Own Your Path

When you tell people you're trying to fuse science and consciousness, science and spirituality, into one practical philosophical notion, these things sound rather abstract and unusual, and most people, I remember the father of one of my early girlfriends, when I was already trying to explain this stuff, he looked at me, he said, yeah, you know, man, well, there are places for people like you, they're called monasteries. The initial effect, when you're really following your purpose and it doesn't quite fall into some sort of mainstream expectation, is the people are going to doubt you, they're going to question you, and that has to be an incentive for us to just double down on our purpose and make it clear, so that those doubts generally fade away. As they do, I think everyone admires people who really stick to their purpose, and hang in there. The original skepticism kind of turns to, okay, maybe acceptance, and maybe that kind of finally grows into, maybe this crazy guy kind of knows what he's doing after all, and I'm glad he's my friend.