Paulo Coelho's Blog, page 50
September 29, 2016
Boredom
“Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored is mooning about and doing nothing. ” ? Aidan Chambers “I think that the word bored does not get the attention it deserves. We speak of all sorts of terrible things that […]
Oração a São Miguel Arcanjo
Príncipe Guardião e Guerreiro defendei-me e protegei-me com Vossa Espada. Não permita que nenhum mal me atinja. Protegei-me contra assaltos, roubos, acidentes e contra quaisquer atos de violência. Livrai-me de pessoas negativas e espalhai vosso manto e vosso escudo de proteção em meu lar, meus filhos e familiares. Guardai meu trabalho, meus negócios e meus […]
September 28, 2016
Question byEvi and Tuty from Jakarta
Dear Paulo, I really admire your thoughts and your messages around the pursue of one’s dream .However, not everyone is blessed with a childhood dream or a Personal Legend. Those of us that have been brought up with such a rigid pattern (school, school, work, more school, marriage, kid, etc), do not even have the […]
September 25, 2016
The importance of the cat in meditation
Having written a book about madness (Veronika decides to die) , I was forced to wonder how many things we do are imposed on us by necessity, or by the absurd. Why wear a tie? Why do clocks run “clockwise”? If we live in a decimal system, why does the day have 24 hours of […]
September 23, 2016
September 20, 2016
20 SEC READING: The older sister’s question
When her brother was born, Sa-chi Gabriel begged her parents to leave her alone with the baby. They refused, fearing that, as with many four-year-olds, she was jealous and wanted to mistreat him. But Sa-chi showed no signs of jealousy. And since she was always extremely affectionate towards her little brother, her parents decided […]
September 18, 2016
Relax and pay attention
Sometimes we keep on waiting – with patience, resignation, courage – and still, things around us don’t move. But since this is the path we chose, it seems impossible that life’s blessings are not working in our favor. It provokes, therefore, a deep reflection about what we call “results:” our destiny is manifesting itself in […]
September 16, 2016
The Breviary of Medieval Knights
In an interesting and diminutive book called “The Breviary of Medieval Knights,” there are some passages that have to be remembered in these moments of waiting: “The Path’s spiritual energy uses justice and patience to prepare your spirit.” “This is the Knight’s Path. An easy and hard path at the same time, as it urges […]
September 15, 2016
Choosing a path
“Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now. “I’m afraid of committing myself,” she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following […]
September 13, 2016
Lakes made of tears
We need to love. Even when it leads us to the land where the lakes are made of tears, to that secret, mysterious place, the land of tears! Tears speak for themselves. And when we feel that we have cried all we needed to cry, they still continue to flow. And just when we believe […]
