It is knowledge that helps you read situations correctly and get what you want. Someone has said that we used to think we had to be well in order to be happy, but now we know that we must be happy if we wish to be well. Happiness must be based on an inward sense of security, a sense of belonging to life and to each other; a desire to give, to be kind and compassionate, and to be able to empathize with other people. Most of our unhappiness comes from our relationships with others. If we cannot be happy unless some other individual or some group of individuals admires and loves us, we have not yet realized that every person is complete within oneself. For when we reach back to the true self, which is God in us, we shall have penetrated to the inner most depths of all people. Most people have families or some kind of support system, which can help them financially and emotionally, but not everyone does. Chris Langan had a heartbreaking story, he was in college, but his mother forgot to fill out the parents’ financial statement for the renewal of his scholarship, so it was not renewed. He left Reed College before his final exams, leaving him with failing grades in ever class for that semester on his transcript. However, in the first semester he had earned As. Chris went back home and worked in construction and as a forest services firefighter for a year and a half, and ten enrolled at Montana State University. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6

Chris Langan did not let life’s hardships discourage him, he kept trying and took a few more classes at Montana State University. However, he was living thirteen miles out of town, and the transmission fell out of his car. He did not have the money to repair the car, so he went to his adviser and the dean to explain his problem and see if he could get into classes that started in the afternoon instead of the morning. The adviser replied, “Well, son, after looking at your transcript from Reed college, I see tat you have yet to learn that everyone has to make sacrifices to get an education. Request denied.” Chris Lagan had a deep intellectual mind and he had dreamed of becoming an academic. People thought once he got into the University environment he would prosper. Without a degree Chris became a floater, taking whatever jobs he could get to get by. Chris was actually a very smart guy, too. He often was skipped a head grades and could answer difficult questions. Later on in life, Chris was approached by Disney Research and went on to work with them. His IQ was estimate to be between 190 and 200, and he was labeled the smartest man in America. Sometimes we do not receive the type of opportunities we deserve and have to take alternative routes, but like Chris, keep trying until you make it. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6

Happiness is never external. All the money in the World will not make a person happy. The highest position of dignity or trust cannot make one happy. Many times, when you accept a paycheck from people, it is going to come down to what you want to do and what you feel is right versus what your employers say you can do to receive another paycheck. What shall it profit an individual, if one shall gain the whole World, and lose one’s own soul? Of course we are not referring to any actual loss of the soul, because the soul is the incarnation of the spirit within. We trace the human back to it divine source, which is God, and rest in the security of being enfolded in infinite love and wisdom, and kept by an infinite law of God. It is true that we cannot be well unless we are mentally and emotionally happy. To a much greater extent than we realize, the physical body reflects our mental attitude. Our food neither digests nor assimilates properly when we are filled with unhappiness and fear. The stream of life flows fully and freely from the innermost recesses of our being only when we are happy. Children are happy because they have not learned to be afraid; there can be no happiness where fear is. Why should we have to be so cold and indifferent, harsh and critical, so troubled over living? If we are to have happiness, security, and peace, we must regain our lost ground. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6

 This is what faith does for us. It connects us with God. It makes no difference what form it takes as long as it is sincere. However, even here the clearance will not be complete if we continue to worry over the question of salvation and the ultimate well-being of the soul. Is it so hard, then, for the intellect to give up its vast accumulation of false knowledge based on a concept of separation from the original source of its being? Somewhere along the line we shall be called on to make this surrender and again become innocent. Our attempt to become happy will be futile without this. It matters not what we possess or what ambitions we entertain; we are so constituted that we are incomplete until we consciously unite ourselves with that which is whole and perfect—God. Can we learn to surrender all our doubts and fears, our expectancy, and confidences? It is possible, could we learn to do this, our inner conflicts would dissipate themselves. Our prophetic feelings of evil would vanish, and we should be at peace with God, with ourselves, and with others. We have well-developed powers of reason and timid, undernourished powers of imagination. We make it even more difficult on ourselves when we believe that creativity is a gift reserved for a chosen few. Chris Langan kept working on his research even after not finishing college and developed the Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe. #RandolphHarris 4 of 6

One of the great challenges facing us today is to develop sufficient wisdom, understanding, and inner strength so that we can live happily and successfully in our complex and difficult World and not be caught up in the mad scramble for the material things and pleasures. “Seek not for riches but for wisdom, and behold, the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto you, and then you shall be made rich. Behold, one that has eternal life is rich,” reports Doctrines and Covenants 6.7. It might be interesting to note that frequently, even when we seek after wisdom rather than riches, the Lord blesses us with wisdom and riches as he did King Solomon. When this occurs, we have the great opportunity and responsibility to use our material wealth in the building up of the Kingdom of God. One of the great needs today is increased love and solidarity within families. It is our responsibility to set an example in our own home as home teachers to encourage and motivate our families to do likewise. When there is unity in a home, people can testify that there is greater love between parents, between parents and the children, and between the children. They are more appreciating the purpose of life and are finding happiness and peace beyond their expectations, as a greater understanding of their needs are obtained. This allows them to accept callings of responsibility and blossom into outstanding leaders much like Chris Langan did. #RandolphHarris 5 of 6

May we so live that we may be worthy of the blessings of wisdom, happiness, peace, and eternal life. Scriptures teach that the glory of God is intelligence. They also teach that individual intelligences were organized before the World was. Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine. Our God, God of all people, God of Heaven and Earth, seas and rivers, God of Sun and Moon, of all of the stars, God of high mountain and lowly valley, God over Heaven, and in Heaven, and under Heaven. He has a dwelling in Heaven and Earth and sea and in all thing that are in them. He inspires all things, he quickens all things. God is over all things, he supports all things. God makes the light of the Sun to shine, he surrounds the Moon and the Stars. God has made wells in the arid Earth, placed dry islands in the sea. Lord, because you have made me, I owe you the whole of my love; because you have redeemed me, I owe you the whole of myself; because you have promised so much, I owe you my whole being. Moreover, I owe you as much more love than myself as you are greater than I, for whom you gave yourself and to whom you promised yourself. I pray you, Lord, make me taste by love what I taste by knowledge let me know by love what I know by understanding. I owe you more than my whole self, but I have no more and by myself I cannot render the whole of it to you. Draw me to you, Lord, in the fullness of your love. I am wholly yours by creation; make me all yours, too, in love. #RandolphHarris 6 of 6