Quotes from Nietzsche, Osho, and the Dalai Lama

It is this heart which cries, "Down with thought- long live life!", as was Nietzsche's unspoken slogan, according to Wilson (Outsider, p129). For only the heart can lead us to ourselves, since the mind is its own lifeless labyrinth, and the more we try to escape with its direction, the more we get lost in the maze.

E. M. Cioran states in categorical terms:

"We cannot elude existence by explanations, we can only endure it... .We begin to live authentically [i.e. by the heart] only where philosophy ends, at its wreck, when we have understood its terrible nullity, when we have understood that it was futile to resort to it, that it is no help!"(Decay, p48)

So what we have called 'knowing', again, is merely the labeling of enigmas, and it is this labeling of enigmas which creates a false matrix which we then live falsely within. There is no real 'understanding' as such, merely a functional delirium (functional only within a greater delirium, a tremendous delirium) which suffices only to confuse us into believing we are not confused, and therefore keeps us locked in abstract lives which reflect nothing of our highest potential.

The fourteenth Dalai Lama concurs, imploringly stating "Never give up. Develop the heart. Too much energy is spent in developing the mind, instead of the heart. Develop the heart."

And Osho similarly relates:

"You are in your head too much. Come down to your senses, become more sensitive. When you become more sensitive...you start dancing with reality, you start singing with reality...a great benediction arises in you. ...Just to become natural you will fall in tune with it. ...This existence is fantastic, it is marvelous, it is incredibly beautiful." (Ecstasy, p94)

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These excerpts on following the heart and aimless wandering are taken from unpublished chapters of THE WAY OF WONDER, by Jack Haas