The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
ALAN WATTSReal travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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The present is always changing the past.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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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.
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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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.
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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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The menu is not the meal.
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