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TEARS OF THE DESERT

Paulo Coelho (Portuguese: [ˈpawlu kuˈeʎu]; born August 24, 1947), is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He is the recipient of numerous international awards, amongst them the Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. The Alchemist, his most famous novel, has been translated into 80 languages.

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Reply: Consoling desert for loneliness and tears

Two men knelt and prayed God

A Missionary In Marrakesh

Noticed a man lying, stroking sand

Missionary: desert reminds man’s true size

Missionary asked for reason

Had morning walk in a desert

Now desert weeping for blaspheming against God Mountains help to meditate and

feel closer to God

Next day spring bubbled up there

The people called the place ‘THE WELL OF THE DESERT’S TEARS.’

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•A missionary used to go for a walk every morning in the desert of Marrakesh in Morocco.

Everyday he noticed a man lying down, with his ears pressed to the ground and stroking the sand with one hand.

The man replied that he offered the desert company and consolation for its loneliness and tears.

Intrigued by this strange behavior, he enquired the man.

The missionary asked the man to tell the desert that it is performing an important duty.

Moreover, he told that the desert wept for its infertility and being useful to no one.

The sand of desert indicates equality of human.

The vast open desert made him realize man’s true size and how small we are compared with god.

Its mountain helps the missionary to meditate and makes him feel being closer to the Creator.

The man told him that the desert still wept for spending thousands of years being unaware of its role in the world and wasted all time blaspheming god and it’s fate.

The very next day he found the man in the same place and position.

They prayed to their own god who has always been the same god.

Being a Muslim the man turned toward Mecca and prayed.

Being a Catholic, the missionary put his hands together and prayed.

The following day the missionary found the place where the man used to embrace wet and a small spring had started bubbling up there.

The Bedouin, the inhabitants of the city, built a well and called it ‘THE WELL OF THE DESERT’S TEARS’.

• It is a faith that anyone who drinks water from its well will find way for joy out of his sufferings

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• HAPPY• SAD• ANGRY• CARING• DISGUSTED• ENTHUSIASTIC• DEPRESSED

• LONELY• FEAR FUL• CONFUSED• HURT• SERENE• GUILT• HORRIFIED

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2.I’m keeping desert company -

3.Well, tell the desert it is performing an important duty -

4.I can hear every sob -

5.Let’s do what I always do when I sense that people have lost all hope. Let us pray. -

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