#growth (This note is a [[Work in Public]].) _The Alchemist_ by Paulo Coelho taught me many things. ##### Everything in life is a [[Duality|duality]]. ##### [[Omens|Omens]] exist. ##### We all have a personal legend. Your [personal legend](https://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/05/05/conversation-with-the-master-the-personal-legend/) your blessing, the path God has chosen for you here on Earth. Whenever a man does that which gives him enthusiasm, he is following his Legend. ##### Not everyone wants to know their potential. The crystal merchant says: > “…every blessing ignored becomes a curse. I don't want anything else in life. But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons that I have never known. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense my possibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than I did before you arrived. Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.”