Aleph Quotes

“إننا نحاول دوماً تفسير الأمور وفق ما نريد، لا وفق ما هي عليه”
― باولو كويلو, ألف

“أحياناً نحتاج إلى أن نكون غرباء عن أنفسنا، عندئذ سينير النور في روحنا ما نحتاج إلى رؤيته”
― باولو كويلو, ألف

“It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

“One day or one night—between my days and nights, what difference can there be?—I dreamed that there was a grain of sand on the floor of my cell. Unconcerned, I went back to sleep; I dreamed that I woke up and there were two grains of sand. Again I slept; I dreamed that now there were three. Thus the grains of sand multiplied, little by little, until they filled the cell and I was dying beneath that hemisphere of sand. I realized that I was dreaming; with a vast effort I woke myself. But waking up was useless—I was suffocated by the countless sand. Someone said to me:

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of the grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.

I felt lost. The sand crushed my mouth, but I cried out: I cannot be killed by sand that I dream —nor is there any such thing as a dream within a dream.

— Jorge Luis Borges, The Writing of the God”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories

“I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate.”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

“O God, when I listen to the voices of animals, the sounds of trees, the murmurings of water, the singing of birds, the whistling of the wind, or the boom of thunder, I see in them evidence of Your unity; I feel that You are supreme power, omniscience, supreme knowledge, and supreme justice.
I recognize You, O God, in the trials I am going through. May Your pleasure be my pleasure, too. May I be Your joy, the joy that a Father feels for a son. And may I think of You calmly and with determination, even when I find it hard to say I love You.”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

“دع من حولك ينمون معك”
― باولو كويلو, ألف

“أنت تسافر ولكنك لم تترك منزلك بعد ما دمنا معاً، وستظل على هذه الحال؛ فإلى جانبك شخص يعرفك، وهذا يمنعك حساً زائفاً من الألفة. آن الأوان لتتابع وحدك، وقد تجد الوحدة ثقيلة الوطأة وتفوق الاحتمال، ولكن سيزول هذا الشعور تدريجياً حين تبقى على تواصل مع الآخرين”
― باولو كويلو, ألف

“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)... 'I spoke to three scholars,' [the character says 'at last.'] ...two of them said that, after death, the [sic (misprint, fault of the publisher)] just go to Paradise. The third one, though, told me to consult some verses from the Koran. [end quote]' ...I can see that he's excited. [narrator]' ...Now I have many positive things to say about Coelho: He is respectable, inspiring as a man, a truth-seeker, and an appealing writer; but one should hesitate to call him a 'literary' writer based on this quote. A 'literary' author knows that a character's excitement should be 'shown' in his or her dialogue and not in the narrator's commentary on it. Advice for Coelho: Remove the 'I can see that he's excited' sentence and show his excitement in the phrasing of his quote.(Now, in defense of Coelho, I am firmly of the opinion, having myself written plenty of prose that is flawed, that a novelist should be forgiven for slipping here and there.)Lastly, it appears that a belief in reincarnation is of great interest to Mr. Coelho ... Just think! He is a man who has achieved, (as Leonard Cohen would call it), 'a remote human possibility.' He has won lots of fame and tons of money. And yet, how his preoccupation with reincarnation—none other than an interest in being born again as somebody else—suggests that he is not happy!”
― Roman Payne

“ستطالعنا الأسئلة ذاتها دوماً، وسنحتاج دوماً إلى الإقلاع عن تكبرنا لكي نتقبل أن قلوبنا على علم بسبب وجودنا هنا”
― باولو كويلو, ألف

“معاً نخط كتاب الحياة، لقاءاتنا مرسومة من القدر، وأيدينا متشابكة فيإيماننا بأن لنا أن نحدث التغيير في هذا العالم، مل يساهم بكلمة وبجملة وبصورة، ولكن في النهاية كل ذلك يشكل معنى؛ سعادة الواحد هي سعادة الجميع”
― باولو كويلو, ألف

“I've never been as happy as I am now, because I followed the signs, I was patient, and I know that this is going to change everything.”
― Paulo Coelho

“We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched, even when we have everything we need in order to be happy.”
― Paulo Coelho

“We will always ask ourselves the same questions ....We will always need to be humble enough to accept that our heart knows why we are here.... Yes, it’s difficult to talk to your heart and perhaps it isn’t even necessary
We simply have to trust and follow the signs and live our Personal Legend;
sooner or later, we will realise that we are all part of something, even if we can’t understand rationally what that something is.
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for existence and out of that moment Heaven or Hell is born. ...”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

“The world has never been as divided as it is now.”
― Paulo Coelho, Arukemisuto =The Illustrated Alchemist: Aizōban

“I hate being judged all the time and having to hide my fear, my emotions, my vulnerabilities. You think I'm a brave, talented young woman, who is never intimidated by anything. Well, you're wrong. Everything intimidates me. I avoid glances, smiles, close contact.”
― Paulo Coelho

“If I can understand what’s going on
in the world, I can understand what’s going on inside myself”
― Paulo Coelho

