Quotes from T. S. Eliot, Osho, Clarice Lispector, on the pathetic and apathetic

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“Teach us to care and not to care.

Teach us to be still.”

T. S. Eliot

            The word apathetic is the opposite of pathetic.

            To be intelligently a-pathetic is to live from the detached still point which does not care for the rewardless actions within the profane paradigm.

            This is to be devoted to our true, free, miraculous, eternal selves.

            To be devoted to eternity is to be apathetic to time.

            Time is the false division of the undivided.

            The undivided is now.

            Intelligent apathy is union with the timeless now.

"...I don't teach you the result-oriented life at all. I teach you the relaxed way of life. ...Truth cannot be practiced. You have to dissolve yourself into it. ...You have to relax into it, dissolve into it. ...Let it be. Go into it. Be drowned in it. ...Don't make an effort."

Osho (Ecstasy, p49,51)

"He had learned the technique of how to be vulnerable and alert with the face of an idiot."

Clarice Lispector (Apple, p152)

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These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.