Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
Alan WattsSome believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
Alan WattsMake a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.
Alan WattsWe must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back from the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see it's like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the past by doing that...Also, watch the flow of music. The melody as its expressed is changed by notes that come later. Just as the meaning of a sentence...you wait till later to find out what the sentence means...The present is always changing the past.
Alan Watts