Uma mensagem para minha irmã/ A message to my sister

Silvia, I was reading a book from Paulo Coelho when I saw the passage below. I felt that I needed to share it with you. I hope you like it:

"I did not go into that café by chance; really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.

Everyone knows how to love, because we are all born with that gift. Some people have a natural talent for it, but the majority of us have to re-learn, to remember how to love, and everyone, without exception, needs to burn on the bonfire of past emotions, to relive certain joys and grieves, certain ups and downs, until they can see the connecting thread that exists behind each new encounter, because there is a connecting thread.

And then, our bodies learn to speak the language of the soul..." (Paulo Coelho - 11 minutes)