Paulo Coelho's Blog, page 51
September 11, 2016
Review: Veronika decides to die
by Longblong As morbid and depressing as the title seems, this Coelho book takes the usual turn for understanding of the universe and an inspiration for readers to strive not to settle into the kind of routine they don’t wish to be in. Coelho’s books have been NY Times Best Sellers and translated into dozens […]
September 8, 2016
Before and after
TEN THOUSAND YEARS LATER….
September 7, 2016
Interview to “The Talks”
InMr. Coelho, are you interested in building bridges between cultures? For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You’re there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages. Like Tolstoy says: everything that happens in […]
September 4, 2016
5 Life Lessons Driven Home by Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Alchemist’
By Laurie Leinwand, MA, LPC One of my favorite books is Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist. It’s a story about a shepherd boy who journeys in search of a treasure about which he has dreamed. What I love about the story is that there are so many life lessons embedded in it. Where you are in […]
September 2, 2016
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 […]
September 1, 2016
15 de Outubro 1917, Cela 12, Prisão de Saint-Lazare (Paris)
Estimado Dr. Clunet, Não sei o que irá acontecer no final desta semana. Sempre fui uma mulher otimista, mas o tempo está me deixando amarga, solitária e triste. Se tudo correr como espero, o senhor jamais receberá esta carta. Terei sido perdoada. Afinal de contas, minha vida foi feita cultivando amigos influentes. Eu a guardarei […]
August 30, 2016
The heart of the warrior
All the world’s roads lead to the heart of the warrior; he plunges unhesitatingly into the river of passions always flowing through his life. The warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment and – sometimes – with just a touch of madness. He embraces […]
August 29, 2016
Timeshifting
Paulo Coelho I correspond a lot by e-mail with Stephan Rechtschaffen, a doctor who founded the successful Omega Institute in New York. I was invited to give a talk there but I had to cancel it at the last moment. Then Stephan and I were contacted to talk together in Vienna, Austria, and this time […]
August 25, 2016
Learn to Stop Feeling Jealous
Author: Chetan Dalv (to read the full post, click here) A star is not jealous with other star shining nearby. A rain drop does not envy with its peer. A leaf fallen on the ground doesn’t stops wishing well for other leaves still hanging. A thorn does not backbite about the rose. People feel jealous […]
August 23, 2016
The mountain will tell me when I am old
I have chosen a mountain to define my limits. In 1989 (I was just over 40yrs and I had already published The Alchemist and The Pilgrimage in Brasil), I was on my second sacred pilgrimage in the Pyrenees. I saw a mountain in the distance called Pic du Gez and I said, ‘okay, I have […]
