The Physics of The Quest

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 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]

Flawless?

My grandfather was an egg farmer. I used to candle eggs at his farm. You know what that is? You hold an egg up to a light, and look for
imperfections.

The first time I did it, he told me to put the ones that were cracked or flawed in a bucket - for the bakery.

He came back an hour later and there were three hundred eggs in the bakery bucket. He asked me what the hell I was doing.

I found a flaw in every single one.Thin places in the shell, minuscule cracks.

Look closely enough and you’ll find everything has a weak spot...where it can break.

I’ve found yours...

- Fracture - The movie

What price?

Sometimes we make the wrong choices to get to the right place.

- The Equalizer

Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups

When we allow assumptions to color our research, rather than have research challenge our assumptions, the result is invariably pseudoscience.
-Steven Novella

Goodbyes

Sometimes it makes me sad, though... Andy being gone. I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.

[Shawshank Redemption -The movie]

Complexity

Sometimes the questions are so much complicated and the answers are so simple.

-unknown-

A carrot on a stick

When you start doing well at work, your personal life is falling apart and goes up in smoke. This will be the time for a promotion.

- The Devil Wears Prada