I have only one certainty: there exists a parallel spiritual universe that impinges on the world in which we live. Apart from that, everything else seems absurd to me-sacred books, revelations, guides, manuals, ceremonies ... and, what is worse, they appear to have no lasting effects. (Paulo Coelho)

I have only one certainty: there exists a parallel spiritual universe that impinges on the world in which we live. Apart from that, everything else seems absurd to me-sacred books, revelations, guides, manuals, ceremonies ... and, what is worse, they appear to have no lasting effects.

Paulo Coelho

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