The son and the sun, God, surrender, being, the body, and self

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Man is the magnifying glass of God. The Son is to the Father as the magnifying glass is to the Sun- the concentration of a power which is not its own, yet they are One.

You escape when you realize you cannot escape. Surrender is freedom.

Pull away from the amness, into the I. Descend from that Iness, into the am. Be, and don’t be. Be I, be am, be I am.

We are painted eggs who spend our efforts on the designs of the shell rather than warming the inside, growing, and bursting through the veneer of life.  

It could so happen that when a trail is very bumpy a tire hits and then spins backward for a while, though the whole vehicle continues nevertheless to thunder uninterruptedly forward.

You call yourself the body, but you are much greater than the body. Thought occurs in the mind, but consciousness is everywhere; just as a mouthful of juice is tasted only by the tongue, and yet the juice touches the whole mouth- so it is that the Self is sensed in the body but is much greater than the body. I am not inside the body, the body is inside Me.

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These fragments are taken from unpublished writings by Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.