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 CoelhoPeople are all crazy... but the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy.
Paulo CoelhoShe wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day, in the silence of her heart, in the tedium of old age, she would remember almost with nostalgia - however absurd that might seem.
Paulo CoelhoThe world is divided into those who understand me and those who donโt. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.
Paulo CoelhoIt is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.
Paulo CoelhoWe human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better.... or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do.... But at this precise moment, you also realize that you can change your future by bringing the past into the present. Past and future only exist in our mind. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.... It isn't what you did in the past the will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
Paulo Coelho