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
The true lover realizes that freedom is needed for loyalty to blossom.
Interpretation
True love requires both freedom and loyalty to thrive.
In this quote, Paulo Coelho emphasizes the importance of freedom in a loving relationship. He suggests that for loyalty to flourish, each partner must feel free to be themselves, thus fostering a genuine and deep connection that transcends mere obligation or possession.
In practice
In a wedding speech highlighting the importance of trust in a marriage.
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.
But you can love more than just one person, can't you?
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.
This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us.
I have pursued her, as love hath pursued me
What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.
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