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Like the flowing river : thoughts and reflections / Paulo Coelho ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.

Like the flowing river : thoughts and reflections / Paulo Coelho ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
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ISBN 9780732284381 (pbk.)
0732284384 (pbk.)
Name Coelho, Paulo
Title Like the flowing river : thoughts and reflections / Paulo Coelho ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
Published [London ; Sydney] : HarperCollins, 2006.
Description xiii, 223 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents A day at the mill -- Prepared for battle, but with a few doubts -- The way of the bow -- The story of the pencil -- How to climb mountains -- The importance of a degree -- In a bar in Tokyo -- The importance of looking -- Genghis Khan and his falcon -- Looking at other people's gardens -- Pandora's box -- How one thing can contain everything -- The music coming from the chapel -- The devil's pool -- The dead man wore pyjamas -- The solitary piece of coal -- Manuel is an important and necessary man -- Manuel is a free man -- Manuel goes to paradise -- In Melbourne -- The pianist in the shopping mall -- On my way to the Chicago Book Fair -- Of poles and rules -- The piece of bread that fell wrong side up -- Of books and libraries -- Prague, 1981 -- For the woman who is all women -- A visitor arrives from Morocco -- My funeral -- Restoring the web -- These are my friends -- How do we survive? -- Marked out to die -- The moment of dawn -- A January day in 2005 -- A man lying on the ground -- The missing brick -- Raj tell me a story -- The other side of the Tower of Babel -- Before a lecture -- On elegance -- Nhá chica of Baependi -- Rebuilding the house -- The prayer that I forgot -- Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro -- Living your own legend -- The man who followed his dreams -- The importance of the cat in meditation -- I can't get in -- Statutes for the new millenium -- Destroying and rebuilding -- The warrior and faith -- In Miami harbour -- Acting on impulse -- Transitory glory -- Charity under threat -- On witches and forgiveness -- On rhythm and the road -- Travelling differently -- A fairy tale -- Brazil's greatest writer -- The meeting that did not take place -- The smiling couple (London, 1977) -- The second chance -- The Australian and the newspaper ad -- The tears of the desert -- Rome: Isabella returns from Nepal -- The art of the sword -- In the blue mountains -- The taste of success -- The tea ceremony -- The cloud and the sand dune -- Norma and the good things -- Jordan, the Dead Sea, 21 June 2003 -- In San Diego Harbour, California -- The art of withdrawal -- In the midst of war -- The solider in the forest -- In a town in Germany -- Meeting in the Dentsu Gallery -- Reflections on 11 September 2001 -- God's signs -- Alone on the road -- The funny thing about human beings -- An around-the-world trip after death -- Who would like this twenty-dollar bill? -- The two jewels -- Self-deception -- The art of trying -- The dangers besetting the spiritual search -- My father-in-law, Christiano Oiticica -- Thank you, President Bush -- The intelligent clerk -- The third passion -- The Catholic and the Muslim -- Evil wants good to prevail -- The law of Jante -- The old lady in Copacabana -- Remaining open to love -- Believing in the impossible -- The storm approaches -- Some final prayers
Subjects Conduct of life -- Fiction
Genre Short stories
Other Names Costa, Margaret Jull
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