Like the Flowing River – Paulo Coelho

Life brought out well through short stories ( some, to our surprise, running only half a page)...the end of each story is something to look out for. Many of these tales have pointers here and there which are to be re read  as it is has so much (substance) to say. Like, the comparison of the weeds in the garden to detrimental thought in our mind, “when something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask god to give me the same courage to mercilessly to pluck it out”, “...in the absence of bitterness, love...really is enough”...has helped me to find  answers to my own vagueness.

 The stories which i enjoyed most,: “The story of the pencil” [remembered, one of our teachers telling it to us during high school send off function; wish, i had known its meaning then(never mind)], “How to climb mountains”, “How one thing can contain everything”, “The pianist in the shopping mall”, “Of books and libraries”(motivating to give away the books that has inspired me), “For the woman who is all women”, “Statutes for the new millennium”, “Transitory glory”, “The cloud and the sand dune”, “Alone on the road”...well thought of  titles. Could find some similar reference even in ‘ The Alchemist’... however, am surely gonna refer to these again and didnt want the book to end, quite contrary to what the writer asks us, ‘to be like the flowing river’ , that never stops, never retraces its path:)
[for more insight on how to be “like the flowing river”, check out the writer's website]