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The Winner Stands Alone : Chapter VIII by Paulo Coelho
She drinks her coffee and begins to understand her bad mood. She’s surrounded by some of the most beautiful women on the planet! She certainly doesn’t consider herself ugly, but there’s no way she can compete with them. She needs to decide what to do. She had thought long and hard before making this trip, [...]
The Winner Stands Alone – Seventh Chapter by Paulo Coelho
He takes a few steps and his head begins to ache terribly. This is perfectly normal: the blood is flooding the brain, an understandable reaction in someone who has just been under extreme tension.
Despite the headache, he feels happy. Yes, he has done what he set out to do.
He can do it. And he’s happier [...]
Warrior Of Light: Issue nº 191 – Heaven and hell
A man, his horse and his dog were traveling down a road. When they were passing by a gigantic tree, a bolt of lightning struck and they all fell dead on the spot.
But the man did not realize that he had already left this world, so he went on walking with his two animals; sometimes [...]
The Winner Stands Alone
FOLLOW MY DREAM – BUT WHICH ONE?
One of the recurrent themes of my books is the importance of paying the price of your dreams. But to what extent can our dreams be manipulated? For the past decades, we lived in a culture that privileged fame, money, power – and most of the people were led [...]
You Suffered More Than You Know … (poetic-prose)
Don’t think I was meddling because I
Saw more than the others. Everything about
You seemed transparent really, and each part
You thought was hidden appeared to me as
A book longing to be thumbed through-
What was I to do?
If you truly believed you were
Hiding your heart ~ you weren’t.
I didn’t purpose to see more than I had,
- Or [...]
My Big Toe
It’s time to get my feet wet on this board. By big toe is almost in. I am thrilled to be onboard with publicliterature.org.
My book was just released yesterday and I am walking on air. Much of my work on Author’s Den gives one an earful of my unique voice. This week, I got a local musician [...]
Black Coffee
“I read somewhere that memory and judgment are the first things clouded by alcohol.”
“Memory would be okay,” she said.
Warrior Of Light Issue nº 201 – The magic instant by Paulo Coelho
We have to take risks. We can only truly understand the miracle of life when we let the unexpected manifest itself.
Every day – together with the sun – God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day we try to pretend that we don’t realize [...]
Warrior Of Light Issue n° 200 – Animal promiscuity by Paulo Coelho
Recently I read an interesting polemic article in the American newspaper New York Times (25/03/2008). Written by Natalie Angier, the text is based on the research of prominent biologists and psychologists concerning monogamy. The conclusion that they reach is impressive: conjugal infidelity is present throughout the animal kingdom.
And that’s not all: studies have shown that [...]
Warrior Of Light Issue nº 198 – So what do I actually do? by Paulo Coelho
Sometimes readers complain that I say very little about my private life in this column. I do talk a lot – mostly about my questionings in the imaginary world. They insist: “but what’s your life like?” Well, then, for a whole week I went out with a notebook and jotted down more or less what [...]
