Resenting the law of gravity will not keep a person from falling if one steps off a cliff. If the cause be not good, the kind himself has a heavy reckoning to make. Believing there is a principle, intelligence, or consciousness governing all things fosters a feeling of security, being on top of the World, and can allow one to display a great deal of affection and charm. Individuals also understands the laws, or at least some of the laws. Individuals also apply faith, consciousness, and spiritual conviction to the solution of human problems. This is what is meant by spiritual mind treatment. The basis or pure concept is that there is an absolute intelligence in the Universe—one, undivided, birthless, deathless, changeless reality. Every person’s soul is one’s own. And that is why it is God’s will that we be free men and women, enabled to rise to our full potential, both temporally and spiritually. When things turn bad, there is usually a tendency to blame others or even God sometimes. In many cases, a sense of entitlement arises, and individuals or groups try to shift responsibility for their welfare to other people or to the government. In spiritual matters, some suppose that men and women need not strive for personal righteousness—because God loves and saves us just as we are. #RandolphHarris 1 of 5

However, God intends that his children act according to the moral agency he has given them, that every person may be accountable for one’s own sins in the day of judgment. It is God’s plan and his will that we have the principal decision-making role in our own life’s drama. God will not live our lives for us nor control us as if we were his puppets, as the adversary prosed to do. Nor will we accept the role of puppet master (a person, group, or country that covertly controls another with actions and thoughtfully assembled words, usually with a commanding or guilt-inducing voice inflection as his or her weapon) in God’s place. God wants us to be good people and to try and live right and respect the laws of the land. God also will not make us do something we do not choose by our actions to become. Truly, God loves us, and because he loves us, he neither compels nor abandons us. Rather, God helps and guides us. Indeed, the real manifestation of God’s love is his commandments. Therefore, the cosmos is reflected in, or manifested by or through, the individual. We are the personification of the infinite, governed by the same laws. However, we are more than law; we are consciousness. The opportunity to assume personal responsibility is a God-given gift, which will help us realize our full potential.  #RandolphHarris 2 of 5

God did not put us on Earth so we would be like the only corn on the cob in a pig pen. We should (and we do) rejoice in the God-ordained plan that permits us to make choices to act for ourselves and experience the consequences that we may know to prize the good. The application of the principles of such a religion to our everyday problems is just as necessary as that there must be a practical application of those theories for them to be of value. It is not enough merely to abstract our thought and announce an infinite, for the infinite can never at any time mean more to us than the use we make of it. Just as electricity can never mean more to us than the use we make of it. This is true of any and all principles of nature. We can choose to become the kind of person that we will, and with God’s help, that can be even as he is. Because there is an infinite creative intelligence which makes things out of itself by itself, the creative genius of the Universal mind is also the creative genius of its individualization, which we all call human beings. You are a child of Almighty God, created to grow, move forward, increase, and constantly break the barriers of the past and advance God’s Kingdom. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5

If we learn this principle of stretching and not settling, then we will see the fullness of what God has in store and make it all the way to our Promised Land. God created us, and he put seeds of increase on the inside. We were never made to reach one level and stop. We were created to grow, to move forward, and to increase. We should constantly be breaking the barriers of the past, taking new ground for our families, and advancing God’s Kingdom. Because of God’s grace, our failures to live the celestial law perfectly and consistently in morality can be erased if we repent and make a conscious decision not to commit that sin anymore. Justice demands, however, that none of this happen without our willing agreement and participation. It has ever been so. Our very presence on Earth as physical beings is the consequence of a choice each of us made to participate in our Heavenly Father’s plan. Thus, salvation is certainly not the result of divine whim, but neither does it happen by a divine will alone. Justice is an essential attribute of God. We can have faith in God because he is perfectly trustworthy. We rely on the divine quality of justice for faith, confidence, and hope. #RandolphHarris 4 of 5

