God, a magnifying glass, the ego, humility, symbols, and a bored wiseman.

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Man is to God what the magnifying glass is to the sun.

Be the living moment of God.

Nothing we do is what we are actually doing.

The influx and outflux exist in the estuary of the ego.

Failure leads to humility, humility to exaltation.

Everything is the same thing.

I see things clearly- as they truly are in relation to me- only when I decontextualize and then symbologize them. This does not imply an interpretable symbol, but rather an event implying something other than what it is. Thus 'not-this' is the reality of 'this'.

There is no humility in attainment, regardless of what is attained.

Only the man bored of all life can truly face life

The wise man thinks himself an idiot; the idiot, a wiseman.

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These fragments are taken from unpublished writings by Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.