![]() ![]() I told him that was what I had come here to learn. I told him what I was seeking, and he asked me if I had ever transformed lead into gold. “ He appeared with the first stars of evening. 84 “I waited all afternoon and evening,” he said. But we’re both in search of our Personal Legends, and I respect him for that.” Pg. “His way isn’t the same as mine, nor mine as his. “Everyone has his or her own way of learning things,” he said to himself. 82 “The boy went back to contemplating the silence of the desert, and the sand raised by the animals. “It’s only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.” Pg. “Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. “ So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand,” he said. The boy had noticed that the Englishman was irritable, and missed his books. 77 “ Why do they make things so complicated?” He asked the Englishman one night. “ And, when you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.” Pg. ![]() 75 “Once you get into the desert, there’s no going back,” said the camel driver. 74 “ No matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point.” Pg. 65 “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.” Pg. Maybe the world had other hidden treasures, but he had a dream, and he had met with a king. He could always become a crystal salesman again. He could always go back to being a shepherd. 58 “Tangier was no longer a strange city, and he felt that, just as he had conquered this place, he could conquer the world.” Pg. Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don’t want to do so.” Pg. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense my possibilities are, I’m going to feel worse than I did before you arrived. But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have never known. Today, I understand something I didn’t see before: every blessing ignored becomes a curse. The old man continued, “You have been a real blessing to me. ![]() 43 “ Beauty is the great seducer of men.” Pg. He’s doing it because it’s what he wants to do. 42 “ This candy merchant isn’t making candy so that later he can travel or marry a shopkeeper’s daughter. 42 “He had decided, the night before, that he would be as much an adventurer as the ones he had admired in books.” Pg. 40 “As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.” Pg. 28 “I’m like everyone else- I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.” Pg. There was nothing to hold him back except himself.” Pg. 27 “ The boy felt jealous of the freedom of the wind, and saw that he could have the same freedom. 23 “ He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.” Pg. 18 “The old man continued, “ In the long run, what people think about shepherds and backers becomes more important for them than their own Personal Legends.” Pg. “ 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. And it ends up saying that everyone believes the world’s greatest lie.” “What’s the world’s greatest lie?” the boy asked, completely surprised. “It describes people’s inability to choose their own Personal Legends. It’s a book that says the same thing almost all the other books in the world say,” Continued the old man. “This is an important book, but it’s really irritating. 13 “Hmmm…” said the old man, looking at all sides of the book, as if it were some strange object. A shepherd always takes his chances with wolves and with drought, and that’s what makes a shepherd’s life exciting.” Pg. ![]()
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