Where does Santiago find the answer to the question “how do you turn a man into the wind?"

Santiago speaks with the desert, the wind, and the sun to find the answer of how to turn into the wind, but none of these elements knows. While conversing with the sun, though, the boy's own thoughts reveal that he knows more about the Language of the World than he originally thought. During this conversation, the boy realizes that love is the most powerful force in the universe, and the sun does not have much experience...

Santiago speaks with the desert, the wind, and the sun to find the answer of how to turn into the wind, but none of these elements knows. While conversing with the sun, though, the boy's own thoughts reveal that he knows more about the Language of the World than he originally thought. During this conversation, the boy realizes that love is the most powerful force in the universe, and the sun does not have much experience with it. In fact, he recognizes that the sun, the desert, and the wind are all on their own paths of learning and cannot provide him with the answer he needs. Therefore, the sun suggests that Santiago ask the hand that created the world in order to find out how to perform the miracle he desires. "The Hand" must mean the universe or God, so Santiago prays in his heart without words. It is as though he connects his heart with that of God's and discovers the following:

only the hand understood that it was a larger design that had moved the universe to the point at which six days of creation had evolved into a Master Work. The boy reached through to the Soul of the World and saw that it was a part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles (152).

Based on the passage above, Santiago discovers that he is a part of the Soul of the World—God—and he has the power within to perform a miracle and change himself into the wind. This is an amazing discovery because the power to perform miracles is found within himself as he connects his soul with that of the Creator's. The process of finding the answer he needs is a complex one, but it suggests that once we all discover that connection with the Soul of the World, we too can perform miracles because we are all a part of God. As a result, Santiago finds the answer he seeks within himself.