Thousands of rivers separate us and millions of mountains are boundless. I can only trust my missing to cloud, may you find a happy life and come back with a successful story. Like a slave longing for the evening shadows, or a hired man waiting eagerly for his wages, so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me. When I lie down, I think “How long before I get up?” The night drags on, and I toss till dawn. My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and they come to an end without hope. Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath: my eyes will never see happiness again. The eye that now sees me will see me no longer; you will look for me, but I will be no more. As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to the grave does not return. He will never come to his house again; his place will know him no more. Therefore, I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.  #RandolphHarris 1 of 7

We look at each other at the time of departure. I have a lot of words to tell you, but I am speechless. The time we share is more valuable when we have to depart. I want to keep each image in my heart so that I can recall the memory when I am free. I hope that we cannot be strangers and can shake hands recalling the beautiful memories ten years later. The difference between reality and a semblance of reality is extreme. Those are, in truth, separate realities—one immediate, vivid, substantial; the other faint, insipid, spent. In the days when we were together, you affected me with your laughter, and in the days when we were apart with love. Whether I take a stroll in the woods or mediate in the light, I feel as if I were always accompanied by you. The residue of others’ experience is inadequate for one’s own sustenance. If we feed our lives on the leftovers from others’ presence, the thinness of the diet makes for leanness in our soul. Indeed, I know that this is true. However, how can a mortal be righteous before God? God judges of humans by what they are at the period of arraignment, and, whatever be their crimes, if they have seen and abjured the folly of those crimes, receives them to favor. #RandolphHarris 2 of 7

Judgement is concerned with truth, and mere interjections do not claim to be true; but there are rudimentary judgment of quasi-interjectional type, such as “How ugly!” or “Oh, horrible!” such impersonal judgments as “It rains” takes us still further along the road of developing thought, and demonstratives takes us still further. “This” is always so by relation to “that,” so that demonstrative lead on to comparison; and as comparison is made more exact, it leads on to proportion and measurement. The series diverges, one route being that taken by the concrete or categorical series and the other by the abstract or hypothetical series. Along the first route there are singular judgments and those are called generic judgments, in which a kind is regarded as real, as when we say “Humans are mortal” or “Water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit. Along the second line of development there are the various types of abstract judgement, such as “Heart is a mode of motion” or “7 + 5 = 12,” in which the emphasis is on necessary connection rather than on concreteness.  #RandolphHarris 3 of 7

Take the whole populace for a judge, and one will wait for a unanimous verdict. The two series converge again in the hypothetical judgment, and the whole culminates in the disjunctive judgment, which we regard as the most adequate form. The reason for this is that it combines the concreteness of the categorical series with the necessity of the hypothetical series. The various disjuncts, in this view, reveal a system in which every member has its distinct place. This is further illustrated by such examples as triangles are either scalene, isosceles, or equilateral. There are also functions within a social order of the sort which, if an individual exercises one of them that person does not and cannot exercise any of the others: if a person is king, he is not subject; if he is judge, he is not prosecutor. There is a great stress laid on the intermediate and transitional forms.  Furthermore, just as we minimize the difference between judgment and inference, so we minimize the difference between deduction and induction. Many people hold it together because others base their feelings for hope and joy on them. The World can judge of other better than it can act itself. Furthermore, an error against judgment is worse, infinitely worse, than an error in judgment.  #RandolphHarris 4 of 7

Knowledge is [God’s] plaything. We hold that knowledge advances neither by generalization from particulars nor by the elimination of hypotheses. Inference, in this view, depends upon the existence of systematic connections, and neither mere counting nor mere discarding can reveal these to us. What is needed is depth and complexity of insight into a sub-system of the World and the word “induction” is used when our points of contact with the real World are isolated perceptions, occurrences or qualities. However, the aim of all inquiry is to break down this isolation and to show how the elements of a system must be what they are. Thus, as knowledge advances, the aspect of contingency is less prominent, mere facts or mere observations play a vanishing part, and we come to see that things must be as they are. People say that is not light, it is only pain, but it is under your Sun I want to be. It is because the spirit is inestimable that the lifeless body is so little valued. The human spirit, however, does not perish of a single wound, nor exhaust itself in a single trial of life. #RandolphHarris 5 of 7

Once someone or a group of people invades your privacy and steals information they should not know and distorts it, no one can ever forget the things that they have heard. And regardless of if they are true or not, it changes perceptions people have of you more than the perceptions of the people who are breaking the law. Issues raised by human pain are cognitive and experiential. We are driven to understand what is happening. In our attempts to understand, we find ourselves dealing with individual as well as Universal expressions of the human pilgrimage. We look to ourselves and we look to others. Even more, we look to the Universe, what it is about, how it works, what lies at its heart. Immediate concerns inevitable merge with ultimate concern. What happens to others happens to us; what happens to us happens to others. Human pain intensifies human meaning with special poignancy. We have to make sense of that which seems senseless. Such understanding requires our personal participation in pain. No one can ever buy back their privacy, times, nor dignity no matter how much money they have. There is a continuity between ourselves and others that specific stress cannot obscure. #RandolphHarris 6 of 7

I am in the other and the other is in me, even though in any number of specific respects we are obviously different. Slander is a painful experience. We remember insults and injuries best: The adrenaline that we secrete to defend against potential threats helps to engrave those incidents into our minds. Even if the content of the remarks fade, our dislike for the people who made them usually persists. When we experience something terrifying, we will retain an intense and largely accurate memory of the event for a long time. Our bodies and brains function on our behalf and the crucial demands we personally face when we venture to respond to pain. Confronted with horror—especially the horror of inescapable sock—the system becomes overwhelmed and breaks down. We have to learn how to transform alienated pieces of our experience into energizing elements for our own and others’ becoming. The process of sensory awareness results in more aliveness. We are in touch and aware of our experiences. However, when emotions are bottled up inside, the body is physically restricted.  #RandolphHarris 7 of 7