Paulo Coelho about love Image: Vivien Rose
Wien [ENA] The Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho has achieved world fame with his best-known work “The Alchemist”. Born in Rio, raised a strict Catholic, attended Jesuit school, he broke off his studies. His parents condemned his rebellious behavior and considered him insane
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Paulo was admitted to a mental institution three times. He later described these formative experiences and therapies in one of his novels: “When Veronika decided to die”. His life was not always easy. And very emotional. Today he lives happily with his second wife in Switzerland. The alchemist was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the factory in Brazil blew up sales.
Paolo Coelho on feelings
“The strongest feelings are those that we try to suppress within ourselves,” said Paulo Coelho. The bestselling author has also written a lot about love in his extraordinary novels. What we can see and understand through his works is that he believed that we cannot escape true love and that man cannot stifle feelings within himself. “There is always one person in the world waiting for the other, be it in the middle of a desert or in the middle of a big city. And when these people meet and cross their eyes, the past and the future lose their meaning. There is only this moment.”
Love at first sight, a dream and be it just the breath of the wind that reminds me of it. A really nice idea, but how often does it happen that we meet the one person where our feelings overwhelm us and we only live in the moment? Some will smile and others will think their part. “What a dreamer at today’s divorce rates. But isn’t it the thought that counts? Isn’t it the thought of true love that makes life worth living? Strangely enough, the same saying can be found in all languages of the world: ‘Far from the eyes, far from the heart’. What do you think about it? Could this saying be right?
I think this is the very saying that is wrong. The further away we are from the loved one, the closer we are to our feelings that we are trying to stifle and forget. Paolo Coelho is right in a way. It is important to let go of some things that are often imprinted on us from childhood and to overcome them. Let go and open your wings of ease. Don’t expect past lovers to return to you, acknowledge your efforts, apologize, or protest that you are a genius and understand your love. Close the loop, the past, live in the now. Not out of pride or arrogance, but because it no longer fits into their lives.
Love is a way of life
Close the door, change plates, sweep the house, wipe off the dust, jump off the plane, do something “crazy”, break free. Stop being what you were and become what you are. , An important secret of love is life in the now. A person’s ultimate goal is to understand complete love. Love is not in the other person, even if they hold up a mirror to us, but in each and every one of us and we awaken these deep feelings in us through the second person. Love sends us signals that determine our life – and it is up to us to decipher these signals. Love is actually alchemy.
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