“And though it is like this, it is only that flowers, while loved, fall; and weeds while hated, flourish.” I happen to like that last line a whole lot. In one sense he’s saying something like, “Shit happens. Deal with it.” But it goes deeper than that. He’s saying that the world will never behave the way we think it should behave, but that isn’t so terrible because the self that thinks the world should behave according to its wishes doesn’t really exist.
