Excerpts from 'The Alchemist'

Its strange how same words mean different at different point of time. I had read 'The Alchemist' in college and written down down the excerpts from the book in my diary then. And now when I read it again and wrote down some lines which interested me, there were only 2-3 common insights. And even the same lines seem to have changed thier meaning and relevance for me. I guess its like Ghalib's poetry which seem to open a new veil and throw a different light everytime you hear them.

' i weep for narcissus, but i never noticed that he was beautiful. i weep because , each time he knelt beside my banks, i could see in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty refelected'

'dreams are the language of GOD . when he speaks in the language of soul, it is only you who can understand'

'its only the simple things in life that are most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them'

'when you want something , all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it'

'people are capable of at any time in thier lives of doing what they dream of'

'everything in life has a price'

'when each day is the same as the next it is because people fail to recognise the good things that happened in thier lives every day that the sun rises'

'God has prepared a path for everyone to follow. you just have to read the omens he left for you'

'beginner's luck- the force that wants you to realise your personal legend, it whets your apetitite with a taste of success'

'i see the world in terms of what i would like to see happen , not what actually does'

'every blessing ignored becomes a curse'

'MAKTUB - it is written'

'i am not going to mecca just as you know that you are not going to buy your sheep. who told you that? MAKTUB'

'its the possiblity of having a dream come true that makes life interesting'

'intuition is 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 its all written there'

'when you cant go back , you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward'

'alchemists spend so much time by the fire that they give up all vanities. they discovered that the purification of the metal has led to a purification of themselves'

'life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now'

'god created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees'

'people become fascinated with pictures and words and wind up forgetting the language of the world'

'when two such people encounter eachother, and thier eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant'

'there is only that moment and the incredible uncertainility that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only'

'dunes are changed by the wind but the desert never changes'

'whatever the thing observed, one could find a connection with his experience of the moment. actaully it wasnt that those things in themselves revealed anything, it was just that people looking at them could find a means of penetration to the soul of the world'

'each day in itself brings with it an eternity'

'wine - its not what enters men's mouth thats evil; its what comes out of thier mouths that is'

'but my heart is agitated, it hs its dreams, it gets emotional,it asks things of me, it keeps me from sleeping many night - well thats good. your heart is alive. keep listening to what it has to say'

'every second of search of one's dreams is a second's encounter with god and with eternity'

'grain of sand is a moment of creation and universe has taken millions of years to create it'

'darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn'

'your eyes show the strenghth of your soul'

'when you are loved you can do anyhting in creation, there is no need at all to understand whats happening because everything happens within you'

'everything that happens once will never happen again but everything that happens twice will surely happen again'