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Like the Flowing River: Thoughts and Reflections
Paulo Coelho
A breathtaking collection of reflections from one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho.In this riveting collection of thoughts and stories, Paulo Coelho, the author of ‘The Alchemist’, offers his personal reflections on a wide range of subjects from archery and music to elegance, traveling and the nature of good and evil.An old woman explains to her grandson how a mere pencil can show him the path to happiness…instructions on how to climb a mountain reveal the secret to making your dreams a reality…the story of Ghengis Khan and the Falcon that teaches about the folly of anger – and the art of friendship…a pianist who performs an example in fulfilling your destiny…the author learns three important lessons when he goes to the rescue of a man in the street – Paulo shows us how life has lessons for us in the greatest, smallest and most unusual of experiences.‘Like the Flowing River’ includes jewel-like fables, packed with meaning and retold in Coelho's inimitable style. Sharing his thoughts on spirituality, life and ethics, Paulo touches you with his philosophy and invites you to go on an exciting journey of your own.
Like the Flowing River: Thoughts and Reflections
Paulo Coelho
Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
Be like the flowing river,
Silent in the night.
Be not afraid of the dark.
If there are stars in the sky, reflect them back.
If there are clouds in the sky,
Remember, clouds, like the river, are water,
So, gladly reflect them too,
In your own tranquil depths.
Manuel Bandeira
Table of Contents
Cover Page (#ub901ba67-6041-5d18-aa31-3d5de8905488)
Title Page (#ubba54d18-7bfc-5bd7-b8f3-a7e1c4e20415)
Epigraph (#u00774fd3-45b9-506d-a191-2e9dc53cab64)
Preface (#u0b5fa282-ca90-5115-ade2-a896683dd60f)
A Day at the Mill (#u46e7e5d6-6247-5d79-82bf-76db50ecc9d7)
Prepared for Battle, But With a Few Doubts (#u80416f08-edec-5d35-9ac8-2aaaefa946d9)
The Way of the Bow (#ufd3fdc22-df9d-54ba-b9d5-7a641d6c1e68)
The Story of the Pencil (#u417fa535-b952-5f32-ad4b-3a97fea19ff4)
How to Climb Mountains (#u281219d7-e9f6-5558-bbda-ea94ef4c6790)
The Importance of a Degree (#u9100836c-b408-5327-8c79-97e4f5407538)
In a Bar in Tokyo (#ucf97caa2-9215-5d8d-9a82-cfe369756081)
The Importance of Looking (#u7dc54703-5844-507f-8904-b059abca9ee3)
Genghis Khan and His Falcon (#u35d782bd-2e77-50c7-a14f-e4dbf88a5105)
Looking at Other People’s Gardens (#u35865b6a-cd4d-58d9-a831-9c5595c82df1)
Pandora’s Box (#u0f8ad781-c3ec-5477-ab3d-575862a7279a)
How One Thing Can Contain Everything (#u9ee6d8e7-f2b1-536a-b409-ac4c2f1c885a)
The Music Coming from the Chapel (#u2a0dc1b9-15b6-5cab-a383-a6224f10cdf3)
The Devil’s Pool (#u9343f748-0f31-5c93-9b28-0c73734e6442)
The Solitary Piece of Coal (#u8dd9da03-0383-5c5a-b722-bcc652bd2b80)
The Dead Man Wore Pyjamas (#uc69d459a-5409-5b10-ae0d-226521aa328d)
Manuel Is an Important and Necessary Man (#u988a2c08-7a68-54ae-b7b6-51ee931400c7)
Manuel Is a Free Man (#ubaa5415b-065a-59fd-b724-21386359e583)
Manuel Goes to Paradise (#ufbc47d6a-f011-58e2-b01a-f0f0e3109705)
In Melbourne (#uab600ccc-1f44-51d4-92ec-916348bc02ce)
The Pianist in the Shopping Mall (#u7302a399-d2e6-593f-b3c7-13645e1f47f3)
On My Way to the Chicago Book Fair (#u015b9737-2f09-5395-9c9e-43029e9990f2)
Of Poles and Rules (#uaedf5c5e-3470-5b24-aac8-0225f194bebf)
The Piece of Bread That Fell Wrong Side Up (#uee08adce-9c98-50d6-8094-cfde843fff34)
Of Books and Libraries (#u1791617b-7229-5c2c-acb9-194b95034a64)
Prague, 1981 (#u9361d6fb-32f7-5dfb-8710-5d0b0ce4fd13)
