It is important for families and individuals to aggressively seek more of the virtues which go beyond this mortal life. Like most people, you have experienced glimmers of knowing the real you throughout your life. You know in your heart when you are operating out of this best self, because you are able to think clearly, act decisively, and stand your ground with courage. When being true to oneself, one will experience a longing for more—more of the serenity of the occasion, more of the companionship of the Spirit, more of the nurturing that has brightened and blessed the soul. Being your best self requires a quality called Personal Integrity. Contrary to the way most of us perceive it, integrity is not some personality trait to be cultivated. Nor is it a gift bestowed upon that one person in a crowd who is able to behave honorably while others around one are confused or consumed with greed. Integrity is, in fact, the one grace we can all aspire to. Personal integrity is a true integration of all the many parts of ourselves working together as one cohesive whole so we do not act one way at work and another way at home. Everyday, every hour, every minute of your span of mortal years must sometime be accounted for. And it is in this life that you walk by faith and prove yourself able to choose good over evil, right over wrong, enduring happiness over mere amusement. And your eternal reward will be according to your choosing. #RandolphHarris 1 of 8

Christians have a doctrine of nonviolence, but they should also never succumb to the slave morality. Humans were created not for the destruction but for love, friendship, and service to their fellow people. Authority strong enough to enforce peace will also ensure eternal stability in the constituent states. People are that they may have joy—a joy that included a fullness of life, a life dedicated to service, to love and harmony in the home, and the product of honest toil—an acceptance of the Ten Commandments and of its requirements. Only in these will you find true happiness, the happiness which does not fade with the lights and the music and the crowds. With personal integrity is the ability to act out of our most basic, intimate sense of what is right for us and the World. There was once a man who suffered from omnipotence of thought. Omnipotence of thought consists in the belief that one can transform or influence the external Word through one’s thoughts alone. Omnipotence of thoughts underscores a general trait characteristic of neurosis. Neurotics are only affected by what is thought with intensity and pictured with emotion, whereas agreement with external reality is a matter of no importance. He believed that he could conjure people up. If he inquired suddenly about the state of health of an acquaintance whom he had long missed he was sure to hear that this acquaintance had just died, so that he could believe that he had drawn this attention to himself by telepathic means. #RandolphHarris 2 of 8

The omnipotence of thought was so potent in this person that If he uttered a half meant imprecation against a stranger, he could expect to have him die soon thereafter and burden him with the responsibility for his death. He was able to explain most of these cases in the course of the treatment, he could tell how the illusion had originated, and what he himself had contributed towards furthering his superstitious expectations. All compulsion neurotics are superstitious in this manner and often against their better judgment. Neurotics live in a special World in which only the neurotic standard of currency counts, that is to say, only things intensively thought of or affectively conceived are effective with them, regardless of whether these things are in harmony with outer reality. The hysteric repeats in his attacks and fixates through his symptoms, occurrences which have taken place only in his phantasy, though in the last analysis they go back to real events or have been built up from them. The neurotic’s guilty conscience is just as incomprehensible if traced to real misdeeds. A compulsion neurotic may be oppressed by a sense of guilt which is appropriate to a wholesale murderer, while at the same time he acts towards his fellow beings in a most considerate and scrupulous manner, a behaviour which he evinced since childhood. #RandolphHarris 3 of 8

And yet, his sense of guilt is justified: it is based upon the intensive and frequent death wishes which unconsciously manifest themselves towards his fellow beings. It is motivated from the point of view of unconscious thoughts, but not intentional acts. Thus the omnipotence of thought, the over-estimation of psychic process as opposed to reality, proves to be of unlimited effect in the neurotics affective life and in all that emanates from it. However, if we wish to subject him to psychoanalytic treatment, which makes his unconscious thoughts conscious to him he refuses to believe that thoughts are free and is always afraid to express evil wishes lest they be fulfilled in consequence in his utterance. However, through this attitude as well as through the superstition which plays an active part in his life, he reveals to us how close he stands to the savage, who believe he can change the outer World by a mere thought of his. In the animistic stage humans ascribe omnipotence to oneself; in the religious humans have ceded it to the gods, but without seriously giving it up, for one reserves to oneself the right to control the gods by influencing them in some way or other in the interest of one’s wishes. In the scientific attitude towards life there is no longer any room for human being’s omnipotence; one has acknowledged one’s smallness and has submitted to mortality as to all other natural necessities in a spirit of resignation. #RandolphHarris 4 of 8

