Lessons from Santiago
"...making a decision was only the beginning of things. 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" (70).
"...I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man...Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now" (86).
"'The future belongs to God...The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future, and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity'" (104).
"...she was waiting for him, a woman awaiting a courageous man in search of his treasure. From that day on, the desert would represent only one thing to her: the hope for his return" (125).
"'My heart is a traitor'...'it doesn't want me to go on'...'Naturally it's afraid that, in pursuing your dream, you might lose everything you've won'...'Even if you pretend not to have have heard what it tells you, it will always be there inside you, repeating to you what you're thinking about life and about the world'" (130).
"'Every second of the search is an encounter with God'" (132).
"Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place" (132).
"...I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man...Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now" (86).
"'The future belongs to God...The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future, and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity'" (104).
"...she was waiting for him, a woman awaiting a courageous man in search of his treasure. From that day on, the desert would represent only one thing to her: the hope for his return" (125).
"'My heart is a traitor'...'it doesn't want me to go on'...'Naturally it's afraid that, in pursuing your dream, you might lose everything you've won'...'Even if you pretend not to have have heard what it tells you, it will always be there inside you, repeating to you what you're thinking about life and about the world'" (130).
"'Every second of the search is an encounter with God'" (132).
"Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place" (132).
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