Atnight, as they sat around the fire, the boy related to the driver hisadventures as a shepherd.During one of these conversations, the driver told of his own life.\"I used to live near El Cairum,\" he said. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting ona star that indicated the location of the oasis. In some places, the ground was covered with the salt of dried-up lakes. That's why I feel that I deserve a part ofwhat you find.\"And this is my interpretation: you must go to the Pyramids in Egypt. He wasfeeling sorry for himself, and lamenting the fact that his life could havechanged so suddenly and so drastically.He was so ashamed that he wanted to cry. He got up, adjusted his clothing, and picked up hispouch.\"I'll work for you,\" he said.And after another long silence, he added, \"I need money to buy somesheep.\"PART TWOThe boy had been working for the crystal merchant for almost a month, andhe could see that it wasn't exactly the kind of job that would make himhappy. And it ends up saying that everyone believes the world'sgreatest lie.\" He was at home with the silence of the desert, andhe was content just to look at the trees. He felt uneasy at the man's presence. A shepherd may like to travel, but he should never forget about hissheep.The old man looked at the boy and, with his hands held together, madeseveral strange gestures over the boy's head. The room'sfurnishings consisted of a table, an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,and two chairs.The woman sat down, and told him to be seated as well. The book was written inSpanish. As he took his jacket out of the pouch, thinking to give it tosomeone in the street, the two stones fell to the floor. Maybe it was his treasure tohave wound up in that strange land, met up with a thief, and doubled thesize of his flock without spending a cent.He was proud of himself. As they satdown at the only table in the place, the crystal merchant laughed.\"You didn't have to do any cleaning,\" he said. He wept because God was unfair, and because this wasthe way God repaid those who believed in their dreams.When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy.People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. The next day, he gave his son a pouch that heldthree ancient Spanish gold coins.\"I found these one day in the fields. Sometimes it's better to be withthe sheep, who don't say anything. *Two more months passed, and the shelf brought many customers into thecrystal shop. A burning bush. We areobliged, at least once in our lives, to visit the holy city of Mecca.\"Mecca is a lot farther away than the Pyramids. \"My friend bought all the other sheepimmediately. The boy had never even noticed that there was a hole in his pouch.He knelt down to find Urim and Thummim and put them back in the pouch.But as he saw them lying there on the ground, another phrase came to hismind.\"Learn to recognize omens, and follow them,\" the old king had said.An omen. He got up to pay the bill, but the owner grabbed himand began to speak to him in an angry stream of words. Thatmorning he had done some calculating: if he continued to work every dayas he had been, he would need a whole year to be able to buy some sheep.\"I'd like to build a display case for the crystal,\" the boy said to themerchant. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. The boy approached awoman who had come to the well to fill a goatskin with water.\"Good afternoon, ma'am. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually theygave up the vanities of the world. \"You have helped me.\" Theman continued to prepare his tea, saying nothing. He went on tellingstories about his travels, and her bright, Moorish eyes went wide with fearand surprise. By the time he had hadenough of the sea, he would already have known other cities, other women,and other chances to be happy. The Alchemist is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that was first published in 1988. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense mypossibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than I did before you arrived.Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't wantto do so.\"It's good I refrained from saying anything to the baker in Tarifa, thought theboy to himself.They went on smoking the pipe for a while as the sun began to set. He never realized thatpeople are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.\"\"He should have decided to become a shepherd,\" the boy said. He had remembered that one of thecrystal merchant's suppliers transported his crystal by means of caravansthat crossed the desert. If hepushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens leftby God along his path.God placed them along my path. The Alchemist: 25th Anniversary Edition by Paulo Coelho fThe Alchemist: 25th Anniversary Edition PDF The Alchemist: 25th Anniversary Edition by by Paulo Coelho This The Alchemist: 25th Anniversary Edition book is not really ordinary book, you have it then the world is in your hands. \"They are calledUrim and Thummim. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 7 / 94makes a shepherd's life exciting.\"I have had the same dream twice,\" he said. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 39 / 94There were almost two hundred people gathered there, and four hundredanimalscamels, horses, mules, and fowl. Good afternoon.\"And he vanished around the corner of the plaza. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in theheavens, and that tribesmen fight because they are part of the human race.Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the momentwe're living right now.\"Two nights later, as he was getting ready to bed down, the boy looked forthe star they followed every night. Sonow I'm a camel driver. \"This candy merchant isn't makingcandy so that later he can travel or marry a shopkeeper's daughter. Most of them he hadread in books, but he would tell them as if they were from his personalexperience. And then they want theperson to change. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 1 / 94 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Translated by Alan R. Clarke. He recognized that he was feeling something he had neverexperienced before: the desire to live in one place forever. