Alan Watts

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. ”

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. ”

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. ”

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. ”

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. ”

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

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present. ”

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. ”

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. ”

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing. ”