There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or
whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's
because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your
The Soul of the World is nourished
by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy.
To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All
things are one.
when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping
you to achieve it.
It's called the principle
of favorability. When you play cards the first time, you are almost sure
to win. Beginner's luck."
"Why is that?"
"Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal
Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success.
"I'm like everyone else-I
see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what
actually does."
beauty is the great
seducer of men.
making a decision was only the
beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really
diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never
dreamed of when he first made the decision.
The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy."
intuition is really a sudden immersion of
the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all
people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because
it's all written there.
no matter how many
detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same
compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its
course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis.
people need not fear the unknown if
they are capable of achieving what they need and want.
"We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our
possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we
understand that our life stories and the history of the world were
written by the same hand."
Sometimes, their caravan met with another. One always had
something that the other needed - as if everything were indeed written
by one hand.
called the Soul of the World. When you want something with all your
heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always
a positive force."
He also said that this was not just a human gift, that everything on the
face of the earth had a soul, whether mineral, vegetable, or animal -
or even just a simple thought.
"Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the
earth is alive ... and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we
rarely recognize that it is working for us. But in the crystal shop you
probably realized that even the glasses were collaborating in your
success."
all things are
the manifestation of one thing only.
if a
metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its
individual properties, and what was left would be the Soul of the
World. This Soul of the World allowed them to understand anything on
the face of the earth, because it was the language with which all things
communicated. They called that discovery the Master Work - it was
part liquid and part solid.
the liquid part of the Master Work was called the
Elixir of Life, and that it cured all illnesses; it also kept the alchemist
from growing old. And the solid part was called the Philosopher's
Stone.
the world has a soul, and that whoever understands
that soul can also understand the language of things. I learned that
many alchemists realized their Personal Legends, and wound up
discovering the Soul of the World, the Philosopher's Stone, and the
Elixir of Life.
"But, above all, I learned that these things are all so simple that they
could be written on the surface of an emerald
If you can concentrate always on the present,
you'll be a happy man.
Life will be a party for you, a grand
festival, because life is the moment we're living right now.
"If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one
can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of
light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your
return."
"There is only one way to learn," the alchemist answered.
journey. You need to learn only one thing more."
The wise men understood that this
natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of
this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is
perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men
could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his
wisdom. That's what I mean by action.
You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to
listen to what it has to say. That way, you'll never have to fear an
unanticipated blow."
"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the
alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.
"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering
itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its
dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter
with God and with eternity."
all people who are
happy have God within them. And that happiness could be found in a
grain of sand from the desert, as the alchemist had said. Because a
grain of sand is a moment of creation, and the universe has taken
millions of years to create it. "Everyone on earth has a treasure that
awaits him," his heart said. "We, people's hearts, seldom say much
about those treasures, because people no longer want to go in search
of them. We speak of them only to children. Later, we simply let life
proceed, in its own direction, toward its own fate. But, unfortunately,
very few follow the path laid out for them- the path to their Personal
Legends, and to happiness. Most people see the world as a threatening
place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a
threatening place.
makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like
"What you still need to know is this:
before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that
was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so
that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons
we've learned as we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at
which most people give up. It's the point at which, as we say in the
language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees
have appeared on the horizon.'
"Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with
the victor's being severely tested."
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible
to achieve: the fear of failure."
the world is only the visible aspect of
God. And that what alchemy does is to bring spiritual perfection into
contact with the material plane.
When you are loved, you can do
anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to
understand what's happening, because everything happens within you,
and even men can turn themselves into the wind. As long as the wind
helps, of course.
No matter what he does, every person on earth
plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't
know it.
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