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Julia Johnston - Books That Changed My Life: The Alchemist #2

14 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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A short personal reflection by Julia Johnston on how Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist influenced her life choices: it sparked a process of following perceived divine inspiration and seeking soul-level freedom and connection over the last eight–nine years. The excerpt frames the book as a catalyst for ongoing inner discovery and asks a guiding mortality-based question about regret.

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You're on this planet for a finite amount of time, if I feel something come to me and it feels like divine inspiration, I will just go do that thing. And the alchemist was a big part of how that started to happen. The discovery process for the last, like, eight, nine years has been about finding freedom again on a soul level, on a deeply connected to something bigger than myself level. I'm still doing it. I'm not, like, fully there, but I just think if I was to pass away today, would I be upset and why?