sober examination of what lies before you, leaving aside all assumptions. - Alan Watts

Tools such as these, as well as the tools of language and thought, are of real use to men only if they are awake — not lost in the dreamland of past and future, but in the closest touch with that point of experience where reality can alone be discovered: this moment.

When each moment becomes an expectation life is deprived of fulfillment, and death is dreaded for it seems that here expectation must come to an end.

How long have the planets been circling the sun? Are they getting anywhere, and do they go faster and faster in order to arrive? How often has the spring returned to the earth? Does it come faster and fancier every year, to be sure to be better than last spring, and to hurry on its way to the spring that shall out-spring all springs?