“The voyage… of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it will straighten itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.”
“….It means stop seeing the journey you’re in as a phase. Look more broadly. See the bigger picture. Life takes you here and there, and it can feel all random and tragic, insane. And then one day it’s like, “Wow. I was always coming here.” And if you made the choices that brought you here genuinely… …you’ll be at peace with where you end up.”
Margo Martindale as Laurel
The quote is from Ralph Waldo Emerson‘s essay, Self-Reliance, published in 1841. Read and explained by Laurel in Dark Matter Season 2 Episode 8 The Basic Oneness of Everything.
It is a perfect metaphor for the mind-bending journey through the multiverse and ultimately speaks to my guiding philosophy to honour each stage of your journey.
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