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CLARKE  \nCONTENTS  \nINTRODUCTION  \nI remember receiving a letter from  \nthe American publisher Harper Collins …  \nPROLOGUE  \nThe alchemist picked up a book that someone in the …  \nPART ONE  \nThe boy’s name was Santiago. Dusk was falling as the …  \nPART TWO  \nThe boy had been working for the crystal merchant for…  \nEPILOGUE  \nThe boy reached the small, abandoned church just as night …  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR  \nINTERNATIONAL ACCLAIM  \nALSO BY PAULO COELHO  \nCOPYRIGHT  \nABOUT THE PUBLISHER  \nTEN YEARS ON  \nI REMEMBER RECEIVING A LETTER FROM THE AMERICAN publisher Harper Collins that said that: “reading The Alchemist was like getting up at dawn and seeing the sun rise while the rest of the world still slept.” I went outside, looked up atthe sky, and thought to myself: “So, the book is going to be published in English!” At the time, I was struggling to establish myself as a writer and to follow my path despite all the voices telling me it was impossible.  \nAnd little by little, my dream was  \nbecoming reality. Ten, a hundred, a thousand, a million copies sold in America. One day, a Brazilian journalist phoned to say that President Clinton had been photographed reading the book. Some time later, when I was in Turkey, I opened the magazine Vanity Fair and there was Julia Roberts declaring that she adored the book. Walking alone down a street in Miami, I heard a girl telling her mother: “You must read The Alchemist!”  \nThe book has been translated into fifty-six languages, has sold more than twenty million copies, and people are beginning to ask: What’s the secret behind such a huge success?  \nThe only honest response is: I don’t  \nknow. All I know is that, like Santiago the shepherd boy, we all need to be aware of our personal calling. What is a personal calling? It is God’s blessing, it is the path that God chose for you here on Earth. Whenever we do something that fills us with enthusiasm, we are following our legend. However, we don’t all have the courage to confront our own dream.  \nWhy?  \nThere are four obstacles. First: weare told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate, so too do the layers of prejudice, fear, and guilt. There comes a time when our personal calling is so  \ndeeply buried in our soul as to be invisible. But it’s still there.  \nIf we have the courage to disinter dream, we are then faced by the second obstacle: love. We know what we want to do, but are afraid of hurting those around us by abandoning everything in order to pursue our dream. We do not realize that love is just a further impetus, not something that will prevent us going forward. We do not realize that those who genuinely wish us well want us tobe happy and are prepared to accompany us on that journey.  \nOnce we have accepted that love is a stimulus, we come up against the third obstacle: fear of the defeats we will meet on the path. We who fight for our  \ndream, suffer far more when it doesn’t work out, because we cannot fall back on the old excuse: “Oh, well, I didn’t really want it anyway.” We do want it and know that we have staked everything on it and that the path of the personal calling is no easier than any other path, except that our whole heart is in this journey. Then, we warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know that the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how.  \nI ask myself: are defeats necessary? Well, necessary or not, they happen.  \nWhen we first begin fighting for our dream, we have no experience and make many mistakes. 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