Manuscripts Found in Accra

Manuscripts Found in Accra - Paulo Coelho

To be released late 2012-early 2013 worldwide

Trying to share some perspectives through another yet-to-be-released Paulo Coelho's book, Manuscripts Found in Accra. Below are some excerpts. I hope it gives you the courage to face the day. :)

(the main character is discussing about the feeling of uselessness)

Ask a flower in the field: ‘Do you feel useful? After all, you do nothing but produce the same flowers over and over?’And the flower will answer: ‘I am beautiful, and bea

uty is my reason for living.’
Ask the river: ‘Do you feel useful, given that all you do is to keep flowing in the same direction?’
And the river will answer: ‘I’m not trying to be useful, I’m trying to be a river.’
Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God. Not a leaf from a tree falls, not a hair from your head, not even an insect dies because it was of no use. Everything has a reason to exist.
Even you, the person asking the question. ‘I’m useless’ is the answer you give yourself.
Soon that answer will poison you and you will die while still alive, even though you still walk, eat, sleep and try to have a little fun whenever possible.
Don’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference.
(except of "Manuscript found in Accra"to be published world wide late 2012 and during 2013)

and another one: 

We deny our own beauty because others can’t or won’t recognise it. Instead of accepting ourselves as we are, we try to imitate what we see around us.We try to be what other people think of as ‘pretty’ and, little by little, our soul fades

, our will weakens, and all the potential we had to make the world a more beautiful place withers away.
We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be.
We stop being the moonlight and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it. Tomorrow, the water will evaporate in the sun. And all because, one day, someone said: ‘You are ugly.’ Or: ‘She is pretty.’ With those three simple words, they stole away all our self-confidence.
And we become ugly and embittered.

Manuscript found in Accra - dates of publication here >http://bit.ly/Ov0WK6