You can only understand the path of a life looking backward, so the dots have to be trusted to connect in the future: trust in something, whether gut, destiny or karma.

Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.