Paulo Coelho's Blog, page 154
June 20, 2010
Whom do we love?
Ever since we are children, we are asked: do you love daddy? Do you love auntie? Do you love your teacher?
Nobody asks: do you love yourself?
And we end up spending a good deal of our life and energy trying to please others. But what about ourselves? Anthony Mello has a fine story on this [...:]
Nobody asks: do you love yourself?
And we end up spending a good deal of our life and energy trying to please others. But what about ourselves? Anthony Mello has a fine story on this [...:]
He who loves, rejoices
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light. I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it [...:]
June 17, 2010
Respondendo a mim mesmo
1) Em O Aleph, você menciona que em 2006 estava passando por um momento de questionamento de sua fé. O que desencadeou esta crise?
A fé não é algo estático, mas uma dinamica constante. Um famoso místico alemão já disse que muitas vezes ele estava com muita fé antes de atravessar uma rua, e quando chegava [...:]
A fé não é algo estático, mas uma dinamica constante. Um famoso místico alemão já disse que muitas vezes ele estava com muita fé antes de atravessar uma rua, e quando chegava [...:]
June 16, 2010
Fernando Pessoa (1888 – 1935 Lisbon, Portugal)
Follow your destiny,
Water your plants,
Love your roses.
The rest is shadow
Of unknown trees.
Reality is always
More or less
Than what we want.
Only we are always
Equal to ourselves.
It's good to live alone,
And noble and great
Always to live simply.
Leave pain on the altar
As an offering to the gods.
See life from a distance.
Never question it.
There's nothing it can
Tell you. The answer
Lies [...:]
Water your plants,
Love your roses.
The rest is shadow
Of unknown trees.
Reality is always
More or less
Than what we want.
Only we are always
Equal to ourselves.
It's good to live alone,
And noble and great
Always to live simply.
Leave pain on the altar
As an offering to the gods.
See life from a distance.
Never question it.
There's nothing it can
Tell you. The answer
Lies [...:]
Como é apresentado um livro para uma editora?
Como é feita a apresentação de um livro para editoras estrangeiras? Como a maior parte destes editores não sabem portugues, encarregam profissionais para a leitura. Até o momento o livro foi enviado apenas à Random House/Mondadori, uma das tres maiores editoras do mundo. Abaixo o que a leitora encarregada escreveu – e que é também [...:]
Cala Boca Galvao
So all day on Friday, Brazilians were posting the shut-up comment. Inevitably, others asked what the words meant. That was when the real mischief began. At 2 a.m. on Saturday, a Brazilian wrote in English that it was a bird. (In fact, the Portuguese word for hawk, "gavião," is close to Galvão.) An online petition [...:]
June 15, 2010
Character of the week: Coco Chanel
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like. There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no [...:]
June 14, 2010
30 SEC READ: Bravo! (ENGL, PORT, ESPA )
The Substitute Singer
Though I was unable to prove the events of this tale, this event supposedly happened many years ago in the Paris Opera. On the night when a famous tenor was to perform, the packed house was told he would not be able to attend due to traffic.
Concerned, the director of the Opera [...:]
Though I was unable to prove the events of this tale, this event supposedly happened many years ago in the Paris Opera. On the night when a famous tenor was to perform, the packed house was told he would not be able to attend due to traffic.
Concerned, the director of the Opera [...:]
