Eleven minutes

That's all it takes, it seems. Or so Paulo Coelho says. Well, i am reading the book for the second time. *blush*

Maria is such a smart woman. I love her thoughts...

1) Love is not to be found in others, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do so, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.

2) In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feeling and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone.

The true experience of freedom : having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

3) I'm not a body with a soul. I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.....

I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write and write about love - otherwise, my soul won't survive.

4) i can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's a question of how i view my life.

5) Although my aim is to understand love, and although i suffer to think of the people to whom i gave my heart, I see that those who touched my heart failed to arouse my body, and those who aroused my body failed to touch my heart.

6) And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine; it's best to live as if today were the first (or last) day of my life.