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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. – Alan Watts

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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

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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. – Alan Watts

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The key to enjoying the moment is to always carry a list of “Things I Gotta Do That Can Wait.” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. – Carl Sandburg, “Prairie,” Complete Poems, 1950

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Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. – Montaigne

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