Infinity, sacrifice, God, Santorini, Jerusalem, Good Friday, Easter, and love

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How to be ‘no-self’ and be amongst others.

There is no size within infinity.

Sacrifice is necessary only when we have forgotten that all is God. With the sacrifice of all else, we return to contact with God, and with contact we become one with God, and then we realize that everything else is also God, and the ego is annihilated into oneness.

God is the doer.

The problem is that the ego thinks that it believes that accepting ‘God is the doer’ will solve something, which it doesn’t, and does. And that is the paradox of the problem, the solution, and God.

None mourn the wheat when it is scythed. And yet we all mourn the trees.

On Santorini during Good Friday, and the rain came down through a cloud of red (orange) dust, and spat drops of blood everywhere, on this, the day Christ was nailed upon the cross.

At Easter on Santorini they ate flesh as if they were making love, for in Greece during Lent they do not give up chocolate, gambling, or booze, they give up meat. As if they gave up the flesh so as to be thankful for the flesh.

Dream sentence: “The problem with relationships is that they fill the space where God should be.”

You become like a rider on an eternal ferry, freely going anywhere, but never free to leave, and sailing peacefully through the changing manifest without ever being able to get off of the stillness.

But then it comes to a port, and you can finally “get off” for a while, and then get back on, and so you are both.

The Haas Promenade in Jerusalem, where you can see equally both east and west.

Like the flattened, yellow patch a tent leaves on the lawn, after a lengthy stay, so the removal of love, however short, lingers on painfully obvious until the grass sprouts, the imprint fades, and then is gone and forgotten altogether.

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These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.