A fern and ivy, God, radio waves, being and not being, stillness, indifference, and silence

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Like the fern or ivy, which can only grow so high unless it climbs upon a taller thing, does man ascend with God because of God.

Not separate, but now assimilated into the all, and, as such, become the All.

Don’t plan things.

There is no face behind this face.

Be not the radio, but the radio waves, everywhere.

Be, but not only as the form. Be, and do not be. Be both. Both which are two. Both which are one. Both which are you.

Though it burns brighter in the wind, the incense stick is better enclosed.

To become still is to be the stillness in all things.

You, a part of everything, and everything a part of you.

Look not at things, look through them.

The light cares, the dark despairs. Be grey.

Stillness. Indifference. Silence.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.