(…)
-You love your new boyfriend?
-I ended it.
-I don’t understand. Why do you do it?
-I couldn’t keep my balance.
-Sometimes… losing balance for love… is part of living a balanced life. You need to keep smiling with your face, mind and liver… (…)
I’ve come to believe in something I call “The Physics of the Quest” – A force in nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity. The rule of the Quest Physics goes like this:
If you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, wich can be anything from your house to bitter old resentments… and set out on a thruth-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 the truth will not be withheld from you.
I can’t help but believe it… given my experience.
Attraversiamo!
Certas coisas despertam um imediato, compulsivo, desejo de escrita. É claro que escrever sobre essas coisas é tentar acrescentar-lhes uma dimensão: a da subjectividade e da forma como elas se tornam numa presença real.
