They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, andkings, and he didn't understand any of it. He had done this for years, and knew the schedule of everyonewho passed. Torealize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happyman. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 49 / 94\"It helped me to trust in people,\" the Englishman answered.Meanwhile, the boy thought about his treasure. One year, when the crop wasthe best ever, we all went to Mecca, and I satisfied the only unmetobligation in my life. The rest is up to Allah, including the danger.\"And he concluded by saying the mysterious word: \"Maktub.\"\"You should pay more attention to the caravan,\" the boy said to theEnglishman, after the camel driver had left. *The men climbed the hill, and they were tired when they reached the top.But there they saw a crystal shop that offered refreshing mint tea. Like this book? \"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. It traveled during the morning, haltedwhen the sun was at its strongest, and resumed late in the afternoon. I could die happily, and that made me feel good.\"One day, the earth began to tremble, and the Nile overflowed its banks. From then on, he would make his owndecisions.\"Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothingelse. The Alchemist Book PDF Free Download Link Click down the button below to download the full PDF file PDF File Author Source: Twitter The author of The Alchemist PDF Book is Paulo Coelho, he was born on 24 August 1954 in Brazil Rio de Janeiro. Maybe theworld had other hidden treasures, but he had a dream, and he had met witha king. He knew everything about each member ofhis flock: he knew which ones were lame, which one was to give birth twomonths from now, and which were the laziest. *The times rush past, and so do the caravans, thought the alchemist, as hewatched the hundreds of people and animals arriving at the oasis. He said that for the past fewdays he had been paying attention to how the caravan operated, but that hehadn't learned anything new. In one he had read that, many years ago, afamous Arabian alchemist had visited Europe. We're only two hours from Spain.\"\"Sit down, and let me treat you to something,\" said the boy. Originally written in Portuguese, it became a widely translated international bestseller. It was only theEnglishman who was unaware of all this; he was, for the most part,immersed in reading his books.The boy, too, had his book, and he had tried to read it during the first fewdays of the journey. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 40 / 94But, in the desert, there was only the sound of the eternal wind, and of thehoofbeats of the animals. It was said that he was morethan two hundred years old, and that he had discovered the Philosopher'sStone and the Elixir of Life. *\"I'm the leader of the caravan,\" said a dark-eyed, bearded man. Likeeating or sleeping, or like seeking love or finding a job. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 18 / 94\"The boy began climbing and descending the many stairways of the palace,keeping his eyes fixed on the spoon. And maybe it wasn't that they were teaching me,but that I was learning from them.\"Maktub,\" the merchant said, finally.\"What does that mean?\"\"You would have to have been born an Arab to understand,\" he answered.\"But in your language it would be something like 'It is written.' It was also saidthat they had a pact with the devil, and that they kidnapped children and,taking them away to their mysterious camps, made them their slaves. They were his treasure. But this fear evaporates when we understandthat our life stories and the history of the world were written by the samehand.\"Sometimes, their caravan met with another. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 42 / 94windstorms, and told stories about the desert.At other times, mysterious, hooded men would appear; they were Bedouinswho did surveillance along the caravan route. Sometimes, there's just no way tohold back the river. \"And, as he smothered the coals in the hookah, he told the boy that he could \"The religion hereforbids it.\"The boy told him then that he needed to get to the Pyramids. He read the lives of the various people who had succeeded in doingso: Helv?ius, Elias, Fulcanelli, and Geber. 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. Hewas a devout man, and, even with all his impatience, he wanted to live hislife in accordance with Muslim law.\"What's the fifth obligation?\" the boy asked.\"Two days ago, you said that I had never dreamed of travel,\" the merchantanswered. It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that therest of the world refused to acknowledge. And the solid part was called the Philosopher's Stone.\"It's not easy to find the Philosopher's Stone,\" said the Englishman. 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. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 36 / 94an alchemist. \"You have helped me.\" Theman continued to prepare his tea, saying nothing. 1 of 25. In the desert, disobedience means death.\"There was a murmur from the crowd. The treasure was now nothing but a painful memory, andhe tried to avoid thinking about it.\"I don't know anyone around here who would want to cross the desert justto see the Pyramids,\" said the merchant. \"I've seen how the guides readthe signs of the desert, and how the soul of the caravan speaks to the soulof the desert.\"The Englishman said, \"I'd better pay more attention to the caravan.\"\"And I'd better read your books,\" said the boy. 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. \"The oases may notshelter armies or troops.\"To the boy's surprise, the Englishman took a chrome-plated revolver out ofhis bag and gave it to the men who were collecting the arms.\"Why a revolver?\" he asked. And he knew what was thefair price for every one of his animals.He decided to return to his friend's stable by the longest route possible. But he would never have thought it more than just a myth, hadnot a friend of hisreturning from an archaeological expedition in thedeserttold him about an Arab that was possessed of exceptional powers.