Inspirational and famous quotes:

"You need not get at it, for you are it. It will get at you, if you give it a chance. Let go of your attachment to the unreal and the real will swiftly and smoothly step into its own… [There is] no need to know. It operates by itself."

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (I AM THAT, p3, 136)

"It loved to happen."

Marcus Aurelius

"There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness"

Sri Aurobindo

“You have not to ask what to do. It will take care of you."

Swamiji Shyam

"The more you trust, the more the whole takes care."

Maitreya Ishawara

"Reach not for the Stone... It will come of Itself if thou knowest to await it."

Stepan Stulginsky  (Cosmic Legends of the East)

"The Lord of Fallen Fools, says Mira, will save anyone."

Mirabai.

“Transcendental Intelligence rises when the intellectual-mind reaches its limit and, if things are to be realized in their true and essence nature, its processes of mentation, which are based on particularized ideas, discriminations and judgments, must be transcended by an appeal to some higher faculty of cognition, if there be such a higher faculty. There is such a faculty in the intuitive-mind, which… is the link between the intellectual mind and Universal Mind. While it is not an individualized organ like the intellectual-mind, it has that which is much better- direct dependence upon Universal Mind. While intuition does not give information that can be analyzed and discriminated, it gives that which is far superior- self realization…”

Lankavatara Scripture

"All he needed was to be standing without knowing what to do."

Clarice Lispector, (Apple, p129)

“We sit together,

the mountain and I,

until only the mountain remains.”

Li Po

“I take my staff

and wander to the mountain top

and gaze.”

Yun-k'an Tzu (Sunflower Splendour, p452)

"Thus there was in them what was called the want of any mind to resist the Tao."

Chuang Tzu

"The heart of man, if once expanded, becomes larger than all the heavens. The deep thinkers of all ages have therefore held that the only principle of awakening to life is the principle of emptying the self. In other words, making oneself clearer and more complete accommodation in order to accommodate all experiences more clearly and more fully. The tragedy of life, all its sorrows and pains, belong mostly to the surface of the life of the world. If one were fully awake to life, if one could respond to life, if one could perceive life, one would not need to look for wonders, one would not need to communicate with spirits; for every atom in this world is a wonder when one sees with open eyes."

Hazrat Inyat Kahn (The Mysticism, etc.p87)

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