I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. – Alan Watts
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. – Alan Watts
We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin. – Alan Watts
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. – Alan Watts