An excellent read; a beautiful exploration of love and forgiveness. Coelho has a real skill for writing the interplay between emotions, spoken and felt, between two people, the glorious connections, the painful misses, the tension of uncertainty. Further themes of seizing your moment, being true to yourself, and the suffering of those who come first at play as well.
Quick read, definitely worth the time. Beauitful, and deeply reflective. Many notable points and standout considerations, but the two I captured through my most recent readthrough:
“Thomas Merton once said that the spiritual life is essentially to love. One doesn’t love in order to do what is good or to help or to protect someone. If we act that way, we are perceiving the other as a simple object, and we are seeing ourselves as wise and generous persons. This has nothing to do with love. To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.”
and
“The universe always helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be. Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.”