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OM WONDER
To be in awe, in rapture, in wonder, is to be close to om.
Below is a vast list of excerpts from:
THE WAY OF WONDER: a return to the mystery of ourselves
by Jack Haas
The image on the cover is a Sri Yantra, which is the visual symbol seen
during deep meditation on the sound of om.
Prologue
CHAPTER 1:
Rapture
Satori, rapture, original mind, mystery, apotheosis, wonder, and E. M.
Cioran
Leo Tolstoy, Rumi, Osho, Thomas Carlyle, and the mystery of self: who am
I?
Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda, Osho, William James, the unfathomable world
of miracle
Henry Miller, Sam Keen, Nikos Kazantzakis' Last Temptation of Christ,
and wonder
Aleister Crowley, Osho, Henry Miller, Albert Einstein, wonder, genius,
and mysterious miracle
Albert Schweitzer, Walt Whitman, Swami Premgeet, wonderment,
vision, logic, and exaltation
Carl Jung, D. H. Lawrence, John Claypool, Guillaume Apollinaire, and the
Motherly Buddha
CHAPTER 2:
The Myth of Knowing
Winnie the Pooh, children, school, indoctrination, dogma, incarceration,
and the innocent mind
Bertrand Russell, J. Krishnamurti , E. M. Cioran, corrupt society, false
problems, and reality
Henry Miller, Grace Llewellyn, The Teenage Liberation Handbook, society,
and school
Swamiji Shyam, Thomas Carlyle, teachers, mentors, knowledge, and false
learning
Sri
Nisargadatta Maharaj, E. M. Cioran, false ideas, false education,
mystery, and wonder
Sam
Keen, H. L. Mencken, Lord Byron, knowledge, wonder, academia, and
existence
Samuel
Becket, J. Krishnamurti , Rumi, Kabir, knowledge, words, misery, and
reason
E. M. Cioran, Ernest Becker, Denial of Death, fantasy, absurdity,
knowledge, and nonsense
Don Juan, Cioran, Gods, inertia, wonderless society, eternity,
magnificence, and nonsense
Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Alan Lightman, mystery, life, and this
marvelous existence
William Shakespeare, Bob Marley, slavery, knowledge, heaven, earth,
miracle, and mystery
Lao Tzu, Herakleitos, Henri Barbusse, truth, learning, meaning, and
self-deception
Osho, Ernest Becker, John Van Druten, miracle, enigma, and this
incomprehensible world
Alan Watts, J. Krishnamurti , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Thomas Carlyle,
symbols, words, and reality
Gregory Palamas, Cioran, language, definition, words, verse, beauty, and
mystery
Don Henley, Lao Tzu, Swamiji Shyam, language, understanding, Tao,
knowledge, and wonder
Rumi, Henry Miller, Aldous Huxley, Anais Nin, mystery, knowledge, and
ignorance
Henry Miller, Socrates, Winnie the Pooh, implausibility, sense, wisdom,
and knowing nothing
CHAPTER 3: The Art of Forgetting, or, Epistemological
Surrender
Krishnamurti , Friedrich Nietzsche, truth, the world, and unknowing the
paradigm
Yoda,
Chuang Tzu, learning, forgetting, and the Cloud of Unknowing
Dan Millman, knowledge, humility, surrender, reason, unknowing, and
mystery
Henry David Thoreau, Jean Paul Sartre, knowing, meaning, existence, and
mystery
Lao Tzu, freedom, unknowing, absolution, solution, cognition, knowledge,
and wisdom
U. G. Krishnamurti , J. Krishnamurti , Hazrat Inayat Kahn, and the Cloud
of Unknowing
Blaise Pascal, Joel Goldsmith, Hermetica, Osho, knowledge, reality, and
understanding
Dogen, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Samuel Becket, concepts, meaning, and
incomprehension
T. S. Eliot, Jiddu Krishnamurti , Anais Nin, Clarice Lispector, memory,
God, and poetry
Astavakra Gita, Henry Miller, Swamiji Shyam, forgetting, genius, and not
knowing
T. S. Eliot, U. G. Krishnamurti , caterpillars, butterflies, infinity,
knowledge, and spontaneity
Kabir, William Blake, Nietzsche, knowledge, ecstasy, drunkenness, and
