The Alchemist

Contemporary literature · Paulo Coelho · 1988

Santiago's treasure was buried under the very spot where his journey began. The quest took him around the world to discover that the gold was always at home.

The circumambulation: you travel the entire world to find what was always here. But you couldn't have found it without the journey.

The pattern underneath: The Self. The wholeness that's bigger than your everyday 'I.' If your conscious self is a city, the Self is the entire country.