Nothing great in the World has ever been accomplished without passion. Each soul has to walk its own path. What we call a path is but the awakening of a soul from its deep slumber. The sum total of all of our experiences is designed to bring us to the point where we ask questions. And where the questions are asked with an earnest heart, the answers never fail to come; they are as certain as the Sunrise in the morning. The most powerful process in the Universe is using divine energy to transform human hearts, returning souls to their source of origin—awakening them to Reality. Spiritual evolution can only take place within the dark epoch. Only ere can choices be made between fear and love. God always catapults Life into new dimensions of experience. Just like he created the World in a twinkle of an eye. As of consciousness expands, it can be considered as a reorientation process. This knowledge is vibrant, live, experienced truth. Communication does not occur on one level. The mind perceives consciously and subconsciously. The true purpose of a higher religion is to radiate the spiritual counsels and truths that are its essence into as many souls as it can reach, in order that each of these souls may be enabled thereby to glorify God and to enjoy the Lord forever. God who made the World and all the things in it is not a fabrication of our imagination. God is the creator, who gave us thinking ability and power of reason to provide us with a way to come into a satisfying relationship with him. #RandolphHarris 1 of 8

To release fear, we must first realize its true nature and cause. Challenge is the part of our path that can most overtly build multidimensional muscle and strongly embodied presence, deepening our capacity to see, hear, feel, know, and act. It calls us to leave our comfort zone and venture forth into territories that may be far from familiar. As much as we may resist this pull—such resistance being natural—we know in our heart of hearts that it signals an adventure we must sooner or later take. Challenge can take many forms—ranging from the most aberrant to the most ennobling—but its call to be met and how it is met are foundational aspects of humanity. Sometimes the deeper objective is to reject or turn away from what is being presented, saying no to what others are insisting is right for us to pursue, so that we might more fully align ourselves with more worthy, more relevant opportunities. There is a deliberate restraint from indulgence in nonessential matters. The aim of discourses is too precious to warrant a failure to arrive at the destiny of the journey we embarked upon. What if we too heart and faced that terrible emptiness inside, which we so fervently try to cover and fill with a thousand meaningless activities? Activities to which we give important names and then actually believe in their important, validity and justification? Only after we have come to terms with the possibility of abandonment or obliteration can we be truly assertive in voicing our true thoughts and emotions. #RandolphHarris 2 of 8

Acceptance of the truth is not required here, acquaintance with it is. We have to face this inner void courageously and began to fill it for the first time with a sense of purpose which gives our soul that peace it so yearns for. This is where our deepest most relevant growth happens. It is a domain of bot trepidation and excitement, an existential threshold where we have begun to turn toward our fears, pain, grief, shame, and failings—everything we kept in our subconscious. Once our new insights are adhered to in practice, taken into one’s daily life, we make a grand discovery: these principles actually work, and with great amazement we recognize that Truth is righteous. “Worship God, wherever you may be, in spirit and truth,” reports John 4.24. We have to learn to look beyond our physical needs and open our heats aspect, and become learning beings. The moment an individual changes the direction of one’s life from darkness to light, the Angels are with that individual. God is signifying and expressing his eternal nature to those who have the ability to discern it. God exists and is and has been actively present and involved in our lives and our World. The sources of revelation, the scriptures, tradition, and our living experience as believers who are individually and communally open to God and God’s actions do give us some reliable knowledge about God in our World. Material, physical reality is much richer in its possibilities, particularly when it is in a highly organized form, than we usually think. #RandolphHarris 3 of 8

We know that God exists, created the Universe and all that is in it, the Lord reveals himself to people, loves and cares for us, continually acts within material creation, and calls us to share in his life and mission forever. God is love and loves sees only innocence. All we need to offer is our willingness to be led home. The Holy Spirit lights the way. It alone still sees aright, perceives the Truth we have denied—the True perception is its gift to us to build the bridge from dream back to Reality. All that is ever needed is our call for help. Not to fix the dream but to awaken. With its help alone shall we become all-one, shall we be lifted and awakened from the heavy dream. God’s love is there for us whether or not we feel we deserve it. It is simply always there. We never walk alone. We must never lose our faith in our Father in Heaven, who loves us more than we can comprehend; never doubt that, and never have a harden heart. The key to accepting the truth of God’s unconditional love is to focus on the Lord, not circumstances. When we are learning of the Lord, talking with God, and sharing our life with him, trust and faith naturally replace doubt and fear. Experiencing the Lord of God, not just thinking about it, is something we should desire with all our hearts. This is an experience of great joy because in it we taste the very reality of God and his love. It is the ground of deep and wonderful assurance—the assurance that our confidence will not disappoint of. It carries us through the terrible trials of faith. #RandolphHarris 4 of 8

