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The Wise Men Understood That This Natural World Is Only An Image And A Copy Of Paradise. The Existence Of This World Is Simply A Guarantee That There Exists A World That Is Perfect. God Created The World So That, Through Its Visible Objects, Men Could Understand His Spiritual Teachings And The Marvels Of His Wisdom.

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The Wise Men Understood

Paulo Coelho

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The Wise Men Understood That This Natural World Is Only An Image And A Copy Of Paradise. The Existence Of This World Is Simply A Guarantee That There Exists A World That Is Perfect. God Created The World So That, Through Its Visible Objects, Men Could Understand His Spiritual Teachings And The Marvels Of His Wisdom.

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Different Experiences

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Fairy Tales Had Been Her First Experience Of The Magical Universe, And More Than Once She Had Wondered Why People Ended Up Distancing Themselves From That World, Knowing The Immense Joy That Childhood Had Brought To Their Lives.

If Everyone There Just Lived Their Lives And Let Others Do The Same, God Would Be In Every Moment, In Every Grain Of Mustard, In The Fragment Of Cloud That Is There And Then Gone The Following Moment. God Was There And Yet People Believed They Still Had To Go On Looking, Because It Seemed Too Simple To Accept That Life Was An Act Of Faith.

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Know How To Get Close To It: Mountains Are Often Seen From Far Off - Beautiful, Interesting, Full Of Challenges. But What Happens When We Try To Draw Closer? Roads Run All Around Them, Flowers Grow Between You And Your Objective, What Seemed So Clear On The Map Is Tough In Real Life. So Try All The Paths And All The Tracks Until Eventually One Day You're Standing In Front Of The Top That You Yearn To Reach.

About The Nature Of Human Beings. I Discovered That Confronted By Temptation, We Will Always Fall. Given The Right Circumstances, Every Human Being On This Earth Would Be Willing To Commit Evil.

And Because Of Our Selfishness, We Will Be Condemned To The Worst Torture Humankind Ever Invented For Itself: Loneliness.

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Our Great Goal In Life Is To Love. The Rest Is Silence.

We Are Not Worshipping Anyone Or Anything, We Are Simply Communing With Creation.

Solitude Is Not Absence Of Love, But Its Complement

We Must Be Amusing At All Times And Sneer At Those Who Express Their Real Feelings; It's Dangerous For A Tribe To Allow Its Members To Show Their Feelings.

At This Moment, Many People Have Stopped Living. They Do Not Become Angry, Nor Cry Out; They Merely Wait For Time To Pass. They Did Not Accept The Challenges Of Life, So Life No Longer Challenges Them

But When He Thought To Complain About The Burden Of Its Weight, He Remembered That, Because He Had The Jacket, He Had Withstood The Cold Of The Dawn. We Have To Be Prepared For Change, He Thought, And He Was Grateful For The Jacket's Weight And Warmth. The Jacket Had A Purpose, And So Did The Boy.

Whenever A New Situation Presented Itself, You Had To Remain Cool And Distant

If Good Things Are Coming, They Will Be A Pleasant Surprise," Said The Seer. "if Bad Things Are, And You Know In Advance, You Will Suffer Greatly Before They Even Occur.

Pleasant Surprises

The Warrior Knows That He Is Free To Choose His Desires, And He Makes These Decisions With Courage, Detachment, And - Sometimes - With Just A Touch Of Madness.

An Angel And A Devil Are Always Beside Us, And The One We Listen To More Will Prevail. This Confrontation Is What Makes Life So Magical Because You Are Always Challenged By The Circumstances - We Are Good And Evil Depending On How We Act

There Is No Time To Leave Important Words Unsaid.

Important Words

As Soon As People Decide To Confront A Problem, They Realize That They Are Far More Capable Than They Thought They Were.

My Smile Is My Way Of Saying: "you Can Destroy My Body, But Not My Soul.

I've Crossed These Sands Many Times," Said One Of The Camel Drivers One Night. "but The Desert Is So Huge, And The Horizons So Distant, That They Make A Person Feel Small, And As If He Should Remain Silent." The Boy Understood Intuitively What He Meant, Even Without Ever Having Set Foot In The Desert Before. Whenever He Saw The Sea, Or A Fire, He Fell Silent, Impressed By Their Elemental Force.

To One Who Knocks, The Door Will Open.

Love Is The Force That Brings Us Back Together, In Order To Condense The Experience Dispersed In Many Lives And Many Parts Of The World.

If You Love Someone, You Must Be Prepared To Set Them Free.

If You Love Someone

When Every Day Seems The Same, It Is Because We Have Stopped Noticing The Good Things That Appear In Our Lives.

My Aim Is To Understand Love. I Know How Alive I Felt When I Was In Love, And I Know That Everything I Have Now, However Interesting It Might Seem, Doesn't Really Excite Me. But Love Is A Terrible Thing: I've Seen My Girlfriends Suffer And I Don't Want The Same Thing To Happen To Me. [...] Although My Aim Is To Understand Love, And Although I Suffer To Think Of People To Whom I Gave My Heart, I See That Those Who Touched My Heart Failed To Arouse My Body, And That Those Who Aroused My Body Failed To Touch My Heart.

Life Is A Long Pilgrimage From Fear To Love.

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If You Force Yourself To Be The Same As Everyone Else. It Causes Neuroses, Psychoses, And Paranoia. It's A Distortion Of Nature, It Goes Against God's Laws, For In All The World's Woods And Forests He Did Not Create A Single Leaf The Same As Another.

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