The arbitrary, failure, humility, the Maker, God, desire, and duality

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IT can only be arbitrary or not arbitrary. But IT is not arbitrary because it IS. That it is created, that it 'is', is its very lack of arbitrariness.

Everything has already happened.

Failure leads to humility. Humility to exaltation.

Everything is the same thing.

The Maker is the Made.

There is another within you, who controls everything, and who you do not become until you stop not being God.

Desire and aversion are how we separate all else, how the other is created. Acceptance is the absence of desire and repulsion. Acceptance is being.

To say ‘yeah’, is to create ‘nay’.

To desire, is to create repulsion.

To see good, is to invent bad.

To dance along the membrane, on neither side, is to be the One before duality.

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These fragments are taken from unpublished writings by Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.