Most of the great intellectual geniuses who have ever lived have proclaimed these truths. However, as a consequence of being perfectly just, there are some things God cannot do. God cannot be arbitrary in saving some and banishing others. He wants us all to have a chance, and that is why there is sometimes suffering in the World, even good people suffer. Nevertheless, God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance. God cannot allow mercy to rob justice. We believe in God, the living spirit Almighty. God is indestructible, absolute, and a self-existent cause. The manifest Universe is the body of God; it is the logical and necessary outcome of the infinite self-knowingness of God. We believe in the eternality, the immortality, and the continuity of the individual soul, forever and ever expanding. The ultimate goal of life is to be completely emancipated from all discord of every nature, and this is the goal to be obtained by all. We believe in the unity of life, and that the highest God is personal for all who feel this indwelling presence. God enables us to retain responsibility for ourselves. Repentance respects and sustains our moral agency, and it part of the great and eternal plan of redemption. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5

The last century witnessed the rediscovery of the inner life. The new age bids us to go to the sources for ourselves. As we take the message of God into our hearts, we will be blessed. May we ever watch over one another, assisting in times of need. Let us not be critical and judgmental but let us be tolerant, ever emulating the Savior’s example of loving-kindness. We are living in a spiritual Universe now, and that freedom is of our choice, backed by the law of mind, which reports that we must be careful of what we think about because the subconscious mind responds to cognitive images. It does not matter if the image is self-induced or from the external World. Humans are made up of truth and belief; and if one is deceived into a belief that one has, or is liable to have an ailment, the belief is catching, and the effect follows it.  “Wherefore, whoso believes in God surely hopes for a better World, even a place a the right hand of God, which hope comes of faith, making an anchor to the souls of human beings, which will make them sure and steadfast, always abounding in good works, being led to glorify God (Ether 12.4).” That is why spiritual mind healing emphasizes control of conditions through the creative power of thought. #RandolphHarris 1 of 5

Love is a rational phenomenon, as the crowning achievement of maturity. When the individual feels, the community reels. The creative spirit within us is God, and we have an immediate relationship to the divine. May we pray for the inspiration to know of the needs of those around us, and then may we go forward and provide assistance that will establish the truth in others. Let us be of good cheer as we go about our lives. Although we live in trying times, the Lord loves us and is mindful of us. God is always on our side as we do what is right. He will help us in our times of need. Difficulties come into our lives, problems we do not anticipate and which we would never choose. None of us is immune. The purpose of mortality is to learn and to grow and to be more like our Father God, and it is often during the difficult times that we learn the most, as painful as the lessons may be. Our lives can also be filled with joy as we follow the teachings of God. The meaning of love and intimacy is a type of situation involving people which permits validation of all components of personal worth. Validation of personal worth requires a type of relationship called collaboration, by which we clearly adjust our behavior to express the needs of the other person in pursuit of increasingly identical and more mutual satisfactions, and in the maintenance of increasingly similar security options. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5

The essence of love is seen in a situation of collaboration, in which spiritual mind healing of the physical body is a result of touching the springs of life in the soul. God is the Father of our spirits. He has a glorified, perfected body of flesh and bone. We lived with God in Heaven before we were born. And when God created us physically, we were created in the image of God, each with a personal body.  Think of our physical sustenance. It is truly Heaven sent. The necessities of air, food, and water all come to us as gifts from a loving Heavenly Father. The Earth was created to support our journey of mortality. We are born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families. The great spiritual leaders of the ages, having given their lives to mediation, prayer, and communion with God, have left a great spiritual legacy to the World. Taken as a whole, they have come nearer to discovering God than any other group of people. Yet, truth cannot belong to any individual, and there can be no religion higher than the truth. In religious science, there is a deep, mystical yearning of the minds of people, in search of God, and our faith can be demonstrated. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5

