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

On Apathy (on being, not doing)

 “Here, thank God, the understanding is at last baffled, at last held in check. ... Here I am at home- and I need no understanding."

            Henry Miller

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"All he needed was to be standing without knowing what to do."

            Clarice Lispector

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"Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui."

            E. M. Cioran

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"In that state of effortless attention there comes an extraordinary sense of freedom, and only then, being totally empty, quiet, still, is the mind capable of discovering that which is eternal."

            Jiddu Krishnamurti

these excerpts are from unpublished chapters from THE WAY OF WONDER, by Jack Haas