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    <body><![CDATA[    It's funny..., I showed this book to one of my brilliant high school students and he took a look at it and called it a self-help book for people who aren't strong enough to think for themselves and read Nietzsche.  (Sounds exactly like something I would have said when I was his age, how far have...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21814411">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alan Watts is an ex Episcopal priest who converted to Zen Buddhism and then to Taoism, and then sort of moved beyond both in his own way.  The Wisdom of Insecurity is a book that was for me life-changing.  It argues, among other things, that insecurity, indeterminacy, is the truth of existence, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4088950">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To even attempt a review of this almost undermines the point, for Watts is writing about how definitions and descriptions always try and fail to fix what is fundamentally transient and flowing. But to attempt anyway: This is a book about living in the present moment, and it kind of messes with your ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69336725">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel like this book is a good summary of what should be common sense but never will be in any Westernized society. It touches a bit on ideas also connected to Evolutionary Psychology, and other concepts of the physical reality of the human realm. A lot of the ideas presented are repeated, but with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47656121">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Being natural very insecure, I have to admit a big part of my fascination with this book is the hope that it will validate my proclivity for spinelessness.  That said, the author's name is well known to me (he's referenced in a favorite song by a favorite songwriter, David Carter, for example).<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49838737">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I want to hate Alan Watts as the forerunner of Western Buddhism, in which it is largely about spiritual pornography, et cetera, as opposed to the more hard-boiled stuff you might find if you stepped outside your gated community for once. (When I say You, I dont necessarily mean you, but someone who ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29224729">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very good - I depart with him on the concept that &quot;there is no ego&quot; - - the ego is simply our frame of referece, and no matter how hard he tries, our frame of reference will never simply go away - realization of unity, yes.  Destruction of individual frame of reference in mortality?  No. T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43673589">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the first friends I made when I moved to the SF bay area gave me this book.  I LOVED it!  I had never read anything like it...it's packed full of existential musings that delighted my angst filled teenage brain.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book does an excellent job of pointing out all of the questions without providing any answers. Extremely well written, my only complaint is that it lacks any clear goal or conclusion. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in highschool for a class, I decided to read it again to see if, now that I'm 10 years older, I get something new out of it. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Watts was an amazing man, and this my favorite of his books which filter Lao Tzu for American culture.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have given away about 20 copies of this book. Alan Watts was a brilliant man.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[MUST READ- I feel that way about most books that I finish :)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Oh, Alan Watts, I knew ye well. This book of yours helped me get right with the world.&quot; Okay enough dead-author address. Reading this volume of the Alan Watts library is how one can come to grips with the fact that we're all gonna die some day, so buck up and let go already. That whole Bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8591605">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those books you return to a few times a year. Having been written decades ago, I'm always amazed how this book seems like it could have been written yesterday. It's a book that keeps things in perspective for me, in a life that sometimes seems to be spiraling out of control. I won't g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18807459">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my first encounter with Alan Watts. Known as the Westerners' gateway to the East, he really does make things palpable for compartmentalist <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/665738.Control_Freak" title="Control Freak by Christa Faust">control freak</a>s. I think he shows the validity of Eastern and Western thought together, which makes it a lesson in broad understanding for me. I will prob...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17259860">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book helped me gain an understanding around myself and my teenage shyness, dressed as bravado.<br/>It raised questions around society &quot;acceptance&quot; and &quot;self&quot; acceptance, it also imbued my &quot;insecurity&quot; with a naive arrogance, and introduced me to Christmas Humphrie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26386945">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I believe this is the collective favorite of Ryan and me. Or is it just what I want to project this notion so I can continue to delude myself about myself? When will I return to the state of innocence (re: book critiques) which is my birthright? Is there any sense in perpetuating my social facade as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33268607">more...</a>]]></body>
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