What a small thing it is sometimes that makes life’s kiss sweeter than death’s to us. Who lives well sees into eternity. Every house has its smoky chimney, its draughty room, its creaky door; every life its own haunting shadows; every state of life its own small troubles. When people you love do you wrong, what worries the prey most is the consequences that their action well bring on to them. While there are shimmery afternoons, there will always be something worth living for. Though long ages should elapse, and leave our wrongs unredressed, yet, shipmates and Worldmates, let us never forget, that whoever afflicts us, whatever surround, Life is a voyage that is homeward bound. This thing we call existence; is it not a something which has its roots far down below in the dark, and its branches stretching out into the immensity above, which we among the branches cannot see? Not a chance jumbling; a living thing, a One. The thought gives us intense satisfaction, we cannot tell why.  #RandolphHarris 1 of 9

You have to earn life, and if you are stuck in the sex and violence, you are not going anywhere. The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show people what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed, to perfection, but one step first, and then another on a ladder. Folks always listen when the tale is their own. When you wake up and see this is real, this is the truth, this is where it is at, someone will be here for you. At any rate, the interpretation of dreams is the via regia to a knowledge of the unconscious element in our psychic life. By the analysis of dreams, we obtain some insight into the composition of this most marvelous and most mysterious of instruments; it is true that this only takes us a little way, but it gives us a start which enables us, setting out from the angle of other (properly pathological) formations, to penetrate further in our disjoining of the instrument. The key to surviving is to be mentally tough and try to adapt to everything. If you do not, they have something out there for you.  #RandolphHarris 2 of 9

If it is being self-contradictory that degrades mere appearances, then reality must at least be not self-contradictory, but consistent and harmonious. Furthermore, reality must also be of the nature of experience, for what is not experience cannot be conceived of without self-contradiction. Finally, it is clear that reality must be comprehensive and include all that is. If reality is a consistent and harmonious and all-inclusive experience, then it cannot be a plurality of independent reals, for whatever is related to anything else must be to some extent dependent on it. Plurality and relatedness are but features and aspects of unity. Furthermore, the sort of unity that reality or the Absolute must have may be understood by analogy with feeling or immediate experience, for here there is diversity without relatedness. It hardly seems worthwhile to take up the historical significance of dreams as a separate theme. Where, for instance, a leader has been impelled by a dream to engage in a bold undertaking, the success of which has had the effect of changing history, a new problem arises only so long as the dream is regarded as a mysterious power and contrasted with other more familiar psychic forces.  #RandolphHarris 3 of 9

The problem disappears as soon as we regard the dream as a form of expression for impulses to which a resistance was attached during the day, whilst at night they were able to draw reinforcement from deep-lying sources of excitation. However, the great respect with which the ancient peoples regarded dreams is based on a just piece of psychological divination. To keep tearing up and complaining is not going to help anything. I know this is like being trapped. However, try to stay quiet and calm and keep mentally sane. It is a homage paid to the unsubdued and indestructible element in the human soul, to the daemonic power which furnishes the dream-wish, and which we have found again in our unconscious. What role is now left, in our representation of things, to the phenomenon of consciousness, once so all-powerful and over-shadowing all else? None other than than of a sense-organ for the perception of psychic qualities. Never tolerate, because of sympathy for yourself or for others, any practice that is not keeping with a holy God.  #RandolphHarris 4 of 9

Holiness means absolute purity of your walk before God, the words coming from your mouth, and every thought in your mind—placing every detail of your life under the scrutiny of God Himself. Holiness is not simply what God gives me, but what God has given me that is being exhibited in my life. The grace of God as it is prevenient both in time and nature to all good works. There is an actress who played the role of a witch for years on the television, and it is alleged that she took on a cause to serve humanity out of guilt. I am not sure if the latter is true, but I can relate to her wanting to do good. Is life short? It is an evil: But render life happy, its shortness is the only evil.  As we age, the idea of death becomes more real and we relaise that life is not a game and there is more coming after this. By doing things we deem as holy and right and moral, we can clear our conciseness of sins we have committed. Even responses in a negative way when people do us wrong leaves some ridden with guilt and shame. This can shed light upon such notions as prudence and justice in situations involving human choices and cooperation between individuals.  #RandolphHarris 5 of 9

Just as a moral assertion is to be construed as an expression of an intention to act in accordance with a certain policy, so a religious assertion must be understood as a declaration of adherence to a system of moral principles governing inner life as well as external behavior. The major difference between religious and moral assertions consists in the fact that the former, being associated with empirical narratives, have a propositional element lacking in the latter. Yes, I have been a victim of crime, but after listening to these men, I understand you cannot let someone control your mind and your being. Yes, I have responded with harsh words because the things that have been done to me, but I also feel bad and understand that the choice to be a better person has to mean passing above the negativity. I cannot allow people to target me and take me outside of my character. Even words hurt and saying bad things is a sin and it does not feel Good. These people will pay for their bad actions, but I cannot allow them to suck me into their vortex of hell.  #RandolphHarris 6 of 9

We adopt toward the object of our idea an attitude of liking or disliking, love or hate. I do not constantly want to relive the pass nor hear of bad things that have happened, I want to move forward. The only way to grasp the concept of the correct emotion is to contrast the actual cases of emotions that are qualified as correct with cases of emotions that are not. Thus, we learn that knowledge is good, joy is good (unless it is joy in what is bad), every enrichment within the realm of ideas is good, love of the good is good, love of the bad is bad, and the right end in life is to choose the best among all attainable ends. The correctness of loving and hating, like that of judging, is objective in that it is impossible for anyone to love correctly what anyone else hates incorrectly. Now, I told you I have been listening to these men, men on a show called Hard Time, and it shows one what life in prison is like and what these men and women go through. People who commit crimes and do wrong will end up in prison, and even expressing grief about the things that have happened does not feel good. #RandolphHarris 7 of 9

On this show Hard Time, they show you how hard the life of an inmate is. There was a woman who plays the patriarch of her prison family and she used to make people tattoo her name on their bodies, chase them with hot irons and choke them with bras, and put Vaseline on a hanger and drag women into the shower and beat them with it. There was another woman called Mrs. Rose and she would beat people with locks in a sock behind bars, and they would put her in the hole and she did not mind, she said that the voices in her head kept her company. So, what I am taking away from watching this show is that no matter how hard your life is, avoid all conflict and stay right with God because you do not want to lose your freedom and be locked behind bars. Love and hate, being pleased and being displeased, one of them in every case is correct and the other incorrect. The distinction between judging on the basis of evidence and judging blindly is not to be described in terms of instinct, feelings, degree of conviction, or impulse to believe.  #RandolphHarris 8 of 9

Every judgment that is evident is true, but not every judgment that is true is evident. Most judgments of outer perception (of the external World) are true, but not all of them are blind; they are not evident. And watching these shows is why I worry, I see what happens to bad people, and people we love sometimes do us wrong and will end up being in places like that. Being pretty cannot get you out of trouble. We arrive at the general concept of being evident in the same way we arrive at the concept of a correct emotion: by contemplating actual instances of the concept, in this case actual instances of evident judgments and of blind judgment. If a person is ever going to do anything worthwhile, there will be times when one must risk everything by one’s leap in the dark. Once you obey, you will immediately find that what God says is as solidly consistent as common sense. There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. Once should sympathize with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores, the better.  #RandolphHarris 9 of 9