September Books

September was not a productive month :(

First, there were the Eid, then school started with its preparation and adjusting to different hours.
And now we are very busy with the final touches on the new flat which we will- hopefully- be moving to soon.

So i only managed to read only ONE book and a half  :)

but here it's anyway,

1- Brida- Paulo Coelho

This book has touched me so deeply and had reasoned with me.

This is what the back cover of the book says :-

This is the story of Brida, a beautiful young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. On her journey she meets a wise man who teaches her about overcoming her fears, and a woman who teaches her how to dance to the hidden music of the world. They see in her a gift, but must let he make her own voyage of discovery. 

As Brida seeks her destiny, she struggles to find Balance between her relationships and her desire to transform herself. 

 Some excerpt from the book to give you a bit of sense of the book :-

" Now, I've discovered that the search can be as interesting as actually finding what you're looking for"

"There's no point in understanding the entire universe if you're alone"

"our relationship with the world come through our five senses" 

"And what makes you think that we, with our path and our dedication, understand the universe any better than other people?"

"play your part and don't worry about what others do. believe that God also speaks to them, and that they are as engaged as you are in discovering the meaning of life"

"right now, while we're here eating, ninety-nine percent of the people in this plant are , in their own way, struggling with that very question, why are we here? Many think they've found the answer in religion of in materialism, others despair and spend their lives and their money trying to grasp  the meaning of it all. a few let the question go unanswered and live for the moment, regardless of the results or the consequences" 

"what is now proved was once only imagine" by William Blake, one of her fav. authors said so which gives her enough faith to go in search of wisdom.

" we are all masters of our own destiny, we can so easily make the same mistakes over and over. we can so easily flee from everything that we desire and which life so generously places before us"

"finding one important thing in your life doesn't mean you have to give up all the other important things"

"there are no beautiful or ugly bodies, because all had followed the same trajectory, all were the visible part of the soul they inhabited"

"even if she were seventy years old she would still be proud of her body, because it was through her body that soul could do its work"

beautiful review of the book here 

I guess the book helped me a lot more in understanding my femininity.