“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.”
The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really 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 it’s all written there.
“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”
When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.
“It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.”
‘The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.’”
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
“That’s what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”
“I’m like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.”
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”