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 26 / 94\"I can clean up those glasses in the window, if you want,\" said the boy.\"The way they look now, nobody is going to want to buy them.\"The man looked at him without responding.\"In exchange, you could give me something to eat.\"The man still said nothing, and the boy sensed that he was going to have tomake a decision. He had never beento that ruined church before, in spite of having traveled through those partsmany times. Something brightreflected from his chest with such intensity that the boy was momentarilyblinded. During the dream, a child tells him to seek treasure at the foot of the Egyptian pyramids. He looked around at the empty plaza again,feeling less desperate than before. All things are one.\"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you toachieve it.\"They were both silent for a time, observing the plaza and the townspeople.It was the old man who spoke first.\"Why do you tend a flock of sheep?\"\"Because I like to travel.\"The old man pointed to a baker standing in his shop window at one cornerof the plaza. But maybe I'llnever have another chance to get to the Pyramids in Egypt. \"I'll work all night, untildawn, and I'll clean every piece of crystal in your shop. Video An illustration of an audio speaker. wishing that he had died, and that everythingwould end forever at that moment.The merchant looked anxiously at the boy. Every step has to be followedexactly as it was followed by the masters.\"The boy learned that the liquid part of the Master Work was called the Elixirof Life, and that it cured all illnesses; it also kept the alchemist fromgrowing old. Thatwind had brought the Moors, yes, but it had also brought the smell of thedesert and of veiled women. Yes, the old man hadknown what he was talking about: during the time the boy had spent in the *The Englishman was sitting on a bench in a structure that smelled ofanimals, sweat, and dust; it was part warehouse, part corral. Creatures like the sheep, that are used totraveling, know about moving on.\"He thought of the merchant's daughter, and was sure that she had probablymarried. \"The fifth obligation of every Muslim is a pilgrimage. Several lost sheep. Today, I understand something I didn't see before:every blessing ignored becomes a curse. He had already seen manypeople come and go, and the desert remained as it was. Once again he was experiencing thelanguage without words the universal language.The Englishman asked if they were in danger.\"Once you get into the desert, there's no going back,\" said the camel driver.\"And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way ofmoving forward. Take to the fields, and somedayyou'll learn that our countryside is the best, and our women the mostbeautiful.\"And he gave the boy his blessing. First he hadstudied Esperanto, then the world's religions, and now it was alchemy. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 41 / 94But all this happened for one basic reason: no matter how many detoursand adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compasspoint. In return, I needmoney to get to Egypt tomorrow.\"The merchant laughed. He was older, and was carrying a small bucket. 'You cannot trust a man if you don't know his house. The old woman asked him to swearagain while looking at the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.\"It's a dream in the language of the world,\" she said. But ever since he had been a child, he had wantedto know the world, and this was much more important to him than knowingGod and learning about man's sins. It's your mission on earth.\"\"Even when all you want to do is travel? He knew nothing aboutthe customs of the strange land he was in.\"I'll just watch him,\" he said to himself. They called that discoverythe Master Workit was part liquid and part solid.\"Can't you just observe men and omens in order to understand thelanguage?\" the boy asked.\"You have a mania for simplifying everything,\" answered the Englishman,irritated. The boy was becoming more and more convincedthat alchemy could be learned in one's daily life.\"Also,\" said the Englishman, \"the Philosopher's Stone has a fascinatingproperty. Only in that way would he be able to read the omens. It wouldn't be the first time.\"And the woman told the boy to leave, saying she had already wasted toomuch time with him.So the boy was disappointed; he decided that he would never again believein dreams. Torealize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation. His smile reminded the boy of the old manthe mysterious old king he had met. But wetwo have to live with our mistakes.\"That's true enough, the boy thought, ruefully.\"Why did you think we should have the display?\" The Alchemist Quotes Showing 1-30 of 2,288. "I'm like everyone else-I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.". I never thoughtI'd end up in a place like this, he thought, as he leafed through the pages ofa chemical journal. The sheep will get used to my notbeing there, too, the boy thought.From where he sat, he could observe the plaza. Please enter a valid web address. Uponreturning to the wise man, he related in detail everything he had seen.\" 'But where are the drops of oil I entrusted to you?' The Englishman had several suitcases filled with books.There was a babble of noise, and the leader had to repeat himself severaltimes for everyone to understand what he was saying.\"There are a lot of different people here, and each has his own God. He has the dream every time he sleeps under a sycamore tree that grows out of the ruins of a church. His parents had wanted him to become apriest, and thereby a source of pride for a simple farm family. But he knew that Salem wasn't in Andalusia. When thecaravan was blocked by a boulder, it had to go around it; if there was alarge rocky area, they had to make a major detour. Then, taking his sheep, hewalked away. But thistime I'll be smarter, the boy thought, removing them from the pouch so hecould put them in his pocket. A friend had told the boy about the shop, and he had taken hissheep there. He put his headcloth in place and secured it with a ring made of camelskin. His hands began to tremble, and thewoman sensed it. