
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be.
Alan W. Watts • The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath.
Alan W. Watts • The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Furthermore, the growth of an acute sense of the past and the future gives us a correspondingly dim sense of the present.
Alan W. Watts • The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart. The movement in which I am a pattern or convolution began incalculable ages before the (conventionally isolated) event called birth, and will continue long after the event called death. Only words and conventions can iso
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You will not see the sky if you have covered the glass with blue paint.
Alan W. Watts • The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
the only interesting people are interested people,
Alan W. Watts • The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
When each moment becomes an expectation life is deprived of fulfillment,
Alan W. Watts • The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.