For the Woman Who Is All Women (#uc292b7b6-7ec1-52ca-bd38-eeef04268a0c)
A Visitor Arrives from Morocco (#u382f3318-968d-52e6-8e3a-0545f0986a9f)
My Funeral (#ue0c26051-91da-50f3-bd5f-fadd2e87317c)
Restoring the Web (#u8c525430-2225-5225-bcf9-0380b69832c6)
These Are My Friends (#u989158e1-cea6-5aae-925a-a957d92a8d8f)
How Do We Survive? (#u01e2937c-ba93-527b-a289-0c7c25241f89)
Marked Out to Die (#ue0bc5180-8c50-5b0d-9443-a05f602a4fe0)
The Moment of Dawn (#ubd080fec-566e-56e8-8940-620f75ed3d74)
A January Day in 2005 (#u9faa7a34-4e0d-5f62-935e-0756c779643f)
A Man L ying on the Ground (#u8e342909-7523-535f-8b4d-2f0455bca7e5)
The Missing Brick (#u649e4d4d-960e-51bf-9110-8697e4814e20)
Raj Tells Me a Story (#uda043c0a-55a0-57cf-b780-ff12486cc5b4)
The Other Side of the Tower of Babel (#u66cdee80-c764-5074-9776-1b0e56559be6)
Before a Lecture (#u9351d57d-b79d-57f3-ae7b-e069da46d54c)
On Elegance (#uf989c267-2f30-58e7-8f43-d369e6424441)
Nhá Chica of Baependi (#u67b45231-9f0f-59ae-96ef-5ed2a6e45cf6)
Rebuilding the House (#ue35185a6-375f-5b2c-bd0b-eb43a916d789)
The Prayer That I Forgot (#ueef7fd27-1501-5a3a-9d3b-a1637c269cbf)
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro (#uc6570b1d-fe41-5c00-84b3-ffd8ecb6a6ae)
Living Your Own Legend (#u3e49278e-44f7-59f9-8c24-eee4ef384c8a)
The Man Who Followed His Dreams (#u4cc37a90-a8d4-51c8-a70b-dad2a04dd3b4)
The Importance of the Cat in Meditation (#u4cb3a69a-1c92-51db-9b0c-156c621615e1)
I Can’t Get In (#uafdf0972-fa78-51c2-8314-0ceb3b1cc013)
Statutes for the New Millennium (#u45bb3f7e-2906-5b13-8cc1-c584290ac94b)
Destroying and Rebuilding (#u8656c38f-be7f-5528-a8dc-60e81f4bbc89)
The Warrior and Faith (#u8daded78-a148-5b15-9f26-a3c672bd7516)
In Miami Harbour (#u4fe23946-5b15-586c-be6b-1a443298a2e4)
Acting on Impulse (#uc2203916-78c2-592e-bfe0-9f070dfcb2a4)
Transitory Glory (#u64b11450-aa95-5218-93be-8234b43c3494)
Charity Under Threat (#u74affa5a-f3b2-5e1b-bec6-afef78adba90)
On Witches and Forgiveness (#u9857a9e9-d16d-543d-a63a-744055ce6911)
On Rhythm and the Road (#u98aa6493-82e3-5b85-81f0-9f14c1cdfd09)
Travelling Differently (#ue081db4d-ad75-59ce-b136-da8eb687120c)
A Fairy Tale (#u91e4d344-6354-563d-8aba-b8aa8b002555)
Brazil’s Greatest Writer (#uafa3e60e-be99-559a-8503-288bb94dd3b5)
The Meeting That Did Not Take Place (#u4d920a74-4cec-5671-b8a1-209c3ba33677)
The Smiling Couple (London, 1977) (#ud0c42afe-e2f0-5487-8f31-802251226554)
The Second Chance (#u3fca94be-e2dc-5be4-8dae-410fb590e7dd)
The Australian and the Newspaper Ad (#uc14f89a2-94e1-54ab-a48f-46b1a524100e)
The Tears of the Desert (#u5ebee521-6954-5041-a354-96cb56f36e2b)
Rome: Isabella Returns from Nepal (#uef995e5c-c788-5258-be40-4fa436b0e9a9)
The Art of the Sword (#uf5d7cc1d-91b8-5ab4-b21c-d85d0a596a93)
In the Blue Mountains (#u414ab1df-62b2-56be-8181-0ad16a84eb50)
The Taste of Success (#uaf6e0729-065b-59c8-a254-c6624e445ae4)
The Tea Ceremony (#u1e632877-02dc-5cf5-affa-9d9f04eb8f4d)
The Cloud and the Sand Dune (#u6d25ee5e-064c-5578-b81c-d5edf2a74faa)
Norma and the Good Things (#ub20b5ad8-ffea-548e-8309-1a26d3d361d9)
Jordan, the Dead Sea, 21 June 2003 (#u44f0aa2d-aede-5ce3-bdc2-7d22b1508236)
In San Diego Harbour, California (#u999b95bf-afae-5cc8-bad4-008f527109af)
The Art of Withdrawal (#ue944606c-f4fa-5cf0-9115-adb3872458da)
In the Midst of War (#ue79c1005-6f49-55a6-9c93-9d49b41f65a7)
The Soldier in the Forest (#uc6459514-05c1-5701-bb90-634069318924)
In a Town in Germany (#u40cbc7a4-bd14-514d-af34-8db31cefaf6c)
Meeting in the Dentsu Gallery (#u5b9310a5-c1bc-53c7-a798-8b6c205ce832)
Reflections on 11 September 2001 (#u879c718f-11bb-582f-8186-fba40a9fc2f5)
