The Pilgrimage by Paulo CoelhoIn a journey, is the destination more significant or is the journey itself?
What would we do if reached our destination and discovered the outcome? We may forget the destination but never the journey. Journey, when we make it, becomes a part of us. Isn’t it so?
Well, this novel is a parable depicting the journey the author makes towards Santiago in order to find his sword. On his journey, he is accompanied by a guide named Petrus who reveals to him several insights and teaches him a set of meditative exercises. The book is one part story and one part these exercises. The book is enlightening and in this review, I list 27 insights and lessons I gained from reading this book.
#1 Free yourself from the burdens you have created in your life.
#2 In order to grow, we have to keep moving forward, adapting ourselves to new situations and receiving the blessings that life generously offers to those who seek them.
#3 When we are moving towards an objective, it is very important to pay attention to the road.
#4 The more you look at the watch, the more slowly time passes.
#5 Changing the way you do routine things allows a person to grow inside you.
#6 Time doesn’t always proceed at the same pace. It is we who determine how quickly it passes.
#7 A devil never makes false promises.
#8 If we don’t recognize that we need everything and everybody, we become arrogant warriors, and our arrogance defeats us in the end.
#9 Talk to your personal devil to know people, but never let the devil dictate the rules of the game.
#10 People don’t like to ask too much from life because they are afraid that they’d be defeated. But if someone wants to fight the good fight, that person must view the world as if it were a marvellous treasure waiting to be discovered and won.
#11 The language of your heart is what is going to determine the best way to find and use your sword.
#12 In places where the mind cannot reach, a force is being born and becoming ready to manifest itself.
#13 We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn’t work that way at all.
#14 Every star – every person has their own space, their own special characteristics. There are green stars, yellow stars, blue stars and white stars, and there are comets, meteors and meterorites, nebulas and rings.
#15 It is always a good idea to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.
#16 The things of this life don’t last very long.
#17 When we are involved in the good fight, nothing else is important, our enthusiasm moves us towards our goal.
#18 Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person’s life its true meaning.
#19 Every small gesture made by one person affects the life of someone else.
#20 Whoever has the sword, must constantly put it to test, so it doesn’t rust in its scabbard.
#21 A hammer would not make sense if there were no nails to be driven.
#22 You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
#23 Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.
#24 One step from success, this is the moment when one’s strength begins to flag, and one loses confidence in oneself.
#25 When we allow change to occur, we transform ourselves into fertile land and let the Creative Imagination sow its seeds in us.
#26 The only way to make the right decision is to know what the wrong decision is.
#27 Everything is contained in sounds – the past, present and future. The person who doesn’t know how to listen will never hear the advice that life offers to us all the time. And the only person who listens to the sounds of the moment is able to make the right decision in life.
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