The Alchemist - an inspirational story by Paulo Coelho for anyone seeking their path in life

As and when I read each leaf of the great book which have had a life-enhancing impact on many, I believed that no one can skip imagining themselves in the main character of the magical story, i.e. Santiago, a shepherd boy who dreams of travelling the world to seek the most wonderful treasures known to man. The way the boy chooses his path of life to reach his destiny which he dreamed really inspired me and input a positive energy in me. In the journey to find his destiny, the boy acquired great knowledge and wisdom by learning from various people like King of Salem, crystal merchant, his woman of desert, the Alchemist etc., which is the real treasure than the chest of gold he found at pyramids.

There are many lines from the book which I am able to correlate with the happenings in life of myself and people around me. Here are some of the already existing facts which the book invoked with an explicit narration. I have added few lines of my own perception against each saying:

"When someone sees the same people everyday, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own." This is a common context every human have come across in their life at some point of time with some sort of relationship in their life. If each one in the relationship is ready to change for other, balancing on either end, then the relation exists forever, else it sinks. But everlasting relationships are built only if there exists love in it. Once a person finds his/her true love, only then he/she stops hearing to thy hearts when it speak the above words and concentrate on what his love want him/her to be.

The Worlds Greatest Lie: "At a certain point in our lives, we loose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate." This is how every person think, when something in his/her life is not happening as they expected or when they do not find an idea/path of how to make their dreams come true. This is the point when they start listening to their hearts saying the above words, because it never want to take pain to think beyond and want to continue without any disturbances.


The Great Truth on this planet: "Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want  something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of universe. it's your mission on earth." Every human has a mission on earth and his actions are droved by it.


"The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. and also by unhappiness, envy and jealousy. To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation. All things are one."


"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."


"If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it."


"Everything in life has its price"


"Before you feel jealous of the freedom of the wind, you should realize that you are the one who hold yourself back from taking the steps along the way to your destiny"


Principle of favorability: "Beginner's Luck." When you play cards for the first time, you are almost sure to win. There is a force that wants you to realize your destiny; it whets your appetite with a taste of success.


"Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else. And don't forget the language of omens. And, above all, don't forget to follow your destiny through to its conclusion."


"The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon entrusted." A shepherd may like to travel, but he should never forget about his sheep.


"In money there was magic; whoever has money is never really alone"


"Making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision." When Santiago decided to seek out his treasure, he never imagined that he would wind up working in a crystal shop, join a caravan to cross a great desert, met a woman of desert and fall in love with her, etc.

"Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there."

"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want."


"We are afraid of losing what we have, whether its our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand."


"Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested."


"The darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn."


"When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed."


Every person who wants to find their heart's desire and seek their path of life should read this inspiring book, "The Alchemist". I learnt from the book how to choose my path of life without feeling discouraged with the challenges I faced in travelling in that path and learning out of each challenge I faced. In the process of my journey, I met new people, experienced new environment, and learnt new things of life. Thanks for my friend who suggested this book to me. It rejuvenated me to continue my journey of life with everlasting positive energy.

Our never ending school memories in GEMS

One day, I and Sanjana stopped in crossword in a big mall. Even though the crossword is a small area, it consist of a large collection. And it is the place when I spend on reading books while waiting for my friend. I am a great fan of Sherlock Holmes and went to detective section. The worlds most famous address flashed into my mind i.e. B221, Baker Street, London. I always remember my English teacher Mrs.Subhashini in school days who is the root cause for such an interest. In reality Dr. Watson may be the narrator throughout Sherlock Holmes volumes, but for our GEMS, our favorite English teacher, Subhashini is the first narrator. I still remember each and every pupil in the classroom hearing to her narration, maintaining pin drop silence, involved in following the story with everlasting enthu, eager and interest.
I still remember about myself sitting in government library reading the volumes of Sherlock Holmes after the school timings. Even though ours is a small town, it has a decent library with plenty of collections. Whenever I went to library for the book of "Complete short stories of Sherlock Holmes", it was always already with some reader. I used to wait until the other person complete and then get hold of it. That much is the interest induced by our narrator. And of-course, I am a voracious reader of short stories in my childhood. I haven't still come across such a narrator of ours who used to describe the Watson's surprised expressions for Holmes wise interpretations from available short details of the cases. Her narration is so realistic that we used to literally visualize the places where a murder or theft happened in the story. Our never ending memories are they with whom we spent in school every day.

