The Alchemist

Friends

Recently finished this wonderful book "The Alchemist-Paulo Coelho". The alchemist means a person who can turn any metal into gold and lives for more than 300 yrs. It is story about a boy, who is basically a shepherd but a big dreamer too . To make his dream true , he pass through lot of hardship and challenges but nothing stops him from moving further. The book tries to point out that your dream treasure may be near to you but the route may take you to long journey full of hardship, risks and challenges. The book mentions many great quotes along with the story like:

1. The greatest lie in the world is "that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what is happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate".

2. Every one knows at their young age what their destiny is and at this point every thing is clear and possible. At young age they don't afraid to dream and yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible to realize their destiny.

3. Everything on the earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive and it has a soul. We are part of that soul but we rarely recognize that it is working for us.

4. The soul of the world governs all things and when you want something with all your heart, that is when you are closest to the soul of the world. It is always a positive force.

The dreams can be made true if we really wish from the heart and put in everything we have. The book makes the boy to go to desert and then pyramids to search the treasure and ultimately bring backs to the original place from where he started to get the treasure. Meaning that we may be sitting already on treasure but never visualised.

We all know that the grass is greener on the other side or in hindi we say "Dusre ki thali mai sabko ghee najar aata hai". If it is so then some one else is feeling that our side grass is more greener and hence we only have to realise that. Once we are sure of our self and value our position, rest would be only focused efforts. When we would connect with the soul of the world the dreams would automatically become true.

Cheers.

cp