"How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?"

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We think that the world is limited and explained by its past. We tend to think that what happened in the past determines what is going to happen next, and we do not see that it is exactly the other way around! What is always the source of the world is the present; the past doesn't explain a thing. The past trails behind the present like the wake of a ship and eventually disappears.

— Alan Watts