The Wisdom of Insecurity

by Alan W. Watts

The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain, fear, or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, buzz, writhe, and whirl, trying to get the “I” out of the experience.

for I have discovered that pain and the effort to be separate from it are the same thing.

Nothing is more creative than death,