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Paulo Coelho

lines on the record: 34
first: 2021-11-03
most recent: 2021-11-03
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Fate is this person who thinks that he or she has no choice anymore and destiny is you have five possibilities you are going to die But one of these journeys.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In the classic magic tradition. There is a door because Salamon's temple. There is two columns. When colon is disciplined, I'm using different names. They use different names, okay? The other column is compassion. So you need to Just a moment in your life, you need to have discipline At other moments in our life, you need to be guided by life. If you want to be...”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like the rain. You have this water, the water goes up Yes And then falls down again. But in this journey, the water learns a lot and returns with this wisdom and goes back in this endless cycle, that one day is going to end.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have. Don't need to have a good connection with God. You don't need to believe that there is a God. You don't need, but you need to have courage.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But my God, I'm alive. Not only I am alive, but I'm not the center of the universe. And then I realized that I was alive and there was a lot of things going on outside My childish world. And so I said, I'm going to pay attention to what is going on. And this is how I survive it.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When I understood that life or the universe was not turning around me. I was very young because when you're a child you think that only you exist. And one day I was by an orange tree and I had the sensation that I was alive. Do you remember the day that you realized that you were alive?”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The same thing if the universe. So the universe is there. Teaching you the correct signs, and sometimes you take the wrong step, but then it will correct.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How do you learn? Because you cannot teach. You can only learn. You understand? I cannot write a book about how to learn. You only learn. This language by making mistakes As I told you,”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh never, no, and there are many, many books on the alchemists, a guide to understand the alchemists. And I'm going to download this book properly. I didn't understand my book. So next time I'm going to explain better my book. But at the end of the day, you have this innocence. That's not naive. It's not to be naive. It is to be innocent. Look at everything like you are seeing this for the first time in your life. And then you learn what you need to learn.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, I did not know about the church. Now, when I read the thesis and about the alchemist, it's so strange because they think that I thought about everything. Oh, the church is collapsing because of this. And eventually they are right, you know. Eventually they may be right.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely. Absolutely. And then I go to Facebook and then I have 21 million people. Then I go to Twitter. I have 9 million people. And then I say, what else? It's not enough I think that we are here to improve the state of the world.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, in this way, we have the same fear Averages also read all over. And I have plenty of time contrary to you. So And I say, What am I going to do more than writing books? Because I think back to the personal legend, we have a reason to be here. If God bestowed me with this potential as a I have to do something else.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because to begin with, every heart is very fearful. Our heart is a, you know, it's like a flower. It can be very brave. But it can be easily heard. So you have to give an example and talk to your heart as a brave person. So I've been defeated so many times, many, many, many. And I fear a lot of things still. But the problem is not to give up.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah. And besides that, probably to the neighbors. They think that we gave this son a bad education or something like that.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because I was not going to the university, it was a different time. Totally different times. In Brazil was a very repressive society. We lived under a military dictatorship. They were scared about everything. So they said, okay, he's crazy. Let's put him in a meeting.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Artists, you know artists Oh they starve to death, they drink, they do everything that our family middle class affluent family can't stand what a shame for us parents”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because I do not obey the rules that all other people or teenagers. Their dreams are to go to university, to become an engineer, to become a lawyer, to become whatever? So they put me three times, not only once, but three times in a mental institut”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“An engineer. Then the triad psychiatrist. Then one day they lost hope and they said this guy is crazy our son we love him He's crazy.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And the world's greatest lies at the moment that you said not only you can't control, but you have to obey some rules. That are not your rules. When I decided to be a writer, my parents tried everything. First, to bribe me.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The world's greatest lie is that you lose control of your life. That there is a system, an establishment. That tells you that you can't control anything. What you are supposed to. In fact, you can't control anything.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, Oprah, I don't count. I have this superstition. I don't know how many books did I publish? Don't so yes, a doubter is the opposite, but this freedom that I have to write about.