
The Purpose of Life

Alan Watts
We thought of life by analogy—

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as a journey or a pilgrimage—

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which had a serious purpose at the end.

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The thing was to get to that end, success, or whatever it is,

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or maybe Heaven after you are dead,

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but we missed the point along the whole way.

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It was a musical thing,

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and you were supposed to sing or dance while the music was being played.