Choices in life's labyrinth, God within, eastern and western philosophy, and transcendence

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A man cannot hope to make the proper decisions in life, he can only hope to make the proper mistakes. For in a labyrinth, the earlier one finds his course erroneous, the earlier he can change and try to complete the puzzle. One should hope then, not to make the correct choices in life, but instead to make the correct mistakes. (ie. the world operates on trial and error, which is Pierre Tielhard de Chardin's 'groping profusion')

Thought is form, the world is content.

The medium is the message (Mcluhan).

A man is not a father until a child emerges. A man is not immortal until God emerges. God does not exist elsewhere. Hence Tolstoy's book 'The Kingdom of God is within You'. God must be created so as to emerge. God does not exist independently. We grant God independent existence. Man creates God, but God is actually immanent.

As western philosophy attempts to describe what man is, eastern philosophy attempts to transcend what man is (this is applied metaphysics). But who knows the ant better, the man or the ant?

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.