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The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist Mark Epstein writes that freedom from anxiety requires learning how to navigate inevitable cycles of integration, un-integration, and reintegration—what he calls going to pieces without falling apart.
Brad Stulberg • Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You
Life is intrinsically confusing and precarious. What makes life unbearable is our mistaken belief that it can be cured. We have limited capacity for conceiving the complexity of the world, and we can relax into that reality. Being comfortable that we won't fully grasp things and relax into doubt.
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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