Fear and God, giving refuge, emancipation, and the Doer

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Fear is what divides man and God, creating good and evil.

To be detached is to be unaffected, to be the unmoved part of the self which also moves.

To be powerless is to give God all power; to become nothing is to become all, and so to become powerless is to be all powerful.

Always a wish away from ready.

The Self is not an event of effort or meaning.

Giving refuge to another is becoming so spacious that they dwell within you as a sanctuary.

You cannot receive until you are forgiven, and you cannot give until you forgive.

Everything is always something.

Reaction occurs at the level of relation.

Life is emancipation.

It is the one who does not do, who is the Doer.

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These fragments are taken from unpublished writings by Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.