{"id":14714,"date":"2016-08-03T17:31:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T15:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bodymind.nl\/mark-strand-on-being-alive"},"modified":"2016-08-03T17:31:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T15:31:15","slug":"mark-strand-on-being-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bodymind.nl\/en\/thinking\/mark-strand-on-being-alive","title":{"rendered":"Mark Strand on being alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">We&#8217;re only here for a short while. And I think it&#8217;s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we&#8217;re almost obliged to pay attention. In some ways, this is getting far afield. I mean, we are &#8211; as far as we know &#8211; the only part of the universe that&#8217;s self-conscious. We could even be the universe&#8217;s form of consciousness. We might have come along so that the universe could look at itself. 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