When life is empty, with respect to the past, and aimless, … - Alan Watts

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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 hairline, a split second in which there is no time for anything to happen.

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Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was an English philosopher, writer, speaker, and expert in comparative religion.

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It is both dangerous and absurd for our world to be a group of communions mutually excommunicate.

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