We have a cosmic purpose. A whole without religion would be chaos. Religious science has access to the highest enlightenment of the ages. God is the highest enlightenment, and robs no one of truth. The family is the most important social unit in time and eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in his holy presence forever. That is eternal life! It fulfills the deepest longings of the human soul—the natural yearning for the endless association with beloved members of one’s family. Truth comes to us as we are able to receive it. Should all the wisdom of the Universe be poured over us, we should yet receive only that which we are ready to understand. Each of us draws from the source of all knowledge only that to which one inwardly listens. The Universal spirit comes to fullest consciousness in the being’s innermost self, we strive to cultivate the inner life, knowing that spiritual certainty is the result of an impact of God upon the soul. We seek the witness of the inner spirit. We are all individually loved by God and part of the central meaning of his work. We are all part of the plan for salvation and exaltation. #RandolphHarris 4 of 5

We are all loved by God and people on this Earth and in Heaven are grateful for you. The very angels of Heaven are thanking you for every good thing you have ever done, for every kind word you have ever said, for every sacrifice you have ever made in extending to someone—to anyone—the beauty and blessings of God. The gospel is the good news for the here and now. Religion means right living, and right thinking. We do not wait on the future, but bestow our rewards in this life—in better health, happier homes, and all that makes for a well-balanced, normal life. Keep faith. Deep cries unto the deep, deep answers deep. God is the great innovator in his World, and progress is by divine authority. Religious faith in our day is breaking from the narrow bounds of past teaching and expanding in both breadth and depth. It is because people believe more in God and the true essentials of spiritual life. The future religion will be free from fear, superstition, doubt, and will ask no one where God may be found. For the secret place of the Most High will be revealed in the inner sanctuary of one’s own heart, and the eternal God will sit enthroned in one’s own mind. We can know no God external to that power of perception by which alone we are conscious of anything. God must be interpreted to God through our own nature. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. Truth is Universal and belongs to all people. All wickedness cannot quench light. The love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s love. Every soul that lives or has lived can touch that light. The love of God is in essence a thought of experience that the infinite power of God transmits itself down to beings on Earth through a series of steps. It is an intense energy and feeling allowing for the experiencing of oneness and being with God inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living. Anything other than peace of love is an error. “Therefore, I would that you should be steadfast and immovable, always abounding in good works, the Lord God Omnipotent, may seal you his, that you may be brought to Heaven, that you may have everlasting salvation and eternal life, though the wisdom, and power, and justice, and mercy of God who created all things, in Heaven and in Earth, who is God above all. Amen (Mosiah 5.15).” We find a balanced Universal Law of Cause and Effect, which proclaims that the life of God is in all human beings and the Law of God is operating through human beings. #RandolphHarris 1 of 5

You are known, you are valued, you have potential, and you are good. The Lord knows who we are and he knows who needs our help. God himself atones for the sins of the World, to bring about the plan of mercy, to appease the demands of justice, that God might be perfect, just God, and a merciful God also. Loyalty and determination are characteristic of a divine child, and praise and honor will come. When we find the key to the meaning of the teachings of God, we shall have found the key to our own freedom. Sometimes, our trouble is that we have not discovered the doorway to the larger life. We have not realized that the things which seem so insignificant are full of wonder and amazement and part of the most powerful Being in the Universe. We must have faith and the courage to announce, without qualification and without limitation, that the same power that created everything and holds everything in place is also at the center of our own being. When we acknowledge the presence of God, he will open the windows of Heaven and pour us out a blessing so great that we will scarcely have room enough to receive it. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5

Evil is a lack of knowledge of the truth. In contrast, prayer is a supernatural gift of our Father in Heaven to every soul. The people in your life will not only recognize your love, but feel the Lord’s love and his power as his spirit bears witness to them that what you have said is true. Neither tribulation, nor life, nor death, nor any other circumstance shall have the power to separate us from the love of God. You are God’s precious child whom he loves perfectly and want to help. As you pray, recognize that Father in Heaven is near and he is listening. God is right where we are. The great reality is within the only place we shall every discover it, within our hearts and souls and minds. The Universe is a system of intelligence, and God will guide us to do that which will restore our confidence the he is near. Pray when you have no desire to pray. Sometimes, like a child, we may misbehave and feel that we cannot approach God with a problem, but that is when we most need to pray. Never feel that you are too unworthy to pray. There is immense power in prayer and it will allow us to overpower any urgent problem that we are facing and feel powerless to resolve. Pour your heart out in urgent prayer. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5

