The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety Author: Visit Amazon's Alan W. Watts Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0307741206 | Format: PDF
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“Reading Alan Watts challenges us to explore new avenues of thinking, inspires us to lead more fulfilling lives. His legacy lives on in
The Wisdom of Insecurity, a work that energetically displays Watts’s piercing intellect, razor-sharp wit, and winning grace. For the clarity and wisdom with which it engages timeless concerns crucial to us all, it is unmatched. An important book.”
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Greg Mortenson, author of
Three Cups of Tea“Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Watts had the rare gift of ‘writing beautifully the unwritable.’”
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Los Angeles Times“The wisdom of insecurity is not a way of evasion, but of carrying on wherever we happen to be stationed—carrying on, however, without imagining that the burden of the world, or even of the next moment, is ours. It is a philosophy not of nihilism but of the reality of the present—always remembering that to be of the present is to be, and candidly know ourselves to be, on the crest of a breaking wave.”
—Philip Wheelwright,
Arts and Letters “This book proposes a complete reversal of all ordinary thinking about the present state of man. The critical condition of the world compels us to face this problem: how is man to live in a world in which he can never be secure, deprived, as many are, of the consolations of religious belief? The author shows that this problem contains its own solution—that the highest happiness, the supreme spiritual insight and certitude are found only in our awareness that impermanence and insecurity are inescapable and inseparable from life. Written in a simple and lucid style, it is a timely message.”
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Book Exchange (London)
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An exploration of man's quest for psychological security and spiritual certainty in religion and philosophy.
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- Series: Vintage
- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; 2 edition (February 8, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0307741206
- ISBN-13: 978-0307741202
- Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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