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Order is not free

Any arrangement is one of an enormous number, nearly all less organized, so holding one costs continuously. The caution that must travel with it: the one-directional law applies to isolated systems, and nothing in a life is one. The honest form is that nothing which has stopped being paid for stays where you left it.

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  • Part Two — How to PracticeReading Your Own CycleReinforcing loops amplify; balancing loops correct back toward a middle — and everything that survives runs both at once, like a tide.

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