[T]he present is self-sufficient, but it is not a static present. It is a dancing present — the unfolding of a pattern which has no specific destination in the future but is simply its own point. It leaves and arrives simultaneously, and the seed is as much the goal as the flower.

Alan Watts The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
Also known as: Alan W. Watts, Alan Wilson Watts
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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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