Today, I thought I would share some interesting Paulo Coelho Quotes from an Interview:  “I look at life, using the metaphor of the journey, as a caravan: I know neither whence it came, nor where it’s going.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 “I like to use the term alchemy, which is the soul of the world, or those of Jung’s collective unconscious.  You connect with a space where everything is.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       “Omens are a language, it’s the alphabet we develop to speak to the world’s soul, or the universe’s, or God’s, whatever name you want to give it.  Like an alphabet, it is individual, you only learn it by making mistakes, and that keeps you from globalizing the spiritual quest.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                “I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness.  What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad.  It was a very strong temptation…”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      “’I can’t go on living like this. Because I lost my job at the newspaper, I’d lost my friends and had to give up the theatre…I closed the door to my bedroom and started destroying the whole room, my books that I loved so much…my records, every remnant of the past.They phoned another doctor… When he arrived, he opened the door and confronted all that destruction.  I thought they’d take me straight back to the asylum…I heard him ask me calmly, smiling, ‘What happened here.’ ‘Don’t you see? I’ve wrecked everything’ I told him.  And without batting an eye, answered, ‘Well done! Now that you’ve torn everything to bits, you can start a new life.  You’ve done exactly what you needed to do, no more, no less, you’ve destroyed a negative past in order to embark on a positive future.

Paulo Coelho recites one of his favorite poems by Jorge Luis Borges:

I will not be happy now.  It may not matter.

There are so many more things in the world.

Any random instant is as crowded

And varied as the sea.  A life is brief, and though

The hours seem long, there is another

Dark mystery that lies in wait for us-

Death, that other sea, that other arrow

That frees us from the sun, the moon, and love.

The happiness you gave me once and later

Took back from me will be obliterated.

That which was everything must turn to nothing.

I only keep the taste of my own sadness

And a vain urge that turns me to the Southside,

To a certain corner there, a certain door.