Joy and beauty, guilt, denial, God and the Devil, a shameless glutton, and angels

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If we cannot have joy, at least give us beauty, for that alone shall see us through.

Do not fall out of the river.

Guilt is simply the attempt to modify another's true behaviour. Denial is the attempt to modify your own. Purity is the absence of denial and guilt.

Only by being yourself will reaction cease, and the inaction called action occur.

God is the cause of your pain, the Devil is the cause of your pleasure.

The 'I' which exists before manifestation occurs, and the 'Eye' which exists after, where, if they meet, do they wander?

It was a genocide of nobodies in which we were murdered into somebodies.

Ah, Spirits come to earth, it was all but heartless pandemonium, squeezed gracelessly through the bowels of a shameless glutton.

In order to be chosen you must become a choice.

if we do not find Satan inside ourselves, we shall not find God there either; heaven is for angels, God lives in hell.

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These fragments are taken from unpublished writings by Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.