the doors of perception
CHAPTER 4: Organic Mysticism, or, The Tao of Ignorance
Zen Master Lingi, Oscar Wilde, wonders, mystery, life, suchness, and
glory
The kun byed rgyal po’i mdo, Osho, organic mysticism, nature, morality,
and mystery
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Osho, sannyas, spontaneity, nature, the imprisoned
mind, and wonder
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Clarice Lispector, miracle, life,
understanding, false society, and beauty
Neale Donald Walsch, Helena Blavatsky, Zen Master Lingi, God, emptiness,
and liberation
Jiddu Krishnamurti , Zen Master Huanlong, Osho, yoga, meditation,
rumination, and being natural
Lao
Tzu, Ram Dass, unknowing, discipline, knowledge, and the mystery of
being
Sam Keen, Chuang Tzu, Osho, knowing, authentic existence, innocence, and
mystery
Richard Moss, Osho, conventional thinking, ignorance, realization, and
childlike wisdom
Chuang Tzu, Dostoyevsky, the Idiot, Prince Myshkin, intelligence,
innocence, and wisdom
Dan Fogelberg, Iris Dement, Aleister Crowley, innocence, knowing,
realization, and mystery
Andre Gide, Howard Nemerov, Zen Master Dahui, the way, no mind, and
wonder
CHAPTER 5: From the Orient
Seung Sahn, Zen Buddhism, the Secret of the Golden Flower, and life's
koan
Seng
T'san, Hui Neng, Zen koans, Buddhism, the Buddha, and life's inexorable
mystery
Shen
Tao, Zen Master Xiatang, Zen Master Foyan, illusion, wisdom, emptiness,
and wonder
Lao Tzu, Jack Kerouac, Sri Nisargaddata Maharaj, Tao, wisdom, and wonder
Bhagavad Gita, Kena Upanishad, Mahadeviyakka, unwisdom, concepts, and
life's miraculous dance
CHAPTER 6: From the Occident
Kabbala, Nikos Kazantzakis, Osho, Adam, Eve, Eden, and good and evil
Eom
Ida Mingle, Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and life
Meister Eckhart, the Cloud of Unknowing, beatitude, blasphemy, mystics,
and God
Thomas Merton, Eom Ida Mingle, the Dhammapada, contemplation, and
mystical Christianity
Austin Osman Spare, Rumi, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, and Catholic
neutrality
Corinthians, Gospel of Thomas, Jude, sin, God, knowledge, and divine
mystery
Proverb, Job, Isaiah, Corinthians, psalm of David, God, awe, wisdom, and
wonder
Virgin Mary, virgin mind, immaculate conception, innocent mind, God,
unknowing, and mystery
Meister Eckhart, Nikos Kazantzakis, Mary Magdalene, Osho, sin, and
virgin wonder
Thomas Traherne, Sam Keen, childlike wonder, Cherubims, Eden, and
becoming a child
Albert Einstein, Carl Jung, Christ, the kingdom of Heaven, becoming as
children
Eom Ida Mingle, God, virgin, Christ, the Kingdom of God, and divine
innocence
Marion Woodman, Neville, Aleister Crowley, Osho, ecstasy, virgin mind,
childhood, and God
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Osho, John Claypool, ecstasy, pure being, and
childhood wonder
Walt Whitman, Dostoyevsky, Prince Myshkin, Jesus channeled, wonder, and
the child within
CHAPTER 8: Necessary Newness
D. H. Lawrence, Jiddu Krishnamurti , newness, novelty, surrender, and the
phoenix
Clarice Lispector, Osho, Richard Moss, forgetting oneself,
understanding, and being new
J. Krishnamurti , Joseph Chilton Pearce, wholeness, wisdom, emptiness,
and freedom
Metanoia, Aramaic, Lalla, Christ, Stepan Stulginsky, newness of mind,
and repentance
John Bunyan, Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,
newness, and wonder
Don Juan, Martin Heidegger, Georges de Chirico, creation, novelty, and
eternal newness
Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker, Nicholas Roerich, Robert Graves, and
apocalyptic newness
Marcel Proust, Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God, and becoming
new
CHAPTER 9: Death and Resurrection
D.
