Aimless wandering quotes from Henry Miller and Jiddu Krishnamurti etc.

"Then one day, without the slightest warning, I wake up and looking about me I understand absolutely nothing of what is going on about me, neither my own behavior nor that of my neighbors... .At such moments I am born anew...I find myself once again drifting with the current, usually walking along a highway, my face toward the sinking sun. Now all my faculties become alert. I am...what might be called a holy man...I have no goal: the aimless wandering is sufficient unto itself. I am as free as a bird, sure as an equilibrist. Manna falls from the sky; I have only to hold out my hands and receive."

                        Henry Miller (Tropic of Capricorn, p228)

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"...it was also true that if a person only does what he understands, he will never take a single step forward."

                        Clarice Lispector (The Apple, p129)

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"The waking state in our ravishments alters their flavor and transforms their victim into a visionary trampling ineffable pretexts. We cannot love and know at the same time, without love suffering and expiring under the mind's gaze. ...All thinkers are action's eunuchs who take revenge for their failure by the intermediary of concepts."

                        E. M. Cioran (Decay, p157)

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"So when you are seeking, you already have a concept, an idea of what you are seeking, and when you find it, it means you already know it, otherwise you can't recognize it. For this reason it is not true at all."

                        Jiddu Krishnamurti , (talks in Paris, Apr30/1967)

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These excerpts on following the heart and aimless wandering are taken from unpublished chapters of THE WAY OF WONDER, by Jack Haas