We are not spiritual orphans. We are not alone. The Lord’s way is that we hearken to his teachings, understand correct principles, and govern ourselves. God is our Heavenly Father, who knows us, loves us, and wants us to return to him. There is perfection at the center of everything, just as all the spiritual geniuses have believed. There is a perfect person standing back of all our trouble, sickness, and confusion. Our Savior and Redeemer made it certain through atonement that we will overcome death and live again and it is possible for us to be exalted and have eternal life. The Holy Ghost is our comforter, revelator, teacher, testifier, and guide. “Now, when I think of the success of these my brethren my soul is carried away, even to the separation of it from the body, and it were, so great is my joy. And now may God grant unto these, my brethren, that they may sit down in the kingdom of God; and also all those who are the fruit of their labors that they may go no more out, but that they may praise him forever. And may God grant that it may be done according to my words, even as I have spoken. Amen (Alma 29.16-17).” God has the way to live, to love, to help, to pray, to talk and to interact with each other. #RandolphHarris 4 of 5

Our Heavenly Father wants us to seek his knowledge, which is an invisible essence or what we call a superior wisdom. It is possible that a series of affirmations and inward spiritual realizations can heal physical ailments because God’s work is already done and he leaves it to us to work out our own salvation. Divine harmony will produce a definite result. God is not only the final reality, he is the only present reality. Everything that is real is of him. Our own being is God manifest as personality. Creative power of God is individualized in every soul. Spiritual faith, belief and conviction, are not merely terms used to designate the devotional life, they are dynamic and creative instruments to be used in everyday living. When we build our house upon God, the rains of the latter days may descend, the floods may come, and the winds may blow, but we will not fall. We will not fail, for our home and our family will be founded upon the Lord. The promise which he gives unto us of eternal life, and the glory of the celestial kingdom. The Heavenly Father loves us and watches over us. Sorrow looks back. Worry looks around. Faith looks ahead. The Lord promised he will be with us. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5

Most people look to God as a helping father. We have faith in the principles which God represents; we think truth, lives love, and justice, and considers all of our lives valuable because it gives us a chance to unfold our human powers. To love God means that we are longing for the attainment of the full capacity to love, for the realization of that which God stands for in oneself, as we strive for the reality of spiritual salvation and inner birth. The realm of love is something we are able to develop throughout the process of evolution, as we long to experience God’s higher powers, his longing for truth, and his unity. The dark legions of the World fear most of all the innocence of God because it unmasks the disguises by which they hold sway over a large part of the World’s population. The love of God is neither the knowledge of God in thought, nor the thought of one’s love of God, but the act of experiencing the oneness with God. This leads to the emphasis on the right way of living. All of life, every little and every important action, is devoted to the knowledge of God, but a knowledge not in right thought, but in right action. Some believe it is important to represent a way of life according to which someone light strive for the well-being of others, whether friend or stranger, without caring about material rewards or Worldly success.  #RandolphHarris 1 of 5

Many develop emotional habits that support right action, but in a matter of having reason to control passions and emotions so that they do not interfere with right action. Self-mastery or continence is considered virtue. Generosity is a duty that we are to preform, but one cannot be legally compelled to be generous, and when or how generosity is shown is not precisely specifiable. However, in the cause of generosity, the motive of the agent counts. For if I give money to a poor person I encounter on the street and do so because I want others to think well of me, I have not acted generously and performed my imperfect duty. When I give generously, I must do so out of concern for the good of the person to whom I give the money. If we adopt others’ happiness as an end, we will not take malicious pleasure in their downfall. On the contrary, we will naturally feel gratitude for their benevolence and sympathy for their happiness. These feelings will make it easier for us to perform our duties and are a sign that we are disposed to do so. Sympathy is one of the impulses that nature has implanted in us to do what the representation of duty alone would not accomplish. We preform the duties of virtue with the properly cultivated emotions. And if we perform our duties of virtue in the right spirit, one part of us, reason, retains control over the other part, passion. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5

