Consciousness, love, judgment, right and wrong, a camera, stillness, and the heart

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Consciousness is being.

It’s just what it is.

Love knows no judgment.

Right begets wrong, wrong begets right.

Good begets bad, bad begets good.

Good and bad arise from perspective. To annihilate good and bad is to undo perspective and enter into the absolute.

There is no right or wrong, there simply 'is'.

To swim from bank to bank in the rushing river, clutching onto nothing, and gliding down the stream.

Be a camera, perpetually taking pictures, yet carrying no film.

life is a the test for which a person fails by trying to pass, and passes by dropping his pants and pissing on the paper.

Faith and fear cannot exist in the presence of the other- they are mutually exclusive

Stillness arrives in the aftermath of reason. Covenants abound through the orchestrations of the day.

Play the heart like a soul that bleeds its own excuses. Live hard in those bittersweet intimacies, where hope for nothing matters into the night. Be the eyes which have no memory. Hope for nothing that matters. Play in that dark fallen bloom. Play in the dark, and the light will not need to come soon.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.