Alan Watts - I have realized that the past and future are...
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Alan Watts - I have realized that the past and future are...
The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the future are not as real, but more real than the present.
— Alan Watts
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- Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everla... See more
from The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety by Alan Watts
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Until this has become clear, it seems that our life is all past and future, and that the present is nothing more than the infinitesimal hairline which divides them. From this comes the sensation of “having no time,” of a world which hurries by so rapidly that it is gone before we can enjoy it. But through “awakening to the instant” one sees that th
... See morefrom The Way of Zen by Alan W. Watts