Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Book: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

how beautiful the Language of the World "the LOVE" can be....


At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and a silence, he learned the most important part od language that all the world spoke—the language that everyone on earth was capable of understandingin their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two pairs of eyes met, as had theirs here at the well. She smiled, and that was certainly an omen—the omen he had been awaiting, without even knowing he was, for all his life. The omen he had sought to find with his sheep and in his books, in the crystals and in the silence of the desert.
It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time. What the boy felt at that moment was that he was in the presence of the only woman in his life, and that, with no need for words, she recognized the same thing. He was more certain of it than of anything in the world. He had been told by his parents and grandparents that he must fall in love and really know a person before becoming committed. But maybe people who felt that way had never learned the universal language. Because, when you know that language, it’s easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it’s in the middle of the desert or in some great city. And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes met, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one’s dreams would have no meaning.
Maktub, thought the boy.
[p.92-93]

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hi,kiki...
well,it has nothing to do with the economic-textbook-theory,hasn't it?
i dunno...
i think it's just not very easy to write some good-enough-quality economic journal while you're in love...hehe...
just kiddin'...
actually i just dunno...
i think we're not only social creatures but also love creatures because we're falling in love all the time...

best regard...

vienz said...

the alchemist...
yea, this book is very inspiring in so many ways..

'when a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person realize his dream'

...sumthin like that.hoho =)