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Regardless of the fear, because I have many fears of her. But I'm still trying to do to honor my dream. My dream was to be a writer. I saw so many writers that were paralyzed by failure but also by success. They wrote a fantastic book that was successful all over the world and then they stopped writing.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not totally, not totally. And that's why you see so many self-destructive people today. They know that they had a dream, that they were not brave enough to fulfill. So one day death will come. And say, what about your dream?”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I tell them I'm not a guru, I don't know the answers. I respect something that is very important that's called mystery. I can give you Opera Winfrey. ten thousand good explanations and convincing explanations about why we are here, but none of them will be true. The reason that we are here is a mystery and we remain a mystery till the day that we die. Probably that day. When we are facing God, We will know. And God, in my opinion, Is going to ask only one question. God's not asking did you sin a lot? God is going to ask you only one question that it is did you love enough? And if you say yes, welcome to If you say In the limbo”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely. We have a reason to be here. We know our reason to be here. We don't know if we are taking the right steps towards it, but if we are honest enough, God is going to guide you even if you take some wrong steps. God will recognize that you have a pure heart And you put your back on track.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is the reason that we are here. It is simple as this. You are here to honor something called the miracle of life. You can be here to fulfill your hours and days with something that is meaningless. But you know that you have a reason to be here. It is the only thing that gives you enthusiasm. And you know when you are betraying your personal legend, when you are doing something. Without enthusiasm. And worse. You'll know that you have this good excuse. I'm not ready, which is just an excuse. No. No, I'm not ready. I have to wait for the right moment. You know, now I have to feed my family. Come on. Your family wants to see you happy. Your daughter, your husband, your wife, they don't want to see you dear sitting in a work that you hate. Even if we give you tons of money.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I am 100% convinced, which is totally different that I believe that every person is going to fulfill his or her personal origin.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, what I experienced in my life Is that when they really wanted something, I always got it. Positive and negative because the universe does not think. You have just superconscious mind that sometimes is attracting tragedy. Attracting bad things all because you want to be a victim because to be a victim is to justify a lot of frustrations and failures in your life. The universe is helping you. You want to be successful. The universe is helping you. The universe is you.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely. Absolutely, which I believe a lot, the personal legend, you are always guided to meet the right person at the right moment.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I said I can't believe you're not going to publish this book anymore. Give some time to the book. I know, no, no. This book is never going to work, but there is a sentence in the book that says When you want something, the whole universe conspires to help you. And I said, I wrote to J's. I have to live by this words. So it's like knocking doors Believe him or not, the first door that I knocked, the guy opened. Very important publishing house in Brazil. And I said, I have a book that was published and did not sell, but I trust this book is going to sell. And the guy said, okay, I'm going to publish it. And then two years later when the book was already a half a million copies in Brazil I asked him why did you accept? Book that was already published.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Two weeks And then I showed to my publishers The book was published, and then they said it's not selling. I remember that my previous book, The Pilgrimage, sold fairly well. So they said, let's publish a second book. And they published Alchemists. And so they distributed a lot of copies. And then they send it to the northeastern part of Brazil And the first day someone bought, and the bookseller was very excited, you know. And my publisher in Rio de Janeiro was also very excited. We sold one copy in a bookstore in the largest part of Brazil, you know, and then took six months. I saw the second copy to the same person who bought the first one. So the guy said, oh, this is a friend of apology, this book's not selling. It's he had the contract.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How Jabuk is going to sell? Nothing happened. And then we was myth talked about the book and a lot of people talk, celebrities, no, Julia Roberts. And then one day I opened the New York Times and the book was there. And there are no explanation for this. I think that it reached the critical mass.”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What do we call word of nothing else because when McDonald talked about the book Said, oh, the book is going to sell. Nothing happened. And then New Clinton was photographed with the book. And I said,”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm very impressed and I'm very thankful to the American people because the book broke all records in the New York Times bestselling list. It is currently in the New York Times bestseller list. And for three hundred and many weeks”
2021-11-03 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor? (From August 10, 2017) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source