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'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost'. A conversation between Brida O'Fern and Paulo Coelho as a Prologue, of a novel Brida. On 'taking risk', 'attitudes of life' and 'growth of the whole world'. That’s a risk we’re now going to take together, Brida. An anonymous text from the Tradition says that, in life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. The builders might take years over their tasks, but one day, they finish what they’re doing. Then they find they’re hemmed in by their own walls. Life loses its meaning when the building stops. Then there are those who plant. They endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener’s constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure. Gardeners always recognize one anot...

Knowledge of Prayer from Brida by Paulo Coelho "It is through prayers that we commune with God. A prayer, when couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.” “Because you lack the humility to listen to it and find out what it wants. You’re embarrassed to listen to the urgings of your soul and afraid to take those requests to God, because you think He doesn’t have time to concern Himself with them.” A prayer by teacher - Magus “We are human beings, Lord, and we do not know our own greatness. Lord, give us the humility to ask for what we need, because no desire is vain and no request is futile. Each of us knows how best to feed our own soul; give us the courage to see our desires as coming from the fount of Your eternal Wisdom. Only by accepting our desires can we begin to understand who we are. Amen.”   A prayer by student - Brida “Lord, help me understand that all the good things in li...

The conversation between research assistant to a physics professor at the university and his girlfriend, her quest for knowledge. From the novel Brida by Paulo Coelho “Just look at that sky. What we’re looking at now is how the sky would have appeared thousands of years ago. Many of those stars have already died, and yet their light still fills the Universe. Other stars were born far away, and their light has not yet reached us.” “So no one knows what the real sky looks like?” “We don’t know. We study what we can see, but what we see is not always what exists.” “What are we made of ? Where did the atoms that make up our bodies come from?” “They were created along with these stars and this river. In the first second of the Universe’s existence.” “So after that first moment of Creation, nothing more was added.” “No, nothing. Everything moved and continues to move. Everything was transformed and continues to be tra...

The teacher and student conversation on Finding Soulmate From the novel Brida By Paulo Coelho “Think of your Soul Mate.” “What do you mean by ‘Soul Mate’?” “Only by understanding the Soul Mate can we understand how knowledge can be transmitted over time.” “And when people think of reincarnation, they always come up against a very difficult question: if, in the beginning, there were so few people on the face of Earth, and now there are so many, where did all those new souls come from?” “In certain reincarnations, we divide into two. Our souls divide as do crystals and stars, cells and plants. Our soul divides in two, and those new souls are in turn transformed into two and so, within a few generations, we are scattered over a large part of Earth.” “And does only one of those parts know who it is?” “We form part of what the alchemists call the Anima mundi, the Soul of the World. The truth is that if the Ani...