Slack tide, sin, love, narcolepsy, royal anarchy, capitulation, and a gun

***

We are nothing, and life is everything, and we are life.

Cross over at slack tide, where the ebb and flow have ceased for the moment.

if there is love to receive, and you are not open to receive it, you have failed. And if you have love to give, and you do not give it, you have failed.

Sin is the distance you have created between yourself.

Man is a message to himself.

Nothing is only what it is.

It is the ache of a truth that cannot be known, and cannot be known that it cannot be known.

Mankind occasionally suffers not from narcolepsy, but its opposite; at unpredictable and awkward moments ...man wakes up.

It is a crazy sort of royal anarchy, where every citizen was a dethroned king or queen.

The capitulation works in reverse; only after you surrender do they hand you a gun.

***

These fragments are taken from unpublished writings by Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.