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The wisdom of insecurity

a message for an age of anxiety
Verfasser*in: Suche nach Verfasser*in Watts, Alan
Verfasser*innenangabe: by Alan W. Watts
Jahr: 2011
Verlag: New York, Vintage Books
Mediengruppe: Buch
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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."-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.'"-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."-Book Exchange (London) Product DescriptionAn exploration of man's quest for psychological security and spiritual certainty in religion and philosophy.

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Verfasser*in: Suche nach Verfasser*in Watts, Alan
Verfasser*innenangabe: by Alan W. Watts
Jahr: 2011
Verlag: New York, Vintage Books
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Systematik: Suche nach dieser Systematik PR.AMS, FS.E
Interessenkreis: Suche nach diesem Interessenskreis Sprache: Englisch, Englisch [Sprache]
ISBN: 978-0-394-70468-5
2. ISBN: 0-394-70468-1
Beschreibung: 2nd ed., 152 Seiten
Schlagwörter: Lao-tzu, Lebensführung, Spiritualität, Geistigkeit, Lebensgestaltung, Lebenstechnik
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Sprache: Englisch
Originaltitel: Weisheit des ungesicherten Lebens <dt.>
Fußnote: Text engl.
Mediengruppe: Buch