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About The Celestine Prophecy · James Redfield
Evie Woods, 2023
Also hope and wonder. A vanished bookshop, a hidden manuscript and three lives tangled in the stories we inherit—a warm, bookish mystery for anyone who believes books can save us.
I couldn’t explain it, not even to myself, but books gave me an unflinching sense of stability and groundedness. That because words survived, somehow I would too. Yann Martel, 2001
Also faith and wonder. A boy survives 227 days in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger and comes back with a story about faith, fear and which version of events you choose to believe.
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity — it’s envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud. Richard Bach, 1970
Also hope and wonder. A seagull leaves his flock's scavenging for the discipline of flight, and finds that speed, freedom and perfection are spiritual problems.
You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there. Christopher Paolini, 2001
Also wonder and identity. A teenage hunter in a hard mountain valley finds a polished blue stone that pulls him into a world of Riders, magic and empire.
Let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered, one may be a free man and yet be bound tighter than a slave. Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don’t follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen. Of the affairs of love, my only advice is to be honest. That’s your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness. Paulo Coelho, 1988
Also hope and wonder. A shepherd crosses the Sahara chasing a recurring dream, meeting a king, an alchemist and his own fear, in a fable about whether desire is a compass or a trap.
He looked around at the empty plaza again, feeling less desperate than before. This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one…he had already traveled farther than any shepherd he knew. Oh, if they only knew how different things are just two hours by ship from where they are, he thought….As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure. “I’m an adventurer, looking for treasure,” he said to himself. Umberto Eco, 1980
Also curiosity and faith. A murder mystery inside a labyrinthine medieval library, where a novice and his detective-monk argue theology, read forbidden books, and count the dead.
The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came. Philip Pullman, 1995
Also wonder and curiosity. A girl in an Oxford of daemons and airships overhears a word—Dust—and follows it north into a mystery about consciousness, authority and other worlds.
Michael Crichton, 1995
Also curiosity and wonder. A rich man's expedition to a hidden island turns into a firsthand argument about dinosaurs, media, and whether humans are as smart as we think.
Salman Rushdie, 1988
Also unease and faith. A hijacked plane, a metamorphosis, and two men falling through the sky into a London of migrants, visions and doubt.
J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954
Also wonder and hope. A reluctant hobbit, a ring with a will of its own, and a long walk toward a mountain nobody should want to visit.
Dan Brown, 2009
Also curiosity and faith. A symbologist is summoned to Washington for a lecture and pulled into one night of Masonic codes, hidden monuments and a missing mentor.
James Michener, 1956
Also curiosity. A scholar’s journey through the massive changes of a rapidly modernizing America, tracking ambition, history, and the sheer scale of cultural transformation.
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