This title sounds so enigmatic, improbable and mysterious that this curious oxymoron drags you to buy the book and urges you to know what it is about. Well, this novel by Robin Sharma sounds to me like deja-vu and his style seems largely borrowed from Paolo Coehlo’s. However, one should give Ceasar what is Ceasar’s, it has some pretty deep life lessons to teach (or at least to remind).
The novel revolves around Jonathan, a successful and busy engineer, unbalanced and unhappy. His marriage is a disaster, his son needs him more than ever but the only thing he can think of is work, because he feels he “needs” to build a financially secure future for him and his family. One day, he will be contacted by his uncle, a former successful businessman (or whatever he was), converted into an extensive traveler. He is going to ask Jonathan to take a journey around the world to retrieve some talismans of his. I don’t know by what miracle he is going to end up convincing him to leave his work and bring him his talismans. Anyways so his journey is going to take him all around the world from Paris to Tokyo, from Mexico to Australia etc… Everywhere he goes, he is going to meet friends of his uncle who are going to hand him the talismans. And each of them is going to share his story with him.
Here. A simple trivial story becomes a best seller… and I am just so really jealous because anyone could have thought of it. Actually, this book has confirmed to me that anyone (literally anyone) can become a writer.
Ok, I’m not going to be a hater. This book holds a nice reminder of some life lessons we all know but we often forget like finding out who we truly love and give them the necessary care and attention, make a living out of our passions and also the virtue of simplicity despite opulence. So yes, overall it is pretty well thought.
Some inspiring quotes from The Monk who Sold His Ferrari:
“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”
“Never overlook the power of simplicity”
“the purpose of life is the life of purpose”
“I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened”.”
“It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others. it’s only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the hearts of others. when you feel centered and alive, you are in much better position to be a better person.”
“Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.”
“The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.”
Z Wonderland 