My love was founded on a rock and it endures. You cannot look away. The mesmerized look in your eyes reveals that watching and listening seems to put you in a trance, and you emerge feeling better. We know from our own experience that the love we have deeply longed for has always been right here.   Peace does not depend on the World looking peaceful, and everything we wanted to be rid of is an expression of the wholeness we are, and that transformation can happen when our minds stop trying to control everything and allow things, moments, people, and feeling to be felt is deeply loving. These aspects of our lives are logically connected with the ideas of human freedom, moral vision, moral criticism, ideas of inventiveness, originality, and the life of the imagination. You are in a trance when you experience past life recall. The recall comes from your unconscious mind, which creates the images that come back up to the surface of your conscious mind. Any times you remember an image you go into a trance, and every time you go into a trance, you are experiencing a form of self-hypnosis. #RandolphHarris 1 of 9

The intellectual life is a social venture. The easier the subject accepts the suggestions from the DJ or music, the more likely he or she is to enter a deeper hypnotic state. This is a term known as fantasy prone personality that describes someone who easily enters a deep trance. The more someone is open to the imaginations, the greater the potential that person have for experiencing a hypnotic trance. Philosophical judgments are ways in which experience progresses toward its goal of intelligibility, and the task of such judgments is to disclose the implications of dynamic coordinates of experience: mind, nature, and other selves. Reality cannot be identified with mind, will, or personality but must be comprehended as a system in which each entity plays a part as an individual and as a significant function of the purposeful whole. Who can part, forever; only when we come so close that nothing separates us can we meet again, only when what binds us is not my need of you or your need of me nor any chance circumstance, but a deep ingrained likeness of nature that cannot pass away.  #RandolphHarris 2 of 9

Sentiment is a disgrace instead of an ornament, unless it leads us to good actions. Creation of the World was freely willed by God, as in no way necessitated, as his nature is love. There is no lack or insufficiency in God that needs the creating of the World to remedy it. Love demands society and community, but the divine society of the Trinity is itself thought of as supplying this scope of love, from eternity. It is possible, therefore, to see the creation of the World as a wholly gratuitous exercise of love. The mysteries of religion can sometimes be beyond human reason, but also contradict it. Something may be unthinkable for human reason that is not so for God in itself. Faith always works in a personal way, because the purpose of God is to see that perfect faith is made real in His Children. Faith is a tremendously active principle that always puts Jesus Christ first. Our faith is limitless. Faith is the entire person in the right relationship with God through the power of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Faith by its very nature must be tested and tried. And the real trail of faith is not that we find it difficult to test God, but that God’s character must be proven as trustworthy in our own minds. #RandolphHarris 3 of 9

If shame was not audacious, one would never attempt to do as they do. However, let us still resist shame; for notwithstanding all shame’s bravadoes, one promteth the fool and none else. Faith being worked out into reality must experience times of unbroken isolation. Never confuse the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life, because a great deal of what we call the trail of faith is the inevitable result of being alive. The most general principle of human knowledge is neither principle of identity nor the principle of contradiction, but a principle concerning what we can and cannot think: What cannot be thought at all is false, and what cannot be thought of as false is true. Our notions of identity and contradiction are based on this principle, which is called the principle of cogitabailitas. It is an inner criterion, depending on the nature of the human understanding. Human reason cannot reach ultimate truth. Knowledge begins with experience, both inner and outer, and in many cases is stopped in its analysis of an order of facts by certain notions that, although they are not simple in themselves, cannot be further analyzed by humans. #RandolphHarris 4 of 9

 Beauty is an angel that no one ever caught; truth is a deception that changes to falsehood while you finger it. We are shadows among shadows. Even if an analysis is completed and humans do reach some simple basic notion, this notion cannot be demonstrated or deduced from a unique source. Each notion must be intuited singly by connecting it with concrete examples. We are called into intimacy with the gospel, and things happen that appear to have nothing to do with us. However, God is getting us into fellowship with Himself. Let God have His way. If you refuse, you will be of no value to God in His redemptive work in the World, but will be a hindrance and a stumbling block. The Lord does not give me rules, but He makes His standard very clear. If my relationship to God is that of love, I will do what He says without hesitation. If I hesitate, it is because I love someone I have placed in competition with Him, namely, myself. Jesus Christ will not force me to obey Him, but I must. If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God. #RandolphHarris 5 of 9

