WARRIOR OF THE LIGHT: A Manual
This associate extent to Coelho's famous The Alchemist is an extraordinary hybrid—a self-help guide with fictional overtones; a sequence of aphorisms and platitudes set in the frame of the sketchiest of parables. In the myth, a boy meets a lovely lady at a beach, who proceeds to inform him approximately a hidden undersea temple close to a vanished island. The boy fails in his preliminary try and find the temple, although he hears its bells ring, however later, as a grown guy, he again meets the woman, who fingers him an empty notebook and directs him to write about the "Warrior of the Light," a being who is "capable of information the miracle of life, of fighting to the remaining for some thing he believes in—and of hearing the bells that the waves set ringing on the seabed." Some of the aphorisms that follow have a specific spiritual source—Lao Tzu, Gandhi, Jesus and Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, amongst others, are quoted. Coelho affords trendy religious suggestion, but he additionally offers steerage in extra mundane topics, explaining the unique motivations at the back of infantile, immature behavior, cowardly moments, feelings of non secular vacancy and the reluctance to change. Some of those passages are unique, but others merely repackage not unusual inspirational fodder. The extent preserves the basic spiritual tone of The Alchemist, but readers looking ahead to comparable intensity and substance can be dissatisfied
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