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Normally this interaction would make him cranky, but as he leaves her table to input the order, he enjoys the sensation that he’s pulled something off and that if he were being filmed, he would appear confident.
“It doesn’t sound like you’re in danger of not taking it seriously.”
But when they finally see him in person, they understand that he could never be confused with anyone else.
“It’s about seeing the potential of yourself and everyone around you. There’s all this invisible energy flowing around us all the time. What we don’t realize is that all these little details—words we overhear or images we see in our dreams—are Signifiers of this universal flow of energy. If you learn to recognize these Signifiers of Flow, then you can channel your potential for transformation.”
But cynical, quote-unquote smart people always underestimate the power of something as simple as a positive mindset and openness to the world. Lots of good things have come my way because of it.”
“She was one of those people who thinks that the answer to every problem is apple cider vinegar.”
“The two of them together are like some kind of crazy magnetic field. Like some haunted portal.”
In this state of mind, it’s easy for a bit of fantasy to escape the area where dangerous ideas are normally sequestered, and—catlike—present itself without warning.
To be himself in this moment is unbearable—it’s too much responsibility.
The idea of sharing a grief therapist with Jake strikes Remy as oddly unclean, like sharing a toothbrush, or a girlfriend.
“I can’t really explain what little I know of the science, but essentially there’s a symbolic order underlying seemingly random events. It requires interpretation.”
The obstacle is the occasion.
The universe is a beautifully arranged place in which even details that seem ordinary are the key to a larger design.
The obstacle is the occasion. Is this phrase, like one of the slogans coming out of Sean’s television, the code to his destiny?
Any uncertainty he might normally have is eradicated by the brilliance, the neatness, of these Signifiers, and the clarity of their message.
