broken away from the tether of purpose,
the chains of need, the bonds of striving,
the shackles of the trapped and abandoned."
Jack Haas
broken away from the tether of purpose,
the chains of need, the bonds of striving,
the shackles of the trapped and abandoned.
You come out and the wind licks your wounds
through the blood of your losses.
There is no need to haunt the world ever again,
nor find yourself simple comforts or worth.
You belong to no one and nothing,
not even yourself.
Beyond salvation and damnation,
nothing can stop nor hold you now.
You are free.
And it doesn’t matter.
And that is why you are free."
Jack Haas
In and Of: memoirs of a mystic journey
Jack Haas
Had I known then what I was in for, I would perhaps never
have chosen to walk down that tunnel.
Or perhaps I would have had no other tunnel to choose.
No matter.
The best thing to do when caught in a whirlpool
is to quit struggling toward the vanishing surface,
to give your energy to the vortex,
and to dive as deep as possible,
waiting until you hit bottom and are torn away by the river,
at which point you can prepare for your return to the surface.
That is when you come out of it.
You come out wild and crazy.
You come out hard and ambivalent,
finished and yet hardly begun.
You come out through the threshold of indifference,
of care, of suffering, of life, of death, of meaning,
of meaninglessness, of noise,
and of silence.
You come out from nowhere,
out from a person you never were,
to a person you no longer are.
You run free at these moments
when what always mattered finally ends,
when life breaks stride with the current of its own disbelief.
Out and out you come, all the while falling inward.
Falling into the self beyond the self,
into the centerless happening
where nothing and everything occurs.
You come out into it all,
broken away from the tether of purpose,
the chains of need,
the bonds of striving,
the shackles of the trapped and abandoned.
You come out and the wind licks your wounds
through the blood of your losses.
There is no need to haunt the world ever again
nor find yourself simple comforts or worth.
You belong to no one and nothing,
not even yourself.
Beyond salvation and damnation,
nothing can stop nor hold you now.
You are free.
And it doesn’t matter.
And that is why you are free.
Jack Haas
In and Of: memoirs of a mystic journey
http://www.jackhaas.net/books.htm
http://www.jackhaas.net/InandOfsample-jackhaas.pdf
http://www.spiritandflesh.com/book_excerpts_religion_spirituality.htm
YOU CONTINUE TO ATTRACT THAT WHICH SHADOWS YOUR LIGHT
SO LONG AS YOU ARE NOT TOTALLY REALIZED
AND CONSCIOUSLY REALIZED IN TRUTH OF YOUR BEING.
ONCE YOU KNOW THIS IS THE ONLY REALITY YOU ARE,
ALL ELSE OF LIKE ATTRAIT WILL BE ADDED UNTO.
THE SHADOW MAKERS ARE THEN DISAPPEARED
FROM YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS AND LIFE.
THERE IS NO LONGER REASON FOR THEIR EXISTENCE.
THE ONLY REASON THEY ARRIVED WAS TO REMIND YOU OF WHO YOU TRULY ARE,
FOR IF YOU HAVE LIVED THRU THEM, YOU HAD TO REALIZE THIS.
GOD REALIZATION WAS AND IS THE ONLY ANTIDOTE.
AND THIS MY DEARS,
IS THE "HOW TO" OF INVISIBILITY.
ew
Sat Sept 1, 2001
9:49 a.m.