Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it’s all written there.

“That’s what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”

“I’m like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.”