Sep 29 2008
Destiny
“In my book The Alchemist, the central thesis lies in a phrase that King Melchizedek says to the shepherd boy Santiago: “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
“I believe this with all my heart. However, the act of living one’s destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to take us back to the path of our Personal Legend–or to make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.” ……
“Whenever I thought myself the absolute master of a situation, something would happpen to cast me down. I asked myself: why? Can it be that I’m condemned to always come close but never reach the finish line? Can God be so cruel that He would let me see the palm trees on the horizon only to have me die of thirst in the desert?
“It took a long time to understand that it wasn’t quite like that. There are things that are brought into our lives to lead us back to the true path of our Personal Legend. Other things arise so we can apply all that we have learned. And, finally, some things come along to teach us.”
~The Fifth Mountain
by Paulo Coelho
