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Alan Watts Quote - The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

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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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
ALAN WATTS

Existence Future Illusion Past Present Reality
If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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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 ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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