But thistime I'll be smarter, the boy thought, removing them from the pouch so hecould put them in his pocket. The next day, he gave his son a pouch that heldthree ancient Spanish gold coins.\"I found these one day in the fields. And, above all, don't forgetto follow your destiny through to its conclusion.\"But before I go, I want to tell you a little story.\"A certain shopkeeper sent his son to learn about the secret of happinessfrom the wisest man in the world. The boy promisedhimself that, when he returned from Egypt, he would buy that sword.\"Ask the owner of that stall how much the sword costs,\" he said to hisfriend. One year, when the crop wasthe best ever, we all went to Mecca, and I satisfied the only unmetobligation in my life. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 31 / 94The merchant put some new coals in the hookah, and inhaled deeply.\"I've had this shop for thirty years. He was thinking about omens, and someone hadappeared.\"How come you speak Spanish?\" he asked. Santiago is a humble shepherd whose desires are . Theywent in to drink the tea, which was served in beautiful crystal glasses.\"My wife never thought of this,\" said one, and he bought some crystalhewas entertaining guests that night, and the guests would be impressed bythe beauty of the glassware. They were on the right track.Finally, a young woman approached who was not dressed in black. *The boy awoke before dawn. It was said that he was morethan two hundred years old, and that he had discovered the Philosopher'sStone and the Elixir of Life. They came in silence and departed the sameway, dressed in black garments that showed only their eyes. Taking the jacket out, he began to clean theglasses. They trust me, and they've forgotten how to rely on theirown instincts, because I lead them to nourishment. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist page 17. But, finally, he agreed that the boy,who spoke better Arabic than he, should do so. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 9 / 94about memorizing a lot of names.When he was finally able to concentrate on what he was reading, he likedthe book better; the burial was on a snowy day, and he welcomed thefeeling of being cold. A friend had told the boy about the shop, and he had taken hissheep there. The third said that it was a tradition in the Orient to use crystalglasses for tea because it had magical powers.Before long, the news spread, and a great many people began to climb thehill to see the shop that was doing something new in a trade that was soold. \"I can interpret it, butthe interpretation is very difficult. 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. 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. The boythought back to that conversation with his father, and felt happy; he hadalready seen many castles and met many women (but none the equal of theone who awaited him several days hence). He had studied Latin,Spanish, and theology. The desert is acapricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.\" Just by looking at them. \"You have helped me.\" Theman continued to prepare his tea, saying nothing. The old man continued, \"You have been areal blessing to me. \"And suddenly, the child took me by both hands andtransported me to the Egyptian pyramids.\"He paused for a moment to see if the woman knew what the Egyptianpyramids were. There was nothing tohold him back except himself. He was about the same age and height as the boy.\"Almost everyone here speaks Spanish. The lad wandered through the desert forforty days, and finally came upon a beautiful castle, high atop a mountain. The sheep, the merchant's daughter, and thefields of Andalusia were only steps along the way to his destiny.The next day, the boy met the old man at noon. The Alchemist is a novel by Paulo Coelho that was first published in 1988. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 15 / 94decided he should go back to being a shepherd. In those days it had been wonderful to beselling crystal, and he had thought how he would become rich, and havebeautiful women at his side as he grew older.But, as time passed, Tangier had changed. He saw to it that all the sheep enteredthrough the ruined gate, and then laid some planks across it to prevent theflock from wandering away during the night. He had seen kingsand beggars walking the desert sands. And then they want theperson to change. I don't know how to turn them into reality. Parents would rather see their children marry bakersthan shepherds.\"The boy felt a pang in his heart, thinking about the merchant's daughter.There was surely a baker in her town.The old man continued, \"In the long run, what people think about shepherdsand bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.\"The old man leafed through the book, and fell to reading a page he cameto. The most important is to believe only in the one true God. 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. I just want to dream aboutMecca. He could see that the old man wanted to knowmore about his life.\"Well, then, we've got a problem. 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. He thought for a moment that it would be better to pay herfee and leave without learning a thing, that he was giving too muchimportance to his recurrent dream.\"You came so that you could learn about your dreams,\" said the old woman.\"And dreams are the language of God. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 47 / 94The boy awoke as the sun rose. There you will find a treasure that will make you a rich man.