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Information from the Catalan Common Knowledge. Edit to localize it to the English one. Mentre feien camí, va entrar en un poblet, i una dona que es deia Marta el va rebre a casa seva. Aquesta tenia una germana que es deia Maria, la qual, bo i asseguda als peus del Senyor, escoltava la seva paraula. Marta, en canvi, estava absorbida preparant moltes coses per obsequiar-lo i, presentant-se, digué: "Senyor, no us fa res que la meva germana em deixi tota sola per servir? Digueu-li, doncs, que m'ajudi". Però el Senyor li va respondre: "Marta, Marta, et preocupes i et neguiteges per preparar moltes coses, i només poques són necessàries o una de sola. Maria ha escollita la bona porció, que no li serà pas presa".
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Til J.
Alkymisten, som kender, og som anvender Det store Værks hemmeligheder.
PAULO COELHO | |
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The boy's name was Santiago. Introduction by Coelho: I remember receiving a letter from the American Publisher Harper Collins that said that: "reading The Alchemist was like getting up at dawn and seeing the sun rise while the test of the world still slept." | |
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We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate, so too do the layers of prejudice, fear and guilt. There comes a time when our personal calling is so deeply buried in our soul as to be invisible. But it's still there. He still had some doubts about the decision he had made. But he was able to understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will take him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision. 'Always heed the omens', the old king had said. Maktub (it is written) 'To realise one's destiny is a person's only real obligation. All things are one. And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it', the old king said. '... Personal Legend. It's what you have always wanted to accomplish.' | |
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A young man named Santiago is on a quest to the Pyramids in Egypt following his "Personal Legend" to find a treasure. His adventures and experiences with the people he meets eventually help him discover where the true treasure is in his life. | |
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Santiago, shepherd,
Gets told by King of Salem:
Follow your heart, boy!
(passion4reading) Pseudo-profound dross
Lures thousands into parting
With their hard-earned cash.
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▾Book descriptions Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0061122416, Paperback)
Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream. Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night. "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that 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 with eternity." --Gail Hudson (retrieved from Amazon Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:24:13 -0500) (see all 10 descriptions) ▾Library descriptions A fable about undauntingly following one's dreams, listening to one's heart, and reading life's omens features dialogue between a boy and an unnamed being. (summary from another edition) » see all 11 descriptions |
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