Paul Coelho , you beauty . Right from the first time i have read the book “The Alchemist” , i can still feel its lessons resonating in me all the time. There has been a time where i felt its an absolute unnecessary thing to read a Personality development book because i had always thought who else other than us can lead us in the best possible way of life. But now i knew i was absolutely wrong . We need a mentor, a mentor who had a better visualization, a better thought and a better experience.
Yes that’s what this book provides you . I have jotted down a few important points which Alchemist like’s to mentor.
1) Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives , but none of about his or her won
2) Books – They tell their incredible stories t time when you want to hear them .But when you are talking to people they say some things that are so strange you don’t want know how to continue conversation
3) People learn early in their lives what is their reason for being . May be that’s why they give up on it so early too. Bu that’s the way it is.
4) Every blessing ignored becomes a curse
5) The closer one gets to destiny the more the destiny becomes that destiny becomes a true reason for being.
6) God created desert so that man can appreciate date trees.
7) Remember wherever your heart is there you will find the true treasure.
8 ) You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny . If he abandons that pursuit, its’s because it wasn’t true love …the love that speaks the language of the world
9) 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 Eternity.
10) Every search begins with beginners luck .And every search ends with the victor being severely tested.
11) The darkest hour of the night came before the dawn.
12) Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
13) Life is generous to those who pursuit their destiny
There are few other wonderful lessons we can learn from the book but i didn’t jot them down because they are pretty much big and can be learn’t only with the context of the story .
If you are into reading books , “The monk who sold his ferrari” and “Always Looking up :Adventures of an incurable optimist ” are two other wonderful master pieces of life , and i sweetly call them as my “Mentor books”.
Nice lessons.
Your blog is really nice. I find an innocent philosophy smeared all over it
Good write ups.
Some of the posts like the painting are really nice