Nevertheless, in our reliance upon the power of the human spirit which copes with the laws of reality, there still lives on a fragment of this primitive belief in the omnipotence of thought. Many people mention experiencing moments of deep self-knowledge as the progress through understanding their humanity. These marvelous discoveries are the result of breaking down the barriers to ourselves, allowing us to feel important connection between the many facets of our personalities. The Lord’s law of consecration, which as an economic role but, more than that, is an application of celestial law to life here and now. To consecrate is to set apart or dedicate something as sacred, devoted to holy purposes. True success in life comes in consecrating our lives—that is, our time and choices—to God’s purposes. In so doing, we permit him to raise us to our highest destiny. Five elements of consecrated life are: purity, work, respect for one’s physical body, service, and integrity. If you have been fortunate enough to get a glimpse of our best self and your ability to operate out of personal integrity, you know how wonderful it feels. People with personal integrity are more willing to take risk in order to do what they believe to be right, or to earn what they believe is right for them. They view their strengths and weaknesses more as a consequence of their own choices than immutable traits. #RandolphHarris 5 of 8

As the Savior demonstrated, the consecrated life is a pure life, where one refuses to compromise their morals and ethics, no matter what the short-term gains for doing so may be. We must accept our success and failures at face value, as markers for new directions rather than as ends in themselves. Appreciating the complex course of our lives will continue to solidify our relations with reality and God. As we develop a personal philosophy that acknowledges the profound interconnectedness between our inner and outer Worlds, we will be curious about ways we can reconcile all the things we want to be. Consecration therefore means repentance. Stubbornness, rebellion, and rationalization must be abandoned, and in their place submission, a desire for correction, and acceptance of all that the Lord may require. This is called putting off the natural human, yielding to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and becoming a saint through the atonement of the Lord. Such as one is promised the enduring presence of the Holy Spirit, a promise remembered and renewed each time a repentant soul partakes of the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. The person who walks in the light and wisdom and power of God, will at the last, by the very force of association, make the light and wisdom and power of God one’s own—weaving those bright rays into a chain divine linking oneself forever to God and God to one. #RandolphHarris 6 of 8

A consecrated life is a life of labour. The inevitable changes almost always cause us to cultivate a deep interest in issues of personal integrity, but it is a pathway that presents us with more demanding and frightening challenges the father we travel down its terrain. Knowing oneself takes a lot of courage. What if you turn out to be less of a person than you had hoped? What if you cannot live up to the values you espouse? What if you return to Heaven before you have a chance to live with that magical best self as a guiding force? All true work is sacred; in all true work, were it but true hand-labour, there is something of divines. Labour, wide as the Earth, has it summit in Heaven. As with many of life’s important endeavors, in our struggle to gain personal integrity we often are too hard ourselves, failing to recognize success. Fortunately, each time you locate your best self and act on it, you have made a huge leap in your personal development. And it gets easier the next time. Br cautioned not to look at integrity as a state you can achieve. The pathway of personal integrity is one you have been on your entire life, and will continue on until you return to Heaven. If you have attempted to approach your daily routines with honesty and goodwill, you may notice that sometimes you experience a sense of rightness you have never before displayed or felt and will keep doing the right thing. #RandolphHarris 7 of 8

Recognize that no one on Earth experiences his or her best self all the time. Simply strive to find that state as often as you can. Personal integrity is not perfection; it is the ability to pull yourself back onto the path when you find yourself straying. God has designed this mortal existence to require nearly constant exertion. By continuous labour we are enabled to get a comfortable maintenance. By working we sustain and enrich life. It enables us to survive the disappointments and tragedies of the moral experience. Hard-earned achievement beings a sense of self-worth. Work build and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and God. A consecrated life is filled with work, sometimes repetitive, sometimes menial, sometimes unappreciated but always work that improves, orders, sustains, lifts, ministers, and aspires. Just as honest toil gives rest its sweetness, wholesome recreation is the friend and steadying complain of work. Have a faith that God can see. Put actions behind what you believe. It is not enough to just pray, not enough to just believe. Take it one step further and demonstrate    your faith. You may not see how your dream could ever come true, but as you take steps of faith, you will see God begin to open new doors. #RandolphHarris 8 of 8