Alan Watts, Wisdom of Insecurity is one starter book I always recommend. Especially if you need a certain push towards knowledge that may help put things into perspective. Fitting for us being at the tail end of a Sagittarius Full Moon period. Here’s why it should be on your read list.
What is this book about?
A book that really defines life on Earth. If unaware or have yet to contemplate what human behaviour we’re all in a cycle of, this is a very good book to start with. And once you’ve absorbed it, you can really see and observe others around you, having a glimpse of the collective unconscious.
Then it’s on you, to follow and be a part of that collective unconscious or to realize there’s more to life than that, to possibly explore what is ‘an everlasting life beyond the grave’. What have you forgotten when you came here? What have you forgotten on the lessons you chose to have before you came here?
Noteworthy excerpts from the book.
“Human beings appear to be happy just so long as they have a future to which they can look forward – whether it be a ‘good time’ tomorrow or an everlasting life beyond the grave. For various reasons, more and more people find it hard to believe in the latter. On the other hand, the former has the disadvantage that when this ‘good time’ arrives, it is difficult to enjoy it to the full without some promise of more to come. If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death”.
“What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul?”
“Paradox as it may seem, we likewise find life meaningful only when we have seen that it is without purpose, and know the ’mystery of the universe’ only when we are convinced that we know nothing at all”.
“So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it”.
“If you ask me to show you God, I will point to the sun, or a tree, or a worm. But if you say, “You mean, then, that God is the sun, the tree, the worm, and all other things?” – I shall have to say that you have missed the point entirely.”.
“Paradox as it may seem, we likewise find life meaningful only when we have seen that it is without purpose, and know the ’mystery of the universe’ only when we are convinced that we know nothing at all”.
The one that really stuck out was this. Life itself is without purpose. You are the one who chose the meaning for your life, in that everlasting pursuit for whatever you find meaningful. But, nothing here really matters cause once you understand that Earth is just a part of the big picture, there’s so much more to know that can’t really be fully known unless you’re chasing that knowledge wilfully. But even then, you’ll never really be able to grasp the entirety of human life, Gaia and Source.
Even the conscious have to participate in life. But that is a whole other journey altogether.
At least 90% of the human population have “never stopped in their tracks and looked around”.
Have you?
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