The Alchemist By Paulo Coelho - Book Review
Book Description
"My heart hesitates that it will have to suffer," the boy informed the alchemist one night as they searched for at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the worry of suffering is even worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has actually ever before suffered when it enters search of its dreams.".
The Alchemist is the wonderful tale of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who desires to travel in search of a worldly treasure as elegant as any ever before found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the marketplaces of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.
The story of the treasures Santiago discovers along the way instructs us, as a few stories have actually done, about the necessary knowledge of hearing our hearts, learning to check out the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.
Every couple of decades a book is released that alters the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold all over the world, The Alchemist has currently developed itself as a modern classic, widely appreciated. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now offered in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even larger audience of readers for generations to come.
Amazon Review
Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a very one-of-a-kind situation. And though we could smell a bestselling formula, it is definitely not a brand-new one: even the old tribal storytellers understood that this is the most effective approach of amusing an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night long for a remote treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. Therefore he's off: leaving Spain to actually follow his dream.
Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in simple types such as a camel motorist and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's publications, Santiago first learns about the alchemists-- guys who believed that if a metal were heated up for long times, it would free itself of all its specific homes, and exactly what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does at some point fulfill an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misdirected plan, while additionally emboldening him to stay real to his dreams. "My heart hesitates that it will need to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night.
"Inform your heart that the concern of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist responds. "And that no heart has actually ever before 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."-- Gail Hudson.
My Review
I inspected this book out from the library, however I'm going to buy a copy and re-read it at routine intervals.
I review it over the course of one day, thought "good fable" & began reading an additional book when I finished this one. However I discovered that the lessons consisted of in this simple tale of a shepherd boy looking for treasure, won't be dismissed so quickly. They have to have taken up residence in my subconscious and kicked up some dust, since my mind keeps returning to the lessons of the tale to find new and more subtle insights having formed.
These are lessons that all of us know in our hearts, but that we forget as we get wrapped up in the hustle and bustle of our material lives. Lessons about listening to our hearts and following our dreams. Lessons about living in the moment, the short-term nature of possessions and the illusion that we can even "possess" something to begin with. Lessons about freeing ourselves from worry and about comprehending our lives as part of the energy of the Universe and comprehending that everything will work out the means it was meant to. Lessons about trusting in signs, understanding that our lives have a grand function which the forces of the Universe will conspire to help us meet that function. And the lesson that all the fortunes and misfortunes we run into in life belong to our spiritual education, and that it's not the earthly "treasure" we seek that is very important but the lessons found out while in pursuit of it.
If you such as to reflect the meaning of life, then let your mind and spirit mull over the lessons in this book. It's a fast and enjoyable read that will offer some brand-new understandings, or remind you of some old one's that you have actually forgotten.
"My heart hesitates that it will have to suffer," the boy informed the alchemist one night as they searched for at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the worry of suffering is even worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has actually ever before suffered when it enters search of its dreams.".
The Alchemist is the wonderful tale of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who desires to travel in search of a worldly treasure as elegant as any ever before found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the marketplaces of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.
The story of the treasures Santiago discovers along the way instructs us, as a few stories have actually done, about the necessary knowledge of hearing our hearts, learning to check out the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.
Every couple of decades a book is released that alters the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold all over the world, The Alchemist has currently developed itself as a modern classic, widely appreciated. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now offered in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even larger audience of readers for generations to come.
Amazon Review
Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a very one-of-a-kind situation. And though we could smell a bestselling formula, it is definitely not a brand-new one: even the old tribal storytellers understood that this is the most effective approach of amusing an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night long for a remote treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. Therefore he's off: leaving Spain to actually follow his dream.
Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in simple types such as a camel motorist and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's publications, Santiago first learns about the alchemists-- guys who believed that if a metal were heated up for long times, it would free itself of all its specific homes, and exactly what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does at some point fulfill an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misdirected plan, while additionally emboldening him to stay real to his dreams. "My heart hesitates that it will need to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night.
"Inform your heart that the concern of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist responds. "And that no heart has actually ever before 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."-- Gail Hudson.
My Review
I inspected this book out from the library, however I'm going to buy a copy and re-read it at routine intervals.
I review it over the course of one day, thought "good fable" & began reading an additional book when I finished this one. However I discovered that the lessons consisted of in this simple tale of a shepherd boy looking for treasure, won't be dismissed so quickly. They have to have taken up residence in my subconscious and kicked up some dust, since my mind keeps returning to the lessons of the tale to find new and more subtle insights having formed.
These are lessons that all of us know in our hearts, but that we forget as we get wrapped up in the hustle and bustle of our material lives. Lessons about listening to our hearts and following our dreams. Lessons about living in the moment, the short-term nature of possessions and the illusion that we can even "possess" something to begin with. Lessons about freeing ourselves from worry and about comprehending our lives as part of the energy of the Universe and comprehending that everything will work out the means it was meant to. Lessons about trusting in signs, understanding that our lives have a grand function which the forces of the Universe will conspire to help us meet that function. And the lesson that all the fortunes and misfortunes we run into in life belong to our spiritual education, and that it's not the earthly "treasure" we seek that is very important but the lessons found out while in pursuit of it.
If you such as to reflect the meaning of life, then let your mind and spirit mull over the lessons in this book. It's a fast and enjoyable read that will offer some brand-new understandings, or remind you of some old one's that you have actually forgotten.