Description: "The perfect guide for a course correction in life, away from materialism and its empty promise" (Deepak Chopra), The Wisdom of Insecurity shows us how-in an age of unprecedented anxiety-we must embrace the present and live fully in the now in order to live a fulfilling life. Spending all our time trying to anticipate and plan for the future and to lamenting the past, we forget to embrace the here and now. We are so concerned with tomorrow that we forget to enjoy today. Drawing from Eastern philosophy and religion, Alan Watts shows that it is only by acknowledging what we do not-and cannot-know that we can learn anything truly worth knowing. "Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Watts had the rare gift of 'writing beautifully the unwritable.'" -Los Angeles Times Alan W. Watts, who held both a master's degree in theology and a doctorate of divinity, is best remembered as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in particular, and of Indian and Chinese philosophy in general. Standing apart, however, from sectarian membership, he has earned the reputation of being one of the most original and "unrutted" philosophers of the twentieth century. Watts was the author of some twenty books on the philosophy and psychology of religion that have been published in many languages throughout the world, including the bestselling The Way of Zen. An avid lecturer, Watts appeared regularly on the radio and hosted the popular television series, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life, in the 1960s. He died in 1973. Introduction by Deepak Chopra Preface by Alan W. Watts 1. The Age of Anxiety 2. Pain and Time 3. The Great Stream 4. The Wisdom of the Body 5. On Being Aware 6. The Marvelous Moment 7. The Transformation of Life 8. Creative Morality 9. Religion Reviewed
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Book Title: Wisdom of Insecurity : a Message for an Age of Anxiety
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2011
Item Height: 0.5 in
Topic: Personal Growth / Happiness, Anxieties & Phobias, General, Buddhism / Zen (See Also Philosophy / Zen), Spiritualism, Philosophy
Genre: Religion, Body, Mind & Spirit, Self-Help, Psychology
Item Weight: 5.6 Oz
Item Length: 7.9 in
Author: Alan Watts
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback