The Alchemist

People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams,

because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.

Well, that's good. Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say."

If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it.

And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the

future, and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his

children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity."

The camel driver had asked what the circumstances were under which God would allow

him to see the future.

marching. If I have to fight, it will be just as good a day to die as any other.

"Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If

you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is

life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens, and that tribesmen fight because they

are part of the human race. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is

the moment we're living right now."

The camel driver, though, seemed not to be very concerned with the threat of war.

"I'm alive," he said to the boy, as they ate a bunch of dates one night, with no fires and no moon. "When I'm eating, that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on

Everyone has his or her own way of learning things," he said to himself. "His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and

I respect him for that."

They

discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves."

"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."

"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 w

people need

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