The Celestine Prophesy.
I recently picked up The Celestine Prophecy again. In my twenties, I would have read it with a highlighter in one hand and a notebook in the other, convinced that the Universe was sending me secret messages through every cloud, butterfly and passing stranger. In my thirties, I would have been too busy making to-do lists. In my forties, I would have analysed every relationship mentioned in the book. At fifty-one, however, I read it while searching for my reading glasses.The glasses, incidentally, were on my head.Growth. The sacred pause. The book speaks about synchronicities, energy, and spiritual evolution. It follows seekers travelling through Peru in search of ancient insights. It struck me that spiritual seekers and tourists are not very different.Both carry baggage. The only difference is that tourists drag suitcases while spiritual seekers drag unresolved childhood issues, old heartbreaks, family expectations, guilt, resentment and occasionally a yoga mat. Some of us have become e...