Journey, not the destination.

Meaning is reductionist. It's like trying to find the perfect signal, by eliminating all noise.

We are linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality and the price we pay to feel, is that lots of it is pain. As the price we pay to think, is that much of it is confusion.

Without the ups and downs, it's a flatline.

I happened to use the same picture;

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/staring-into-the-abyss-384c5781e3d