Day 2: Preparing to Leave
“…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 gravity or momentum. And the rule of Quest Physics maybe goes like this: “If you are brave enough to leave behind everything 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 yourself…. then truth will not be withheld from you. Or so I’ve come to believe.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love. I watched the movie Eat, Pray Love a number of months ago and quite enjoyed it. I remember being struck by the words above - “The Physics of the Quest” and pu...