It’s not so hard, really, to be happy. The problem, though, is that we want to understand happiness: understand and control it. The external world perhaps has more solidity than we give it simply because we are not willing to accept what we think it will tell us…

…Following Wittgenstein, words are all metaphors, connections between internal images and external observations. And because the verb in a metaphor is copulatory (I love that grammatical term), every word is symmetrical, attesting to the reality both of the internal and the external.