“We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.”
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<p>Paulo Coelho, one of the world's best loved storytellers, is back with a riveting new novel set in London.</p> <p>This is the story of Athena, or Sherine, to give her the name she was baptised with. Her life is pieced together through a series of recorded interviews with those people who knew her well or hardly at all - parents, colleagues, teachers, friends, acquaintances, her ex-husband.</p> <p>The novel unravels Athena's mysterious beginnings, via an orphanage in Romania, to a childhood in Beirut. When war breaks out, her adoptive family move with her to London, where a dramatic turn of events occurs...</p> <p>Athena, who has been dubbed 'the Witch of Portobello' for her seeming powers of prophecy, disappears dramatically, leaving those who knew her to solve the mystery of her life and abrupt departure.</p> <p>Like The Alchemist, The Witch of Portobello is the kind of story that will transform the way readers think about love, passion, joy and sacrifice.</p>
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Paulo Coelho
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“We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.”
“Love simply is.”
“waktu kita di bumi ini sakral adanya, dan kita seharusnya merayakan setiap detiknya”
“People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.”
“Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us,...”
“The truth is that we don't want to be saved by in the way God has chosen; we want to keep absolute control over our every step, to be fully conscious of our decisions, to be capable of choos...”
“When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.”
“After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nig...”
“نثق ثقة عمياء بمن يرشدنا ، معتقدين أن مدى معرفتهم يفوق معرفتنا”
“إن وقتنا على هذه الأرض مقدس ، وعلينا الاحتفاء بكل لحظة”
“إذا لم أشعر بحياة تنمو داخلي ، فلن أتمكنّ من تقبّل الحياة خارجي”
“في الفرح عدوى ، تمامًا كالحماسة والحب ، أو الحزن أو الاكتئاب أو الكراهية”