During the 1950s and 1960s, British philosopher and writer Alan Watts began popularizing Eastern philosophy in the West, offering a wholly different perspective on inner wholeness in the age of anxiety and what it really means to live a life of purpose. 

[Alan Watts on What Reality Is and How to Become What You Are](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/06/alan-watts-reality/)
“Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others.”

[The Ego and the Universe: Alan Watts on Becoming Who You Really Are](https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/27/alan-watts-taboo/)
The cause of and cure for the illusion of separateness that keeps us from embracing the richness of life.

[An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety: Alan Watts on Happiness and How to Live with Presence](https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/06/alan-watts-wisdom-of-insecurity-1/)
Wisdom on overcoming the greatest human frustration from the pioneer of Eastern philosophy in the West.