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Patterns On The Waves

Akira the Don & Alan Watts•Official Audio (YouTube API)

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Now, I want to put it two ways

I'm not saying

That it's a bad thing, something to be condemned

To take your own individual life seriously

In dead earnest

And to have all the problems that go with that

Do understand that being that way

That being a real mixed-up human being

Is a manifestation of nature

That is something just like the patterns on the waves out here

Patterns on the waves

Or like a seashell?

You know, we pick up shells

I always keep one around

As sort of an example for many things

And say, "My goodness, isn't that gorgeous!"

There's not an aesthetic fault in it anywhere

It's absolutely perfect

Now, I wonder

I wonder if these fish look at each other's shells and say

"Don't you think she's kind of fat?

Oh my, those markings aren't really very well spaced."

Because that's what we do

Patterns on the waves

That's what we do

Patterns on the waves

That's what we do

See, we don't realize that all of us

In our various goings-on, and behavior

And so on are more marvelous, much more complicated

Much more interesting

All these gorgeous faces that I'm looking at

You know, every one of them

Some of them are supposedly pretty

Some of them are supposedly not so pretty

But they're all absolutely gorgeous

And everybody's eyes is a piece of jewelry beyond compare

Beautiful!

Patterns on the waves

That's what we do

Patterns on the waves

That's what we do