
Paulo Coelho — The Alchemy of Pilgrimage
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Alchemist
Loki: How do you reconcile the idea that we all create our own lives and one of these central ideas that the universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how? Loki: Let me use myself as an example. When i was young and i said to my parents, i want to be a writer. My parents said, no, no way. And they put me three times in a mental institution because they are trying to control me. They said that i was crazy. Then you fuss forward to the moment right after the pilgrimage that wrote to the pilgrimage, and then i wrote to the alchemist. The alchemist was published, and it did not sell at
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