Sin and innocence, farmed salmon, the father and son, God, love, and spirituality

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'Do' and claim none of it; to be redeemed in the act of sin, not in sin's aftermath. This is the innocence of not-I being I.

To say, as many do, 'life is about living', or 'what is, is', is merely a tautological escape and is no more than saying that football is about wearing football equipment. For the game is much more than the costume, and life is much more than a flippant arbitrariness; life is mostly about learning what life is, only then can it truly be about living that life.

The Son is older than the Father. For you are that from which you came, and also you are what you are; you are as old as that from which you came, plus as old as you are. Therefore the Parent is younger than the Child.

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 become disinterested- you lose interest- the moment you truly say 'Thy Will be done.' For what interest have you now in the matter? What's done is done. You let it be. You fall away. You are free without having to leave.

There are no centres (ego), only nexus points reflecting the undivided whole.

“Love is known when all that makes for the lie of twoness or dualistic consciousness is unknown.”          

Ida Mingle, p582

True spirituality applies only to those who, like farmed salmon, are willing to learn again to be wild, to swim out into the vast and unknown sea, to grow, and to need, and to eventually fight their way back up the brutal stream, so as to die at the source after planting their seed.

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These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.