The Wisdom of Insecurity

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This state comes about because we crave security, despite that this is both impossible and undesireable.

How we’re given the ability to think and reminisce and wish and expect but how exactly those things are giving us unrelenting stress and anxiety. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.Building on the abstraction of time, the abstraction of the self is also only present as an extrapolation into your memories of the past.

We assert our ego-self by thinking of ourselves as separate from our experience, which leads to unnecessary anxiety.It is filled with simple examples illuminating eternal truths of all spiritual paths and applying them to the modern world.

In this book he contemplates about existential aspects of life that are fundamental and can be examined in a wider perspective of philosophy as well as human psychology. That is the truth of the inter-pervasion of opposites, the inner mutual alliance of all opposing forces, ideas, concepts.In particular, Watts’ ideas inevitably make specific claims about cognitive science and how our brains must work. It’s like the poet Rainer Maria Riike said 100 years ago: “could it be that the real world is something I’ve never KNOWN? According to Watts there is no method to solve the problem of happiness, “The question ‘What shall we do about it? This insight is may seem like a technicality, until it is applied to some of the concepts we believe are central such as time and the self.