Friday, March 03, 2006

copybook/ The Zahir, Paulo Coelho

" The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into confusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true. the world will become real when man learns how to love, until then we will live in the belief that we know and what love is, but we will always lack the courage to confront it as it truely is."
" LOVE is an untamed force, when we try to control it, it destory us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. " (p.79)

" The most important thing in all human relationship is conversation, but people dont talk anymore, they dont sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to the time when warriors would gather around a fire ad tell stories." (p.125)

" We could spend the rest of our life saying that we love such a person or thing, when the truth is that we are merely suffering because, instead of accepting love's strength, we are trying to diminish it so that it fits the world in which we imagine we live." (p.146)

" Suffering occures when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself- free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on." (p.194)

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