Manual of
the Warrior of Light is a 1997 collection of Paulo Coelho's teachings summed up
into one volume. It includes proverbs, extracts from the Tao Te Ching, the
Bible, the book of Chuang Tzu, the Talmud and various other sources, and is
written in the form of short philosophical passages.
This book is
written as if it were an actual handbook for a supposedly Templar or Paladin
warrior, the warrior however being a metaphor not for those who serve a certain
lord, an ideal or the weak, but for those in pursuit of their dreams and who
appreciate the miracle of life. The manual describes the challenges the warrior
faces and solutions to the problems, including paradoxes (such as the section
"sometimes the Warrior behaves like a rock" is followed directly by
"sometimes the Warrior behaves like Water". Rock (stability) and
Water (flexibility) are given as opposite metaphors in Taoism).
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