Welcome to let it be easy with Susie Moore.

Hello my friends I'm speaking to you today about a passage in one of my all time favorite books

which is the alchemist by Paolo Coello and this this book has many, many gifts in it, so much wisdom. It's still one

of the most popular books in the world. Over a hundred million copies sold, I beg you, If you haven't read the alchemist, please drop everything and do so. In fact, I, this is actually quite cool. I tend to read or reread the alchemist every year or every couple of years and then

I heard Brennay Brown actually say that she reads or rereads the alchemist every single year.

It is a wonderful book full of many incredible lessons and I won't give anything away here.

If you haven't read it, but essentially it's about a boy who goes in search of his treasure and his name is Santiago and as he goes in search of his treasure

Which really represents all of us seeking our own treasure in life.

He meets with an alchemist who helps him. And I'm not going to give anything else of the plot away,

but there is a particular page in the book that is actually not referenced often.

I mean, this book, because it's so well known, it's quoted,

you know, many of the themes throughout it

are spoken about in lots of different literary circles,

different analogies are used, of course, from the book,

but there's a part of the book that is a little, you know, maybe overlooked,

under dramatic, yet just speaks to me so completely. And I actually want to read to you the exact passage. So the

alchemist and Santiago the boy are going through the desert where it is dangerous and they are stopped right they are

stopped by some men who are guards and they want to search them so when that happens

right they are being searched.

And one of the guards asks the alchemist, what are these things, holding up a couple of his items in a bag.

And the alchemist answers,

Oh, that's the philosopher's stone and the alixir of life.

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