If thou gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee. That absorption in oneself that is soulless and loveless, turns gradually into a deeper version of itself. It becomes a true stillness, a wonder about oneself, a contemplation of one’s own nature. It is almost like the first time we reflect on our own story and who we are. This contemplation was once empty, but now it stirs wonder. We undergo a transformation into a deeper version of ourselves, take on more substance, and we enjoy a deeper, inner reflection. We see a new something we have never seen before, something that we are mesmerized by, something we find charming. This appreciation cannot be found intentionally, as we come upon it unexpectedly as we peel away suppression, and repression of our powerful instincts.  We may characterize this process with reference to the changes which it brings about in the familiar instinctual dispositions of human beings, to satisfy which is, after all, the economic takes of our lives. This readiness for a Universal love of humankind and the World represents the highest standpoint which one can reach. When God leads people to respond to this revelation with faith, then human beings again knows God. In the World dialogue, we are acknowledging its soul. #RandolphHarris 1 of 8

Since we do not have unlimited quantities of physical energy at our disposal, we have to accomplish our tasks by making an expedient distribution of our time. We must retain some sense of laws that must be obeyed if human society is to be preserved. Humans tend through natural instinct to foster and preserve society. Consequently, we observe that there exist in all human minds a Universal impression of a certain civic fair dealing and order and this is ample proof that in the arrangement of this life no person is without the light of reason. However, although human’s abilities concerning Earthly things have not been destroyed, they have been profoundly corrupted. There is never a contrast between faith in God and knowledge of God available to us. Faith is never understood in scholastic fashion as an assent to divinely revealed propositions. Rather, the object of faith is God as revealed in Christ. The self-acceptance we crave cannot be forced nor manufactured. It has to be discovered, in a place more introverted than the shallow expectations of the material World. We must reflect directly from our soul: Do I have depth? Do my feelings and thoughts pool somewhere so off the beaten path that it is utterly still and untouched. Is there someplace within me far from human influence? #RandolphHarris 2 of 8

God’s mind is the only mind there is and God is eternal. When soul is present, nature is alive. We live because God lives in us, and we are able to think because the mind of God is in us. Our trouble is that we have thought of ourselves as separate from God, and in doing this we have stored up a burden of care and worry in our minds. We love the surface image we identify as ourselves, but we must also discover that there are other images just as lovable. There are in the pool, at the very source of identity. The cure is we must learn to care for our souls, and realize that it is divine intelligence that works for us and gives us health and comfort. The one mind, which is God, is capable of running the factory of the human body in perfect order. The human body would work much better if we did not throw wrenches of fear and doubt into the machinery, and if we would not throw wrenches of fear and doubt into the machinery, and if we would not overload the communication system and the transformation systems with the burdens of grief and worry. This is what repentance means. It means to think another way. It means a new birth in the mind of life that comes fresh and new every moment of existence. #RandolphHarris 3 of 8

Every day is a fresh beginning, every day is the World made new. So let us consider a youthful and pure mental attitude of a God if we would recapture the dream we seem to have lost. When we were young, we have so much to look forward to. The days were full of happiness and fulfillment. We could hardly wait to get up in the morning to begin over again, because we had such enthusiastic expectation. A person’s life was spent in the enjoyment of the day in which one lived, always with something more ahead. We were learning, studying, finding out how to do things, getting ready to live in a larger way. We had the security of home and parents. We were not afraid. We may continually make soul out of life by preserving and tending to the images that have come to us throughout our lives. By being the curator of our own images, we care for our souls. As we reach maturity, the World is still ahead of us. We fall in love, get married, have children, and the cycle repeats itself—we live in our family, and all the things that we have done for ourselves, we now do for them, only in a grander capacity. People do not grow old when they are busy with the pleasure of living, the enjoyment, the expectation, the enthusiasm, and the thought that more is to come. #RandolphHarris 4 of 8

When we find tolerance in ourselves for the competing demands of the soul, life becomes more complicated, but also more interesting. Sometimes we have to allow the time needed to stop, reflect, and see the many emotions, memories, wishes, fantasies, desires, and gears that make up the materials of the soul. It requires acceptance and prayer and close embrace, so that it can turn naturally from hard ivory expectations to soft, beautiful, Earthly life. That allows us to discover by our own experience that we are lovable. We know our habits, our weaknesses, our strengths, and our quirks. Looking at them with interest and love does not have to be narcissistic. In fact, awareness of the qualities of soul may help transform narcissism into genuine love. All human symptoms and problems, when they are taken to their depth and realized in a soulful way, find their ultimate solution in a religious sensibility. Roots are deep and those whose indulgent beauty is grounded, enjoying the honest humility of nature. It is clear that love is never simple, that is brings with it struggles of the past and hopes of the future, and that it is loaded with material that may be remotely—if at all—connected to the person who is the apparent object of love. We sometimes talk about love lightly, not acknowledging how powerful and lasting it can be. #RandolphHarris 5 of 8

We always expect love to be healing and whole, and then are astonished to find that it can create hollow gaps and empty failures. Going through a divorce is often a long and painful process that never truly ends. Often we never know completely if we have done the right thing, and even if we enjoy some peace of mind about the decision, memory and attachment continue to persist, if only in dreams. People are also tortured emotionally about love that was never expressed. Our love of love and high expectations that it will somehow make life complete seem to be an integral part of the experience. Love sees to promise that life’s gaping wounds will close up and heal. It makes little difference that in the past love has shown itself to be painful and disturbing. However, there is also something self-renewing in love. It may correspondingly be useful to consider love less as an aspect of relationship and more as an event of the soul. We should not force relationships, but enjoy the celebration of friendship and intimacy. The emphasis should be on what love does to the soul. #RandolphHarris 6 of 8

Love should bring a broader vision, initiate the soul in some way, and carry the lover away from Earth to an awareness of divine things. The purpose of love is the desire for union with a beautiful object in order to make eternity available to mortal life. What appears to be an Earthly relationship between two human individuals is at the same time a path toward far deeper experiences of the soul. There is something about being in love that wishes for nonjudgment, pure absorption and freedom of complexity. Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, were the soul is expanded and reminded of its Heavenly cravings and needs. Love allows a person to see the true angelic nature of another person, the halo, the aureole of divinity. Let us make up our minds that yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet arrived. However, today can be filled with wonder if we know that we stand on the threshold of that which is wonderful and new. I have never yet met a single individual who maintained this attitude n the last part of life unless one had faith. A faith in a power greater than we are, and a complete assurance that we are going to love forever, somewhere. Love brings consciousness closer to the dream state. #RandolphHarris 7 of 8

Our Heavenly Father loved us before we came to this Earth. It is love that finds in the body and in human relationships a route toward eternity. The soul is partly in eternity and partly in time. Love straggles these two dimensions, opening a way to live in both simultaneously. The door that you can start to open alone by looking into your own soul and bringing out the Godlike qualities. This allows of to discover secrets of secrets, which is a knowledge of the spiritual truth about our own being. The temple which is the self, by reflecting on our souls, we find an entrance to the secret place of the Most High within us, which is the holy of truth, who is our own spiritual being or the incarnation of God within us. The door to the temple must be opened by the self. You are the only person who can open this door for yourself. We have the great honor to be invited to be such instruments of love. The royal law of love is of sacred significance in the Lord’s program for his people—an element as vital as the air we breathe and the water we drink. We have the honor to belong and celebrate for knowing and acting upon it on occasions of great need across the Earth. We are eternally circled in the Love of God and Christ. That love will never change—it is constant. We can rely on it, we can trust it. We must believe that the love of Christ will never fail us. #RandolphHarris 8 of 8