"The past and the future are abstractions..." - Quote by Alan Watts

“The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.”

“Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality.”

“Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.”

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

“Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.”

“Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.”

“There is no past. That's another illusion. Everything that has ever happened to you, to me, to anyone in this world, happened in the present moment. That's all there ever is. So your relationship to life isn't your relationship to your past, it's your relationship to the present moment.”

“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.”

“The general rule is that my life is focused on the present, and very little on the past. If anything, I'm a little bit more focused toward the future.”