The next day I go to the doctor as my prescription needs a refill and I walk away with the distinct feeling that I must lose the weight that the doctor has been nagging me about now. I created one for my phone about a month a go but I still felt like I needed a proper board up in my room so finally it is done. I have been attempting to put one together for the past two years. I wrote down my goals, my words for the year (“intentional” being one of them) and I started looking for images for my vision board. On New Years day I suddenly found myself with alone time on my hands so I started working in a new journal that I had purchased. So I made the decision to start acting intentionally and it blows my mind how quickly the universe comes to the party. I react and I definitely don’t act intentionally.Ĭlearly this needs to change. I tell myself it is but, hello, I haven’t exactly come anywhere close to achieving them so clearly my actions are not. I just fall into things and never actually question if the action I find myself taking is really getting me any closer to my end goal. I have a tendency to say I want to do certain things and even have a “why” as motivation yet, I never intentionally act on those desires. His work has to be corrected.After much assessment of where I am and where I want to be, I came to realise that I don’t really live a very intentional life. If you vigorously throw yourself into action it’s because you don’t have faith that everything is as it should be: the world could be different, the world as it is is flawed, which means that people don’t get their just deserts, we’re not all wholly responsible for our destinies, karma is at best only partly true, much of reality is irrational, and God (who, of course, doesn’t exist) is not perfectly good or worthy of blind faith. Great faith = great equanimity, great love for the natural unfolding of fate. It’s a quintessentially religious attitude: faith in the eternal, in the beyond, in historical logic or evolution, as if it’s God, with the result that you accept the world as it is. Stalinism? Hitlerism? Pol Pot? The oppression of minorities? The real is rational! Progress works in mysterious ways! Everything is determined, everything is necessary! Inevitable, like logic itself! Quietism, conservatism, is the logical conclusion of this attitude of amor fati. “One truth is clear,” as Pope writes in his Essay on Man “whatever is, is right.” But we all know that this Leibnizian, Hegelian-and Spinozistic-doctrine is not only ethically dubious but downright dangerous: it can be used to justify any sort of injustice. Or, this is the best of all possible worlds. The real is the rational, and the rational is the real. It amounts to the claim that everyone gets his just deserts. Or, since I’m not offended by anything, at least it’s morally and logically problematic. If you think about it, the idea of karma is rather offensive. This book implies that the world is just. The world is more or less just? What a joke. If people find these ideas remotely plausible, it’s because they’re ignorant of the millions, billions, of people who yearn passionately for their dreams but have no chance of achieving them. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.’ It’s the fucking American capitalist ideology spiritualized. If you don’t realize your dreams, it’s your own damn fault.
Requires no penetration beneath appearances-is in fact the appearance itself.
It’s the sort of ideological, individualistic thinking that reconciles people to the social order. The author, Paulo Coelho, isn’t a profound thinker his philosophy is the superficial religious one. I won’t deny that the writing is good-though there’s no characterization, of course it’s a simple allegory-but I will deny that the book deserves its fame. No wonder the book is so popular: it’s self-help in the form of a novel. Cheap New Age “wisdom.” There are no coincidences, everything is meaningful, everyone is special, the universe is teleological, we are all part of the One, each person is the center of the universe, blah blah. If you love yourself you can accomplish anything.
Life has meaning, and God cares about you. It’s your mission on earth.” In short, try to achieve your dreams. You just have to read the omens that he left for you.” “There is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend.” “Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. “To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only real obligation.” “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” “God has prepared a path for everyone to follow. Reading The Alchemist, the novel that has sold tens of millions of copies.
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