What matters, a bottomless pit, being nihilistic, ignorance, opinion, judgment, and pity

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It does not matter where you are as long as you have not deceived yourself into believing you know where you are.

It does not matter if you are where you are, as long as you are not where you are not.

One is not really falling if one is falling down a bottomless pit.

If man feels helpless in the hands of the universe, imagine how helpless the universe feels in the hands of man.

One who looks to the surface for breath, has not yet swum deep enough.

Anyone lucid enough to be nihilistic is also acute enough to dismiss it.

If you were not ignorant of knowing, or if you were knowing of ignorance, would your knowing know more than your ignorance?

It is only on those rare days, when you wish you could live forever, that you do.

Thought thinking about thinking. Judgment judging judgments. Opinions about opinions. Arguments arguing argumentation. Interpretation interpreting itself. Need needing to need. Want wanting to not want. Despair anguishing over itself. Pity asking for sympathy. Intention intending to intend. Honesty disavowing itself. Worrying about worrying. Clinging to not-clinging. Trying to not try... We are drawn to the blinking lights that were intended to warn us to stay far away.

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These fragments are taken from unpublished writings by Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.