H. Lawrence, Icarus, heaven, hell, apocalypse, beauty, horror, and
wonder
Henry Miller, Jouffrey, rapture, unknowing, the void, and this
incomprehensible life
Riddley Walker, Colin Wilson, H. G. Wells, agoraphobia, novelty, pathos,
and the outsider
Rene Daumal, H. G. Wells, Sam Keen, existence, enigma, mind, and this
miraculous world
Rainer
Maria Rilke, Dostoyevsky, alchemy, nigredo, albedo, rubedo, madness, and
mysticism
Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino
Elegies, alchemy, art, miracle, and being astonished
Stephen Larson, Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, alchemy, and the mystery of
life
Don Juan, Chuck Spezzano, Aleister Crowley, meaninglessness, meaning,
and the warrior
Don
Juan, Carlos Castaneda, Henry Miller, reason, knowledge, terror, and the
warrior
Jack
Kerouac, Sam Keen, disorientation, and the apology for wonder
Andre Gide, Judith Handelsman, Blue Rodeo, magic, victory, intoxication,
and euphoria
Aleister
Crowley, Sri Ramakrishna, samadhi, rapture, ecstasy, wonder, and peace
Longchenpa, Richard Bach, Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker, Clarice
Lispector, and wonder
Jack Kerouac, Hugh MacLennan, Arthur Machen, mystery, wonder, paradise,
and wow
CHAPTER 10: The Mad and the Mystic
Dostoyevsky, Michael Peddie, genius, madness, Notes from Underground,
and the abyss
Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Dostoyevsky, Ernest Becker, life, mystery, and
the unknown
Clarice Lispector, Bhagavad Gita, enigma, conundrum, sacrifice, genius, and
mystery
Jim Morrison, Antonin Artaud, Anais Nin, existence, infinity, madness,
and ecstasy
Osho, Vaslav Nijinski, E. M. Cioran, strangeness, magic, madness,
mankind, and mystery
Heinrich von Kleist, William Blake, Proverbs of Hell, lunacy, pathos,
temerity, and madness
Charlie Chaplin, Groucho Marx, Woody Allen, Monty Python, ecstasy,
stupidity, and laughing
Charles
Bukowski, Nietzsche, megalomania, syphilis, genius, heroism, enigma, and
mystery
Kahlil Gibran, Kallistos Ware, H. Rider Haggard, God, mystery, wisdom,
and madness
Rimbaud, J. D. Salinger, G. K. Chesterton, David Goddard, cosmic
consciousness, and being mad
Don Juan, Aleister Crowley, nirvana, Valhalla, the Holy Grail, holiness,
and the Graal
CHAPTER 11: The Highest Unknowable
The
Cloud of Unknowing, Rumi, Shankara, Brahma, God, limitation, and mystery
Kahlil Gibran, Krishnamurti , Meister Eckhart, mystery, God, mind, and
the bodhisattva
Hermetica, Elaine Pagels, Gnostic Gospels, Nag Hammadi Library, God, and
mystery
Osho,
Mister God this is Anna, thought, knowing, being, and mystery
Joel
Goldsmith, Nikos Kazantzakis, Sri Nisargaddata Maharaj, and
infinite God
Henry Miller, June Singer, Proust, Jiddu Krishnamurti , and the Khandogya
Upanishad
CHAPTER 12: The Immanence of Wonder
Hazrat Inayat Kahn, Joseph Campbell, Alipi, wonder, and the mystery of God
Hazrat Inayat Kahn,
John Claypool, soul, and the mysterious Kingdom of God
Annie Dillard, Ernest Becker, Alan Watts, meaning, mystery, mind, and
wonder
Jack Kerouac, Baha'u'llah, Osho, God, soul, mystery, you, and
mysteriousness
E. M.
Cioran, Nikos Kazantzakis, God, and the kun byed rgyal po'i mdo
Joel Goldsmith, Neale Donald Walsch, Shankara, God, consciousness, and
mystery
Eom Ida Mingle, Neville, Alan Watts, Brahma, higher self, mystery, and
God within
Rainer Maria Rilke, God, creation, and Letters from a Living Dead Man
Swamiji Shyam, Meister Eckhart, self, being, God, spirit, knowledge, and
mystery
Henry Miller, Dag Hammarskjold, Zen Master Yuansou, effort, purpose, and
original mind
Keats, Zen, the
source, the creators, and the mystery of God
Richard Moss, Letters from a Living Dead Man, God, nirvana, and
existence
Ramtha,
Rabidrinath Tagore, Ernest Becker, Clarice Lispector, the unknown self,
and God
Tigger, Winnie the Pooh, Lao Tzu, Jean Paul Sartre, self, mind,
awareness, and mystery
Osho, Ramtha, Jung, Jiddu Krishnamurit, E. M. Cioran, God, knowledge,
and words
Lao Tzu, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Swamiji Shyam, consciousness, God,
and self
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Antero Alli, Carl Jung, Lao Tzu, God,
enlightenment, and mystery
Kahlil Gibran, Rainer Maria Rilke, Aleister Crowley, and alchemy, the
great work
Joel Goldsmith, Ken Wilber, Dharmakaya, Brahman, God, Goddess, Maat, and
godliness
St. Germain, I AM, the Nag Hammadi Library, and Conversations with God
additional quotes
excerpted from:
THE WAY OF WONDER: a
return to the mystery of ourselves
by Jack Haas
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