I finished the book late this night. The interesting thing was that it had a section of the book where the sheep herder read the fight of two hawks in the desert and divined that an attack was coming to the oasis. The book discussed Ornithomancy which I mentioned yesterday!
I sat down and took note of quotes that stood out to me particularly the last one.
Said to a Goddess by the lake: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the debts of his eyes, my own beauty reflected."
"They boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and he saw that it was part of the soul of God. And he saw that the soul of God was his own soul. And that he himself could perform miracles."
"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time."
"Everything has been written by the same hand."
"When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person realize his...Personal Legend."
“’but what if I can’t (turn myself into the wind)?’
‘Then you’ll die in the midst of trying to realize your Personal Legend. That’s a lot better than dying like millions of other people, who never even know what their Personal Legends were.'
’But don’t worry,’ the alchemist continued. ‘Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.’”
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