Hello Readers! I have read 12 books this year &
I'm very proud about it! I had a target of reading 19 & looks like I'm
going to read a lot more than that. It feels truly amazing. Page after page, book
after book. It is so illuminating. So much to learn from every single one. My latest read was Paulo Coelho's Hippie.
When it comes to Paulo Coelho, I'm already 100%
biased & I cannot keep an open mind. Because he's one of my favorite
authors! He's brilliant. He writes so eloquently & so easily takes the
reader into an entirely different universe. He makes us swim even when we
can't. He makes us fly even when we don't have wings. He makes us dream about life & death. And more so, he opens our minds to so many perspectives
which we never would've even imagined! Hippie is such another masterpiece.
Sure, it has its ups and downs. But, what a story!
It's inspired from Paulo Coelho's own life. Along
with a woman named Karla, he takes the Magic Bus to travel the world. From
Amsterdam to Nepal. Fascinating isn't it? That's the base story and it revolves
around the life of a hippie. Travel. Music. Drugs. Alcohol. Sufism. Dance.
Independence. Solitude. Companionship. And what not.
It's kind of my rule to not review amazing books
because I'm not worthy of doing that. So, instead, this post contains some of
the amazing quotes from the book. Hope you like these & go ahead to read
the book.
"Love is to allow everything. To not spending your
time thinking about the sunrise or enchanted forests, to not swim against the
current, to allow yourself to be filled with joy. That, for me, is what it
means to love.
It's to maintain your freedom, but in such a way
that the person at your side never feels trapped by this. It's a calm, serene
thing, I'd even say it's solitary in some way. Love for love's sake, for no
other reason - such as marriage, children, money."
"Sufism recognizes a single truth: nothing is
divisible, the visible and the invisible are one, each of us is merely an
illusion in flesh and bone."
"If we stay quiet for an hour, we'll begin to hear
God. But if we cry out with joy, God will also hear us and come down to bless
us."
"I think sleeping is a way of talking to God
through our dreams."
"A life without love isn't worth living. What is a
life without love? It's a tree that bears no fruit. It's sleeping without
dreaming. At times, it's even an inability to sleep. It's living one day after
another waiting for the sun to shine into a room that is completely shut up,
painted black, where you know where the key is but have no desire to open the
door and go out."
"The more we allow the world in, the more we
receive - be it love, be it hate."
"I love you and I'm not looking to explain my
feelings."
"All she'd ever done in her life was outrun others,
but she would never be able to outrun herself."
"She wanted everything to change, but was
incapable of changing herself."
"She wished they could see her for her beauty,
but all anyone ever saw was the hurricane, and they never sought shelter from
it. They preferred to flee to safer ground."
In case, you are a loyal reader & actually read
all of these quotes, you must have already downloaded or ordered the book, I
hope! I will try to write a couple more posts about some of the books I have
read by Nora Ephron. And, I will get to writing my Kochi travel posts soon
enough as well! Stay tuned!!
Until next time,
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