"You're not going to die. You'll live, and you'll learn that a man shouldn't be so stupid. Two years ago, right here on this spot, I had a recurrent dream, too. I dreamed that I should travel to the fields of Spain and look for a ruined church where shepherds and their sheep slept. In my dream, there was a sycamore growing out of the ruins of the sacristy, and I was told that, if I dug at the roots of the sycamore, I would find a hidden treasure. But I'm not so stupid as to cross an entire desrt just because of a recurrent dream" (Coehlo, 163)
The boy, Santiago, has finally reached the pyramids and began to dig for treasure. During his dig, he is attacked by bandits who take his gold from him. The leader of the group told Santiago that, like the boy, he had a dream of finding hidden treasure; the funny (possibly ironic) part of this is that his dream took him to the church where Santiago slept on Page 1. The man concluded by saying that he never followed this dream, and so he never completed his Personal Legend, unlike Santiago, who has finally done so. In the aftermath of this event, Santiago realizes that the treasure had been in Andalusia all along. This man is kind of like an antithesis to the boy and the alchemist: he has a dream of his Personal Legend, and yet he decides not to follow it, and so he never discovers the treasure. Santiago, on the other hand, followed his Perosnal Legend and fulfilled his dream.
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