When life is empty, with respect to the past, and aimless, with respect to the future, the vacuum is filled by the present - normally reduced to a ha… - Alan Watts

The truth is that people who live for the future are, as we say of the insane, “not quite all there” — or here: by overeagerness they are perpetually missing the point. Foresight is bought at the price of anxiety, and, when overused, it destroys all its own advantages.

Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or “loyal opposition” to the culture in which it is involved.

There is no such thing as a single, solitary event. The only possible single event is all events whatsoever. That could be regarded as the only possible atom; the only possible single thing is everything.