Paulo Coelho's Blog, page 19
June 18, 2019
2 min read: meeting Henry Miller’s widow
The Japanese journalist asks the usual question: “And what are your favorite writers?” I give my usual answer: “Jorge Amado, Jorge Luis Borges, William Blake and Henry Miller.” The translator looks at me astonished: “Henry Miller?” But she soon realizes her role isn’t to digress and gets back to her work. At the end of […]
2 min reading: meeting Henry Miller’s widow
The Japanese journalist asks the usual question: “And what are your favorite writers?” I give my usual answer: “Jorge Amado, Jorge Luis Borges, William Blake and Henry Miller.” The translator looks at me astonished: “Henry Miller?” But she soon realizes her role isn’t to digress and gets back to her work. At the end of […]
June 12, 2019
You, who they call Lord
EM PORTUGUES AQUI: Você, que eles chamam Senhor EN ESPANOL AQUI : Tú, a quien ellos llaman Señor by Abbot Burkhard You, who I can feel deep inside my soul. You, who has created this world. When I look into the microcosmos, in the macrocosmos, everywhere I find you. I sense your greatness. You, who […]
June 9, 2019
Andy Warhol
“Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don’t think they’ve ever remembered. Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? I’m afraid that if you look at a […]
June 4, 2019
30 SEC READ The vase and the rose
The Grand Master gathered together all the disciples in order to decide who would have the honour of working at his side. ‘I am going to set you a problem,’ said the Grand Master. ‘And the first one to solve that problem will be the new Guardian of the temple.’ Once this briefest of speeches […]
30 SEC READ The porcelain vase and the rose
Alessandra Marin tells the following story: the Grand Master and the Guardian shared the administration of a Zen monastery. One day, the Guardian died and a replacement had to be found. The Grand Master gathered together all the disciples in order to decide who would have the honour of working at his side. ‘I am […]
May 29, 2019
20 SEC READING: What is truth?
I read the following piece of news in the Spanish newspaper “La Vanguardia”. “What is truth? The President of the Court, Josep Maria Pijuan, had to check which of the versions of rape offered by the girl victim, 11-year-old J., was closest to reality. The lawyers attending the questioning did not believe that she would […]
May 24, 2019
The mechanism of terror
An old legend tells of how a certain city in the Pyrenees mountains used to be a stronghold for drug-traffickers, smugglers and exiles. The worst of them all, called Ahab, was converted by a local monk, Savin, and decided that things could not continue like that. As he was feared by all, but did not […]
May 18, 2019
The Magic Mountain
I think that one of the most beautiful regions in the world is Languedoc, a part of the Pyrenees in southwest France. I have been there several times and its valleys, mountains, vegetation and rivers always impress me. However, as human beings are quite unpredictable, it was precisely in this magnificent place that the first […]
