O Aleph

by Paulo Coelho

‘O God, when I listen to the voices of animals, the sounds of trees, the murmurings of water, the singing of birds, the whistling of the wind or the boom of thunder, I see in them evidence of Your unity;

Understand what is going on inside you and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else.

When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.

anyone truly committed to life never stops walking.

we always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

I know that I am in all the people surrounding me, and that they are in me. Together we write the Book of Life, our every encounter determined by fate

If I believe I will win, then victory will believe in me. No life is complete without a touch of madness,

I only know that a life without cause is a life without effect.

signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed.

déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It shows that time doesn’t pass. It’s a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated.

in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up to them.

“Allah will cause you to die, and then he will bring you back to life again, and you will return to Him once more.”

Do not say of those who died in the name of Allah: They are dead. For they are alive, even though you cannot see them.”’

People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.

‘No one is a prophet in his own land.’ We always tend to value what comes from afar, never recognising the beauty around us.

‘Although sometimes,’ I go on, ‘we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see.’

it is these small daily gestures that bring us closer to God, as long as I am able to give each gesture the value it deserves.

If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us. Nevertheless, you have to be prepared for everything.

I only learned that after I’d been repeating the same gesture for many years, until the moment came when I didn’t have to think, I simply let my hand guide my work.’

‘What can’t be cured must be endured.’

The air contains a cosmic force for which every culture has a different name,

‘What hurts us is what heals us,’

What idiotic questions I had asked! What was the meaning of life? Why can I make no progress? Why is the spiritual world moving further and further away? The answer couldn’t have been simpler: because I wasn’t really living!

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

Don’t think about what you’ll tell people afterwards. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.

Someone once said that tears are the blood of the soul,

‘I don’t believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.

we are all a mirror of our time.

for me, writing is, above all, about discovering myself.

No one ever loses anyone. We are all one soul that needs to continue growing and developing in order for the world to carry on and for us all to meet once again.

‘ANYONE WHO KNOWS GOD CANNOT DESCRIBE HIM. ANYONE WHO CAN DESCRIBE GOD DOES NOT KNOW HIM.’

Tao Te Ching

Why have I been complaining all these months about not being in touch with the Divine Energy? What nonsense! We are always in touch with it, it’s only routine that prevents us from feeling it.

Time neither moves nor is it stationary. Time changes. We occupy one point in that constantly mutating time – our Aleph.

Love is beyond time, or, rather, love is both time and space, but all focused on one single constantly evolving point – the Aleph.’

‘We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

We are all souls wandering the cosmos and, at the same time, living our lives, but with a sense that we are passing from one incarnation to another.

We are both creators and creatures, but we are also puppets in God’s hands, and there is a line we cannot cross, a line that was drawn for reasons we cannot know. We can approach and even dabble our toes in the river, but are forbidden to plunge in and let ourselves be carried along by the current.

I am grateful to life because I am making this journey.

‘But isn’t prayer a way of bringing us closer to God?’ ‘Allow me to answer with another question: “Will all your prayers make the sun rise tomorrow?” Of course not, the sun rises in obedience to a universal law. God is always close to us whether we pray to him or not.’

‘The Path to Peace is wide and vast, reflecting the grand design created in the visible and invisible world.

‘Your mind must be in harmony with the Universe. Your body must keep pace with the Universe. You and the Universe are one.’

‘Train your heart. That is the discipline every warrior needs. If you can control your heart, then you will defeat your opponent.’

The art of peace is unbeatable because no one is fighting against anyone, only themselves. If you conquer yourself, then you will conquer the world.’

‘Do you desire me?’ she asks. I feel like saying: ‘Yes, I desire you when you’re far away, when you’re just a fantasy.

We all commit adultery in our thoughts, ask forgiveness, then do it all over again.

In this precise moment, in a hotel in Novosibirsk, the world is being created and destroyed.

everywhere in the Universe, time beats like God’s vast heart, expanding and contracting.

Sometimes war is necessary in order that we can finally find peace.

Believe Even When No One Else Believes in You

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