A chauffer, indifference, the fire, good and bad, circus freaks, truth, home, and grace

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Man is the anxious back‑seat driver to indifference; he thinks his chauffer is his captor; man controls nothing, and his screams only make that more obvious.

They went inside to escape from the annoying mosquitoes. But then, safely within, they forgot to stop waving their arms around wildly‑ keeping what was not there at bay.

The closer you get to the fire the more it burns. True, it is already a great blaze, but there are many gathered, some at an immense distance, freezing. Someone has to throw on more fuel.

Only when good and bad do not exist, does good exist.

Circus‑freaks without a circus.

Home is where a man stays lost.

One can dig for coal, or one can wait for diamonds.

Truth is not a destination, but a vehicle.

"What is" is the message.

Existence is grace.

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These fragments are taken from unpublished writings by Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.