Paulo Coelho

By Paulo Coelho

‘Why do you live in the desert?’ asked the gentleman.
 
‘Because I cannot be what I want to be.’
 
‘No one can, but we all have to try,’ said the gentleman.
 
‘It’s impossible. When I start to be myself, people treat me with false reverence. When I am true to my faith, they begin to doubt me. They all believe that they are more saintly than I am, but they pretend to be sinners for fear of mocking my solitude. They are constantly trying to show me that they consider me a saint, and thus they become transformed into emissaries of the Devil, tempting me with pride.’
 
‘Your problem lies not in trying to be who you are, but in not accepting how other people are. And if you carry on like that, you had best stay in the desert,’ said the gentleman, and with that he left.

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Trying to know herself better, she travels all over the world, but she finds out the truth about the real world in which she lives and that’s way she became the witch of Portobello. Coelho’s novel tells the story of this wonderful girl …
 
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The Alchemist is one of the best books I have read in recent times. It is a book that most of us can relate to. It seems like the lead character Santiago the Sheperd boy is in each of us.
 
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"When you know [the Universal Language of the World], it’s easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it’s in the middle of the desert or in some great city.
 
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By Paulo Coelho

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. (The Alchemist, 1988)

Almost half of emails that I receive come from people that say that they had to renounce their dream for love. And then, some of my readers raise the question:

1- Parents who love their children want them to be happy, safe and to succeed, but even following a “common” path, success is never for sure and life is not safe.The fear of “loosing” makes many a man and woman not even trying to fight… How many single mothers aren’t there who have succeeded in spite of a week which seemed too full to fit anything else than work and children? Fear, not love. (Josephine)

2- If I must choose for doing a job or stay with the person I love. Definetly I choose the second one, because jobs we can find it all around but a person who spend your life with is not easy. (Maria)

3- I think love is an integral part of one’s dreams. If you have to give up your dream in order to find or keep love then I don’t believe that you have found true love. Love does not stop you from realizing your dream. (Davinia)

4- “There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to out-carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the price of great pain… or so says the legend…”Can love make a person stay from his/her personal legend? NO – your soul will die – if you do. But the price one must pay. (Nini Rebecca)

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40% of the emails that I receive come from people that say that they had to renounce their dream for love.
Personally, I don’t think love can make a person stray from his/her personal legend.
What do you think?
Love
Paulo

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Here I am going through Power Books (a local book shop in the Philippines) and chanced upon a new Paolo Coelho book entitled Witch of Portobello, and found myself wanting to buy it and enjoy the book right there and then.
 
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According to Paulo Coelho: The warrior of the light, who can change your life, is everywhere.
 
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‘Blessed is he who gives his children wings and roots,’ says a proverb.
 
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By Paulo Coelho

Shanti was travelling from town to town, preaching the Divine word, when a man came to him hoping that he would cure his ills.
 
‘Work, eat and praise God,’ Shanti told him.
 
‘When I work, my back hurts. When I eat, I get indigestion. When I drink, my throat burns. When I pray, I don’t feel that God is listening to me.’
 
‘Then find another teacher.’
 
The man left in disgust. Shanti remarked to those who had heard the conversation:
 
‘He had two possible ways of looking at things and he always chose the worst one. When he dies, he’ll probably complain about how cold it is in his grave.’

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1. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
2. The Alchemist
3. Eleven Minutes
4. The Zahir
5. The Fifth Mountain
6. The Pilgrimage
7. The Devil and Miss Prym
8. Veronika Decides to Die
9. The Valkyries
10. Warrior of the Light
11. Like the Flowing River
12. The Witch of Portobello

These are all book titles. Do they sound so familiar? If not, you are not a certified Paulo Coelho fan.

 
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It Maybe a long time before i meet Michael… or so i think.. ~~~ In Veronika Decides to Die, I’m playing the piano ~~~ In the Witch of Portobello, I just caught myself off-guarded when one of the men said that they know you …
 
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Coelho speaks for slightly less than three minutes at the bid presentation (video in Portuguese). "Your expression about the Brazilian mind-set was most apt," writes a contributor to Coelho’s blog. "They live, eat, drink, think and dream football."
 
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