One doesn’t love in order to do what is good or to help or to protect someone. If we act that way, we are perceiving the other as a simple object, and we seeing ourselves as wise and generous persons. This has nothing to do with love. To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Every day, God gives us the sun – and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven’t perceived the moment, that it doesn’t exist – that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention in their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seems the same to us. But that moment exists – a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.
Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments – but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.
I could have. What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn’t. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.
But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
I’m going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end. You are worth it.
quotes from “By the river Piedra I sat down and wept”
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Dear Sir,
On second thoughts.. It reads that you do not love to do good. Yes, I agree. But we also do good to the person we are in love with to make him/her happy.
Even if our love is true … if it DOES NOT GET RECIPROCATED it is going to die. Although you may always feel love for that person..there is no outcome. Your heart is again in search for that someone who can fulfill this need to feel loved.
Lindo y gracias por compartir tantas cosas con nosotros y también hay que tener encuenta que el amor también es respeto y hay que alimentarlo con detalles y muchas cositas más………..
wow..! i so love how you put it. :) muchos gracias Senor..:) GOD bless you always.. !
TODO EN LA VIDA TIENE RIESGO, LA VERDAD VALE LA PENA CORRER EL RIESGO PARA VIVIR UN INSTANTE DE AMOR.
Paulo,
I really love your writings.
You carve my heart with your every words.
Love you.
Lei este libro hace tiempo y me ayudo a darme cuenta lo mucho q vale la vida y que el amar no solo existe en el sentido de pareja sino que podemos amar todo lo que nos rodea: familia, amigos, naturaleza y sobretodo a nosotros mismos.
El exito de la vida no esta en vivir triunfando sino aprender de nuestros errores, levantarnos para seguir adelante y lograr nuestras metas.
Gracias Paulo por estas magnificas obras son lo maximo
Vivo momentos mágicos que muchos otros se niegan a ver, gracias por comprenderlo y hacerme sentir que hay muchos otros como yo que pueden ver magia en la gotita que cae, la nube que se mueve y hasta puede cubrir el sol por un instante, la sonrisa fortuita de alguien desconocido y una pareja brindándose amor…Todos tenemos magia y todos vamos de alguna u otra forma hacia la luz…todos somos guerreros de la luz
me encanta “a orillas del rio piedra…” es mi favorito ojala todos pudiesemos descubrir el momento exacto para cambiar lo que nos hace infelices…
mi frase favorita: es necesario correr riesgos solo entendemos del milagro de la vida cuando dejamos que suceda lo inesperado!!!!!!!!!!! :-)
“a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles” – once you’ve experienced this there’s no way back
Yes, and you have to learn to leave with it.And take responsibility for what happened
Eswte libro es hermoso..llega al alma..
Siempre hay momentos magicos en nuestra vida..hay que mirar con el alma,cada dia..y siempre encontraremos un instante ,que lo cambia todo..por lo cual vale la pena haber vivido ese dia..
Hay que jugarse por los sueños..amar libremente..romper las barreras..aunque nos caigamos..nos equivoquemoa..eso es la vida,CAER y poder levantarse..seguir..
Mirar al sol..ver la luz..y nuestra propia luz..
Seguir la intuicion..que esta en nosotros..que es la que sabe..
Saber dejar VIVIR..o morir..cada cosa ,cada dia..
Seguir al corazon..que nunca miente..
Los quiero a todos ..besos
Yo hoy me siento feliz..por que he aprendido..la vida es un eterno aprendizaje..
Hoy abri mis alas y vole..y deje volar..cerre una pagina de mi vida..y decidi Renacer..Creci..mi alma aprendio..y debe seguir aprendiendo..
many magical moments have taken place in my life…through the smile of a professor, the respect from an officer, from the kind words of a stranger who seemed to know everything about my life without even knowing my own name. life is indeed magical if we allow it.
Yes. I totally felt this “life is indeed magical if we allow it”.
:)
Bellisimo, lo dijo todo… mil Gracias que Dios te siga bendiciendo.