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 24 / 94Even if he never got to the Pyramids, he had already traveled farther thanany shepherd he knew. \"Maybe no one herehas, either.\"The Englishman's eyes lit up. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 38 / 94talking about, \"It's in the Bible. *He was shaken into wakefulness by someone. He had unraveled the truths behindimportant questions, but his studies had taken him to a point beyond whichhe could not seem to go. *The old woman led the boy to a room at the back of her house; it wasseparated from her living room by a curtain of colored beads. \"But the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that theymake a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.\"The boy understood intuitively what he meant, even without ever having setfoot in the desert before. And move along when it's time to move along.' The boy thanked him, ate it, and went onhis way. "Sooo much more helpful than SparkNotes. He thought about asking him togive it back, but decided that would be unfriendly. I'm going to hate those who have found their treasurebecause I never found mine. The most prominent theme in The Alchemist is the idea that each person has a "Personal Legend"a type of ideal fate or destinyand that each person can chose whether or not to pursue that legend. Some of them were things that he hadalready experienced, and weren't really new, but that he had neverperceived before. The boy saw a man appear behind the counter. \"It describes people's inability to choose theirown destinies. When he had gone only a short distance, he realized that, whilethey were erecting the stall, one of them had spoken Arabic and the otherSpanish.And they had understood each other perfectly well.There must be a language that doesn't depend on words, the boy thought.I've already had that experience with my sheep, and now it's happening withpeople. Lots of shepherds passed through, selling their wool.\"It doesn't matter,\" he said to his sheep. And joining this caravan may havebeen my decision, but where it goes is going to be a mystery to me.Nearby was the Englishman, reading a book. As a child in church, he hadalways looked at the image of Saint Santiago Matamoros on his white horse,his sword unsheathed, and figures such as these kneeling at his feet. Although his new worldat the moment was just an empty marketplace, he had already seen it whenit was teeming with life, and he would never forget it. About; . Published 1992. *The crystal merchant awoke with the day, and felt the same anxiety that hefelt every morning. Theboy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersionof the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all peopleare connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all writtenthere.\"Maktub,\" the boy said, remembering the crystal merchant.The desert was all sand in some stretches, and rocky in others. Now it was too late tochange anythingthe only thing he had ever learned to do was to buy andsell crystal glassware. He looked at the people in the plaza for awhile; they were coming and going, and all of them seemed to be verybusy.\"So, what is Salem like?\" he asked, trying to get some sort of clue.\"It's like it always has been.\"No clue yet. They reminded him of the old man.\"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you toachieve it,\" he had said.The boy was trying to understand the truth of what the old man had said.There he was in the empty marketplace, without a cent to his name, andwith not a sheep to guard through the night. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 21 / 94He took his money from his pouch and showed it to the young man. That was his work.The gods should not have desires, because they don't have destinies. There, he couldexchange his book for a thicker one, fill his wine bottle, shave, and have ahaircut; he had to prepare himself for his meeting with the girl, and he didn'twant to think about the possibility that some other shepherd, with a largerflock of sheep, had arrived there before him and asked for her hand. The ideafrightened him.\"Another dreamer,\" said the ticket seller to his assistant, watching the boywalk away. And both you and I needed to cleanse ourminds of negative thoughts.\"When they had eaten, the merchant turned to the boy and said, \"I'd like youto work in my shop. The old king hadn't told him that the Pyramids were just a pileof stones, or that anyone could build one in his backyard. That he wanted to travel. The boy offered his bottle, hoping that the old man wouldleave him alone.But the old man wanted to talk, and he asked the boy what book he wasreading. This is aport, and every port has its thieves.\"The boy trusted his new friend. The shepherd told her of the Andalusian countryside, and related thenews from the other towns where he had stopped. Theold man wore a breastplate of heavy gold, covered with precious stones.The boy recalled the brilliance he had noticed on the previous day.He really was a king! The black signifies 'yes,' and the white 'no.' I'm trying to find out where the alchemist lives I don't want to changeanything, because I don't know how to deal with change. But he was ableto understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning ofthings. It was the old manwho had asked for a drink of his wine, and had started the conversation.\"Give me my book,\" the boy said. The Englishman said nothing.And the murmur lasted longer than a simple vow would have. All they ever do, really, islook for food and water. I thought that everything Iowned would be destroyed.\"The land was ruined, and I had to find some other way to earn a living. Since they werevisitors, they would have to share living space with those who lived there,and would be given the best accommodations. = CONTENTS = Part One Part Two EpiloguePART ONEThe boy's name was Santiago. He was tense and upset, because he knew that the old manwas right. Enough to buy himself a hundred and twentysheep, a return ticket, and a license to import products from Africa into hisown country. They were on the right track.Finally, a young woman approached who was not dressed in black. 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