It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person

Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.

And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see its mesh of patterns, and it strikes us as beautiful. And that feeling is the most important thing in all the universe—its culmination, like the color of the flower at first bloom on a wet morning.

You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person

In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.