It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that youโre capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; donโt visit your past. The Universe goes through many mutations and carries the past with it. We call each of those mutations a โlife,โ but just as the cells in your body change and yet you remain the same, so time does not pass, it merely changes.
Paulo CoelhoA best friend is someone with whom you can sit on the porch, without a word, and then walk away with the feeling that it was the best conversation that ever had in your life. I would like to see next to me was the man in whose presence my heart beat would be evenly and uniformly, the man next to whom I would be calm, because I was not afraid to be the next day to lose him. And the time would have flowed more slowly, and we could just keep quiet, knowing that to talk with us there is still a whole life. Only one thing makes a dream impossible - it is the fear of failure.
Paulo CoelhoSometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.
Paulo CoelhoMari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.
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