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| <h1>Paulo Coelho</h1> | ||
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| “It looks like A Thousand and One Nights,” said the Englishman, | ||
| impatient to meet with the alchemist. | ||
| They were surrounded by children, curious to look at the | ||
| animals and people that were arriving. The men of the oasis wanted | ||
| to know if they had seen any fighting, and the women competed | ||
| with one another for access to the cloth and precious stones | ||
| brought by the merchants. The silence of the desert was a distant | ||
| dream; the travelers in the caravan were talking incessantly, | ||
| laughing and shouting, as if they had emerged from the spiritual | ||
| world and found themselves once again in the world of people. They | ||
| were relieved and happy. | ||
| They had been taking careful precautions in the desert, but the | ||
| camel driver explained to the boy that oases were always | ||
| considered to be neutral territories, because the majority of the | ||
| inhabitants were women and children. There were oases | ||
| throughout the desert, but the tribesmen fought in the desert, | ||
| leaving the oases as places of refuge. | ||
| With some difficulty, the leader of the caravan brought all his | ||
| people together and gave them his instructions. The group was to | ||
| remain there at the oasis until the conflict between the tribes was | ||
| over. Since they were visitors, they would have to share living space | ||
| with those who lived there, and would be given the best | ||
| accommodations. That was the law of hospitality. Then he asked | ||
| that everyone, including his own sentinels, hand over their arms to | ||
| the men appointed by the tribal chieftains. | ||
| “Those are the rules of war,” the leader explained. “The oases | ||
| may not shelter armies or troops.” | ||
| To the boy’s surprise, the Englishman took a chrome-plated | ||
| revolver out of his bag and gave it to the men who were collecting | ||
| the arms. | ||
| “Why a revolver?” he asked. | ||
| “It helped me to trust in people,” the Englishman answered. | ||
| Meanwhile, the boy thought about his treasure. The closer he got | ||
| to the realization of his dream, the more difficult things became. It | ||
| seemed as if what the old king had called “beginner’s luck” were no | ||
| longer functioning. In his pursuit of the dream, he was being | ||
| constantly subjected to tests of his persistence and courage. So he | ||
| could not be hasty, nor impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, | ||
| he would fail to see the signs and omens left by God along his path. | ||
| God placed them along my path. He had surprised himself with | ||
| the thought. Until then, he had considered the omens to be things of | ||
| this world. Like eating or sleeping, or like seeking love or finding a | ||
| job. He had never thought of them in terms of a language used by | ||
| God to indicate what he should do. | ||
| “Don’t be impatient,” he repeated to himself. “It’s like the camel | ||
| driver said: ‘Eat when it’s time to eat. And move along when it’s | ||
| time to move along.’” | ||
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