Heart of Wonder
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Heart of Wonder invites the reader into the transformative experience of wonder as a direct gateway to profound spiritual insight. Drawing on personal practice, lived experience, and scholarly engagement with the wisdom traditions of the East, this book offers a path for discovering these truths within one’s own life.
Rooted deeply in a philosophy of nonduality, the teachings presented here have been shaped through years of guiding university students toward a more integrated understanding of self and world. The approach is simple, direct, and grounded in the everyday. Through personal anecdotes woven with philosophical reflection, the book reveals how spirituality is not separate from ordinary life but quietly present within it.
At its heart, this work outlines a progressive education of the whole person — an invitation to cultivate self-understanding, meditative awareness, and an openness to the subtle beauty of what simply is. Wonder becomes both the doorway and the destination: a quality of Being that awakens peace, love, joy, and beauty, and leads not only to the beginning of wisdom but to its living realization.
Introduction: Wisdom Seeking Wisdom
- Part I. All is One: The Principles of Nonduality and the Existential Facts
- Chapter 1. The Existential Facts
- Chapter 2. The Principles of Nonduality
- Chapter 3. The Veil: Who You Think You Are
- Part II. The Thinking, Reactive Mind: An Experiential, Heuristic Model of the Mind
- Chapter 4. The Five Aspects of the Reactive Mind
- Chapter 5. Dualistic Thinking and the Relative Self
- Chapter 6. Minding What Happens
- Chapter 7. Ordinary Mind as Pacmind
- Part III. Cultural Paradigms and Human Cognition
- Chapter 8. Ancient Greek and Chinese Paradigms
- Chapter 9. A Call to Balance: The Good is Above the True
- Chapter 10. Two Minds in One: The Polarity of Human Cognition
- Part IV. All is Love
- Chapter 11. Doing Being: Wondrous Activity
- Chapter 12. Being Doing: The Heart of Devotion
- Chapter 13. The Wonder of Creation
Haridas H. Heitz is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University.