Alan Watts on Pain And Time

In The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety,Alan Watts shows us how, in order to lead a fulfilling life, we must embrace the present—and live fully in the now.

Less vulnerable, less sensitive

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but they do not seem to make a ‘problem’ of it. Their lives seem to have so few complications. They eat when they are hungry and sleep when they are tired, an instinct rather than anxiety seems to govern their few prepara...