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 strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.
Interpretation
True love acknowledges its vulnerabilities and imperfections.
This quote by Paulo Coelho suggests that the essence of the strongest love lies in its ability to show vulnerability and fragility. It highlights that authentic love is not about being invincible or perfect but rather about being open, honest, and willing to acknowledge the delicate nature of emotions and relationships. When love can embrace its own weaknesses, it becomes more profound and enduring.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of openness in love.
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.
I...Kisss the tender inward of thy hand.
I believe in person to person; every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is only one person in the world for me at that moment.
I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right
My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I have watched her with envy. Her lovely body squirms a moment as though she fitted herself into a cocoon. She sighs once and at the end of it her eyes close and her lips, untroubled, fall into that wise and remote smile of the Ancient Greek gods. She smiles all night in her sleep, her breath purrs in her throat, not a snore, a kitten's purr... She loves to sleep and sleep welcomes her.
This is the case with millions of people. They talk about love, they know all the poetries about love, but they have never loved. Or even if they thought they were in love, they were never in love. That too was a 'heady' thing, it was not of the heart. People live and go on missing life. It needs courage. It needs courage to be realistic, it needs courage to move with life wherever it leads, because the paths are uncharted, there exists no map. One has to go into the unknown.
Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.
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