At the same time that human consciousness is a form of awareness and sensitivity and understanding, it’s also a form of ignorance. Our ordinary, everyday consciousness leaves out more than it takes in—things that are terribly important. For example, it leaves out things that would if we did know them—allay our anxieties and fears and horrors. If we could extend our awareness to those things that we leave out, we would experience a deep inner peace, because we would all know the one thing we aren’t supposed to know. According to one of the rules of our particular social game, you’re simply not allowed to know the lowdown on life. On one hand, lowdown means the real dirt on things, but it also means that which is profound, that which is mysterious, that which is in the depths. And the lowdown is that incredibly important aspect of existence that our everyday consciousness screens out.
Our senses are selective. And we are sensitive only to a small band of sensations, so we’re missing an enormous range of vibrations outside of that band—cosmic rays, ultraviolet rays, gamma rays, and so on. And I’m also referring to what our instruments are capable of detecting—there are even vibrations that escape their notice. The universe is a vast system of vibrations full of infinite possibilities. When you play a harp, you don’t just run your fingers back and forth over all the strings. That makes a terrible sound. You select certain strings in a pattern, you pick out particular notes, and these make a pattern. But at the same time, there are strings you leave out and notes you don’t play in the fundamental continuity of the harp.
Alan Watts 💫

CRS: Cítím rozdíl mezi "ignorance is bliss" a "mnozí lidé si to na nějaké úrovni myslí" :)
Qwwertyho citát vnímám spíš jako to druhé... Což je samozřejmě subjektivní.

INK_FLO: já měla za to, že v anime a manze to funguje jinak

INK_FLO: částečně souhlasím... hlavně: není to můj citát. Ale kritiku vítám. díky