The next one clinches it, œAnd, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. It’s almost unbelievable that a certain Rhonda Byrne wrote an entire book on this one sentence (The Secret). It’s hard at this point for the reader not to identify with Santiago and his search. All things are one, Santiago feels the presence of wisdom. To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only real obligation. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. When the old man says, œThe Soul of the World is nourished by people’s happiness. Which, Santiago is to use as omens that would guide him on his ˜path’ to his ˜destiny’. He wears a gold breastplate (all the indications of ancient Israelite religion and the Torah), from which he gives the boy two stones: Urim and Thummim, which stand for truth and revelation respectively, among other things. This old man steers the boy towards the idea of fulfilling his destiny, and the mystique begins to set in. This quest of Santiago’s takes the firm shape of ˜destiny’ when he encounters the king of Salem, Melchizedek – the name’s Biblical origin is non-coincidental. He believes in his dream for, ˜It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting’. He loved to travel, and as a shepherd, he would get to travel. For, his father had wanted him to go to the seminary and become a priest, while he courageously decided to take a different, if seemingly lesser path of becoming a shepherd. Further on, he thinks to himself, œI couldn’t have found God in the seminary “ a note on finding one’s true calling. There begins a story that makes Santiago realize, œI learn more from my sheep than from my books “ a metaphor to say experience counts more than bookish knowledge. Until he has a recurring dream that sparks off his quest for a treasure he believes he would find at the Pyramids in Egypt. The Alchemist is a story of a young Andalusian shepherd Santiago, who grazes his sheep while travelling through cities and pastures all through Spain. These are taken from ˜The Alchemist’, a book under 200 pages, that made Paulo Coelho, its author, one of the most widely read storytellers in the world. When you really want something, the universe always conspires in your favour¦Ĭourage is the most essential to understanding the Language of the World¦ĭon’t think about what you have left behind, everything is written on the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever¦ This line and others of its kind (why does the word ˜bromide’ keep springing up!?) carry a strange effect. Should you be a rationalist of the die-hard kind, you would still find it hard to deny such a thing outright: Adjust your vision, tweak the soul to mean ˜character’ or some such, and there you see it! Should you be an intellectual, regardless of your religious/spiritual leanings, you know there is some sense to it all, even if not quite apparent. Should you be a spiritualist, you think you know exactly what these words mean. It’s hard to take sides on lines that are pregnant with such profundity. ![]() ˜Your eyes show the strength of your soul.’ “ The Alchemist
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