God, thought, the world, the journey, death, darkness, the light, and how to win

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God is not thought; God does not think about the world, God creates the world and keeps on creating.

Thought is always historical, creation is always new.

When God looks back it is only as a now event transforming the past in the living consciousness of creation.

You can’t feel it as a whole until you become perfectly still.

You can’t take knowledge with you to the other side.

There is no destination, there is only journey.

You choose the goal for the journey.

It is not death which terrifies people, it is immortality.

Endlessness is unbearable.

It takes as long for our eyes to adjust to the darkness, as it does to adjust to the light.

To come in from the light is to be blind within the darkness.

In front of the beam from a flashlight is light, behind it is darkness. To stand in the light is to see the light, to stand in the darkness is to be the light.

You cannot win against God, you can only lose.

The only way to not lose is to let God win.

The more you give it to God, the more you become God.

The more you let it go, the more God takes over.

The hidden creates the visible.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.