Review of “Witch of Portobello”

I am through with “Witch of Portobello”. Though, it is not as per my expectation like other books written by Paulo Coelho, enlighten spiritual energy thorugh so called Witch character.

Overall rating : ***

Food for thoughts from this book:

“No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people’s eyes, to reveal the marvels around.”

“No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.”

“When reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept that i was in love.”

“If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it’s the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.”

“How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in out lives disappearing from one moment to the next? I don’t just mean people, but our ideas and dreams too: we might survive a day, a week, a few years, but we’re all condemned to lose. Our body remains alive, yet, sooner or later, our soul will receive the mortal blow.”

“No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they are doing, even if one of them complains later on that they were used.”

“It isn’t good to speak ill of people who have passed from this life onto the astral plane.”

“….She was always flirting with danger. They say extroverts are unhappier than introverts, and have to compensate for this by consatantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.”

“If man we don’t know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheles pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we’re quite capable of going to bed with him that same night, feeling relatively in love. That’s what we women are like, and there’s nothing wrong with that – it’s the nature of the female to open herself to love easily.”

“Her greatest problem was that she was a woman of the twenty-second century living in the twenty-first, and making no secret of the fact either.”

“I’ve lived on a battlefield since i was born, but i’m still alive and i don’t need anyone to protect me.”

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.”

“I am only happy when i think that God exists and is listening to me; but that isn’t enough to go on living, when nothing seems to make sense. I pretend a happiness i don’t feel;  I hide my sadness so as not to worry those who love me and care about me.”

” If i don’t feel life growing inside me, I’ll never be able to accept life outside me.”

“My real family left forever. And the family i’d been born into received me with open arms.”

“When the pain abated – and time is the only cure for that.”

” You can’t measure love the way you can the length of a road or the height of a building.”

“Because all my life I’ve learned to suffer in silence.”

“In life, too, it’s the culminating point, the goal of all those who, like everyone else, make mistakes, but who, even in their darkest moments, never lose sight of the light emanating from their hearts.”

“I’ve noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”

“Her silence was the blank spaces between the words.”

“I don’t see why i should bother to look for someone who never took trouble to love me.”

“If you’re not in touch with your roots, you feel as if you’d lost touch with the world.”

“… seeks contact with the upper and lower world, but always ends up destroying her own life – she serves others, gives out energy, but receives nothing in return.”

“..It’s because for those who travel, time doesn’t exist, only space.”

“The light is unstable, the wind blows it out, the lightning ignites it, it is never simply there, shining like the sun, but it is worth fighting for.”

“We’re surrounded by Universal Desire. It’s not happiness; it’s desire. And desires are never stisfied, because once they are, they cease to be desires.”

“Belive in your ablilities; believe that you have already arrived where you wanted to arrive.”

“Faith is not desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us.”

“Instead of trying to prove that you’re better than you think, just laugh. Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humour. It will be difficult at first, but you’ll gradually get used to it.”

“It was more important to give than to receive, but while these were wise words, i was part of what is known as ‘humanity’, with frailties, my moments of indecision, my desire simply to live in peace, to be the slave of my feelings and to surrender myself without asking any questions, without even knowing if my love was reciprocated.”

“We are not the slaves of our feelings, but their masters. We serve and are served.”

“When hatred makes a person grow, it’s transformed into one of the many ways of loving.”

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Review of “Brida”

I just finished the book named “Brida”. Paulo Coelho has portrayed the young girl and her search of soulmate marvelously.  One would not miss to read this book at least once. These are some of the excerpts …

 

“There is no need to close your eyes. Look at the world around you and try to see and understand as much as you can. This is the firs t and most important lesson.”

 

“…She must trust it. And that trust is called Faith. No one could ever understand Faith, but Faith was what she was experiencing now, an inexplicable immersion in blackest night. It only existed because she believe in it. Miracles couldn’t be explained either, but they existed for those who believed in them.”

 

“I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that’s hardly a surprise really, because for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forwards. Because we trust. Because we have Faith. That every moment in life is an act of faith.”

 

“The path of wisdom means not being afraid to make mistakes.”

 

“Only by understanding the Soulmate can we understand how knowledge can be transmitted over time.”

 

“In certain reincarnations, we divide into two. Our souls divide as do crystals and stars, cells and plants. As well as dividing into two, we also find ourselves. And that process of finding ourselves is called Love. Because when a soul divides, it always divides into a male part and a female part.”

 

“In each life, we feel a mysterious obligation to find at least one of those Soulmates. The Greater Love that separated them feels pleased with the Love that brings them together again.”

 

“By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in your search for Love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.”

 

“Is it possible to meet more than one Soulmate in each life?”  ‘Yes’, with a certain bitterness. And when that happens, the heart is divided, and the result is pain and suffering. Yes, we can meet three or four Soulmates, because we are many and we are scattered.”

 

“We can also allow our Soulmate to pass us by, without accepting him or her, or even noticing. Then we will need another incarnation in order to find that Soulmate. And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.”

 

“The path of the life is and always will be path of Mystery. Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.”

 

“The other day, I spoke to you about one of the great secrets of magic: the Soulmate. The whole of man’s life on the face of Earth can be summed up by that search for his Soulmate. He may pretend to be running after wisdom, money or power, but none of that matters. Whatever he achieves will be incomplete if he fails to find his Soulmate.”

 

“The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world. And the closer you will be to your Soulmate.”

 

“God is the word. Always be careful what you say in any situation and at any moment. God manifests himself in everything, but the word is one of his most favoured methods of doing so, because the word is thought transformed into vibration; you are projecting into the air around you something which, before, was only energy. Take great care with everything you say.”

 

“Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.”

 

“I am afraid of committing myself. Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic disappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pain, loss and separation. These things are inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.”

 

“Life is so complicated. You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others. People who followed certain paths only to prove that they weren’t the right ones, but that wasn’t as bas as choosing a path and then spending the rest of your life wondering if you’d made the right choice. No one could make a choice without felling afraid.”

 

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”

 

“The Force for Good is always diffused, like Light. When you give off positive vibrations, you benefit all humankind, but when you concentrate the force of the Messenger, you are only benefiting – or harming – yourself.”

 

“There was always risk, a single risk: that one person might meet with more than one Soulmate in the same incarnation, as had happened millennia before.”

 

“What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.”

 

“Sometimes I think one thing and do another, but if you’ve ever felt love, you will know how painful it is to suffer for love.”

 

“..But emotions are, indeed, wild horses and they demanded to be heard.”

 

“Love don’t require kind of renunciation. True love allowed each person to follow their own path, knowing that they would never lose touch with their Soulmate.”

 

“Play your part and don’t worry about what others do. Believe that God also speaks to them, and that they are as engaged as you are in discovering the meaning of life.”

 

“Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.”

 

“Life is about making mistakes. Never be afraid of making mistake.”                  

 

“No one can possess a sunset like the one we saw that evening. Just as no one can possess an afternoon of rain beating against the window, or the serenity of a sleeping child, or the magical moment when the waves break on he rocks. No one can possess the beautiful things of this Earth, but we can know them and love them. “

 

“That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine and that is why I will never lose you. You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.”

 

“I will always remember now that love is liberty. I will always remember you and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the windows, and all the things we will always have because we cannot possess them.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

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