The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
I never have been insecure, because I see what a waste it is. I know there is a solution to insecurity. I don't tend to be thrown by problems that don't have solutions. And insecurity has a wealth of alternatives.
Not being secure affects us as humans. It throws us off our balance. It puts us in disarray.
Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.
Only the insecure strive for security.
I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.