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How Is Empowerment So Easy/Why is It All So Hard?
Creating and/or finding empowerment can be so easy…but why is it also so hard?
One of my all-time favorite books is Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist.
If you have not read this book — I can’t recommend it enough. I don’t know that it matters what genres you typically read — this book is just amazing.
The central premise is the idea of living every day with purpose — and finding your way even when the way is blocked. This is told via fictional characters and situations, but rooted so clearly in this world that it goes beyond fiction. Probably why The Alchemist is one of the bestselling novels ever.
There is a point where the characters discuss the central text of alchemy — the Emerald Tablet. A text that many see to be so impossibly simple that they refuse to believe it can be that easy.
Thus, many who seek the Master Work — the Philosopher’s Stone and its ability to turn any metal into gold; and the Elixir of Life and its ability to cure all illness and even stop death — engage in in-depth, endless, scientific and philosophical study. They create massive tracts and endless experiments to achieve the Master Work.
