Living Out Your Higher Purpose
I had lunch with my friend yesterday. As usual, our topics are on global economics, people retrenched from their jobs, countries export figures getting lower, banks are not lending money etc etc. Being a normal citizen, we could not do too much about it. At the end, my friend sighed and told me that he was lost. For a moment, I am speechless. I could find no words to console him. I could just muster a smile and acknowledge his feeling. A thought flashed into my mind. Suddenly, I remembered what I had read from Paulo Coelho’s “The Fifth Mountain”. I began to...
read moreBook Translation – Keeping the Faith Part 2
As the saying goes…”Whatever happens, happens for a reason” After I have read Paulo Coelho’s The Fifth Mountain, I continue to read his another book entitled “Like the Flowing River”. This is a collection of reflections from Paulo Coelho. In this riveting collection of thoughts and stories, he offers his personal reflections on a wide range of subjects from archery and music to elegance, travelling and the nature of good and evil. What actually caught my attention is when I read a particular short story on “The Other Side of the Tower of...
read moreBook Translation – Keeping the Faith!
I have just finished reading “The Fifth Mountain” by Paulo Coelho. For those who do not know him yet, he is the same author who wrote the international bestseller “The Alchemist”. This book “The Alchemist” has been translated into over 60 different types of languages and has sold over 75 millions copies! As I am reading “The Fifth Mountain”, I found that it is immensely intriguing and it keeps me reading on to find out what will happen to the main character, Elijah. It is a story about a person finding his own courage and commitment to...
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