ON APATHY, FOLLOWING YOUR HEART, AND AIMLESS WANDERING

the only true journey lies within

Passages from unpublished chapters of THE WAY OF WONDER, by Jack Haas

These are unedited excerpts, so please forgive any errors.

The pages are best read in the order presented.

Part 1: On Apathy (on being, not doing)

Opening quotes from Henry Miller, Clarice Lispector, E. M. Cioran, and Krishnamurti

The unknowable miracle of life, and effortless undoing

Franz Kafka and T. S. Eliot: quotes on stillness

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, the Motherly Buddha, and Lao Tzu

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Chuang Tzu, the Tao, and wei wu wei

Apathy, Osho, ecstasy, Krishnamurti , and Ramakrishna

Aleister Crowley, Jack Kerouac, the Buddha, mystery, and Hazrat Inyat Kahn

Deepak Chopra and Clarice Lispector spiritual quotes

Work, employment, useless toil, and why not to get a job

Laziness, Saint Francis, Oscar Wilde, and socialism

Ramtha, God, and Ursula K. Leguin, doing nothing, and being everything

Beauty, purity, bliss, purpose, and the Motherly Buddha

Henry Miller, knowledge, lethargy, and being lazy

Andrew Harvey, Dzogchen, peace, apathy, and wonder

Yeats, a vision, Rumi, a corpse, and ambition

Krishnamurti , Henry Miller, and Rene Descartes, on the known

Osho, the Philosopher's Stone, Meister Eckhart, Swamiji Shyam, and love

Marabai, dispassion, passion, Krishnamurti , and God

Part 2: Shutting off the Mind, Following the Heart

Opening inspirational quotes from Henry Miller, Krishnamurti , and Cioran

Know thyself, be thyself, and living by the heart

God's voice, and inner feeling: no mind, know God

The mind, the heart, the Tao, being in tune, and Einstein

Leprosy of the soul, being in Tao, and life's balance

Metaphor example of the heart awakening

D. H. Lawrence, St. Mawr, and inner vitality

U. G. Krishnamurti , Cormac McCarthy, and true life

The freedom of Jesus Christ, who lived by his heart

Oscar Wilde on Jesus Christ, the individualist

Quotes from Nietzsche, Osho, and the Dalai Lama

Enlightenment, Osho, and and crying

Hazrat Inayat Kahn and Ramtha on nature as the true religion

Nature, beauty, and religion

On mystery and wonder in the sacrament of our hearts

Zen intuition and instinct

Following the untamed heart

The light hearted living of life

Learning to feel, and following your bliss

The wisdom and intelligence of the heart

Born free to follow your heart

Amazing grace, love, and Krishnamurti

Love and the mystery of creation

Heart Love, God, and wonder

The Dharma of following your heart

Part 3: Aimless Wandering

 Aimless wandering quotes from Henry Miller and Jiddu Krishnamurti etc.

William Butler Yeats and the winged with awe

A different kind of journey, a path without direction

Expect a miracle on the pilgrimage of life

Getting lost in the Tao of wandering

Dark destinations on the path of the Motherly Buddha

Bilbo and Frodo and the rapture of discovery

Wandering on the road with Kerouac and the unknown

Becoming passers-by on the incomprehensible road of life

What a long strange trip it's been

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