The trouble, the trial, finding peace in God, hegemony, baptisms, and Meister Eckhart

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It was odd how it troubled me- troubled me to be the man I had chosen to become.

Trial is the only way to learn to believe in yourself.

You may stay only where you find the peace of God inside of you. And when you find the peace of God inside you, you may stay anywhere.

God is neutral.

There were days in which I wailed and clung to the hegemony of consciousness.

I had to take myself out of it to see it. I had to throw myself in to feel.

You call them nervous breakdowns, I call them baptisms.

Welcome to the Monastery of Forgetting.

As when Meister Eckhart shows great interest in the phrase: “God is no respecter of persons”, it occurs to me that if we are all One Being, then person-ality is valuable only if it unifies, and is useless if it divides, unless by the act of division a greater whole is born, as in the biological event of mitosis. Most person-alities tend to divide the whole into fragments. There are some, however, who are without vanity or guise, and their authentic convexity is a microcosmic awakening, rather than a disfiguring, of the concave macrocosm.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.