Quotes from Franz Kafka, Chuang Tzu, and Hazrat Inayat Kahn

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"There is no need to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't even wait, be completely quiet and alone. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked, it can't do otherwise, in raptures it will writhe before you."

Franz Kafka

"To have no thought and put forth no effort is the first step towards understanding the Tao. To go nowhere and do nothing is the first step towards finding peace in the Tao. To start from no point and follow no road is the first step towards reaching the Tao."

Chuang Tzu

"The great error of this age, is that activity has increased so much, that there is little margin left in one's life for repose. And repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things."

Hazrat Inayat Kahn (The Mysticism, etc. p83)

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These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.