El Don Supremo

by Paulo Coelho

Overview

"Creía que ya había pensado todo lo que necesitaba pensar con respecto al amor, cuando el sermón de Henry Drummond cayó en mis manos. A partir del momento en que leí las palabras de este libro, e intenté poner en práctica sus enseñanzas, mi vida cambió mucho." Paulo Coelho "Aunque hable las lenguas de los hombres y de los ángeles, si no tuviera Amor, sería como el bronce que suena, o como el címbalo que tañe." Todos, en algún momento, hemos escuchado ese pasaje de la carta de San Pablo a los Corintios. ¿Pero realmente comprendemos su mensaje? Al final del siglo XIX, el joven misionero Henry Drummond es invitado a sustituir a un famoso predicador. Al principio el púbico se molesta, pero después queda cautivado por su análisis de las palabras del apóstol Pablo. Ese sermón, The Greatest Thing in the World, se convirtió en un clásico y es, sin duda, uno de los textos más hermosos jamás escritos sobre el Amor. Drummond lo descompone en nueve elementos: paciencia, bondad, generosidad, humildad, delicadeza, entrega, tolerancia, inocencia y sinceridad. Al contrario de lo que estamos acostumbrados a escuchar, el mayor tesoro de la vida espiritual no es la fe, sino el Amor. No importa cuál sea tu creencia religiosa, ese sentimiento es, sin duda, la forma más gratificante de vivir. En El Don Supremo, Paulo Coelho traduce y adapta el texto de Henry Drummond, ofreciendo un poderoso, verdadero mensaje que nos ayudará a incorporar el Amor en nuestro día a día y a experimentar, en nuestras vidas, todo su poder de transformación.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788461680658
Publisher:	Sant Jordi Asociados
Publication date:	04/04/2014
Sold by:	Sant Jordi Asociados Agencia
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	141,406
File size:	525 KB
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

His books have been translated into 56 languages, topped bestseller lists throughout the world, and scored him such celebrity fans as Julia Roberts, Bill Clinton, and Madonna; yet for Brazilian publishing phenom Paulo Colho, the road to success has been strewn with a number of obstacles, many of them rooted in his troubled past.

As a youth, Coelho was expected to follow in the footsteps of his father, a professional engineer. When he rebelled, expressing his intentions to become a writer, his parents had him committed to a psychiatric hospital where he was subjected to electro-shock therapy. He left home to join the 1970s countercultural revolution, experimenting with drugs, dabbling in black magic, and getting involved in Brazil's bohemian art and music scene. He teamed with rock musician Raul Seixas for an extremely successful songwriting partnership that changed the face of Brazilian pop -- and put a lot of money in Coelho's pockets. He also joined an anti-capitalist organization called the Alternative Society which attracted the attention of Brazil's military dictatorship. Marked down as a subversive, he was imprisoned and tortured.

Amazingly, Coelho survived these horrific experiences. He left the hippie lifestyle behind, went to work in the record industry, and began to write, but without much success. Then, in the mid-1980s, during a trip to Europe, he met a man, an unnamed mentor he refers to only as "J," who inducted him into Regnum Agnus Mundi, a secret society that blends Catholicism with a sort of New Age mysticism. At J's urging, Coelho journeyed across el Camino de Santiago, the legendary Spanish road traversed by pilgrims since the Middle Ages. He chronicled this life-changing, 500-mile journey -- the culmination of decades of soul-searching -- in The Pilgrimage, published in 1987.

The following year, Coelho wrote The Alchemist, the inspirational fable for which he is best known. The first edition sold so poorly the publisher decided not to reprint it. Undaunted, Coelho moved to a larger publishing house that seemed more interested in his work. When his third novel (1990's Brida) proved successful, the resulting media buzz carried The Alchemist all the way to the top of the charts. Released in the U.S. by HarperCollins in 1993, The Alchemist became a word-of-mouth sensation, turning Coelho into a cult hero.

Since then, he has gone on to create his own distinct literary brand -- an amalgam of allegory and self-help filled with spiritual themes and symbols. In his novels, memoirs, and aphoristic nonfiction, he returns time and again to the concepts of quest and transformation and has often said that writing has helped connect him to his soul. While his books have not always been reviewed favorably and have often become the subject of strong cultural and philosophical debate, there is no doubt that this self-described "pilgrim writer" has struck a chord in readers everywhere. In the 2009 edition of the Guiness Book of World Records, Coelho was named the most translated living author -- with William Shakespeare the most translated of all time!

Hometown:

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Date of Birth:

August 24, 1947

Place of Birth:

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Education:

Left law school in second year

Website:

http://www.paulocoelho.com