Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor?

Oprah's Super Soul

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4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Why are you really here? What is your personal purpose on earth? In an extraordinarily rare interview from his home in Switzerland, Paulo Coelho, the author of The Alchemist, one of the best-selling books of all time, answers life’s biggest questions. He teaches us about dreams, destiny and the one thing he believes will make us happy. Oprah says this about The Alchemist: “It’s the kind of book you want to share with the whole world.”

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of
0:07.5	the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.
0:16.1	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right
0:23.1	now. Every once in a while, a work of art comes
0:27.1	along seemingly out of nowhere. More than a worldwide bestseller, the alchemist is a true
0:32.4	phenomenon. Beloved around the world for its elegant simplicity and profound spiritual truths,
0:38.1	the alchemist is a magical allegory about a young shepherd named San Diego in search of his
0:44.4	treasure. But at its essence, the alchemist is a spiritual guidebook for our time. When it was
0:50.2	first published, it sold only a handful of copies, 25 years later, 65 million copies of soul. The book
0:58.3	has been translated into 80 different languages. It's the most translated book by any living author.
1:04.9	Like San Diego in the story, Poa L'Oquilio never stopped believing in his dream. And now,
1:10.9	a quarter century later, we're still learning from the universal ideas in this masterpiece.
1:17.0	So this marks the 25th anniversary, amazing of the alchemist. Yeah. I'm very impressed and I'm
1:26.2	very thankful to the American people because the book broke all records in the New York Times
1:33.7	bestseller in this. Yes. It is currently the New York Times bestseller list and for 300 and many weeks.
1:42.2	Yeah. Last I looked 313. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. I count every week just to make sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
1:49.3	Do you look every week? I have everything going. Every single week. Wow. Isn't it fun to see?
1:54.6	Absolutely. Not only that because I'm extremely enthusiastic about my work. Yes. You know, opera. Yes.
2:01.9	Is something that gives me, gives me life? Well, tell me this. It is truly a phenomenon.
2:08.7	And what when you first wrote it, it was not. It had to build and grow. You know, I first heard about
2:15.7	it in 1996. I was doing a show with Madonna and Madonna told me this was her favorite book.
2:21.6	And I don't think I'd even started the book club then, but so if it was Madonna's favorite book
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