We need to find security and peace of mind in a world whose very nature is insecurity, impermanence, and unceasing changes.
Many human beings appear to be happy only when they have a future that they can look forward to, either tomorrow or eternity. Could they be trying to drown out the realization that perhaps all is futile and meaningless?
One of the greatest favors bestowed on the soul transiently in this life is to enable it to see so distinctly and to feel so profoundly that it cannot comprehend God at all. St. John of the Cross
The desire for security and feeling of insecurity may be the same thing.
Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure. Allan Watts
The principal thing is to understand that there is no safety or security.
The notion of security is based on the feeling that there is something within us that is permanent, something that endures forever.
The highest to which man can attain is wonder: and if the prime phenomenon makes him wonder, let him be content; nothing higher can it give him, and nothing further should he seek for behind it; here is the limit. Goethe
Life must be accepting and embrace insecurity, so as to not miss the realities and pleasures of the moment.