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A man sets out on a journey, dreaming of a beautiful or magical place, in pursuit of some unknown treasure. At the end of his journey, the man realizes the treasure was with him the entire time.
There is always a chance for reconciliation, a chance that one day he and I will sit around a table together and put an end to our history of clashes.
It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting,
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
“It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.”
when each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.
‘The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.’”
was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.
The boy was beginning to understand that 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 it’s 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.”
If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens left by God along his path.
He had never thought of them in terms of a language used by God to indicate what he should do.
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.
‘Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.’”
“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know
