
The Wisdom of Insecurity
Mindfulness & Happiness
Alan Watts
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30 in total- I have always been fascinated by the idea of reversibility. Sometimes I call it the 'backwards law.' When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float.
- I would say that this book is an exploration of this idea in relation to man's quest for psychological security.
- The more we are able to feel pleasure, the more we are vulnerable to pain... the pain is always with us.
- The problem of making sense out of the seeming chaos of experience… reminds me of my childish desire to send someone a parcel of water in the mail.
- Our age seems to be one of unusual insecurity... long-established traditions have broken down.
- Salvation comes only through the death of the human form of God.
- By all outward appearances our life is a span of light between one eternal darkness and another.
- Human beings appear to be happy just so long as they have a future to which they can look forward.
- The more we are able to feel pleasure, the more we are vulnerable to pain.
- The ordinary agnostic, relativist, or materialist fails to reach this point because he does not follow his line of thought consistently to its end.
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