"Why do we love nonsense? ....It is this participation in the essential glorious nonsense that is at the heart of the world, not necessarily going anywhere.
It seems that only in moments of unusual insight and illumination that we get the point of this, and find that the true meaning of life is no meaning, that its purpose is no purpose, and that its sense is non-sense.
Still, we want to use the word “significant.” Is this significant nonsense? Is this a kind of nonsense that is not just chaos, that is not just blathering balderdash, but rather has in it rhythm, fascinating complexity, and a kind of artistry?
It is in this kind of meaninglessness that we come to the profoundest meaning."
Sense of Nonsense: Alan Watts on How We Find Meaning by Surrendering to Meaninglessness
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/25/sense-of-nonsense-alan-watts-tao-of-philosophy/
21.30 mins
It seems that only in moments of unusual insight and illumination that we get the point of this, and find that the true meaning of life is no meaning, that its purpose is no purpose, and that its sense is non-sense.
Still, we want to use the word “significant.” Is this significant nonsense? Is this a kind of nonsense that is not just chaos, that is not just blathering balderdash, but rather has in it rhythm, fascinating complexity, and a kind of artistry?
It is in this kind of meaninglessness that we come to the profoundest meaning."
Sense of Nonsense: Alan Watts on How We Find Meaning by Surrendering to Meaninglessness
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/25/sense-of-nonsense-alan-watts-tao-of-philosophy/
21.30 mins
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