Akira The Don, Alan Watts - An Aperture lyrics

The thing is that we have been educated
To use our minds in a certain way
A way that ignores,  or screens out
The fact that

Every one of us is an aperture
Through which the whole cosmos looks out
Every one of us is an aperture
Through which the whole cosmos looks out

You see
It’s as if you had a light covered with
A black ball, and in this ball were pinholes
And each pinhole is an aperture through
Which the light comes out
So in that way, every one of us is, actually
A pinhole through which the fundamental light
That is, the existence it'self, looks out
Only, the game we’re playing is
Not to know this
To be only that little hole
Which we call "me
" "my ego, " my specific "John Jones
" or whatever

Every one of us is an aperture
Through which the whole cosmos looks out
Every one of us is an aperture
Through which the whole cosmos looks out

If, we can maintain, at the same time
The sense of being this specific
John Jones with his role
In life, or whatever, and
Know also, underneath this
That we are the whole works
You get a very marvelous
And agreeable arrangement
This is a most remarkable
Harmoniousness, I mean, it gives
One’s life a great sense
Of joy and exuberance
If you can carry on these two things at once
If you, in other words
You know that all the serious predicaments
Of life are a game

Every one of us is an aperture
Through which the whole cosmos looks out
Every one of us is an aperture
Through which the whole cosmos looks out