If you’re brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting (house, job, old bitter resentments,
and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally,
and if you are truly willing to regarding 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.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love