Leí el libro, me fascinó. El tema del amor es muy amplio. El descrito en el libro, el amor de pareja, encierra muchas situaciones que se tornan sublimes, que nos ubican en el escenario de lo que el ser humano es capaz de hacer cuando ve el amor acercarse, del miedo q sentimos, de la lucha al resistirnos a volver a sufrir por amor, y de aquella frase q nos dice que quien no arriesga no ama, pues la vida está llena de riesgos y si no los tomamos, el vivir se transmuta en un sinsentido, en una muerte en vida.
…SIMPLE, SENCILLO, HERMOSO, INSTANTÁNEO… SIEMPRE MÁGICO!!! ASÍ SON LOS MOMENTOS DE AMOR…
Siempre es grato leer sus textos y reflexiones.
El Alquimista dejó una huella muy importante en cuanto a lo que debemos transformar en nosotros.
Gracias por todos sus libros,hacen que al leerlos nuestras almas crezcan y por ende seamos mejores personas.
I read this wonderful book,a month ago and left a deep trace in my heart.I marked several pages that I reread often because they give me the strength and courage to follow the voice positive and defeat that other voice.the negative voice.Thanks Paul, for writing as writing.
Love is a strong feeling that when it first enters there is no way to take it out of your heart. It is a strange burning sensation inside your soul. Nor the distance or another relationship will be able to vanish the true feeling of love.
My favorite book! Love it, along with the Alchemist.
A alegria é, por vezes, uma bênção, mas geralmente é uma conquista.. !(Adoro essa fase!!!) ou melhor … suas palavras são sempre sábias!!!!
fantastico! ho letto il libro, ed e fantastico… e leggerlo di nuovo, non sarebbe niente male. grande Paulo! tutti i tuoi libri hanno un potere, toccare l’animo
No se si estoy en desacuerdo con Paulo pero yo ayudo porque sufro al ver a los demas sufriendo, pero no veo a Dios en ellos cuando les ayudo … sólo les veo a ellos … y me identifico con ellos …. y sufro con ellos … y me alegro con ellos… esto es lo que siento … no se lo que será pero no voy a renunciar a ello ….
No lo ves fisicamente a Dios porque El esta dentro de ti, desde el momento que tienes esa capacidad de amor al projimo es porque lo llevas adentro, he ahi su manera de manifestarse!!!
I fight everyday..for living..for loving..for mostly for happiness..
Paulo..Iam on “oh” in this big beautiful life..I am blessed to be made..to hold a soul..and blessed to read your books..as it gives me the wisdom I need.. and One day, we will be real friends..^^
this is my favourite book.warrior of the light, thank you for writing this.
Simplesmente….palavras sublimes, sábias…
Amar es estar en comunión con uno mismo, para así poder desprendernos del yo, y poder dar el todo a los demás y descubrir en el otro, la chispa de Dios.
Paulo Coelho is amazing… today I experienced exactly what I just read in the quote from ‘By the river Piedra I sat down and wept’ I did something good for somebody, and it made me feel great and so happy…After reading this quote, I realised I let that one magic moment in my day to make change… thank you, I feel like this is a first step to making magic happen in my life…
Dear Sir,
Love is worship. This goes for life long.
Thanks and regards,
Minakshi Karan (INDIA)
I have heard there are no rules in love; each person has his version…and his mistakes!
the strength to understand this wisdom has to come from the individual only….you cannot force it…
By the River Piedra, I sat down and wept was the first ever book by Paulo that I have bought, then followed by The Alchemist.This book is really great. Some of the lines from the book helped and encouraged me during a time in my life when I almost lost hope. The book and its content had really placed a big mark in my life during that time. Thank you Paulo Coelho for writing this book as well as other of your works that are indeed considered as food for the soul. But above all, I thanked God for always being there for us and for bringing people such like you in this world.
Amar es estar en comunión con los demás y descubrir en el otro la chispa de Dios. QUE GRAN FRANSE!!! REALMENTE MARAVILLOSOOOOOOO LEER ESTOS ESCRITOS!!!
