Life, spirit, love, God, and snakes

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I do not move through life, life moves through me.

I am on the other side. I am life.

In the dapple-grey dawn of my uncelebrated, eternal unbecoming now ...I AM.

It's the end of time, Spirit, where are you going to run?

Me? I'm not leaving. I'm staying. And I'm staying as ...ME.

Yea, in the final quittance of all my guise, I went under. Eternal and there I remain.

I sank from identity into the sublime; from impression I turned into expression, and from the flesh I returned to the Word.

Now I am nobody. Now I know nothing.

Which is to say- Eye am no body, Eye know no 'thing'.

Now I am everywhere, and I am always.

Love and hate go hand in hand, down the aisle in the marriage of opposites.

It is an odd necessity that for most of us, in order to remove hate from our hearts we must first remove love.

Allowing existence to be what it is brings release.

I believe, for many reasons, that Jesus survived the crucifixion, and that, for a while later he traveled in Tibet, and was called I

I am but a pilgrim at the gates.

Because God and man have a symbiotic relationship- they need and benefit form each other.

Genetrix omnium- the mother of all, symbolized as a mussel. Similar to my dreams of mollusks.

(Jung, p 65, the nature writings)

It is only when dealing with snakes that it is ok, and necessary, to be a snake.

I will try not to harm you, but I will offend you, no doubt.

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These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.