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Renowned lecturer and author Alan Watts presents his meditations on the dilemma of seeking your true self. In this nimble collection of some of his writings, Alan Watts displays the intelligence, playfulness of thought, and simplicity of language that has made him so perennially popular as an interpreter of Eastern thought for Westerners. Drawing on a variety of religious traditions, he presents the dilemma of seeking your true self—to become what you are. Once called “the godfather of Zen in America”, Watts also covers topics such as the challenge of seeing one’s life just as it is, the Taoist approach to harmonious living, the limits of language in the face of ineffable spiritual truth, and psychological symbolism in Christian thought.
Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal. For the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever… You may believe yourself out of harmony with life and its eternal Now; but you cannot be, for you are life and exist Now.
This book is part of the Shambhala Pocket Library series.
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