The Wisdom of Insecurity

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Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master's degree in theology.

And the screws were only JUST THEN beginning to be tightened on our brains by our intense political and cultural pressure! Picked it up one day last month thinking I could reread it during a lunch hour between depositions downtown. Furthermore, the growth of an acute sense of the past and future gives us a corresponding dim sense of the present. Vrlo napredna za svoje vreme (objavljena pedesetih), o bivstvovanju u sadašnjem trenutku (pre nego što se to počelo zvati ma-ma-ma-majndfulnes i krenulo da iskače iz frižidera sa ekrana leti po kući a ne možeš da ga ucmekaš tabalicom za muve).Most Westerners who get hooked on 'those mystical religions of the east' tend to be those who completely misunderstand the religions of the west and blame all the problems the last two hundred years (colonisation, the crusades, capitalism. It's fascinating to see how his thought from the 1950s are still valid today in a seemingly completely different society. If the pursuit of happiness seems like a practical joke inserted into the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson, you might read this book and declare a little independence as well -- from your "self," for starters.

Oh, not a self with added contextual meaning - but our selves Alone - without the meaning of our environment.Self-improvement implies a split of self, one of the past, negative view of the self (the mistakes I made, what I need to fix) and one of the future, idealistic self (an unrealistic ideal of the future self, that may or may not come to be). Free from clutching at themselves the hands can handle; free from looking after themselves the eyes can see; free from trying to understand itself thought can think. This suggests that not only is there no method for achieving resolution, but wanting to achieve a resolution is a symptom of the initial problem! As Alan Watts said (probably somewhere in this book), "Explicit opposites are actually implicit allies.