By an appeal to reality (by their concrete representations)—notions such as existence, space, time, and force; or, in psychology, the particular powers of the soul, some mental faculties, and pleasure and pain, the circular process of being attempts to modify experiences to keep the desired image and avoid the threatening ones, and continually reinforces the beliefs and assumptions in the position apart from being. The desire to anchor one’s being in a self is not attacked, but is invited into a process of respectful inquiry and loving challenge. We learn to relinquish attachment and illusion. It is growth through letting go rather than an accumulation of new ideas, new conditions, and new assumptions that must be continued. A sense of what constitutes emotional pain may be associated with experiences of rejection, abandonment, rage, neglect, or abuse. The psychological split is healed when pain is neither retained nor defended against psychologically. Pleasure is neither sought nor rejected. One may move in the direction of health by integrating experiences that have been avoided, but is fully healthy when rejection and acceptance are not options. #RandolphHarris 6 of 9

God’s existence can be proved, but his attributes cannot, properly speaking, be understand completely by humans—among other things, positive infinity is beyond human’s reason. The human notion of God is partially relative and partially negative; nevertheless, it is certain. God is different from created beings both in degree and in essence. Among the attributes of God is free will, which is limited by principle of contradiction and by his goodness. In God and God alone, intellect and will are a single power. Space and time are intimately connected with existence; they are conditions of things insofar as such things exist. There is no real space or time without substance to fill it; outside the real World there is only possible (not sensible) space or time, which is infinite and filled by God. There are empty spaces in the World (otherwise movement would be impossible), but they are only physically—and not metaphysically—empty, because they are filled with God’s presence. Mathematical space and time are distinct from physical space and time, and are abstracted from the relations of things. #RandolphHarris 7 of 9

Spiritual materialism has finite spirits that are simple unextended substances, and they will enter a space and share with material substances the power of motion. Thus, a real interaction between spiritual and material substances is possible, and the doctrines of pre-established harmony and occasionalism are unnecessary. The human soul is an independent substance with two fundamental powers, thinking and willing, both of which are a complex of several independent lesser powers. Immortality of the soul can be proved only if God’s existence is presupposed—that is, by an appeal to moral certitude. Natural duties have been imposed on human beings through God’s free choice. The empirical psychology into free will has a cognitive power that becomes logic. And there is also an aspect of free will that is also placed in ethics. Moral goodness consists in the conformity of the human will with God’s will. The human will is a power to act on the understanding, on the body, and on the will itself, but its connection with the understanding is not altogether clear. We are immediately conscious of freedom, which is the main property of the human will. The will is moved by sufficient reason, which does not necessitate, and therefore the will is free. #RandolphHarris 8 of 9

It is essential that you give people the opportunity to act on the truth of God. The responsibility must be left with the individual—you cannot act for him or her. It must be one’s own deliberate act, but the evangelical message should always lead on to action. Refusing to act leaves a person paralyzed, exactly where one was previously. However, once one acts, one is never the same. An action is moral if it is done out of obligation only, and not in quest of happiness. The moments I truly live are the moments when I act with my entire will. The practice of coming back to the safe place can enhance mindfulness and encourage reorientation to reality, instead of the subjective, personal story about the individual’s suffering. Forgiveness spontaneously arises, as do spiritual understanding.  Virtue is formally conditioned by a coincidence of human will and divine law, and is materially conditioned by love for God. Divine law is known through conscience, which is an immediate power of moral judgment founded on a sort of common sense called moral taste. Evil originates in a wrong use of free will, which, when it submits to unreasonable impulses, corrupts human understanding and the true representation.  I wish you health, wealth, and longevity and your family health, happiness, every success and satisfaction. Happy Birthday (422). #RandolphHarris 9 of 9