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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Key to the practice is regularly to turn over three large questions. The first asks what we might be anxious about right now. We are rarely without a sizeable backlog of worries, far greater than we tend consciously to recognize. Life, properly felt, is an infinitely alarming process even in its apparently calmer stretches. We face a medley of ongo

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