Taboo Against Knowing

"As it is, we are merely bolting our lives ~ gulping down undigested experiences as fast as we can
stuff them in ~ because awareness of our own existence is so superficial and so narrow that nothing
seems to us more boring than simple being.  If I ask you what you did, saw, heard, smelled, touched 
and tasted yesterday, I am likely to get nothing more than the thin, sketchy outline of the few things
that you noticed, and of those only what you though worth remembering.  Is it surprising than an 
existence so experienced seems so empty and bare that its hunger for an infinite future is insatiable?
But suppose you could answer, "It would take me forever to tell you, and I am much too interested in
what's happening now."  How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can
experience itself as anything  less than a god?  And, when you consider that this incalculably subtle 
organism is inseparable from the still more marvelous patterns of its environment ~ from the minutest
electrical designs to the whole company of the galaxies ~ how is it conceivable that this incarnation 
of all eternity can be bored with being?"

~Alan Watts, The Book:  On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are


There is something about this passage from Alan Watts in The Book:  On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, that reaches deeply within me.  He sharpens my perception of existence with his poignant wording, and opens my soul to a deeper life experience.