\"The boy was surprised, and then irritated. His smile reminded the boy of the old manthe mysterious old king he had met. *\"That's strange,\" said the boy, as he tried once again to read the burial 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. That was his work.The gods should not have desires, because they don't have destinies. 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. \"Why are you telling me all this?\"\"Because you are trying to realize your destiny. \"I had my orchard, my children, anda life that would change not at all until I died. Theshop is exactly the size I always wanted it to be. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist. \"In alchemy, it's calledthe Soul of the World. And move along when it's time to move along.' That's why I'm here. I need to know whether you have enough.\"The boy thought it a strange question. As theysat around the fire, the camel drivers exchanged information about He said that he had always dreamed of being a shepherd, andthat it was a good omen.\"\"That's the way it always is,\" said the old man. He believed in omens. Although the vision of the date palms would someday be just amemory, right now it signified shade, water, and a refuge from the war.Yesterday, the camel's groan signaled danger, and now a row of date palmscould herald a miracle.The world speaks many languages, the boy thought. Read Full Text. But if he speaks in the language of the soul,it is only you who can understand. There was afull moon, and the boy told the Englishman the story of his life.The Englishman was fascinated with the part about the progress achieved atthe crystal shop after the boy began working there.\"That's the principle that governs all things,\" he said. *The times rush past, and so do the caravans, thought the alchemist, as hewatched the hundreds of people and animals arriving at the oasis. His parents had wanted him to become apriest, and thereby a source of pride for a simple farm family. Hewas selling better than ever as if time had turned back to the old dayswhen the street had been one of Tangier's major attractions.\"Business has really improved,\" he said to the boy, after the customer hadleft. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 6 / 94It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting,he thought, as he looked again at the position of the sun, and hurried hispace. The hooded Bedouinsreappeared more and more frequently, and the camel driverwho hadbecome a good friend of the boy'sexplained that the war between thetribes had already begun. It's going to test thecaravan's every step to see if it's in time, and, if it is, we will make it to theoasis.\"\"If either of us had joined this caravan based only on personal courage, butwithout understanding that language, this journey would have been muchmore difficult.\"They stood there looking at the moon.\"That's the magic of omens,\" said the boy. When he speaks in our language, Ican interpret what he has said. If he ever decided to leave them, they wouldsuffer.The wind began to pick up. Only when he consents.\"Wait for the end of the war. But he found it much more interesting to observe thecaravan and listen to the wind. They don't see that the fields are new and the seasonschange. 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. He sat there, staring blanklythrough the door of the caf? Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 35 / 94to care for sheep, and I haven't forgotten how that's done. He suggested that the boy look around the palace and return intwo hours.\" 'Meanwhile, I want to ask you to do something,' said the wise man,handing the boy a teaspoon that held two drops of oil. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 5 / 94afford to travel,\" his father said. He wasn't asking for help. 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. Ashe did so, both of them pushed through a hole in the pouch and fell to theground. Heknew how to speak Esperanto, he understood all the major religions well,but he wasn't yet an alchemist. Theysearched everywhere, and found that the oasis was much larger than theycould have imagined; there were hundreds of tents.\"We've wasted almost the entire day,\" said the Englishman, sitting downwith the boy near one of the wells.\"Maybe we'd better ask someone,\" the boy suggested.The Englishman didn't want to tell others about his reasons for being at theoasis, and couldn't make up his mind. \"Maybe no one herehas, either.\"The Englishman's eyes lit up. In his pouch, he had his jackethe certainly wasn't goingto need it in the desert. The wise man conversed with everyone, andthe boy had to wait for two hours before it was his turn to be given theman's attention.\"The wise man listened attentively to the boy's explanation of why he hadcome, but told him that he didn't have time just then to explain the secret ofhappiness. But let's say that the most important is that you have 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. The boyand the Englishman had bought camels, and climbed uncertainly onto theirbacks. In the crowd were women,children, and a number of men with swords at their belts and rifles slung ontheir shoulders. Did you see the garden that it took the mastergardener ten years to create? But thosewho know about such things would know that those are Urim and Thummim.I didn't know that they had them in this part of the world.\"\"They were given to me as a present by a king,\" the boy said.The stranger didn't answer; instead, he put his hand in his pocket, and tookout two stones that were the same as the boy's.