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𝘚𝘢𝘧𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳, 𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳 𝘉𝘓𝘔 / 𝘈𝘊𝘈𝘉

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We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Out consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never, is, nor will be any other experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.

Alan W. Watts

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Well now really when we go back into falling in love. And say, it's crazy. Falling. You see? We don't say "rising into love." There is in it, the idea of the fall. And it goes back, as a matter of fact, to extremely fundamental things. That there is always a curious tie at some point between the fall and the creation. Taking this ghastly risk is the condition of there being life. You see, for all life is an act of faith and an act of gamble. The moment you take a step, you do so on an act of faith because you don't really know that the floor's not going to give under your feet... So, achually therefore, the course of wisdom, what is really sensible, is to let go, is to commit oneself, to give oneself up and that's quite mad. So we come to the strange conclusion that in madness lies sanity.

Alan W. Watts