Quotes from Colin Wilson, the Outsider, Clarice Lispector, and anonymous

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"All men should possess a 'visionary faculty'. Men do not, because they live wrongly. They live too tensely, under too much strain, 'getting and spending'. But this loss of the visionary faculty is not entirely man's fault, it is partly the fault of the world he lives in, that demands that men should spend a certain amount of their time 'getting and spending' to stay alive. …The visionary faculty comes naturally to all men. When they are relaxed enough, every leaf of every tree in the world, every speck of dust, is a separate world capable of producing infinite pleasure. If these fail to do so, it is man's own fault for wasting his time and energy on trivialities. The ideal is the contemplative poet, the 'sage', who cares about having only enough money and food to keep him alive, and never takes thought for the morrow."

Colin Wilson (The Outsider, p241)

"The fool who pursues no ambitions has time to see, hear and touch the world"

Clarice Lispector

“All that is necessary for the triumph over evil is for enough good men to do nothing.”

Anonymous 

In the non-act of absolute surrender, all the walls of the mind and ego shatter in an apocalyptic rupture of our confines. We are now finished with the false cages of the world's tremendous lies, for we see how they only confine us, and thus we are finished pursuing their a-musing charms forever.

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These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.