The love of God is mediated through knowledge and comes through knowledge. This experience of the love of God is the work of the spirit giving unspeakable joy in response to the mind’s perception of the demonstration of that love in the Savior. Love is a tender affection, kindness, and personal attachment to someone. It seeks the best interest of others regardless of their actions. Love is probably the most identifiable of God’s virtues. It brings joy, contentment, comfort, and peace. It is the unseen force that gives meaning to our lives. Humanity was made in the likeness of God. God is divine spirit while humanity is human spirit. The spirit is the fundamental requirement for life. It cannot be seen, but we can see the evidence of the spirit through our and others’ character and disposition. Every human spirit was created before the beginning of time. Before the creation of the World, God created humanity’s spirt. We were therefore created to be in a personal relationship with the Father. God knows us by our spirit, which gives us personal identities. The World was created as a place for us to express our individual character. Before we were born, God knew the way we would live and the choices we would make. We are the crowing glory of God’s creation. We are spirits with physical bodies and souls, which comprise the mind, heart, and will; this gives us the ability to thin, express feelings, and make choices. Freedom of choice lets us choose to do what is right or wrong, to obey or disobey. However, one lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.  #RandolphHarris 5 of 8

God is not angry with us. However, the Lord takes what is broken and brings healing. We were created for encountering God, and will never be satisfied until we continually live in the experience for which we are crated. God’s love is the greatest power in the Universe, and 83 percent of people report that they feel God’s love increasing their compassion for themselves and others. Beneath our culture’s obsession with wealth and power, status and celebrity, millions of Americans are quietly engaged in a deeply religious struggle to wake up from petty selfishness and to embrace a life of benevolence and compassion. The more experience, the more humans know God’s deeds and casts of their corruptions, the more God will work with us and shine light on our reality. We must live in the present light of God, and our path of practice will be clear. We can free ourselves from old practices. We sometimes feel great respect and reverence for creative genius as expressed in great art or music. How much more should we revere the power of majesty of our Divine Creator? Those who feel no reverence for the creations and the divine attributes of God likely will have little appreciation for other sacred things. Such a lack of veneration for God’s creations may diminish until a person becomes totally insensitive to the feelings of others. What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.  #RandolphHarris 6 of 8

When we consider people who are irreverent, we may think of those who lack manners, sensitivity, and courtesy, and who show little or no respect for the finer things or for sacred things. Perhaps some lack reverence for life and for their fellow people because they do not under who they are and what they have the potential to become. God expresses his love for us by providing the guidance we need to progress and reach our potential. Can you imagine what an impact following God’s instruction to love one another would have on the World? There are so many marvels of nature that are glimpses of God’s divine Love. Yet, the greatest of all miracles await us. It will occur when, by God’s power, we will come forth to a new World that will not pass away, where, if we are worthy, we will be wit God forever and ever. Showing someone how to evolve from hope to faith to knowledge is the whole point of the spiritual path. The transmission of spiritual knowledge that comes from the World’s wisdom traditions can be invaluable. Once we go inward, we will experience that our mind becomes more centered, calmer, and less overshadowed by thought. Then the qualities of deeper reality begin to come to the surface and affect our daily life. Love is one of these qualities. Lessons in love are not the same as falling in love. As we become more loving, a feedback loop is being set up in our brain. We are training it to notice something new, and the more it notices, the more sensitive, alert, and perceptive we will become in matters of love. #RandolphHarris 7 of 8

Devotion is entirely about finding love in everything, as a Universal quality. Anything universal belongs in the domain of the divine. A mute traveler is journeying through the World, bearing an unutterable message from God for someone he has never seen. A hearing-impaired traveler is journeying through the World, his ears sealed by God until the time he meets the man without speech. However, when these two see each other, the mute will be able to speak and the hearing-impaired man will hear and decipher the message. The mute symbolizes unconscious Nature, which has an unspoken message for humanity, who is deaf. They will understand each other when, through the self-evolution of God, Mind, which has been imprisoned in Nature, attains freedom through becoming fully aware of itself. Every person is related to the Infinite by the best strength, the chief talent that has been given to the individual, and only as far as one trains this talent and develops this strength, does one approach one’s Creator and enter into relation with the Lord. The human being is a blind person who dreams that he or she can see. Tomorrow is a new day. Wake up and get going! If you reach for the skies, you might not achieve your goal, but you might find you achieve more than you thought possible. The ultimate goal of scientific and religious study—of which psychology is an important part—is to improve the human condition. #RandolphHarris 8 of 8