Moses Parts the Waters – Spiritual Story by Paulo Coelho

Sometimes we get used to what we see in the movies, and end up forgetting the true story, a friend said to once while we were looking at the port of Miami, remember the Ten Commandments?

Of course I remembered. Moses, played by Charton Heston, at one point raises his baton and with that action the waters were divided and the Jewish people walked through it.

In the Bible it is different, says my friend, in the Bible, God orders Moses to do this by saying, ‘the children of Israel are to go forward,' and only after they start walking does Moses raise his staff to part the Red Sea.

Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself.

Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian author who has sold more than 100 million books, which include 14 short story collections and the novel “The Alchemist.” He has been a fan of the Internet since the early 1990s. He spends at least three hours a day online, writing e-mails back and forth with his readers and posting photos on Flickr, MySpace and a blog.

Coelho's online activities also include promoting pirated copies of his own books. Since 2005 he's been directing his readers to an online site where they can download his books, in languages from German to Japanese, for free. “I always thought that when, at the beginning of your career, you strive to be read, you can't change your mind later and become greedy about it.”