02:55 am
“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 an all-powerfully
causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present.
Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and
expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any
other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch
with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and
measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a
fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols,
signs, conceptions and ideas.”
| — | Alan Watts |