Brain Food #375
Deep in this life
Daily Brain Food.
Thoughts of the day
A very quick one for today: if consciousness still remains a mystery, and hard to comprehend, then what remains is to be grateful for the ‘stroke of chance’ that gave it to us in the first place.
From Simone de Beauvoir, who lived her existence in a fuller way than most:
“Every morning, even before I open my eyes, I know I am in my bedroom and my bed. But if I go to sleep after lunch in the room where I work, sometimes I wake up with a feeling of childish amazement — why am I myself? What astonishes me, just as it astonishes a child when he becomes aware of his own identity, is the fact of finding myself here, and at this moment, deep in this life and not in any other. What stroke of chance has brought this about?”
