The ​witch of Portobello 6 csillagozás

Paulo Coelho: The witch of Portobello

How ​do we find the courage to always be true to ourselves--even if we are unsure of whom we are?

That is the central question of international bestselling author Paulo Coelho's profound new work, „The Witch of Portobello,” It is the story of a mysterious woman named Athena, told by the many who knew her well--or hardly at all. Among them:

""People create a reality and then become the victims of that reality. Athena rebelled against that--and paid a high price.""
Heron Ryan, journalist

""I was used and manipulated by Athena, with no consideration for my feelings. She was my teacher, charged with passing on the sacred mysteries, with awakening the unknown energy we all possess. When we venture into that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.""
Andrea McCain, actress

""Athena's great problem was that she was a woman of the twenty-second century living in the twenty-first, and making… (tovább)

Eredeti cím: Bruxa de Portobello

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2006

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HarperCollins, New York (U.S.A.), 2011
262 oldal · ISBN: 9780061472770
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346 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780007251889

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…the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger,despite or because of this scars.It's better that way: I've lived on a battlefield since i was born, but i'm still alive and I don't need anyone to protect me…

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All we have to do is understand that we are all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small, and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has a meaning.

62. oldal

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"Do you know what the word Ecstasy means? It comes from the Greek and means „to stand outside yourself”.

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"Do you know what I've learned? That although the ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising up into space, of discovering new dimensions while remaining in touch with your body. When you dance, the spiritual world and the real world manage to coexist quite happily. I think classical dancers dance on pointes because they are simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the sky.

70. oldal

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We all work for some reason: to feed our children, to earn money to support ourselves, to justify life, to get a little bit of power. However, there are always tedious stages in that process, and the secret lies in transforming those stages into an encounter with ourselves or with something higher.

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The real Tradition is this: the teacher never tells the disciple what he or she should do. They are merely travelling companions, sharing the same uncomfortable feeling of 'estrangement' when confronted by ever-changing perceptions, broadening horizons, closing doors, rivers that sometimes seem to block their path and which, in fact, should never be crossed, but followed.
There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter. Then, when they sit down at a table or in front of a fire to talk, the more experienced person might say: „Why don't you do that?” But he or she never says: „Go there and you'll arrive where I did,” because every path and every destination are unique to the individual.

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