1 MIN READING: how the path was forged(From Paulo Coelho's Blog)

One day, a calf needed to cross a virgin forest in order to return to its pasture. Being an irrational animal, it forged out a tortuous path full of bends, up and down hills.

The next day, a dog came by and used the same path to cross the forest. Next it was a sheep’s turn, the head of a flock which, upon finding the opening, led its companions through it.

Later, men began using the path: they bent down, deviating obstacles, complaining and cursing – and quite rightly so. But they did nothing to create a different route.

After so much use, in the end, the path became a trail along which poor animals toiled under heavy loads, being forced to go three hours to cover a distance which would normally take thirty minutes.

Many years passed and the trail became the main road of a village, and later the main avenue of a town. Everyone complained about the traffic, because the route it took was the worst possible one.

Meanwhile, the old and wise forest laughed, at seeing how men tend to blindly follow the way already open, without ever asking whether it really is the best choice.

.(based in traditional Malayalam story)

20 SEC READING: How poor we are

Paulo Coelho's Blog

One day a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the firm purpose of showing his son how poor people live.

They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.
On their return from the trip, the father asked his son, “How was the trip?”
“It was great, Dad”.

“Did you see how poor people live?” the father asked.

“Oh yes”, said the son.
“So, tell me, what did you learn from the trip?” asked the father.

The son answered:
“I saw that we have one dog and they had four.
“We have a pool that reaches to the middle of the garden and they have a creek that has no end.
“We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night.

“Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon.
“We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight.

“We buy our food, but they grow theirs.
“We have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to protect them.”

The boy’s father was speechless. Then his son added:
“Thanks, Dad for showing me how poor we are.”

Does LOVE retain for lifelong? - A concept reused again and again and now in Teen Maar and once again as my writing

The in-built defect of Siri :) Cheerzzz..., myself, i.e. analyzing various happenings in and around her life when I lead the journey of life. I either scribble or draft the thoughts into my writings, whatever and whenever I get into mind and thereby filling many leaves of life(pages from the book of human life). I have both the filled leaves and empty leaves in my life. And this is one among the leaves I filled.

I was watching the small 70mm screen in a small, but famous theatre nearby to our home with my friend Sanjana. The seating is quite comfortable without congested spacing between the rows unlike as in Imax or any other popular theatres. There is a lot of space for the people to walk along to occupy the seats even though the already seated viewers stretch their legs long, which gives a feel of watching a movie on mega home theatre screen with QUBE sound system. As and when the scenes of the movie "Teen Maar" are going on, I remember the concept I have posted in my blog in the past immediately  after I have seen Orange movie. (http://ethicsofexpressions.blogspot.com/2010/12/does-love-retain-for-lifelong-concept.html)

The movie covers various concepts like "Does LOVE retain for lifelong?", "The importance of exchange of looks during a send off, inspite of being together until then", "The meaning of few words in girl's perspective",

Though the human brains became more practical, now a days, in maintaining relationships, I still believe that they have hearts to learn from the people who are successful in maintaining a life long relationship.

I can still remember my friend, Sanjana staring her eyes in the direction of her life partner when he is leaving India for long term. Her heart is throbbing and her eyes are probing for exchange of looks with her spouse inspite of their several quarrels and misunderstandings and asynchronous mentalities. Even though she did not receive the signals back from him, she continued until he is out of sight. I can sense her feelings. There is something so special in exchange of looks while giving send  off to any relationship and particularly life partner, which I have myself experienced but with response to  the signals I have passed to my fiancée whenever we departed everyday. A lot many feelings are exchanged in between us and which remain with me even after departed which make me feel promising and input positive energy in building the relationship more stronger. The petty things we do makes a lots of difference in life.

As everyone knew, girls mean a lot when they ask a question or respond to a question. Few responses will be negative verbally, but inside their mind they mean it to be positive and vice-versa. Only the guy who really love her partner can really read her mind inspite of the words she talk and do the needful. And the interaction/exchange of signals/actions done between the guy and girl in that process might be a jargon to the other people who think that they are foolish. But they do not know that their brains are not discussing with their hearts in arriving at such decisions. Now a days, most couples are successful in reading their partner's mind with ease and satisfying him/her equally.

When You Thought I Wasn’t Looking « Paulo Coelho's Blog

When You Thought I Wasn’t Looking « Paulo Coelho's Blog

20 SEC READING: Would anyone know the difference? « Paulo Coelho's Blog

20 SEC READING: Would anyone know the difference? « Paulo Coelho's Blog