For there is no joy in continuity, in the perpetual. We desire it only because the present is empty. A person who is trying to eat money is always hu… - Alan Watts
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For there is no joy in continuity, in the perpetual. We desire it only because the present is empty. A person who is trying to eat money is always hungry. When someone says, “Time to stop now!” he is in a panic because he has had nothing to eat yet, and wants more and more time to go on eating money, ever hopeful of satisfaction around the corner.
We do not really want continuity, but rather a present experience of total happiness.
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was an English philosopher, writer, speaker, and expert in comparative religion.
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