I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.
Paulo CoelhoRead
If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.
Interpretation
Feelings and thoughts that remain in your mind often hold significance in your emotional life.
This quote by Paulo Coelho emphasizes the deep connection between our thoughts and emotions. If a thought lingers in your mind, it typically means it reflects something important to you, suggesting that these ideas or feelings resonate within your heart, influencing your emotional state and decisions. It serves as a reminder to pay attention to what we think about, as it is often linked to what we truly care about and what shapes our experiences and actions.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing dreams.
I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.
Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.
We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.
Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.
The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants
Sometimes the Warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.
The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.
Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.
The experienced writer says to the anguished novice: 'Just do it; get something, anything, on to the screen or page, just establish a flow of words, and criticise them later.' You give this advice but can't always take it.
Advocates of knowledge management as the next big thing have advanced the proposition that what companies need is more intellectual capital. While that is undeniably true, its only partly true. What those advocates are forgetting is that knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.
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