One

“Pye, how many aspects of us are there, anyway?” I asked.

She laughed, looked out the window to the patterns below. “How many can you imagine? They are countless.”

“All these patterns are us?” Leslie asked stunned. “As far as we see, as far as we fly, these patterns are our choices?!”

Pye nodded with her head.

We haven’t started yet, I thought, and it is already beyond believing. “What about everybody else, Pye? How many lives can there be in one universe?”

She looked puzzlement at me, as if she didn’t understand my question. “How many lives are there in one universe, Richard?” she asked. “ONE”.

From Richard Bach’s book, “One".