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.

Quote by Alan Watts

Topics: Illusions Quotes, Time Quotes

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being,...

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being,...

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of...

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of...

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when...

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when...

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to...

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to...

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they...

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they...

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of...

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of...

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea...

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea...

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move...

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move...

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them...

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them...

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag?...

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag?...

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and...

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and...

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make...

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make...

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by...

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by...