Alan Watts Quote - The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

Abstraction Quotes

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

"The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality."

— Alan Watts

Download

Download in different sizes

Phone Wallpaper 1080 x 1920 Desktop Wallpaper 1920 x 1080 Square Post 1080 x 1080 Instagram Portrait 1080 x 1350 Whatsapp Status 1080 x 1920 Facebook Cover 820 x 312

Details

Author: Alan Watts
Category: Abstraction
Tags: Abstraction Future Past Reality

More Quotes by Alan Watts

View all

Alan Watts Quote - Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Free

Actual

ALAN WATTS

Actual Command Feeling Love Pretend

Alan Watts Quote - Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.

Free

Future

ALAN WATTS

Future Inspirational Night Present Significance

Alan Watts Quote - The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.

Free

Civilization

ALAN WATTS

Civilization Meditation People Reality Reason

Alan Watts Quote - Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

Free

Eternal

ALAN WATTS

Eternal Future Life Listen Live

Alan Watts Quote - We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.

Free

Abandonment

ALAN WATTS

Abandonment Blame Follow Past Present

Alan Watts Quote - It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.

Free

Life

ALAN WATTS

Life Misery Spend

Alan Watts Quote - You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Free

Far

ALAN WATTS

Far Telescope Vast

Alan Watts Quote - If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

Free

Abyss

ALAN WATTS

Abyss Chase Death Depend Expectation

Alan Watts Quote - Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

Free

God

ALAN WATTS

God Man Personal Religion Result

Alan Watts Quote - The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.

Free

Constant

ALAN WATTS

Constant Construction Ego Empty Expectation

Alan Watts Quote - The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Free

Experience

ALAN WATTS

Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution

Alan Watts Quote - What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.

Free

Convention

ALAN WATTS

Convention Fatal Forget Serious Thinking

Alan Watts Quote - We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Free

Civilization

ALAN WATTS

Civilization Emotion Example Image Language

Alan Watts Quote - This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Free

Complete

ALAN WATTS

Complete Life Play Realize Secret

Alan Watts Quote - The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.

Free

Bloom

ALAN WATTS

Bloom Giant Glory Heart Life

Alan Watts Quote - You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

Free

Function

ALAN WATTS

Function Ocean Process Universe Yourself

You may also like

Discipline Quote by Unknown

Free

Discipline Quote

Unknown

1080 × 1350

Daily Effort by Robert Collier

Free

Daily Effort

Robert Collier

1080 × 1920

Future Quote by Unknown

Free

Future Quote

Unknown

1080 × 1920

Make a Difference by William James

Free

Make a Difference

William James

1080 × 1350

Believe You Can by Theodore Roosevelt

Free

Believe You Can

Theodore Roosevelt

1080 × 1350

You May Like