On God, lessons, tests, love, wise ones, silk flowers, meditation, and the self

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Like the living cambium of a giant tree, God exists near, but not on the surface.

External lessons are preparations for internal tests.

It is in the seeking and grasping which does not allow God to give. And it is in receiving that we find our gratitude.

Know that your life, whatever it is, whoever you are, wherever you have been and are going- is the outcome of God’s love.

One ‘falls’ in love because in order to join into another’s little soul, one must descend into, and legitimize, context.

And yet, what we learn from the wise ones, is it anymore than the advice an experienced painter could give to one just beginning, who fumbles clumsily with the colours, seeking to create an image, while his dying wife sits beside, occasionally glancing at his artless strokes? Do we ever solve the unsolveable, or merely learn to dance while the flames proceed to engulf us?

We, who are but God’s newest guesses of himself.

Silk flowers never die, nor smell, nor grow, nor assimilate the sun.

Meditation with the aim of gaining the self will never gain the Self.

I am God, conscious of that Godness.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.