it was love.īut maybe people who felt that way had never learned the universal language. He learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke – the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. He has only one explanation for this fact: things have to be transmitted this way because they were made up from the pure life, and this kind of life cannot be captures in pictures or words.īecause people become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the language of the world. it wasn’t exactly that they were secrets god revealed his secrets easily to all his creatures. I don’t know why these things have to be transmitted by word of mouth, he thought. If you can concentrate always on the present you’ll be a happy man. The boy was beginning to understand that 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. it was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired. part 2īut the sheep had taught him something even more important: that there was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at thethe shop. If i can learn to understand this language without words, i can learn to understand the world. i already found it with sheep and now i’m finding it with people. There must be a language that doesn’t depend on words. parents would rather see their children marry bakers than shepherds….in the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own personal legends. bakers have homes, while shepherds sleep out in the open. it’s your mission on earth… to realize one’s personal legend is a person’s only real obligation…and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.īut bakers are more important people than shepherds. 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. but, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that ti will be impossible for them to realize their personal legend. they are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. part 1Īt that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. i have known many who when their personal calling was within their grasp, went on to commit a lot of stupid mistakes and never reached their goal. we forget about all the obstacle we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far. we look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. and it’s true.the mere possibility of getting what we want fills the should of the ordinary person with guilt. oscar wilde: each man kills the thing he loves. then comes the fourth obstacle:Ĥ\ the fear of realizing the dream fro which we fought all our lives. Having disinterred our dream, having used the power of love to nurture it and spent many years living with the scars, we suddently notice that what we always wanted is there, waiting for us, perhaps the very next day. (but this love is a stimulus – they will come with us)ģ\ fear – of defeat – yet – intense unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our soul, until one day we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives. so much that it gets so buried in our soul as to be invisible.Ģ\ love – we know what we want to do but are afraid of hurting those around us by abandoning everything in order to pursue our dream. and adding this page.ġ\ told what we want to do is impossible. The Alchemist, his most famous novel, has been translated into 80 languages. The author has sold 190 million copies worldwide and is the all-time bestselling Portuguese language author.įinally. He is the recipient of numerous international awards, amongst them the Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. Paulo Coelho ( Portuguese: born August 24, 1947), is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. and i realized there was a lot of things going on outside of my childish world. and that i wasn’t the center of the universe. Do you remember the day you realized you were alive.?
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