“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.”
"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."
- Alan Watts
Love
"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."
- Alan Watts
Awareness
"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."
- Alan Watts
Awareness
"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them."
- Alan Watts
Awareness
"What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously."
- Alan Watts
Awareness
"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."
- Edna Mode
Presence
"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."
- Maria Edgeworth
Presence
"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are."
- Confucius
Presence
"The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it’s all we’ll need."
- Ann Richards
Presence
"I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be."
- Danny DeVito
Presence