Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 27 / 94asleep. He had said that it was a goodthing for the boy to clean the crystal pieces, so that he could free himselffrom negative thoughts. He owned a jacket, a book thathe could trade for another, and a flock of sheep. He haddecided, the night before, that he would be as much an adventurer as theones he had admired in books.He walked slowly through the market. He didn't consider mending the holethe stonescould fall through any time they wanted. When he speaks in our language, Ican interpret what he has 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. 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. \"People will pass byand bump into it, and pieces will be broken.\"\"Well, when I took my sheep through the fields some of them might havedied if we had come upon a snake. But ever since he had been a child, he had wantedto know the world, and this was much more important to him than knowingGod and learning about man's sins. Curse the moment I met that oldman, he thought. As the time passed, the boy found himself wishing that theday would never end, that her father would stay busy and keep him waitingfor three days. He had already imagined the scene manytimes; every time, the girl became fascinated when he explained that thesheep had to be sheared from back to front. But, as time passes, a mysterious forcebegins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize theirdestiny.\"None of what the old man was saying made much sense to the boy. If I don't find it, I can always go home. Here I am, between my flock and mytreasure, the boy thought. In two years he hadlearned everything about shepherding: he knew how to shear sheep, how tocare for pregnant ewes, and how to protect the sheep from wolves. I can learn something from the desert, too. Heneeded someone to talk to so as to avoid thinking about the possibility ofwar.\"I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soulcan also understand the language of things. As he read on, an old man sat down at his side andtried to strike up a conversation.\"What are they doing?\" the old man asked, pointing at the people in theplaza.\"Working,\" the boy answered dryly, making it look as if he wanted toconcentrate on his reading.Actually, he was thinking about shearing his sheep in front of themerchant's daughter, so that she could see that he was someone who wascapable of doing difficult things. A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Creatures like the sheep, that are used totraveling, know about moving on.\"He thought of the merchant's daughter, and was sure that she had probablymarried. He spoke Spanish betterthan Arabic, and, if this boy was going to Al-Fayoum, there would besomeone to talk to when there were no other important things to do. If it were, hewould already have heard of it.\"And what do you do in Salem?\" he insisted.\"What do I do in Salem?\" The old man laughed. *The crystal merchant awoke with the day, and felt the same anxiety that hefelt every morning. Because life wantsyou to achieve your destiny,\" the old king had said.But the merchant understood what the boy had said. Theboy repeated his question.\"Why do you want to find that sort of person?\" the Arab asked.\"Because my friend here has traveled for many months in order to meet withhim,\" the boy said.\"If such a man is here at the oasis, he must be the very powerful one,\" saidthe old man after thinking for a few moments. People continued to comeand go from the baker's shop. The sheep were at the gates of the city, in a stable thatbelonged to a friend. He knew that a few hours from now, with the sun at itszenith, the heat would be so great that he would not be able to lead hisflock across the fields. 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. They were on the right track.Finally, a young woman approached who was not dressed in black. They were content with just food and water, and, in exchange, theygenerously gave of their wool, their company, andonce in a whiletheirmeat.If I became a monster today, and decided to kill them, one by one, theywould become aware only after most of the flock had been slaughtered,thought the boy. The tea seemed less bitter.\"Who are you?\" he heard a voice ask him in Spanish.The boy was relieved. The silence was the worst aspect of the night, when the meregroan of a camelwhich before had been nothing but the groan of acamelnow frightened everyone, because it might signal a raid.The camel driver, though, seemed not to be very concerned with the threatof war.\"I'm alive,\" he said to the boy, as they ate a bunch of dates one night, withno fires and no moon. Butthis was the present momentthe party the camel driver had mentionedand he wanted to live it as he did the lessons of his past and his dreams ofthe future. \"I hold thepower of life and death for every person I take with me. They have blond hair, or dark skin, butbasically they're the same as the people who live right here.\"\"But I'd like to see the castles in the towns where they live,\" the boyexplained.\"Those people, when they see our land, say that they would like to live hereforever,\" his father continued.\"Well, I'd like to see their land, and see how they live,\" said his son.\"The people who come here have a lot of money to spend, so they can Even meI haven't thought ofother women since I met the merchant's daughter. The way the content is organized He recognized that he was feeling something he had neverexperienced before: the desire to live in one place forever. Looking at the sun, hecalculated that he would reach Tarifa before midday. The lad wandered through the desert forforty days, and finally came upon a beautiful castle, high atop a mountain. That he wanted to travel. I'm interested only inthe present. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 23 / 94trying to tell him not to trust that man. The sheep will get used to my notbeing there, too, the boy thought.From where he sat, he could observe the plaza. Even the guides spoke very little to one another.\"I've crossed these sands many times,\" said one of the camel drivers onenight. Most of them he hadread in books, but he would tell them as if they were from his personalexperience. \"They're only made ofrock crystal, and there are millions of rock crystals in the earth. Like crickets, and like expectations;like lizards and four-leaf clovers.\"That's right,\" said the old man, able to read the boy's thoughts. 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. He read the lives of the various people who had succeeded in doingso: Helv?ius, Elias, Fulcanelli, and Geber. Sonow I'm a camel driver. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognizethat it is working for us. But, finally, he agreed that the boy,who spoke better Arabic than he, should do so. But instead of being saddened, he was happy. Peoplewere shouting at the new arrivals, dust obscured the desert sun, and thechildren of the oasis were bursting with excitement at the arrival of thestrangers. *He was shaken into wakefulness by someone. It's with those words that the universal language is written. Don't try to enterinto the life of the oasis,\" he said, and walked away.But the Englishman was exultant. Video An illustration of an audio speaker. One of them, a cobbler whomade his living mending boots, said that he had traveled for almost a yearthrough the desert, but that he got more tired when he had to walk throughthe streets of Tangier buying his leather.\"\"Well, why don't you go to Mecca now?\" asked the boy.\"Because it's the thought of Mecca that keeps me alive. *\"I'm the leader of the caravan,\" said a dark-eyed, bearded man. Theowner of the bar came over and looked, as well. If we serve tea in crystal, the shop is going to expand. 2 What did Santiago's parents originally hope he would be when he grew up? Now it was too late tochange anythingthe only thing he had ever learned to do was to buy andsell crystal glassware. \"I have watched the caravan as it crossed the desert,\" hesaid. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 16 / 94levanter was still getting stronger, and he felt its force on his face. They reminded him of the old man.\"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you toachieve it,\" he had said.The boy was trying to understand the truth of what the old man had said.There he was in the empty marketplace, without a cent to his name, andwith not a sheep to guard through the night. ISBN 0-7225-3293-8. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting ona star that indicated the location of the oasis. The boy wasstrong, and wanted to retaliate, but he was in a foreign country. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 44 / 94The book that most interested the boy told the stories of the famousalchemists. Although the boy had developed a superstition that each time heopened the book he would learn something important, he decided it was anunnecessary burden.He became friendly with the camel driver who traveled alongside him. They workedhard just to have food and water, like the sheep. He had remembered that one of thecrystal merchant's suppliers transported his crystal by means of caravansthat crossed the desert. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the othersbecome angry. Only in that way would he be able to read the omens. Before you came, I was thinkingabout how much time I had wasted in the same place, while my friends hadmoved on, and either went bankrupt or did better than they had before. It had caused him tohave the same dream for a second time, and it was causing him to feelanger toward his faithful companions. It wasn't exactly that they were secrets; God revealed his secretseasily to all his creatures.He had only one explanation for this fact: things have to be transmitted this The dunes were changed constantlyby the wind, yet these were the same sands he had known since he was achild. \"I'm doing much better, and soon you'll be able to return to your sheep.Why ask more out of life?\"\"Because we have to respond to omens,\" the boy said, almost withoutmeaning to; then he regretted what he had said, because the merchant hadnever met the king.\"It's called the principle of favorability, beginner's luck. I could die happily, and that made me feel good.\"One day, the earth began to tremble, and the Nile overflowed its banks. \"They are calledUrim and Thummim. She would never know the difference, because she didn't knowhow to read.Meanwhile, the old man persisted in his attempt to strike up a conversation.He said that he was tired and thirsty, and asked if he might have a sip ofthe boy's wine. They discovered that the purification ofthe metals had led to a purification of themselves.\"The boy thought about the crystal merchant. No sound from the bazaars, no arguments among the merchants,no men climbing to the towers to chant. Swear that you will give me one-tenth of your treasurein exchange for what I am going to tell you.\"The shepherd swore that he would. The boy, accustomed to recognizing omens, spoke to the merchant.\"Let's sell tea to the people who climb the hill.\"\"Lots of places sell tea around here,\" the merchant said.\"But we could sell tea in crystal glasses. 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. Heknew it would require a lot of patience, but shepherds know all aboutpatience. But the alchemists were strange people, who thought onlyabout themselves, and almost always refused to help him. \"You and I aren't like Hassan, that richmerchant. The merchants were assembling theirstalls, and the boy helped a candy seller to do his. That's what helpsme face these days that are all the same, these mute crystals on theshelves, and lunch and dinner at that same horrible caf? Ashe walked past the city's castle, he interrupted his return, and climbed thestone ramp that led to the top of the wall. He realized: If I can learn to understand this languagewithout words, I can learn to understand the world.Relaxed and unhurried, he resolved that he would walk through the narrowstreets of Tangier. As theysat around the fire, the camel drivers exchanged information about He had come to the town only to find a woman who couldinterpret his dream. The boy approached awoman who had come to the well to fill a goatskin with water.\"Good afternoon, ma'am. The boy knew what he was about to describe,though: the mysterious chain that links one thing to another, the same chainthat had caused him to become a shepherd, that had caused his recurringdream, that had brought him to a city near Africa, to find a king, and to berobbed in order to meet a crystal merchant, andThe closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomeshis true reason for being, thought the boy.The caravan moved toward the east. After all, he had all his money. Neighbors movedaway, and there remained only a few small shops on the hill. He wasfeeling sorry for himself, and lamenting the fact that his life could havechanged so suddenly and so drastically.He was so ashamed that he wanted to cry. When he had gone only a short distance, he realized that, whilethey were erecting the stall, one of them had spoken Arabic and the otherSpanish.And they had understood each other perfectly well.There must be a language that doesn't depend on words, the boy thought.I've already had that experience with my sheep, and now it's happening withpeople. And the leader posted armed sentinels at the fringes of the group.The Englishman was unable to sleep one night. Like. He recited an Our Father silently.\"Very interesting,\" said the woman, never taking her eyes from the boy'shands, and then she fell silent.The boy was becoming nervous. The black signifies 'yes,' and the white 'no.' There had been a time when many people knew ofhis shop: Arab merchants, French and English geologists, German soldierswho were always well-heeled. Originally written in Portuguese, it became a widely translated international bestseller. Thedays had always been silent, but now, even the nightswhen the travelerswere accustomed to talking around the fireshad also become quiet. About The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Book PDF; Language : English; Pullisher : Harper; Later Printing edition ; ISBN-10 : 9788172234980; ISBN-13 : 978-8172234980; The sheep hadtaught him that.If God leads the sheep so well, he will also lead a man, he thought, and thatmade him feel better. There you will find a treasure that will make you a rich man.\"The boy was surprised, and then irritated. \"Everyone has his or her own way of learning things,\"he said to himself. The scabbard was embossed in silver, and thehandle was black and encrusted with precious stones. pdf | Brahim EL FEZZAZI - Academia.edu Download Free PDF The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Buthe was excited at his intuitive understanding of the camel driver's comment:maybe he was also learning the universal language that deals with the pastand the present of all people. Eventhough the sheep didn't teach me to speak Arabic.But the sheep had taught him something even more important: that therewas a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boyhad used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at theshop. The link to download The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Book in PDF has been shared down below. But he decided to take a chance. Andthen I'll have to change my way of life.\"\"Well, isn't that good?\"\"I'm already used to the way things are. He sat there, staring blanklythrough the door of the caf? He had to choose between something he hadbecome accustomed to and something he wanted to have. 70,081 free ebooks. The room'sfurnishings consisted of a table, an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,and two chairs.The woman sat down, and told him to be seated as well. Maybe theworld had other hidden treasures, but he had a dream, and he had met witha king. Butwe're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.\" *The caravan began to travel day and night. But now, as the sun began to set, he was in a differentcountry, a stranger in a strange land, where he couldn't even speak thelanguage. That waswhat made traveling appeal to himhe always made new friends, and hedidn't need to spend all of his time with them. \"Tangier is not like the rest of Africa. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns . The candy seller had asmile on his face: he was happy, aware of what his life was about, andready to begin a day's work. Thatmorning he had done some calculating: if he continued to work every dayas he had been, he would need a whole year to be able to buy some sheep.\"I'd like to build a display case for the crystal,\" the boy said to themerchant. I'm used to theway I am.\"The boy didn't know what to say. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. He was planning, on this visit, to explain to the girl howit was that a simple shepherd knew how to read. Before long, maybe in just a few days, hewould be at the Pyramids. \"Well, I'm the king ofSalem!\"People say strange things, the boy thought. He had discovered that thepresence of a certain bird meant that a snake was nearby, and that acertain shrub was a sign that there was water in the area. Then aman approached.\"Do you know someone here who cures people's illnesses?\" the boy asked.\"Allah cures our illnesses,\" said the man, clearly frightened of the strangers.\"You're looking for witch doctors.\" He spoke some verses from the Koran,and moved on.Another man appeared. We have to take advantage whenluck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us. The problem is that they don't even realize that they're walking anew road every day. 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. 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