„Does It Matter: Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality“ von Alan Watts ist eine Sammlung von Essays, die sich mit der Beziehung des Menschen zur materiellen Welt auseinandersetzen. Watts, bekannt für seine Fähigkeit, östliche...

A revelatory primer on what it means to be human-and a mind-opening manual of initiation into the central mystery of existence. At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that we are...

"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...

Contains essays which represent the author's thinking on the confounding problems of our relation to our material environment. This book argues that modern people confuse symbol with reality, as well as ways of describing and measuring...