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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
"The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories."— Alan Watts
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Meaning of this quote
A preoccupied sense of self can replace immediate experience with imagined futures and regretted pasts.
Key takeaway:
Notice the story you are telling and return to the situation itself.
Origin of the quote
Introduction by Deepak Chopra to a 2011 edition of The Wisdom of Insecurity.
Who actually said this?
Appears in Chopra's introduction describing Watts's ideas, rather than in Watts's original 1951 text.
