quotes by William James, from The Variety of Religious Experiences

"A mind extremely sensitive to inner discords will drop one external relation after another, as interfering with the absorption of consciousness in spiritual things."

     William James, The Variety of Religious Experiences

"There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it"

     William James, The Variety of Religious Experiences

"The despairing know that negativity is effrontery to a world deserving only of gratitude.'

     William James, The Variety of Religious Experiences

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.