Summary:
The icon of a book, The Alchemist is a book that glorifies perennial wisdom that enshrines the experience-life. Paulo Coelho has written a book that iridescently shines the beauty of a life lead by our intuitions and how there is always a guide present in all our hearts always ready to take us to our destiny only if we take its hand. The story of Santiago, a shepherd in Spain sets off on a journey to Egypt to discover the treasures of the world both physical and metaphysical. Every experience of Santiago as he moves from his homeland in Spain to Egypt and everything in between has an underlying Universal essence.
The fable is full of projections of mysticism depicted through various symbols and synchronous narrations. It is held as an inspiration to live for many. The book shows you the way to fathom and experience the power of dreams that we as human beings possess.
Review:
The book is written with an intention to pass on to the masses the intuitive insight that Paulo Coelho inferred. The Alchemist is a book that promises to be as uplifting as much it can be surreal. The author makes it very clear that the power to believe in yourself and your higher aspirations may even lead you to God. That being said, the author discusses various alchemical and mystical truths on the path of self-discovery. The book is filled with contemplative implications in form of depictive connotations. The book busts the myth on existentialism and makes one realize their true universal nature and hence their role in its functioning.
The book makes one question his belief in life, in regards to him being in tune with his inner world. The book holds some real alchemical secrets that are present everywhere around in nature around us but just fail to get noticed because of their simplicity, the author tries to bring them to life in this book with his thought provoking descriptions of Santiago's journey. The belief that Santiago has in his power to dream and his ability to reach out to grab what is waiting for him by following his heart is inspiring to a world full of people struggling to keep up with the world. The nuances of alchemical science pertaining to body, mind and soul is brilliantly painted on the canvas of reader's mind creating an impression that is as weightless and bright as light.
The author tries to take the reader to what lies beyond the ever hanging paradigm of fear that makes one fall short of the accomplishments of aspirations in life. The author tries to explain that we have the power to and that we should always try to see through the apparent difficulties that act as veils worn by our destiny. To reach out to destiny you have to free yourself from the grip of our lower nature that depict indifference, indecisions and indolence. None of our difficulties are beyond our imagination is the underlying message of The Alchemist.
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