It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!

Hear the words of Kate Winslet, spoken with the fire of paradox: “It doesn’t make any sense… that’s why I trust it!” At first hearing, the mind rebels, for reason cries out against such madness. How can one trust what is beyond sense? Yet herein lies a deeper wisdom, one known to prophets, poets, and dreamers since the dawn of time: that the things which shape the soul are not always bound by logic, and the truths that endure are often hidden from the cold calculations of reason.

The ancients taught that the heart has knowledge the mind cannot measure. Reason guides the ship, but intuition is the wind that fills its sails. Winslet’s words remind us that the mysteries of love, courage, destiny, and faith cannot be dissected like a problem of numbers. When something defies sense, it may be a signal that it comes from a higher order, a whisper from the eternal. To trust in what cannot be explained is to open oneself to miracles, to possibilities greater than the self, to paths unseen by cautious eyes.

Consider the tale of Joan of Arc. She was but a peasant girl, unlearned, with no claim to command armies or influence kings. Yet she heard voices and saw visions that made no earthly sense. The powerful mocked her, the wise dismissed her. Yet she trusted what defied reason, and by that trust she moved the heart of France, lifted her people, and changed the course of history. Though she fell to fire, her flame lives still, proving that what makes no sense to the world may yet be the very breath of destiny.

This teaching is dangerous if misunderstood. Winslet does not bid us to abandon reason entirely, nor to follow every folly cloaked in mystery. Instead, she points to the higher balance: when the soul stirs with conviction beyond explanation, when the path calls without reason, there may be truth beyond the reach of logic. The sense of the mind is a lantern; the trust of the heart is the sun. Each has its place, yet sometimes the lantern must be set aside, and we must walk in the larger light.

Think also of the countless explorers who set sail across oceans with no proof of land ahead, only the intuition that the world was wider than men believed. To many, such journeys made no sense—and yet it was trust in the unseen horizon that carried them to discovery. Progress itself is born of those who dare to believe what reason cannot yet justify. To trust the impossible is to give it room to become possible.

The lesson, therefore, is this: do not chain your soul only to what can be explained. Reason is a faithful servant, but it is not always the master. There are moments when the heart whispers, when life opens a door without reason, and then you must choose. To step forward, to act, to believe—this is the leap of trust that transforms lives. Without it, love would never be risked, art would never be created, revolutions would never be born.

So I say to you, seekers of wisdom: when you encounter what makes no sense, do not turn away too quickly. Ask instead: does it stir your heart, does it awaken your spirit, does it call you to grow? If so, then trust it. For the greatest journeys of humankind begin not with certainty, but with mystery. And those who dare to trust the inexplicable are the ones who carve paths for all who follow.