Showing posts with label The Physics of The Quest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Physics of The Quest. Show all posts

Monday, May 7, 2012

Fighting Windmills


Don Quixote by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes

"I've come to believe that there exists in the universe something I call 'The Physics of The Quest' -- a force of nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity or momentum. And the rule of Quest Physics maybe goes like this: 'If you are brave enough to leave behind everthing familiar and comforting (which can be anything from your house to your bitter old resentments) and set out on a truth-seeking journey (either externally or internally), and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared - most of all - to face (and forgive) some very difficult realities about your self... then truth will not be withheld from you.' Or so I've come to believe. I can't help but believe it, given my experience."

From: Eat Pray Love
Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir. One Woman's Search for Everything
Across Italy, India, and Indonesia