When I read books by Paulo Coelho I treat them like a bible. They are full of knowledge and great thoughts about life. He says things that really make sense in a world that can be quite confusing at times.
I'm currently reading "Aleph" and I recommend it. The book like I said before is full of knowledge. It's very easy to connect with the thoughts of the writer. Also, he meets the most interesting people and travels to many different places. Therefore, he is able to teach you about random little things that he connects with life. Take for example the story of the Chinese Bamboo: "It apparently spends five years as a little shoot, using that time to develop it's roots system. And then, from one moment to the next, it puts on a spurt and grows up to twenty-five meters high." (Page 26)
He later compares the Chinese Bamboo to his life and he decides to begin developing his "root system" and takes on many different challenges. I thought this comparison was brilliant!
Here are a few other great quotes!
Quotes
Pages 1-11
Page 1: "The world has never been as divided as it is now, what with religious wars, genocides, a lack of respect for the planet, economic crises, depression, poverty, with everyone wanting instant solutions to at least some of the world's problems or their own. And things look only bleaker as we head into the future."
Page 5: "I'm not at peace-now and then I go through periods of inner conflict that can persist for months-and the times when I immerse myself in some magical reality last only seconds, just long enough to know that another world exists, and long enough to leave frustrated because I can't absorb everything I learn."
Page 9: "Traveling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present."
"In magic-and in life-there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. "Time" doesn't pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty focusing on the present; we're always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn't act as we should have. Or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do tomorrow, what precautions we should take, what dangers await us around the next corner, how to avoid what we don't want and how to get what we have always dreamed of."
Page 10: "In India, they use the word 'karma' for lack of any better term. But it's a concept that's rarely given a proper explanation. It isn't what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future."
"Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine. Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won't learn anything new that way."
Page 11: "Travel is never a matter of money but of courage."
I'm currently reading "Aleph" and I recommend it. The book like I said before is full of knowledge. It's very easy to connect with the thoughts of the writer. Also, he meets the most interesting people and travels to many different places. Therefore, he is able to teach you about random little things that he connects with life. Take for example the story of the Chinese Bamboo: "It apparently spends five years as a little shoot, using that time to develop it's roots system. And then, from one moment to the next, it puts on a spurt and grows up to twenty-five meters high." (Page 26)
He later compares the Chinese Bamboo to his life and he decides to begin developing his "root system" and takes on many different challenges. I thought this comparison was brilliant!
Here are a few other great quotes!
Quotes
Pages 1-11
Page 1: "The world has never been as divided as it is now, what with religious wars, genocides, a lack of respect for the planet, economic crises, depression, poverty, with everyone wanting instant solutions to at least some of the world's problems or their own. And things look only bleaker as we head into the future."
Page 5: "I'm not at peace-now and then I go through periods of inner conflict that can persist for months-and the times when I immerse myself in some magical reality last only seconds, just long enough to know that another world exists, and long enough to leave frustrated because I can't absorb everything I learn."
Page 9: "Traveling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present."
"In magic-and in life-there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. "Time" doesn't pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty focusing on the present; we're always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn't act as we should have. Or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do tomorrow, what precautions we should take, what dangers await us around the next corner, how to avoid what we don't want and how to get what we have always dreamed of."
Page 10: "In India, they use the word 'karma' for lack of any better term. But it's a concept that's rarely given a proper explanation. It isn't what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future."
"Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine. Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won't learn anything new that way."
Page 11: "Travel is never a matter of money but of courage."
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