Denying yourself, the flesh, God, letting go, this dream life, the world, and the heart

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The moment you deny yourself you begin walking down a tunnel which, when you finally wake up to the fact that you made a wrong turn, you’ll have to walk that whole distance back out again, and then carry on.

The flesh is crucified by the spirit denying its own existence, for existence is a horrid thing to accept.

To walk with God is to never suffer the agony of absolute separation, but often it is to suffer.

Letting go consciously leads you back to your own soul, which is God, because God does not hold on.

Since it is a dream, the important thing is not to understand it nor make it mean something, the important thing is to wake up.

I am the experiment of myself.

I am not in the world, I am the world

It’s tough not to confuse the logic of the conscious mind with the illogic of the subconscious.

To be a God is to make with the mind what the heart must feel. To be a man or woman is to feel with the heart what the mind has made.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.