“Ogni linguaggio è un alfabeto di simboli il cui uso presuppone un passato che gli interlocutori condividono; come trasmettere agli altri l'infinito Aleph, che la mia timorosa memoria a stento abbraccia?”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories

“...vidi i resti atroci di quanto deliziosamente era stata Beatriz Viterbo, vidi la circolazione del mio oscuro sangue, vidi il meccanismo dell'amore e la modificazione della morte, vidi l'Aleph, da tutti i punti, vidi nell'Aleph la terra, e nella terra di nuovo l'Aleph e nell'Aleph la terra, vidi il mio volto e le mie viscere, vidi il tuo volto e provai vertigine e piansi, perché i miei occhi avevano visto l'oggetto segreto e supposto, il cui nome usurpavano gli uomini, ma che nessun uomo ha contemplato: l'inconcepibile universo.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories

“I’m not a foreigner because I haven’t been praying to return safely home, I haven’t wasted my time imagining my house, my desk, my side of the bed. I am not a foreigner because we are all travelling, we are all full of the same questions, the same tiredness, the same fears, the same selfishness and the same generosity. I am not a foreigner because, when I asked, I received. When I knocked, the door opened. When I looked, I found.”
― Paolo Coelho

“Una fiamma d’ultimo sole lo disegna.”
― BORGES JORGE LUIS

“بالنسبة إليّ، الكتابة، فوق كل شيء، تدور حول اكتشاف نفسي.لا تدع أراء الآخرين تخيفك. وحدهـ التواضع يقين،لذلك اركب المخاطر وقم بما تريد.ابحث عن الأشخاص الذين لا يخافون من ارتكاب الأخطاء..فهم تحديد الأشخاص الذين يغيرون العالم..”
― paulo coelho

“تلك الكذبة. الحياة حلم لا نستفيق منه إلا عندما نلتقي الموت..”
― paulo coelho

“What if I tell you that in our time, with only the help of three devices, an encyclopedia, a sheet of paper and a pencil, as in a game we can solve all the riddles of our History in a total perspective, down to the abyssal clarity? – from the 'Ages of Man' to the last Golden Age of mankind, the great prophecies and the mystery of Evil. So that everything that was doubtful becomes irrefutable: the Apocalypse! – You think this impossible? – I tell you: you don’t know the Aleph. And you cannot discern the times. Yet the Aleph and the New Order of the Times are one and the same.”
― Florian Dreveskracht, Novus Ordo: An Introduction to the Apocalypse or Geometry of End Times

“أول شيء تشعرين به هو رغبة جامحة في البكاء، ليس بداعي الحزن أو السعادة بل بداعي الحماس الصافي”
― paulo coelho

“وفيما تمضي الحياة يصبح بحاجة اكبر أن يُبادل الحب، حتى وإن عنى ذلك تخليهـ عن قوتهـ”
― paulo coelho

“يعد ثلاث أيام أخر، حالما نعود إلى رتابة حياتنا،سنشعر أننا لم نرحل قط ولم نقم بتلك الرحلة الطويلة رغم الصور وتذاكر الفر والتذكارات التي بجوزتنا،فان الزمن السيد الوحيد”
― paulo coelho

“What if I tell you that in our time, with only the help of three devices, an encyclopedia, a sheet of paper and a pencil, as in a game we can solve all the riddles of our History in a total perspective, down to the abyssal clarity? – from the "Ages of Man" to the last Golden Age of mankind, the great prophecies and the mystery of Evil. So that everything that was doubtful becomes irrefutable: the Apocalypse! – You think this impossible? – I tell you: you don’t know the Aleph. And you cannot discern the times. Yet the Aleph and the New Order of the Times are one and the same.”
― Florian Dreveskracht, Novus Ordo: Eine Einführung in die Apokalypse oder Geometrie der Endzeit

“Was, wenn ich euch sage, dass wir in unserer Zeit, ausgestattet allein mit drei Hilfsmitteln, einer Enzyklopädie, einem Blatt Papier und einem Bleistift, wie im Spiel alle Rätsel unserer Geschichte in einer Totalperspektive bis zur abgründigen Klarheit auflösen können? Von den Weltaltern der Antike bis zum letzten Goldenen Zeitalter der Menschheit, die großen Prophezeiungen und das Geheimnis des Bösen. Sodass alles, was fragwürdig war, fraglos wird: die Apokalypse! – Das haltet ihr für ganz unmöglich? – Ich sage euch: Ihr kennt das Aleph nicht. Und von den Zeiten versteht ihr nichts. Das Aleph aber und die Neue Ordnung der Zeiten sind eins.”
― Florian Dreveskracht, Novus Ordo: Eine Einführung in die Apokalypse oder Geometrie der Endzeit

“He takes us to a beautiful building where, in 1754, a man killed his own brother. The brothers' father resolved to build this palace as a school, as a way of keeping alive the memory of his murdered son. I say that surely the son who had committed the murder would also be remembered.

"It's not quite like that," says Samil. "In our culture, the criminal shares his guilt with everyone who allowed him to commit the crime. When a man is murdered, the person who sold him the weapon is also responsible before God. The only way in which the father could correct what he perceived as his own mistake was to transform the tragedy into something useful for others.”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph