Basic Information
Reading Time: 31 Dec 2024 - 2nd Jan 2025
Key Quotes
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are."
"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
“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. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands.”
“The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon."
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
“There are three types of Alchemist: those who are vague because they don't know what they are doing, those who are vague because they know what they are doing but who also know that the language of Alchemy is addressed to the heart and not to the mind. And those who will never hear about Alchemy but who will succeed through the lives they lead, in discovering the Philosopher’s Stone.”
"Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams?" the boy asked the alchemist. "Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer."
The heart does not want to suffer (THEME & Convo)
Thoughts
Open with the fact that I have read this before and couldn't remember a thing. Only the ending starting coming back when I read it
The spiritual themes Semblance of listening to your heart and
A strong theme of Omens and observing them. Animals are are able to speak the 'Language of the World'
The 'Soul of the World'
What we already have inside us and what can be unleashed. How a mentor can unleash that in you after testing you.
Being pure and sincere with the world but also being vary of people around you.
My experience with getting immediate feedback from the world. Divine intervention as it would be called