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Wisdom of Insecurity Part 2

THE WISDOM OF INSECURITY : PART 2
BY ALLAN WATTS

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The transformation of life

The proper meaning of the word ‘theory’ is not idle speculation but vision. Vision in this sense means ‘clarity’ .. proper understanding of who you are and where you want to go. Without such vision all talk of being practical is useless. It is like walking busily in a fog and going nowhere.

If we have contradictory wants for example sovereign borders and world peace, then their results however practical we may be about getting them will be further contradictions. Keep Reading

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Wisdom of Insecurity Part 1

THE WISDOM OF INSECURITY : PART 1
BY ALLAN WATTS

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The Age of anxiety

Essential realities of religion and metaphysic are vindicated in doing without them and manifested in being destroyed.

Human beings appear to be happy just so long as they have a future to which they can look forward. Man seems to be unable to live without the myth that the routine and drudgery, the pain and fear of this life have some meaning and goal in the future. Keep Reading

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