\"He lives at the Al-Fayoum oasis,\" his friend had said. There areother things I do, too, but most of the time people don't realize I've donethem.\"The old man related that, the week before, he had been forced to appearbefore a miner, and had taken the form of a stone. pdf | Brahim EL FEZZAZI - Academia.edu Download Free PDF The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Maybe God created the desert so that mancould appreciate the date trees, he thought.He decided to concentrate on more practical matters. He had had the same dreamthat night as a week ago, and once again he had awakened before it ended.He arose and, taking up his crook, began to awaken the sheep that stillslept. After all, he had all his money. \"They wanted me to be apriest, but I decided to become a shepherd.\"\"Much better,\" said the old man. The boy felt sorry for the Englishman's camel, loaded down as hewas with the cases of books.\"There's no such thing as coincidence,\" said the Englishman, picking up theconversation where it had been interrupted in the warehouse. Before long, maybe in just a few days, hewould be at the Pyramids. Just as you knowthat you're not going to buy your sheep.\"\"Who told you that?\" asked the boy, startled.\"Maktub\" said the old crystal merchant.And he gave the boy his blessing. When you want something with all your heart, that'swhen you are closest to the Soul of the World. 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. Please enter a valid web address. They trust me, and they've forgotten how to rely on theirown instincts, because I lead them to nourishment. The tea seemed less bitter.\"Who are you?\" he heard a voice ask him in Spanish.The boy was relieved. Youcould build one in your backyard.\"\"You've never had dreams of travel,\" said the boy, turning to wait on acustomer who had entered the shop.Two days later, the merchant spoke to the boy about the display.\"I don't much like change,\" he said. \"You and I aren't like Hassan, that richmerchant. The Englishman had been profoundly impressedby the story. He felt that he didn't want to do anything thatmight make him look like the Englishman. Just as I hadn't realized that for so many years Ihad been speaking a language without words to my sheep.\"Do you want to go to work for me?\" the merchant asked.\"I can work for the rest of today,\" the boy answered. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 29 / 94\"I want to get back to my sheep faster. The boy explained that it wasn't important, since that sheep was themost intelligent of the flock, and produced the most wool.\"Where is the treasure?\" he asked.\"It's in Egypt, near the Pyramids.\"The boy was startled. The boy could see in his father's gaze adesire to be able, himself, to travel the worlda desire that was still alive,despite his father's having had to bury it, over dozens of years, under theburden of struggling for water to drink, food to eat, and the same place tosleep every night of his life. The peoplewere also praying to heaven for protection.A long note was sounded on a bugle, and everyone mounted up. One always had something thatthe other neededas if everything were indeed written by one hand. \"I have to go and gather my sheep andget going.\"\"Give me one-tenth of your sheep,\" said the old man, \"and I'll tell you howto find the hidden treasure.\"The boy remembered his dream, and suddenly everything was clear to him.The old woman hadn't charged him anything, but the old manmaybe hewas her husbandwas going to find a way to get much more money inexchange for information about something that didn't even exist. Looking at the sun, hecalculated that he would reach Tarifa before midday. \"We make a lot of detours, butwe're always heading for the same destination.\"\"And you ought to read more about the world,\" answered the Englishman.\"Books are like caravans in that respect.\"The immense collection of people and animals began to travel faster. But there was one idea thatseemed to repeat itself throughout all the books: all things are themanifestation of one thing only.In one of the books he learned that the most important text in the literatureof alchemy contained only a few lines, and had been inscribed on thesurface of an emerald.\"It's the Emerald Tablet,\" said the Englishman, proud that he might teachsomething to the boy.\"Well, then, why do we need all these books?\" the boy asked.\"So that we can understand those few lines,\" the Englishman answered,without appearing really to believe what he had said. He knew nothing aboutthe customs of the strange land he was in.\"I'll just watch him,\" he said to himself. "It's the simple things in life that are most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.". *Then one day the boy returned the books to the Englishman. He had unraveled the truths behindimportant questions, but his studies had taken him to a point beyond whichhe could not seem to go. \"This candy merchant isn't makingcandy so that later he can travel or marry a shopkeeper's daughter. \"When I'm eating, that's all I think about. \"We could place it outside, and attract those people who pass atthe bottom of the hill.\"\"I've never had one before,\" the merchant answered. 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. It was a pleasant changefrom talking to his sheep. He took out his money and counted it.\"We could get to the Pyramids by tomorrow,\" said the other, taking themoney. And it ends up saying that everyone believes the world'sgreatest lie.\" They were men who had dedicated their entire lives to thepurification of metals in their laboratories; they believed that, if a metal wereheated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, andwhat was left would be the Soul of the World. Wearing his new sandals, he descended the stairs silently.The city was still sleeping. But hewanted to know what the \"mysterious force\" was; the merchant's daughterwould be impressed when he told her about that!\"It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how torealize your destiny. He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. 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