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The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Alan Watts: “There is a contradiction in our desire to be secure in a universe whose very nature is fluidity and movement...If I want to be secure, that is, protected from the flux of life, I am wanting to be separate from life. Yet, it is this very sense of separateness that makes me feel insecure. In other words, the more security I can get, the
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The Book of Not Knowing: Exploring the True Nature of Self, Mind, and Consciousness
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It must be obvious, from the start, that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity. But the contradiction lies a little deeper than the mere conflict between the desire for security and the fact of change. If I want to be secure, that is, protected from the flux of life,
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The art of living . . . is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past . . . on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive. —Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Jack Kornfield • The Buddha Is Still Teaching: Contemporary Buddhist Wisdom
any attempt to cling to the ego or to make it an effective source of action is doomed to frustration.