Akira The Don, Alan Watts - Complete Honesty lyrics

Jung had a tremendous humor and he knew

That nobody can be completely honest
You will try and have a great deal of success
Exploring your motivation and
Your dark unconscious depths
That nobody can be completely honest
You will try and have a great deal of success
But there will be a certain point
At which you will say
"Well I've had enough of that, " you know?

And do you see how in a strange
Way there’s a certain sanity in that?
When a person indulges in a certain
Kind of duplicity of deception
There is something, you all laughed
When I said that
There's something humorous about it

Basically humor is an attitude of


Laughter about ones self
There is malicious humor
Which is laughing at other people
But real deep humor is laughter at ones self
Now why fundamentally do you
Laugh about yourself?
What makes you laugh about yourself?
Isn't it because you know that there
Is a big difference between
What goes on the outside and
What goes on the inside? That if I hint
You see, that you’re inside is the opposite
Of your outside it makes people laugh
If I don't do it unkindly
If I get up in the attitude of a preacher
And say you're a bunch of miserable sinners
And you ought to be different nobody laughs
But if I say "Well, after all, boys will
Be boys, and girls will be girls, "
We all know, then, people laugh

That nobody can be completely honest
You will try and have a great deal of success
Exploring your motivation and your
Dark unconscious depths
That nobody can be completely honest
You will try and have a great deal of success
But there will be a certain point
At which you will say
"Well I've had enough of that, " you know?

Now, you see what's happening
When we do that?
Now, I passed you around a lot
Of embroidery to look at before we started
And I'm perfectly sure that you got the point
That there's a big difference between
The front and the back
In some forms of embroidery the back
Is very different from the front
Because people take shortcuts
In the front everything is orderly
And it is supposed to be kinda
Messy on the back side
See, which side will you wear?
You got to be sure you get
The front in the front
And the back in the back
The back has all the little tricks in it
All the shortcuts all the low down that
People don't acknowledge
And it’s exactly the same with
The way we live you know
Like sweeping the dust under the carpet in
A hurry just before the guests come
I mean we do ever so many things like that
And if you don’t do it, if
You don't think you do it, and you think
"Well, really my embroidery is the
Same on both sides"
See? Well you’re deceiving yourself
Because what you're doing is you're taking
The shortcuts in another dimension
Which you're keeping out of consciousness
Everybody takes the shortcuts
Everybody plays tricks
Everybody has in himself an
Element of duplicity, of deception
Because you see from this point
Of view that I’m discussing
Where the web is the trap
To be is to deceive

That nobody can be completely honest
You will try and have a great deal of success
Exploring your motivation and your
Dark unconscious depths
That nobody can be completely honest
You will try and have a great deal of success
But there will be a certain point
At which you will say
"Well I've had enough of that, " you know?

To be – is to deceive to be – is to deceive