"... holding onto security is like trying to grasp water in your hands — it is futile. Like it or not, life is a fluid experience, not a fixed entity. Life is continually changing, and it is only when we understand this truth, that we can navigate life in a more meaningful manner. Trying to understand life by clinging to the illusion that it is predictable is self-defeating. It is only when we are able to "wrap our arms" around the unpredictable nature of life that we eventually learn to experience the well-being associated with security... "
~ author & philosopher, Alan Watts, who explores the nature of paradox in his classic, 'The Wisdom of Insecurity';
Monday, December 6, 2010
A WISE QUOTE FOR MONDAY MORNING
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Alan Watts,
Paradoxical Thinking
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