Although I enjoy my work a lot (once I tweeted: “if you do what you love, every day is a holiday”) I need to stop being in front of the computer – and this is the main reason for taking vacations.
I will be back by the end of August. Suphi, my webmaster, will be moderating comments. Comments in Portuguese will take longer to be moderated, as I will access the blog only once a day.
As “Manuscrito encontrado em Accra” will be released on the 25th of July, its page will be constantly updated.
But the main page of the blog will not.
If it happens you are visiting this blog for the first time, please check the ARCHIVES
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Paulo
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Apply this saying ” if you do what you love , every day is a holiday” to relationships. If it can be said about a career than it can apply to something of deeper nature. “if you are with whom you love, everyday is a holiday”. Now don’t get me wrong, sometimes it may SEEM like a bad holiday, but when you are in this Univers and you know that no matter what you do you are never alone, and that on top of that there is someone else doing the same thing as you somewhere on this planet. You will never walk alone. Vacations shouldn’t be called “vacation” it is more like a time to relish where you are at this present in the Univers, to take away from the formal interaction with other human beings and explore the ends of your world.
Tengo la sensación de que algo empieza, últimamente no paro, quien lo iba a decir.
Un saludo, hasta pronto.
Paulo -
Es con gran placer de comentar en su blog. Ustedes son una inspiración y modelo a seguir de cómo quiero vivir mi vida. Yo soy un EEUU que habla (3) idiomas y ha viajado a los rincones más grandes del mundo. Su libro “El Alquimista” fue el primero de muchos que leí lo que usted escribió. Gracias desde el fondo de mi corazón. Tal vez te gustaría algunos de los en publicaciones en mi blog: http://www.paulbradleysmith.com. I re-tweeted you tweet today in your name: “If you do what you love, every day is a holiday” by Paulo Coelho – LOVE IT. Gives me inspiration and passion to write more about social media. A true blessing you are to this world. Your words give life to my soul.
CORRECCION . “QUE HAYAN PROFUNDIZADO EN EL TEMA”.
VAMOS A REMONTAR UN BARRILETE QUE SE LLAMA ILUSION :
ALMAS GEMELAS , QUE LINDO TEMA PARA UN LIBRO SR. COELHO, NO HAY MUCHOS AUTORES QUE HAYAS PROFUNDIZADO MUCHO EN ESTE TEMA SON POCOS. ES MUY CIERTO EL TEMA EXISTE LA ALMA GEMELA .” LO IMPORTANTE NO ES PENSAR MUCHO, SINO AMAR MUCHO. HAZ PUES AQUELLO QUE MAS TE MUEVA A AMAR “. ELISEO SUBIELA. – ESPERO LES GUSTE .ATTE. ALEJANDRA
Maybe I have found my soulmate, just like Santiago…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isYhMK3tP0c&feature=related
the text is wonderful in the song
But as Fatima said ” I have to go back to him”, it is like a fairytale…He doesn´t live in the same country as me he lives in Croatia..
Today, Paulo has been vacationing for one month.. I do miss the blog postings!
I do too;-)))
Have fun in your vacation, mr. Coelho, as much as I hope to have reading “Aleph”, that i just bought :D
;)
передо мной стоит вопрос об отпуске. куда ехать ? десять лет мои поездки связаны с моей мечтой. за это время моя мечта кончилась. полное поражение. последнее предательство я воспринимаю не как от конкретного человека а как от бога. было очень много катастроф но я верила. сейчас нет. я на перепутье. раньше я принимала решение потому что было куда и зачем идти. сейчас нет. может кто-нибудь предложит вариант ответа. у меня самой решить уже нет силы и доверия.
Congratulations on your vacations! Happy trip!
Sr. Paulo
I would just like to thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for generously sharing your life and love to the world. I’m sure you’ve heard this often, but you are one of God’s greatest gifts today to mankind.
I’ve been and have caused suffering for almost 3 years now, because I’ve lost my Zahir. And it was only after reading your book that I realized that I have been suffering because, in your own words, I have been trying to diminish love so it fits the world I imagine I live in.
And so now, I commit to my own pilgrimage to cleanse myself of the past so I may readily accept the future.
Again, thank you. And may you enjoy your vacation!
Hello I’m really curious about the novel aleph.Have you really experienced it or is it a fiction?If you answer it I’d find my answers too.It is really important for me.
thank you….
Surely only we as individuals decide what is ‘fiction’ and what is ‘reality’?!
Also, all self-expression can only come from personal experience, and hence ALL fiction (and ‘factual’ writing for that matter) is inevitably autobiography.