\"Did you say a king?\" he asked.\"I guess you don't believe that a king would talk to someone like me, ashepherd,\" he said, wanting to end the conversation.\"Not at all. 19362 likes. \"Well, I'm the king ofSalem!\"People say strange things, the boy thought. *\"People from all over the world have passed through this village, son,\" saidhis father. It seemed he had made the long journeyfor nothing. Theboy felt ill and terribly alone. The Alchemist Complete Novel PDF 19/04/2022 / English Books PDF, Novel / General, Paulo Coelho / By Kumar 'The Alchemist' PDF Quick download link is given at the bottom of this article. \"The Koran requires me tofeed a hungry person.\"\"Well then, why did you let me do it?\" the boy asked.\"Because the crystal was dirty. Some men were smoking from a gigantic pipethat they passed from one to the other. 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. All they ever do, really, islook for food and water. About; . \"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. He knew nothing aboutthe customs of the strange land he was in.\"I'll just watch him,\" he said to himself. We have to take advantage whenluck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us. Yes, their days were all the same, with the seemingly endless hoursbetween sunrise and dusk; and they had never read a book in their younglives, and didn't understand when the boy told them about the sights of thecities. He hadexchanged six sheep for two precious stones that had been taken from agold breastplate. 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. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns . All they think about is food and water.Maybe we're all that way, the boy mused. He didn't consider mending the holethe stonescould fall through any time they wanted. 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.\" * Like this book? I don't know how animals know the age of humanbeings.\"\"Tell me more about your dream,\" said the woman. You just have to read the omensthat he left for you.\"Before the boy could reply, a butterfly appeared and fluttered between himand the old man. The boyprodded them, one by one, with his crook, calling each by name. He hoped that it would besomeone as capable as his previous apprentice.I don't know why these things have to be transmitted by word of mouth, hethought. *And now it was only four days before he would be back in that same village.He was excited, and at the same time uneasy: maybe the girl had alreadyforgotten him. An allegorical novel, The Alchemist follows a young Andalusian shepherd in his journey to the pyramids of Egypt, after having a recurring dream of finding a treasure there. But now I'm sad andalone. He had lived thirty years of his lifebuying and selling crystal pieces, and now it was too late to do anythingelse.He spent the entire morning observing the infrequent comings and goings inthe street. It had brought with it the sweat and the dreamsof men who had once left to search for the unknown, and for gold andadventureand for the Pyramids. \"Hewanted your money,\" he said. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 19 / 94again after having charged him his one-tenth fee. They filled threesacks. A recurring dream troubles Santiago, a young and adventurous Andalusian shepherd. The merchants were assembling theirstalls, and the boy helped a candy seller to do his. Full Book Summary. It hurt him a bit to think about it, but he had never seen one like itbefore. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 37 / 94scene that began the book. On the otherhand, I don't know if the desert can be a friend, and it's in the desert that Ihave to search for my treasure. Select files or add your book in reader. \"I hold thepower of life and death for every person I take with me. From there, he could see Africa inthe distance. If I'm on themarch, I just concentrate on marching. He had surprised himself with the thought.Until then, he had considered the omens to be things of this world. He put his headcloth in place and secured it with a ring made of camelskin. I know its dimensions andhow it behaves. Then he turned to theboy.\"I am proud of you,\" he said. 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. Santiago consults a gypsy woman to interpret the . The boy swore to Jesus Christ. But I'm afraid that it would all be a disappointment, so I preferjust to dream about it.\"That day, the merchant gave the boy permission to build the display. At othertimes, at a crucial moment, I make it easier for things to happen. The Alchemist - read free eBook by Paolo Coelho in online reader directly on the web page. He remembered thesword. In lessthan a year, he would have doubled his flock, and he would be able to dobusiness with the Arabs, because he was now able to speak their strangelanguage. The animals balked at such places, and the camel drivers wereforced to dismount and unburden their charges. \"They are so used tome that they know my schedule,\" he muttered. But instead of being saddened, he was happy. Ifinally have enough money, and all the time I need. But he decided to take a chance. Like. When you play cards the first time, you are almost sure to win.Beginner's luck.\"\"Why is that?\"\"Because there is a force that wants you to realize your destiny; it whetsyour appetite with a taste of success.\"Then the old man began to inspect the sheep, and he saw that one waslame. He could sell the stones and buy a return ticket. 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