everything under the sun

Excerpts from Paulo Coehlo’s Eleven Minutes

" I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it."

" The strongest love is the love that can demostrate its fragility."

" … really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other. Generally speaking, the meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life then the unknown revelas itself, and our universe changes direction."