This stunning speech from English philosopher Alan Watts will leave you speechless. It begins with a simple idea, that our society is too afraid of death and "the unknown."
Watts somehow manages to, so eloquently, place the whole universe in perspective when he asks, "Who said you're supposed to survive? Who gave you the idea that it's a gas to go on and on and on?" Watts goes on to explain that living is about experiencing the magic hidden in everyday living.
Like a child's excitement at learning new things, the experience, and beauty, of life, is made more beautiful by the knowledge that one day it has to come to an end. "By as it were passing on a torch, so that you don't have to carry it all the time. There comes a point where you can give it up and say 'you work."
Children see all new things as marvels, because they don't see new things in terms of survival and profit, and when humans grow up, that magic slowly begins to cease. And at that point, we're no longer fulfilling nature's game of being aware of itself, and so something else comes in to replace us.
While some people may disagree with Watts' approach to life and death, it certainly makes it a little less scary. The idea that death is, in itself, a reward for life, makes things a little more beautiful.
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