Opening inspirational quotes from Henry Miller, Krishnamurti , and Cioran

"If you want to kiss with new lips then you must also learn to see with new eyes."

            Miller (The Hamlet Letters, p37)

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"This ability to renew myself is what I would call living..."

            Clarice Lispector, (JdoB, May11/68)

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"...I dream of an Eleusis of disabused hearts, of a lucid Mystery, without gods and without the vehemence of illusion."

            E. M. Cioran (Decay, p12)

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"To feel implies a great deal of vitality, a great deal of strength, vigour, but merely to know is only a partial approach to life, it is not a total approach. ...To perceive, to feel, to love a cloud, a tree, a human being, requires enormous attention, and how can you attend when your mind is distracted by knowledge."

            Krishnamurti , (talks in Bombay, Dec 24/1958)

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These excerpts on following the heart and aimless wandering are taken from unpublished chapters of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