Pride and anxiety, going forward and going back, and effortless fingernails

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What you are doing is not what you think you are doing. Your actions are based on the fulfillment of the unknowable, sublime intent of God, not on your ‘doership’. Knowing this releases all pride, anxiety, planning, expectation, and struggle.

And life- life is often like reversing in your car in the direction you intend to go; you’re going backward and yet going forward. That’s life.

You are the all and the everything in the same way that you are your fingernails: you do not need to worry about them, nor struggle to get them to grow, and yet they are yours, and they grow. In the same way- You are That, effortlessly. It just happens.

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These fragments are taken from unpublished writings by Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.