Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, …

Alan Watts
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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present. ✨ Alan Watts (1983). The Way of Liberation: Essays and Lectures on the Transformation of the Self, Weatherhill, Incorporated
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