Quote by Alan Watts
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that

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

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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

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Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it. – Alan Watts

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