can happen only when we have self-love and we strive to become something better every day ..

Love and Gratitude
Annie

By: Madgi

Madgi — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:11:43 +0000

There’s no such thing as coincidence..

By: rosa de los vientos

rosa de los vientos — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:25:48 +0000

Precioso, me gusta.

By: Irina Black

Irina Black — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:38:45 +0000

To become ONE with the Blue Bird

By: Maryon

Maryon — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:19:53 +0000

Narcissimus didn’t believe in God, that’s why he drowned.

By: Maryon

Maryon — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:17:50 +0000

I smelt the flowers, but they were too sweet.

By: katie

katie — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:58:10 +0000

“Somehow, i feel Narcissus is calling us to reach our hand to him..”

so true!
thought the same thing when looking how he is drowning and fighting it ….
our narcissistic side: what we do not like in a narcissistic person those features we do not want to accept in us :o)

even though I would find it better that those pictures reflect my imagination, the discomfort & dislike can teach a lot.
for example: tolerance.

and I just love the picture of the flower (giggle).

By: Josephine in Brussels

Josephine in Brussels — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:12:32 +0000

it is quite nice, although I prefer illustrators who use more fine lines like Bourgeon. Which is really the difference between a “graphic novel” and a good thick “comic book”?

I can strongly recomend as “grapic novel” “Maus” by Art Spiegelman.

and syncronicity – I always think about that part in Brida about the particle being on two places at the same time. How many times have I not thought about a person and when later checking my emails – there is an email from that person?

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:59:06 +0000

I had two lovely examples of synchronicity today, one virtually identical to that experienced by Paulo Coelho!

I neded a copy of The Alchemist to give as a gift to the lovely lady from Eden People who had demonstrated the Jesus Deck to me at the weekend. And there was a copy for me to pick up.

I was having lunch today at the Guildford Institute in Guildford. My eye was caught by the July programme for the National Gallery. There on the front cover was a detail from Venus and Mars by Bottecelli, the very painting I had written of only last week! Not only that, but the very part of the painting that was relevant! Unbeknownst to me, Venus and Mars is housed in the National Gallery.

http://keithpp.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/a-lovely-example-of-synchronicity/