Belief, like fear and love, is a real force in the world that must be understood—in the same way that we understand physical theories such as relativity and the uncertainty principle.

Belief is a phenomenon that determines the course of our life and our future at every moment.

Yesterday our life was moving in one direction and today it is travelling along another. Yesterday we believed it impossible to do something that today we are doing.

Belief is among the forces that change the variables of time and space, powers that shape and transform what we think about ourselves.

We imagine that beliefs belong to us, but they are forces that existed long before our birth and will continue to live after our death.

Our lives and choices can be understood only like quantum leaps at the moment in which they occur.

Every moment of intersection and encounter with one another and with a new belief is an invitation to the possibility of choosing a new path in life and creating a new truth in the world.

Aydin Areta
Inspired by a conversation from the film *Cloud Atlas*