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

Having surrendered knowing by forgetting, the rest is easy- for now that we are made incapable by ignorance, everything that we used to do, or wanted to do, is left null and void- we have burned away all 'that awaits voluntary effort."

"...one, who was so far gone as to recognize that he could not prove his own existence," declares Rene Descartes, "...would seem unintelligible except upon the ground of exhaustion."

Exhaustion, capitulation, surrender; to have even the slightest amount of energy left to participate in the lie, is to not have seen it as completely erroneous as it is.

This 'exhaustion' is perhaps the only way that we will finally surrender all our ideas and efforts- when we are worn thin from running after our own tails, chasing our own shadows, and failing over and over again to find comfort, truth, joy, God, or what have you, in the mirage of the world's conceptions. Then perhaps we will come upon what the ancients meant by faith; faith in life- in the fact that we live, and yet know not how it is possible.

"This idea of ...living now in the moment, fully with complete faith in the processes of life, which must remain ever largely unknown to us, is the cardinal aspect of his philosophy." wrote Henry Miller, on the ideas of E. Graham Howe (Wisdom of the Heart, p36)

In the end we find that only in the non-act of conscious indifference, or passionate ambivalence, is true objectivity possible, because 'want' has dried up, and the eye sees 'what is' without bias or disdain. 

Krishnamurti synopsizes the apathy of mind required for the true perception of this infinity:

"Can the known, which is the mind- because the mind is known, the result of the past- can that mind seek the unknown? If I do not know reality, the unknown, how can I search for it? Surely it must come, I cannot go after it. ...When the mind is silent, when it is no longer projecting itself into the future, wishing for something, when the mind is really quiet, profoundly peaceful, the unknown comes into being. You don't have to search for it. You cannot invite it. That which you can invite is only that which you know. You cannot invite an unknown guest. You can only invite one you know. But you do not know the unknown, God, reality, or what you will. It must come." (The First and Last Freedom, chpt.28)

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These excerpts on following the heart and aimless wandering are taken from unpublished chapters of

THE WAY OF WONDER, by Jack Haas