Life is a mystery. An unsolved mystery which makes us curious to dig more and more just to find the true meaning of our life. There are so many books written just to 'help' people in understanding the meaning of life, yet people are still confused about life.
There are 2 famous books which are so bestselling because those books are able to explain the meaning of life in such a convincing way. They are The Purpose Driven Life
by Rick Warren, and The Alchemist by Paul Coelho. Those books carry the similarity that the essence of the book is the true meaning of life in every person. The difference lies in the point of view. TPDL views things from religioun side while TA uses such an ancient symbolic Medieval mysticism.In The Alchemist, though it sounds mystics, yet at the end Paul Coelho stated that our mission on Earth is the way to find "God". That's the ultimate purpose of creation. Since this book is about how to follow your dream, I like the fact that Coelho presents the person who denies to follow his dream as person who denies to see God. "Every happy person carries God within him" stated Coelho.
We are all people who are trying to catch our dreams. We all are dream-catchers. However, are we dreaming the right dreams? How if we are putting our all just to catch the wrong ones?? How can we know that we are pursuing the right dream? Then, The Purpose Driven Life is the right answer for those questions. This book offers some principal wisdoms and understanding on the essence of life and how to achieve a purposeful life. Life with contentment.
The Alchemist is a good novel. A novel that encourages us to have dreams and tells us that they may come true. But the Purpose Driven Life is even better because this book teaches you that through God your dreams will surely come true.
