Santiago rode along through the desert for several hours.
Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That's where I am, and that's where you treasure is.
The Pyramids of Egypt
He thanked God for making him believe in his Personal Legend, and for leading him to meet a king, a merchant, an Englishman, and an alchemist. And above all for his having met a woman of the desert who had told him that love would never keep a man from his Personal Legend.
On the way to realizing his own Personal Legend, He had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of. But here he was, at the point of finding his treasure, and he reminded myself that no project is completed until its objective has been achieved.
The boy looked at the sands around him, and saw that, where his tears had fallen, a scarab beetle was scuttling through the sand.
In Egypt, scarab beetles are a symbol of God. Another omen!