• As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.

    Alan Watts: As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space.  Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds.  Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.