You are right, it IS incredibly important, but surely what it is that is so important is that we each learn to have the confidence to truly believe what we individually believe, regardless of the beliefs of others?
With love
em
I have vacation too ….. because now I got a work again so now I can have a vacation :-)
Have a blessed vacation :-)
Love and light Jessica
Dear Mr.Coelho
Hi
Hope everything is ok for you.
I have had a magical moment with one of your books (Like the Flowing River) by Arash hejazi.
I have a habit when I read your texts after every great parts I stop reading and start to think and analyze the words.
Once I was doing this habit my mind goes away and I thought about one of my friend that was sick and has an appendix problem! after that I opened the book and guess what was the first word I saw????
It was Appendix!!!! I was shocked really and I didnt know what to do, and I wanted to share it with you…………
Felices vacaciones!! a disfrutar!! espero que mi esposo me regale su nuevo libro!! mi suegra me ha regalado para mi cumpleños el peregrino de compostela y me esta encantando !! me lo llevo a la playa y ya he realizado muchos de los ejercicios que propone, algun dia, no se cuando hare el camino pero desde asturias que es donde vivo. besos!!
gerçekten romanlarınızda özellikle elif gerçekten yaşadığınız bir olaymı yoksa kurguladığınızmı?eğer gerçekse bende sorularıma cevap bulmuş olacağım.bu bakımdan benim için önemli
Hello Mr. Coelho,
I became a fan of yours just last year. I write to you hoping to get some insight; some help for a winner that does stand alone.
I find myself in a situation where my ex fiancé and I say and feel we truly Love each other but there is much hurt between us and no more trust. To complicate things, I have another woman in my life that I desired for years and is great and with whom a relationship would be so easy but I do not allow myself to be with her freely as I Love my ex fiancé so much still. We both just read The Winner Stands Alone and wonder if we are simply in Love with the memories and holding on to something that could never be again and question how can one know beyond doubt if a feeling of Love is true or if it’s simply a sadness and addiction to an emotion or reminiscence of pleasures we once lived together and wish to live again?
All my life I have been a hopeless romantic who writes of Love and have inspired many around me. I have my own blog and many people say I should write a book and share these life philosophies with the world but the problem is that I cannot seem to think straight when it comes to my own life.
I have been living (or should I say surviving) with this indecisiveness for one year now. We’ve all shed so many tears to fill an ocean that I look now for even a word of inspiration to a problem that should be so simple when looking from above but for which I seem to be unable to see the shore and feel I am drowning when in the sea.
Thank you so much for all your inspiration and I wish you a great day.
Hola Sr. Paulo Coelho,
I just finished reading 11 minutes as I sit here in Miami. I started this trip to attend my brothers funeral in Denver, Colorado. He was an Army Capt. who succumbed to nightmares and strained love…an accident, a bullet and the phone left hanging with someone on the other end in Madrid.
My brother had just visited our grandfather’s tomb in a little fishing village close to the border with Portugal. We had chatted that we need to do the Camino de Santiago and a movie titled THE WAY had just come out.
Even on that trip to Santiago de Compostela with my kids and wife from Okinawa where we met up with my French Celtic brother Miguel who is the Gate Keeper for all things of traditional Karate and Kobudo, with stories of the French Foreign Legion, cognac and cigars and dreams at that time which are now true. My wife, my new life is also from Okinawa but raised in the world, and holds Geneva close to her heart.
My brother sent us water for our second exchange of vows on the cliffs of Cape Maeda on Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands. The water from el Batan from the mountains of Anaga in the north of our beloved island of Tenerife in the Canarias. We used to hike there then walk for kilometers on the Tajea aqueduct to the coast.
I arrived to Denver, got picked up by a good friend. She had given me a daily reader, My upmost for his highest…about Jesus. She is Jewish now, found her rots and a classic boxy red BMW convertible. On the way we drive by the St. Francis of Assisi little church which I felt I need to visit on this trip. I gave her the prayer in a little frame which I got from a friend who betrayed me although he is forgiven. She has it in a cabinet with other Jewish things and below a Torah. She said that every time she moves it I show up after 3 days. The last time was in 2010 when I came to introduce my new life to my family and our first exchange of vows. My friend gave us Jewish blessings in a ceremony up in the mountains where the Buffaloes roamed, to commemorate out union, I fired three shots from a Glock into a tree split by life half autumn, half spring. A perfect triangulation.
