IN 1993, American author James Redfield wrote The Celestine Prophecy. By May 2005, 20 million copies of the book had been sold worldwide. The essence of the book, which was translated into 34 languages, is that nothing in this world happens by accident. Everything that befalls us, everyone we meet, has been arranged before we were born. Our duty is simply to find and learn from messages brought about by events and people.

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