Our lives aren’t a journey — instead, they are simply creative expression realized.
As far back as most of us can remember, we’ve been raised to constantly be thinking about the next step in our life’s progression.
By climbing up the rungs of the schooling ladder — kindergarten, elementary school, high school, then college — there is always an implied pressure that “something” is coming; just around the corner, so close we could smell it.
But what if we’ve got this all wrong?
What if, instead, life didn’t resemble a journey at all, but was instead more akin to a work of art; a piece of music, a dance, a play?
Renowned philosopher Alan Watts had a knack for knocking the wind out of our sails (in the best way possible) when it came to analyzing and understanding the real meaning of life. And in this beautiful video, he unpacks our need to constantly be moving forward and progressing through life… while simultaneously missing the whole point.
We live our lives as if they are a very important journey; a sort of pilgrimage with an end goal in sight.
But Watts argues that just simply isn’t true — that our lives should be treated more as a musical composition, with lifts, drops, and improvised beauty in between.
As Watts so aptly says, life is not just about the end journey — because otherwise, the best conductors would be those who played fastest. Instead, it’s inherently playful and creative in and of itself.
For some reason, we don’t see life this way. Instead, our schooling system implies that our lives are all about grades, numbers, and marks, and racing towards that arbitrary end point of “success.”
But when, exactly, do we arrive?
Instead of putting on the blinkers and living to retire, we are instead supposed to sing, dance, and simply live — while the music is still being played.
This concept comes from Alan Watt’s course on Soulvana, Out Of Your Mind.
His course consists of 12 great teaching sessions on how to break through the limitations of our logical mind to begin expanding our awareness, and noticing the Web Of Life unfolding around us.
In this course, you will discover:
► How to recognize the illusion of being a “poor little me” — skin-encapsulated ego separate from everything — and how to break through this socially constructed belief.
► The importance of letting go of control, and what happens when you stop taking your life too seriously.
► How to embrace chaos to find the true meaning of your life.
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