In Paulo Coelho's novel, The Alchemist, the Alchemist is in the desert with this protege. He picks up a conch shell and remarks that the desert had once been the bottom of a vast sea. He tells the student to hold the shell up to his ear and to describe what he hears. "...and he heard the sound of the sea. 'The sound of the sea is always in the shell,' says the Alchemist, 'because that is its Personal Legend. It will never leave it until the sea covers the desert again.'"
Our works are autobiographical. No matter what noise we choose to make in the world: painting, writing, acting, composing, business, study, etc., our Personal Legend, our past, our personality, informs and guides us in what we create. And that story will be expressed consciously or unconsciously in what we do.
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