This reminds me of the end of the famous DFW commencement speech [1]:<p>"I know that this stuff probably doesn't sound fun and breezy or grandly inspirational the way a commencement speech is supposed to sound. What it is, as far as I can see, is the capital-T Truth, with a whole lot of rhetorical niceties stripped away. You are, of course, free to think of it whatever you wish. But please don't just dismiss it as just some finger-wagging Dr Laura sermon. None of this stuff is really about morality or religion or dogma or big fancy questions of life after death.<p>The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death.<p>It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over:<p>This is water.<p>This is water."<p>[1] <a href="http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/DFWKenyonAddress2005.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/DFWKenyonAddress2005.pdf</a>