Please enter a valid web address. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 50 / 94here at the oasis.\"The woman said she had never heard of such a person, and hurried away.But before she fled, she advised the boy that he had better not try toconverse with women who were dressed in black, because they weremarried women. This is aport, and every port has its thieves.\"The boy trusted his new friend. He knew that wind: people called it the levanter,because on it the Moors had come from the Levant at the eastern end ofthe Mediterranean.The levanter increased in intensity. A recurring dream troubles Santiago, a young and adventurous Andalusian shepherd. Most of them he hadread in books, but he would tell them as if they were from his personalexperience. 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. I don't know how animals know the age of humanbeings.\"\"Tell me more about your dream,\" said the woman. Then when he spoke about me he would say that Iam Melchizedek, the king of Salem.He looked to the skies, feeling a bit abashed, and said, \"I know it's thevanity of vanities, as you said, my Lord. 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. These stones were the only form of divination permitted byGod. Other shops were opened that served tea in crystal, but they weren't atthe top of a hill, and they had little business.Eventually, the merchant had to hire two more employees. He thought that the horizon was a bitlower than it had been, because he seemed to see stars on the desert itself.\"It's the oasis,\" said the camel driver.\"Well, why don't we go there right now?\" the boy asked.\"Because we have to sleep.\" * He took out his money and counted it.\"We could get to the Pyramids by tomorrow,\" said the other, taking themoney. And better still to be alone with one's Lots of shepherds passed through, selling their wool.\"It doesn't matter,\" he said to his sheep. pdf INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING PHENOMENON, 2012 Brahim EL FEZZAZI Paulo Coelho Full PDF Package This Paper A short summary of this paper 1 Full PDF related to this paper Download Download Full PDF Package Translate PDF '\"The boy was embarrassed, and confessed that he had observed nothing.His only concern had been not to spill the oil that the wise man hadentrusted to him.\" 'Then go back and observe the marvels of my world,' said the wise man. He recognized that he was feeling something he had neverexperienced before: the desire to live in one place forever. Thatwind had brought the Moors, yes, but it had also brought the smell of thedesert and of veiled women. Bakers have homes, while shepherdssleep out in the open. Heknew how to speak Esperanto, he understood all the major religions well,but he wasn't yet an alchemist. The treasure is at thePyramids; that you already knew. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strongcurrent that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he firstmade the decision.When I decided to seek out my treasure, I never imagined that I'd wind upworking in a crystal shop, he thought. So, it's not surprising that kingswould talk to shepherds.\"And he went on, fearing that the boy wouldn't understand what he was Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 33 / 94He waited patiently for the merchant to awaken and open the shop. An alchemist.\"The conversation was interrupted by the warehouse boss.\"You're in luck, you two,\" the fat Arab said. And he asked the boy if he, too, were in search ofthe alchemist.\"I'm looking for a treasure,\" said the boy, and he immediately regrettedhaving said it. He was at home with the silence of the desert, andhe was content just to look at the trees. He had unraveled the truths behindimportant questions, but his studies had taken him to a point beyond whichhe could not seem to go. *\"I need to sell some wool,\" the boy told the merchant.The shop was busy, and the man asked the shepherd to wait until theafternoon. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 14 / 94\"Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by thesame currents,\" said the old man. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 24 / 94Even if he never got to the Pyramids, he had already traveled farther thanany shepherd he knew. But they really don'tknow what they're saying. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 5 / 94afford to travel,\" his father said. He realized: If I can learn to understand this languagewithout words, I can learn to understand the world.Relaxed and unhurried, he resolved that he would walk through the narrowstreets of Tangier. I'm interested only inthe present. Africa was only a few hoursfrom Tarifa; one had only to cross the narrow straits by boat. It prepares your spirit and your will, because there isone great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that youdo, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated inthe soul of the universe. Everyone, when they areyoung, knows what their destiny is.\"At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like tosee happen to them in their lives. And he knew that Egyptwas in Africa.