Paulo Coelho Quotes

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.

Intuition is seeing with the soul.

The assembled souls of all that men held wise.

Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true philosophers and inspired people have been trying to tell you by the tortuous method of using words.

He also knows the importance of intuition.

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.

Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.

Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.

Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.

And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter how old or young, has some lesson they want to teach. And I sit there and listen and learn all about life from people who have no idea how to live it.

For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.

My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly.

Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.

A soul subject is something that resonates with you deeper than the intellect can reach...a multi-sensory perception...a recognition of a new freedom that is calling you.

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?

It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight.

Talk about life - but in your own way.

You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.

Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was.

Just by the very nature of our birth, we are on the spiritual journey.

I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn't expect was to feel so much grief.