To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks, and do what you really want to do.Ĩ. We are not the person other people wish we were. It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.ĥ. It isn’t what you did in the past that will affect the present. Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.Ĥ. You can’t measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. In magic-and in life-there is only the present moment, the now. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity.Ģ. Past and future exist only in our memory. _ Paulo Coelho Sayings #1-9 Aleph, 2011ġ. My dream was, and still is, to be a writer.” Coelho would leave his lucrative career as a songwriter and pursue writing full-time. I was doing something that gave me food and water - to use the metaphor in The Alchemist, I was working, I had a person who I loved, I had money, but I was not fulfilling my dream. In an interview, Coelho stated “, I was very happy in the things I was doing. On the path, Coelho had a spiritual awakening, which he described autobiographically in The Pilgrimage. In 1986, Coelho walked the 500-plus mile Road of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain, a turning point in his life. Laugh lots.Įxcerpt from Wikipedia: Paulo Coelho (born August 24, 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. But the day we learn to harness the energy of love, that will be as important as the discovery of fire. We can harness the energy of the winds, the seas, the sun. That’s why there’s no need to grieve for our loved ones, because they continue to be loved and remain by our side. Love always triumphs over what we call death. Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other. Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired. History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use the energy of the wind, the seas, the atom. The energy of hatred won’t get you anywhere but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way. #15-16 The Zahir: A Novel of Obsessionġ5. If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free. If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Love is the force that transforms and improves the soul of the world. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.Ĩ. Love one another, but let’s not try to possess one another. If I must be faithful to someone or something, then I have, first of all, to be faithful to myself.Ħ. In love, no one can harm anyone else we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.ĥ. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.Ĥ. But in order to do that, we need the other person. Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves we simply awaken it. #3-6 From the diary of Maria, the prostitute in Eleven Minutesģ. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly. Well, that’s a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience. Photo credit: Wikipedia, Paulo Coelho Quotes and Sayings Paulo Coelho Quotes and Sayingsġ.
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