\"Can I help you?\" asked the man behind the window.\"Maybe tomorrow,\" said the boy, moving away. 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. But he hadfound a guide, and didn't want to miss out on an opportunity.\"You have to cross the entire Sahara desert,\" said the young man. He decided to stay right there and await his return.As he waited, a priest climbed to the top of a nearby tower and began hischant; everyone in the market fell to their knees, touched their foreheads tothe ground, and took up the chant. Butchildren always seem to be able to play with them without frightening them.I don't know why. We have to take advantage whenluck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us. In just a few hours he had seen menwalking hand in hand, women with their faces covered, and priests thatclimbed to the tops of towers and chantedas everyone about him went totheir knees and placed their foreheads on the ground.\"A practice of infidels,\" he said to himself. I don't want anything else in life.But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have neverknown. So the boy sat on the steps of the shop and took a book fromhis bag.\"I didn't know shepherds knew how to read,\" said a girl's voice behind him.The girl was typical of the region of Andalusia, with flowing black hair, andeyes that vaguely recalled the Moorish conquerors.\"Well, usually I learn more from my sheep than from books,\" he answered.During the two hours that they talked, she told him she was the merchant'sdaughter, and spoke of life in the village, where each day was like all theothers. That'swhy I have to live off what my daughters provide me with.\"\"And what if I never get to Egypt?\"\"Then I don't get paid. Then he asked that everyone, including his own sentinels, handover their arms to the men appointed by the tribal chieftains.\"Those are the rules of war,\" the leader explained. In two years he hadlearned everything about shepherding: he knew how to shear sheep, how tocare for pregnant ewes, and how to protect the sheep from wolves. He hadexchanged six sheep for two precious stones that had been taken from agold breastplate. *He was shaken into wakefulness by someone. \"The fifth obligation of every Muslim is a pilgrimage. The boy approached awoman who had come to the well to fill a goatskin with water.\"Good afternoon, ma'am. The boy wasstrong, and wanted to retaliate, but he was in a foreign country. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 28 / 94with shepherds.\"The merchant turned to a customer who wanted three crystal glasses. Santiago consults a gypsy woman to interpret the . 12 by Ben Jonson. Just by looking at them. They were people of the desert, and clamoredto hear his stories about the great cities.The boy told them about his life as a shepherd, and was about to tell themof his experiences at the crystal shop when the Englishman came into thetent.\"I've been looking for you all morning,\" he said, as he led the boy outside. When his vision returned to normal,the boy was able to read what the old man had written in the sand.There, in the sand of the plaza of that small city, the boy read the names ofhis father and his mother and the name of the seminary he had attended.He read the name of the merchant's daughter, which he hadn't even known,and he read things he had never told anyone. Itwas there that the wise man lived.\"Rather than finding a saintly man, though, our hero, on entering the mainroom of the castle, saw a hive of activity: tradesmen came and went,people were conversing in the corners, a small orchestra was playing softmusic, and there was a table covered with platters of the most deliciousfood in that part of the world. Someone had once told him that it was from there that theMoors had come, to occupy all of Spain.He could see almost the entire city from where he sat, including the plazawhere he had talked with the old man. The animals balked at such places, and the camel drivers wereforced to dismount and unburden their charges. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 45 / 94 *\"Why do they make things so complicated?\" he asked the Englishman onenight. They filled threesacks. The alchemist saw the tribal chiefs greet the leader of thecaravan, and converse with him at length.But none of that mattered to the alchemist. The miner, with all the angerand frustration of his five fruitless years, picked up the stone and threw itaside. (PDF) The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. 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. I know good crystal from bad, andeverything else there is to know about crystal. And don't forget the language of omens. He had understood the story the old king hadtold him. The nearby city of Ceuta hadgrown faster than Tangier, and business had fallen off. Something brightreflected from his chest with such intensity that the boy was momentarilyblinded. 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. He seemed unfriendly, andhad looked irritated when the boy had entered. 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