The article sheds light upon the major take aways from the renowned book 'THE PILGRIMAGE' by its famous author Paulo Coelho. Following our the most appealing chunks taken from the book and are jotted together:
- Everything in our surrounds reflected an uneasy peace.
- Nature itself journeyed, seeking illumination.
- Process of moving along.
- It is we who determine how quickly time passes.
- 'Wherever your treasure is, there will be your heart.'
- Law of retribution.
- 'You believe that God exists, and so do I,' 'So God exists for both of us. But if someone doesn't believe in him, that doesn't mean God ceases to exist. Nor does it mean that the nonbeliever is wrong'.
- Through all of time, he never ceased to live in the human heart in the form of love.
- Anything is permissible but the interruption of a manifestation of love. When that happens, whoever tried to destroy it is responsible for its recreation.
- Law of return said that people's deformities and diseases were punishments for mistakes committed in previous incarnations.
- 'God is not vengeance, God is love. His only form of punishment is to make someone who interrupts a work of love continue it's.
- God is in everything around us. He has to be felt and lived.
- It is the pleasure of searching and the pleasure of an adventure. You are nourishing something that's very important - your dreams.
- The good fight is the one we fight because our heart asks it of us.
- The good fight is the one that's fought in the name of our dreams.
- We kill our dreams because we are afraid to fight the good fight.
- The first symptom of our killing our dreams is the lack of time.
- The second symptom of the death of our dreams lies in our certainties.
- The third symptom of the passing of our dreams is peace.
- Neither victory nor defeat is important; what's important is only that they are fighting the good fight.
- We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.
- No mam is an island. In order to fight the good fight, we need help.
- We are always seeking some kind of reward.
- The guilty ones are always the others.
- Mistaken behavior. We are always trying to convert people to believe in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.
- Every star and every person has their own space and their own special characteristics.
- Fans who lack the faith can make a team lose a game it is already winning.
- Game of glances.
- Fishing was basically a symbol of the human being's relationship with the world: we know why we are fishing, and we will catch something if we stay with it, but whether we do or not depends on God's help.
- It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.
- The things of this life don't last very long.
- Martin Luther king once said that when Christ spoke of loving one's enemies, he was referring to agape. Because according to him, it was "impossible to like our enemies, those who were cruel to us, those who tried to make our day-to-day suffering even worse."
- Don't start creating fantasies in a world that is already extraordinary.
- Cases of obsession occur when people lose their mastery over the forces of the earth.
- Your confidence and your sense of mastey depend a great deal on how you react to threats made by others.
- For the thing that I greatly feared is come upon me.
- A threat leads to nothing if it is not accepted. In fighting the good fight, you should never forget that. Just as you should never forget that both attacking and fleeing are part of the fight. What isn't a part of the fight is becoming paralyzed by fear.
- Your faith, saved you.
- No matter how long we have lived, when night falls it arouses the hidden fears that have been there in our souls since we were children.
- He was not going to allow me to put off until tomorrow what I should be enjoying today.
- There are different laws:
- But the very hairs of your head are numbered.
- Be ye therefore as wise as the serpents and as harmful as the doves.
- He who heeds my words I will liken to a wise man who built his house on rock.
- For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known.
- If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
- Except that one is born, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
- Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst.
- Whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.
- Let he who has no sword sell his garment and buy one.
- When I sent you without money bag, knapsack, and sandals, you lacked nothing.
- You wanted to be brave, when it was enough to have been intelligent.
- Wisdom has value only if it helps us to overcome some obstacle.
- Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
- Once a problem is solved, it's simplicity is amazing.
- I alone, had to win my victory.
- I began to feel great pain, because now I knew that I was only one step from success; this is the moment when one's strength begins to flag, and one loses confidence in oneself.
- With such a battlefield close at hand, who was going to be interested in a love story?
- Just as rivers change their course, humans also change their live.
- Every one of us has the flame of madness inside, and it is fed by agape.
- Agape is grander than our ordinary human concepts and everyone thirsts for it.
- This is the most difficult moment in a person's life when the person witnesses the good fight and is unable to change and join the battle. When this happens, knowledge turns against the person who holds it.
- The only way to make the right decision is to know what the wrong decision is.
- You have to examine the other path without fear and without being morbid and then decide.
- Yet here I was, confronted with a reality that fiction would have considered too far out.
- I should always confront the world with the same weapons that were used to challenge me. And that I could confront a dog only by transforming myself into a dog.
- The sword only strikes a blow, but the hand is already victorious or defeated before the blow is delivered.
- Our enemy always represents our weaker side. This may be fear of physical pain, but it may also be a premature sense of victory or the desire to abandon the fight because we define it as not being worth the effort.
- We are not smart enough to be able to listen to the silence.
- The person who does not know how to listen will never hear the advice that life offers us all the time.
- People who consider themselves to be wise are often indecisive when command is called for and rebellious when they are called upon to obey. They are ashamed to give orders and consider it dishonorable to receive them. Don't ever be that way.
- By taking on the role of guide, I was able to find my own true path.
- Each of us knows the answers even before someone tells us what they are. Life teaches us lessons every minute and the secret is to accept that only in our daily lived can we show ourselves to be as wise as Solomon and as powerful as Alexander the Great.
- Contrary to what we had always been taught, results were that counted. One's efforts are salutary and indispensable but without results they amount to nothing.
- People do have a tendency to fantasize about things that do not even exist, while they fail to learn the lessons that are before their very eyes.
- The expectation of reward was absolutely necessary to the achievement of victory.
- When we want something we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward.
- At moments of crisis a person always makes the right decision.
- Search for happiness is a personal search and not a model we can pass on to others.
- Few can accept the burden of their own victory: most give up there dreams when they see that they can be realized. They refuse to fight the good fight because they do not know what to do with their own happiness; they are imprisoned by the things of the world.
- In spite of the clouds, everything had become clear to me.
- People always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone awaits them.