SOULMATE- Paulo Coelho

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'The other day, I spoke to you about one of the great secrets of magic: the Soulmate.  The whole of man's life on the face of Earth can be summed up by the search for his Soulmate. He pretends to be running after wisdom, money or power, but none of that matters.  Whatever he achieves will be incomplete if he fails to find his Soulmate.

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For a moment, he thought: 'I could give up magic for her,' but immediately realized how foolish that thought  was.  Love didn't require that kind of renunciation. True love allowed each person to follow their own path, knowing that they would never lose touch with their Soulmate.

"Breda", Paulo Coelho 

WISDOM - Paulo Coelho

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'In the Night of Time, when we were separated, one of those parts was charged with nurturing and maintaining knowledge: man.  He went on to understand agriculture, nature and movements of the stars in the sky.  Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits. That was the glory of man - to nurture and maintain knowledge.  And that is why the whole human has survive.

'To women was given something far more subtle and fragile, but without which knowledge makes no sense at all, and that thing was transformation.  The men left the soil fertile, we sowed seeds, and the soil was transformed into trees and plants.

'The soil needs the seed, and the seed needs the soil.  The one only has meaning with the other.  It is the same thing with human beings.  When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is Wisdom.  Wisdom means both know and transform.'

"Breda", Paulo Coelho 

THE VIEW FROM PARC DE LA BOVERIE (LIEGE, BELGIUM)

Cái tòa nhà dạng buồm hồi xưa không có. Cái công viên là Parc de la Boverie. Còn nhà thờ kia là ở trên khu gọi là Cointe, chỗ ngày xưa anh đi kèm một em, Bố mẹ nó nhận anh vào gia đình như con nuôi, nhằm làm ... rể...mà rồi không xong.

Dưới chân đồi, ngay chỗ nhà thờ đó nhìn xuống là place du general Leman, nơi tọa lạc nhà trọ anh ở (số 19, dưới nhà là café, lầu hai là tiệm ăn, tên là L'ailge d'or). Gần đó là cầu Fragnée. Cầu Út chụp là pont Kennedy.

Anh Tùng

CUỘC SỐNG BÌNH THƯỜNG - Anh Tùng

Ừ, anh muốn được như Út, tức là bay về cuộc sống bình thường của mình.  Quê hương đã thấy lại, trong những khung cảnh đồng quê mà mình không ngờ mình còn được thấy, có dịp sống cận kề nữa. Vui lắm chứ, nhưng mà mệt rồi, Út ơi.

Anh Tùng

THE NIGHT IS JUST A PART OF THE DAY - Paulo Coelho

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When he was a child, she would sometimes wake up in the middle of night, feeling terrified.  Her father would carry her to the window and show her the town where they lived.  He would talk to her about the nightwatchman, about the milkman who would already be out delivering the milk, about the baker making their daily bread.  Her father was trying to drive out the monsters with which she'd filled the night and replace them with the people who kept watch over the darkness.  'The night is just a part of the day,' he would say.

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Breda, Paulo Coelho

MÙA THU NỨC NỞ!

Mùa thu 

... nức nở

    ... tiếng thở ... dài 

Tiếng vĩ cầm 

... Buồn ơi

... Mùa thu ơi! 

"Thu Ca Điệu Ru Đơn", Phạm Duy 

GOOD WINE >< BAD WINE - Paulo Coelho

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'I was naked,' she said to the Teacher, when he had wrapped the cloak about her.  'And I was not ashamed.'

'If it wasn't for shame, God would never have discovered that Adam and Eve had eaten the apple."

The Teacher was watching the sunrise.  He seemed distracted, but he wasn't, Brida knew this.

'Never be ashamed, ' he said.  'Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup.  All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.'

'How will I know which is which?'

'By the taste.  you can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.'

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"Breda", Paulo Coelho