Alan Watts Quotes

We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we cannot even think about it before it has gone. From another point of view, this moment is always here, since we know no other moment than the present moment. It is always dying, always becoming past more rapidly than imagination can conceive. Yet at the same time it is always being born, always new, emerging just as rapidly from that complete unknown we call the future. Thinking about it almost makes you breathless.

Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

They had no past. They had no future. They just were.

The moment rules over everything.

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.

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever.

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

Forget all your learnings - just remember that NOW is the moment that never ends

There's no future. There's no past. I live each moment as my last.

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

The timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.

Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past and future time. But if only their minds could be seized and held steady, they would be still for a while and, for that short moment, they would glimse the splendor of eternity, which is forever still.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial purposes time is mutually agreed on, but there is really no such thing.

Nothing is guaranteed to last, so you should just enjoy it as it happens.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.

Time means nothing to me.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.