Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
- Alan Watts
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and... For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is... We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present... The future is a concept, it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will... The destination of life is this eternal moment.
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