Hello, Steemit Friends,
I came across an illuminating statement from this book i am reading. I want to share this with you all as something to think about as a reminder. :)
One see so many faces dulled by a seriousness which if it were born of grief, would be understandable. But the kind of seriousness which drags man down to the earth and kills the life of the spirit is not the child of sorrow but of a sort of playacting in which the player is deceived into identifying himself with his parts. Man suffer only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. There’s a seriousness...even the play of child, for the children is aware that it is only playing for fun. This seriousness becomes a vice in the adult, because he makes a religion out of the game, so identifying himself with his part or position in life that he fears to lose it.
This is especially so when the unenlightenment man attains to any degree of responsibility, he develops a heaviness of touch, lack of abandon,a stiffness which indicates that he is using his dignity as stilts to keep his head above adversity. His trouble is that instead of “playing” his part, his part plays him....
See life as a musician, be a creator with delight in the fashioning of rhythms and melody. To play with it is therefore not a duty but a joy and he who does not see it as a joy can neither do it nor understand it.
Become What You Are - Alan Watts
Eastern Philosophy
These are some pictures from a day by the pool at home !! before leaving back to Bangkok :)
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Much Love, Suzana <3
