These are some pieces from “Brida”- Paulo coelho.
If any of them rings your bells, then u must read this book. Even though I never had the brains to entirely understand the book but its purpose for me was accomplished as it gave me something I really needed
“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools god uses to show us the way.”
“ In life each person can take one of the two attitudes: to build or to plant. The builders might take years over their tasks, but one day they finish what they are doing. Then they find their own walls hem them in. Life losses it’s meaning when the building stops.
Then there are those who plant. They endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener’s constant attention it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.”
Magic is a bridge, a bridge that allows you to walk from the visible world to the invisible world. And to learn the lessons of both the worlds.
Look at the world around you and try to see and understand as much as you can. The tradition of sun is constantly revealing eternal knowledge to each individual.
I have faith in god, faith in my guardian angel, who brought me here, and who remains here with me. She had no choice: either she believes in god, in her guardian angel or she despaired.
I learned that the search of 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.
Every moment in life is an act of faith. That you could chose to fill it with snakes and scorpions or with strong protecting force.
Path of wisdom means not being afraid to make mistakes.
“ What are you good at?” asked the owner
‘Going after what I believe in.’ that was the only possible reply, she spent her life in pursuit of what she believed in. the only problem was that she believed in something different every day.
And the process of finding ourselves is called love.
‘ By taking risks’ she said to Brida. ‘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.’
‘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.’
‘I’m always starting things and then giving up’, she thought rather sourly. Perhaps life would soon realize this and stop presenting her with the same opportunities over and over. Or perhaps by always giving up when she had only just started, she had exhausted all possible paths without even talking a single step
Wicca said that she didn’t understand why so many people chose to spend their whole life destroying paths they didn’t even want to follow, instead of following the one path that would lead them somewhere.
Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you now nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.
The whole of man’s life on 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.
Take pleasure in contemplating this universe there’s no need to worry about anything else. Simply concentrate on your own pleasure. Without any feeling of guilt.
Right, from now on, whenever you want to find out about something, plunge straight in.
She wasn’t afraid of difficulties, what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular path. She wanted to follow all possible pats so ended up following none.
No one could make a choice without feeling afraid. That was the law of life. That was the Dark Night, and no one could escape the Dark Night, even if they never made a decision, even if they lacked the courage to change anything, because that in itself was a decision, a change, except without the benefit of the treasures hidden in the Dark Night.
Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride he knew, because it was the most destructive way of being different.
‘Play your part and don’t worry about what others do. Believe that god also seeks to them, and that they are as engaged as you are in discovering the meaning of life.’
Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path.
Lord we are all in the world to run the risks of that Dark Night. I’m afraid of death, but even more afraid of wasting my life.
The answer was there before her, in that man nailed to the cross. He had played his part, and shown to the world that, if everyone played their part, no one else would have to suffer, because he had suffered for all those who’d had the courage to fight for their dreams.
However, at the appointed time, they would learn that each human being carries within them something far more important than their own self, namely, their particular Gift. For god placed in the hands of each and every person a Gift, the instrument he used to reveal himself to the world and to help humanity. God chose human beings to be his helpers on earth.
Some came to understand their gifts through tradition of the sun, others through the tradition of the moon, but all eventually learned what their gift was, even if it took several incarnations to do so.
Anyone not already following their own path would begin to feel dissatisfied with themselves and be forced to make a choice: they would either have to accept an existence beset with disappointment and pain or else come to realize that everyone was born to be happy. Having made their choice, they would have no opinion but to change, and that great struggle, the Jihad, would begin.
If he hadn’t wanted them to eat it, he would never have mentioned it.
‘Never be ashamed’, he said. ‘Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted, some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.’
‘How will I know which is which?’
‘By the taste. You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.’
God was the god of Braves!
