This song is way more than a song, as you’ll find out or have found out. The voice you hear on it is that of the late English writer, speaker, and interpreter of Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy, Alan Watts.
I discovered Watts through watching reels on Instagram discussing the Yin and Yang. The video that contains the snippet I first heard about the “two fish” concept…essentially what I’ve discovered I need to strive for in all things…”balance”.
I enjoy that this song is set against the track of someone walking on a gravelly path. To me it speaks to being on a journey…and aren’t we all? We don’t talk about our journeys enough. Hell, until the last few years I don’t even know if I would even consider what I was doing “journeying” in any direction at all. I feel like I’ve just begun to get to know myself honestly.
That’s why this song stuck out to me.
Liveliness is change; it’s motion.
Applicable to so much. Really that’s the key to creating your own happiness I think. Discover. Explore.
Set an intention to discover something today, whatever it may be. Happy hunting!
everything, etc. 
oh. What a remarkable oddity for this list! As you can probably guess, I love it! Expanding awareness!
Awareness is really all that we truly are. We are not our thoughts. When our mind is quiet, we’re still us. We’re not our feelings. They come and they pass, but we’re still us through all of that. We are not our bodies even. If we lost a limb, or had an organ transplant, we’d still be us. But awareness is, by some definition, consciousness. Without it, we aren’t.
I practice that in my meditation. Finding myself as the observer, and nothing more. Noticing the thoughts coming and going, and the feelings. The sensations. Recognizing that I am only the observer of all of that. Returning to that place of awareness behind all of it.
And one day I will no longer have the ability to be the observer. I will lose my awareness, and consciousness forever. And, from one perspective I will die and be no more. But, I was in that same state of nothingness – or everythingness – for 16 billion years before I emerged, and I’ll simply be returning to that state for billions or trillions of years more. It’s the state we’ll all be in for always, with the exception of this impossibly tiny blip we call life. And when we return there, all that really is dying is the brief illusion that we were ever separate from everything else.
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*ugh… 14 billion years. Probably. Not 16. Ah, well. What’s a couple billion years in the limitless expanse of eternity? 😆
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