Life is about allowing yourself to be played by nature. The metaphor is not: you are playing yourself as an instrument; you are the instrument that nature is playing. You are the violin in the hands of God. Allow yourself to be played. If you want the orchestra to play in unison like an organism, thatās what itās about. Our role as metacognitive agents is to pay attention, to observe how we are being played ā¦ The blossom of the apple tree is not about it, itās about the appleāwithout the blossom there is no apple, and there is no next apple tree. The fact that our lives are not about us does not entail or imply that our lives are meaningless. Theyāre extremely meaningful precisely because they are not about us, precisely because they are about something much bigger than us.
Bernardo Kastrup