Dear Paulo,
As usual, the things you write are marvellous and get right to the heart. I remember the first time I wrote to you after I had read o zahir. I would like to take this opportunity to invite to Lyon (France) to take part in our now worldwide move towards more humanité called Dailogues en Humanité the first week-end of July 2011. We invited but too late this year, officially. Dialogues in Humanity also take place from October 9th until the 12th in Salvador de Bahia with the theme Brechó Eco-solidário with Deborah Nunes and coordinated by Rede de Profissionais Solidários pela Cidadania at the University UNIFACS. Here is the link
http://dialoguesenhumanite.free.fr/
Thank you again for all those messages that I read daily.
Best regards
Sophie
El descubrir la chispa divina de cada ser sin apego, es una de las cosas que me ha llevado en mi vida actual a sentir y valorar mi propia existencia.
¡gracias maestros devida¡
Con todaaaaaaa la fuerzaaaa que hay en el corazon, alma y ser
este libro lo amo… (bueno como todos los de coelho)
desde ahora luchare por lo que quiero… gracias Paulo!
Me encantan todos sus libros, y este en especial me trajo grandes enseñanzas.
you just put my life in words!!!!!
I like the following from Paulo Coelho’s blog – kind of love I am looking for (Some how Paulo depicts/understands or put in words the things I like or I experience)
“One doesn’t love in order to do what is good or to help or to protect someone. If we act that way, we are perceiving the other as a simple object, and we seeing ourselves as wise and generous persons. This has nothing to do with love. To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.”
http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2010/09/01/by-the-river-piedra-i-sat-down-and-wept-6/
you inspire me every single day.
ESTE LIBRO Y SUS PAGINAS SON UNA MUESTRA DE COMO DEBERIA SER EL AMOR. ES LA MUESTRA DEL SUBLIME ENCUENTRO DE DOS SERES TOTALMENTE DISTINTOS Q AL ENCONTRARSE DECIDEN Q HAY UN SOLO CAMINO PARA TRANSITAR TOMADOS DE LA MANO. BELLISIMO DE VERDAD¡¡¡
Adorei imenso este livro.
Everyone has their own concept of happiness. People are as happy as they make up their minds to be. Then there are some people who are unhappy about everything. They have everything and it is just not enough. Why are so many people in the First World taking so many drugs? They want to escape so bad. Why? Also, God sees so many people doing a constant balancing act, trying to keep the boat on an even keel. People who give so generously of themselves to keep the peace at home.It is a gift to be able see Christ in others and to find something good in a crappy day, To keep up the spirit and never quit.
gracias una vez mas por compartir esto con todos sus seguidores, gracias por que hoy pensaba escribir en mi blog.. gracias Dios por que el sol brilla mas que nunca, y luego leo esto,asi es la vida coiciedencial..abrzos Dios te bendiga cada dia Paulo.
Thank you! :) I hope all the magic moments come soon, all that is unexpected happens and that the hand of destiny changes everything for the best.
Hope we do not miss the magic moments and that they last a little longer because some like me are slow to catch them.
And I shall fight for yours !!!! Big Hugs from my heart to yours. Muah
I just couldn’t agree with you on this sir. Love is not so subjective that it always happens just between two persons.A man loves everyone and everything else around him.And at times there might be certain circumstances where a sacrifice could mean more than love.Rather to say a higher form of love.
“Every day, God gives us the sun – and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. ” I really find that inspiring :)
And this book is on my list to read next, after finishing ‘The Zahir”.
Love your work!!
to see the miracle of god,in the person u love, is a v popular concept in india, and is cld ” tujhme rub dikhta hai “.. i see god in you – a pop movie is made on this concept- ” rab ne bana di jodi ” ..” lord created the pair”//
Esto es simplemente bello! Ay… Gracias!
Gracias por recordarme estas palabras, hace tiempo ya, este libro llegó a mí en el momento preciso y te agradezco todas y cada una de sus palabras…
GRACIAS…
This is psalm 137, god talk to me about love through psalm 137, I should read this book.Rivers of Babylon.
Everything looked scattered and unmanaged in life.Your books always showed me the beacon of light and gave me a new sunshine.Hats off paulo
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