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26 Quotes from a Love Story by
Paulo Coelho
“So what is magic?” she asked.
“Magic is a bridge,” he said at last, “a bridge that allows you to walk from the visible world over into the invisible world, and to learn the lessons of both those worlds.”
“And how can I learn to cross that bridge?”
“By discovering your own way of crossing it. Everyone has their own way.”
‘WHEREVER YOUR TREASURE IS ,
THERE WILL BE YOUR HEART. ’
…”That was love, and that was how people had searched for
their Soul Mate since time began, by looking into another person’s eyes in search of that special light, desire.”
26 Quotes from a Love-Story by Paulo Coelho "Brida"
…”Tradition says that, in life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant.
The builders might take years over their tasks, but one day, they finish what they’re doing. Then they find they’re hemmed in by their own walls. Life loses its 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.
Gardeners always recognize one another, because they know that in the history of each plant lies the growth of the whole World.”
26 Quotes from a Love-Story by Paulo Coelho "Brida"
“There are two forms,” replied the Magus. “The Tradition of the Sun, which teaches the secrets through space and the world that surrounds us, and the Tradition of the Moon, which teaches through time and the things that are imprisoned in time’s memory.”
Brida had understood. The Tradition of the Sun was the night, the trees, the cold gripping her body, the stars in the sky. And the Tradition of the Moon was that man before her now, with the wisdom of the ancestors shining in his eyes.”
26 Quotes from a Love-Story by Paulo Coelho "Brida"
“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.”
…”She was beginning to understand that there was a big difference between danger and fear.
She had no choice: either she believed in God, in her Guardian Angel, or she despaired.”
…”The night is just a part of the day. Therefore she could feel as safe in the dark as she did in the light. It was the dark that had made her invoke that protective presence. She must trust it. And that trust was called Faith. No one could ever understand Faith, but Faith was what she was experiencing now, an inexplicable immersion in blackest night. It only existed because she believed in Miracles couldn’t be explained either, but they existed for those who believed in them.”
26 Quotes from a Love-Story by Paulo Coelho "Brida"
“I learned about the Dark Night,” she said to the now silent forest. “I learned that the search for 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 forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.”
That Faith cannot be explained. It was simply a Dark Night. And all she had to do was to accept it or not.”
26 Quotes from a Love-Story by Paulo Coelho "Brida"
“She was on the beach with her father, and he asked her to go and see what the temperature of the water was like. She was five years old and glad to be able to help. She went to the water’s edge and dipped in a toe.
“I put my feet in and it’s cold,” she told him.
Her father picked her up and carried her down to the water again and, without any warning, threw her in. She was shocked at first, but then laughed out loud at the trick he’d played.
“How’s the water?” asked her father.
“It’s lovely,” she replied.
“Right, from now on, whenever you want to find out about something, plunge straight in.”
26 Quotes from a Love-Story by Paulo Coelho "Brida"
…”The way of teaching the Tradition of the Sun had been described two thousand years before by the Apostle Paul: “And I was with you in weakness and in much fear and trembling; and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.”
Yet people seemed incapable of understanding him when he talked to them about the Tradition of the Sun and were disappointed because he was a man just like other men.
He said it didn’t matter; he was a Teacher, and all he was doing was giving each person the necessary means to acquire Knowledge.
But they needed much more; they needed a guide.
They didn’t understand about the Dark Night; they didn’t understand that any guide through the Dark Night would only illuminate, with his torch, what he himself wanted to see.
And if, by chance, that torch should go out, the people would be lost, because they didn’t know the way back. But they needed a guide, and to be a good Teacher, he, too, had to accept the needs of others.
So he started padding out his teachings with unnecessary but fascinating things that everyone could accept and understand. The method worked. People learned the Tradition of the Sun, and when they finally realized that many of the things the Magus had told them to do were absolutely useless, they laughed at themselves.
And the Magus was glad, because he had finally learned how to teach.”
26 Quotes from a Love Story by Paulo-Coelho "Brida"
“The Magus of Folk taught you about the Dark Night. In both Traditions—which are, in fact, one—the Dark Night is the only way to grow. When you set off along the path of magic, the first thing you do is surrender yourself to a greater power, for you will encounter things that you will never understand.
“Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect. You will understand things only with your heart, and that can be a little frightening. For a long time, the journey will seem like a Dark Night, but then any search is an act of faith.
“But God, who is far harder to understand than a Dark Night, appreciates our act of faith and takes our hand and guides us through the Mystery.”
…”finding one’s Soul Mate was, after all, a divine mission in everyone’s life. Even if, one day, you were forced to part, love for your Soul Mate—according to both Traditions—
would always be crowned with glory, understanding, and a kind of purifying nostalgia.”
26 Quotes from a Love Story by Paulo-Coelho "Brida"
…“Everything that contains our energy should be in constant movement,” Wicca explained. “The clothes you bought are part of you, and they represent those special times when you left the house wanting to splash out a little because you were happy with the world, times when you’d been hurt and wanted to make yourself feel better or times when you thought you should change your life.
“Clothes always transform emotion into matter. It’s one of the bridges between the visible and the invisible.”..
…”Her emotions were telling her how good it would be that
afternoon if she were in love with him, because when you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries…”
26 Quotes from a Love Story by Paulo Coelho "Brida"
…”I know the songs of all the different birds and I can read God’s signs. I’ve learned the Traditions of the Sun and the Moon.”
“But I’m alone,” he felt like adding. “And there’s no point in
understanding the entire Universe if you’re alone”…
“Never stop having doubts.
If you ever do, it will be because you’ve stopped moving forward, and at that point, God will step in and pull the rug out from under your feet, because that is His way of controlling His chosen ones, by making sure they always follow their appointed path to the end.
If, for any reason, we stop, whether out of complacency, laziness, or out of a mistaken belief that we know enough, He forces us on.
On the other hand, you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you.
Always take the decisions you need to take, even if you’re not sure you’re doing the right thing.
You’ll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb that the Tradition of the Moon has adopted: ‘The Devil is in the detail.’
Remember that proverb and you’ll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right
one.”
26 Quotes from a Love-Story by Paulo Coelho "Brida"
“Remember,
the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.”
“I was naked,” she said to the Teacher when he had wrapped the cloak about her. “And I was not ashamed.”
“If it wasn’t for shame, God would never have discovered that Adam and Eve had eaten the apple.”
“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.”
26 Quotes from a Love-Story by Paulo Coelho "Brida"
“That you will never be
mine, and that is why I will never lose you.”
…”You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.
Knowing that my Soul Mate would come one day, I devoted myself to learning the Tradition of the Sun. Knowing that you existed was my one reason for continuing to live.”
…”Then you came, and I understood all of this. You came to free me from the slavery I myself had created, to tell me that I was free to return to the world and to the things of the world. I understood everything I needed to know, and I love you more than all the women I have ever known.”…
I will always remember now that love is liberty.
“I will always remember you, and you will remember me,
just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the windows, and
all the things we’ll always have
because we cannot possess them.”
“I don’t regret that I once fell in love with you”
I wish you a wonderful journey in the land of love, miracles and true believes. God Bless us all!
“CERTAINLY, KNOWLEDGE IS A LOCK AND
ITS KEY IS A QUESTION.”