We rush to go get into a suit after my long trip from Okinawa,to Tokyo with an 11 hour overlay in Honolulu where I finally meet M. Kalani Souza. I brought my shellhorn ( my new tool to wage peace) and he had his, the one we sent him from the sacred island of Ohgami (where they say Capt. Kid hid his treasure). The shellhorn he was presented with was given a mouth in Farmington New Mexico in 2010 and which on this trip I have connected to the Lakota, the Yaqui and the Navajo and Sioux. Rev. Kalani talks about how he received the shell in his TED talk and I pass it on to you in the space for my website.
I have my shellhorn, the other shell will be on it’s way to Aotearoa, New Zealand on the Polynesian voyaging canoe to Rapanui, Easter Island to symbolically connect the Pacific. In Okinawa it’s all about the military presence, the China threat who owns the most US Treasury Bonds, North Korea the treasures to be mined under and in the pacific where even Cuba has 35 doctors practicing in Vanuatu. Gold continues to be mined in West Papua, Indonesia and the U.S. wash their hands of the blood for profit, their pride Obama and now the Morman looks towards the month of November as we reach the end of Ages. Don Alejandro from the Mayans is not worried, he also visited Okinawa and said that in 2013 they’d, start a new calendar. I wasn’t worried when I said to my brother: Yes, go ahead and join the Army. But join as a true warrior with honor and with respect to life, pray for your enemies and love in your heart the families of those you might need to modify their health.
I am in Hawaiian, happy to remember the trip my brother made to rescue me ordered by the family as I had collapsed from exhaustion and lack of sleep. I could not follow doctors orders and my brother came to get me….one night he had 15 Chivas doubles and I had 11 rum and cokes at the Renaissance hotel ( where years later I would propose to my new life), he insisted on paying with his credit card and almost fainted at the bill, we walked over to Coconut Moon, venerable beach bar by Rock and roll legend guitarist…where we started drinking. My friends remember my brother because every third word was BOOM. We had a 10 hour stop over in Guam where we went to a Luau, has leis, he had one around his head, a retired professor passed us a joint in a goodbye handshake with a wink as we left Pirates Cove, laid on the beach looked at the moon in the smoky clouds…THEN PANIC as we realizes we would lose our flight.
Are you still on vacation? I miss you… :) I´ve just finished mine (only one week, I am without job, my cash flow is low..) and it was great. And just this morning I have got an invitation for a job:)))) God is with us, I am sure about that. Relax and belive!
ZR
And I just sign a contract:) I am very happy and grateful. I see that we… our only job is to learn how to be a beter person, we have to learn to love and to understand others. And to find ourselwes. Who am I, what do I reallly want, feel. And all we need God will give us. So true. Thank you from the heart!
With love, Zvonka
We are with you, dearest Paulo… enjoying … face book! :))
It is announced from our T.V.: never say ‘Good bye’ in face book, before going for holidays.. It sounds like an invitation to the thieves, who are doing great ‘jobs’ during this time! :)))
Have a wonderful Summer!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
Happy you are taking a vacation.
Love
Breda
xx
I am on vacation (our family cottage) thoroughly entranced with the spiritual/sexual/sublime love you beautifully write in 11 Minutes…(recently read The Witch of Portobello in Mexico & blogged about it’s wonderful truths- wow), this title caught my attention having no idea what it was about (saw 11:11 as a child, and understand why’) — I’m living in another world so many seek, but cannot find. You’ve confirmed its truth in 11 Minutes – my ‘guides’ brought it to me, of course not by accident, but there it was in a used book store I normally only step into once a year. My story cannot be told – the world isn’t ready (except those in my inner circle) -it has gone beyond 11 Minutes – Paradise kept under wraps – I’m writing my own first book…Live the Love You Deserve – Imagine. A Judgment Free World because it is how I got here. You have helped me more than words can say believe more strongly in my own truth, inner trust, knowing – “God’s” sacred divine love we can share with others, but it’s our inability to control the timing of our spiritual awakening, and those we are in our relationships with creating a gap we cannot fill – growth sadly is rarely the foundation of our marriages, our closest family relationships. The ones that desperately matter. I am hopeful for a more evolved world, for now I am waiting for the world to catch up, and spreading my message of non-judgment for the real freedom we all long for. Thank you – your books are what keep me going to live out my own desire/passion – all of what we were meant to experience.
Sir,I wish you and Mrs cohelo are spending a happy vacations. We reader, are missing you in your blog.though in tweeter i can read your tweet but it is not full fill the vacancy of blog , I am waiting for your return in the blog. in tweeter most of your writting are in Spanish. I do not know Spanish……,very soon I have to learn Spanish language………take care…..happy vacations…..good night.