Sublime

“That’s the principle that governs all things,” he said. “In alchemy, it’s called the Soul of the World. When you want something with all your heart, that’s when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It’s always a positive force.”

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.”

when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth.”

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

As Paulo Coelho writes, “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”3 There’s some truth to that. Fortune favors the motivated.

But this was the present moment—the party the camel driver had mentioned—and he wanted to live it as he did the lessons of his past and his dreams of the future.

This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.

luck and coincidence. It’s with those words that the universal language is written.”

“If you start out by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work toward getting it.”