Virtue contains a beneficial command to human beings, namely to bring all of our capacities and inclination under our (reason’s) and control and so to rule over ourselves, for unless reason holds the reins of government in its own hands, human being’s feelings and inclinations play the master over them. The correct way to be passionate is to use our passional nature in a way that fosters morality. For morality moves us to action whereas reason alone does not always. Therefore, virtues can arise from our feelings and desires. We accept the instruction from God reverently as or guide and goal. God knows the worth of our souls. He wants to heal the brokenhearted, deliver the captives, and heal the sick. God wants to lift up our eyes unto Heaven, and be merciful to us. The Universal creative spirit is present everywhere and is within every living being. Humans are created free, with the possibility of limitless expansion, and let alone to discover themselves. During this process of self-discovery, humans bring upon themselves, through the operation of the law of mine, the experiences they imagine in their thoughts. However, the divine providence leads to harmony and that is why we are encouraged to focus on God. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5

We are never really alone when we love God. God holds before us the great promise of the final redemption of human beings through his laws and our relation to the divine spirit. There is always something at the innermost depths of our being which never completely loses a sense of our spiritual nature. “Humans are free according to the flesh; and all things are given to them which are expedient unto humans. And they are free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all humans, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the great adversary; for the adversary seeks that al people might be miserable like unto himself (2 Nephi 2.27).” Necessity for self-preservation makes of want to band together and have organized leadership. These are the factors that makes a nation great. The spiritual impulses are fundamental to the nature of our being. Those nearest us need love also. We must organize our people so that they work together effectively in commerce, agriculture, industry, and international relations. If we undertake and continue the development of the Kingdom of God under divine guidance, we will bring a quality of love to reign and it will compliment our organizational ability and the intellect soul. #RandolphHarris 4 of 5

Seeing that our merciful God has given us so great knowledge concerning these things, let us remember him, and lay aside our sins, and not hand down our heads, for we are not cast off. We have inherited by far the richest and most powerful kingdom of the World at this time. We possess great wisdom and understanding. The hope is that we will return to the true knowledge of the Kingdom of God and the final triumph of spiritual power. It is too easy for people to forget that there is a supreme ruler at the center of the nation of ourselves, whose sovereignty is fixed in love and enthroned. This ruler is God. It is only as we turn our thoughts away from this spiritual sovereignty that our faculties and energies become dispersed. This makes us a weakened nation, subject to the invasion of every fear, doubt, aliment, and temptation that presents itself at the borders of our experience. There knowledge that life can never destroy itself and that trust crushed to Earth shall rise again. Our own souls eternally proclaim that we should not forget that the very power which created this World is the power that builds the bridge for the remnant to return to the Holy Land. Let the Kingdom of God be real and very practical. Let us know right now that we are established in the kingdom of health, happiness, and wholeness, because we are established in the Kingdom of God. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5

In the ground of existence, God is truth, love, and justice. One’s mind should be continuously acknowledging the presence of God and the power of God in one’s experience. God is I, inasmuch as I am human. Unconditional love is all protective, all-enveloping; because it is unconditional it can also not be controlled or acquired. Its presence gives the loved person a sense of bliss; its absence produces a sense of lostness and utter despair. Since God loves all of his children because they are his children, and not because they are good, obedient, or fulfill his wishes and commands, God’s love is based on equality. All humans are equal, because they are children of God, and because they have been blessed to live on Earth so that they may learn to love others and return to life with their eternal Father. If we exercise our faith and look to God for help, we will not be overwhelmed with the burdens of life. Believe in God; believe that he is wisdom and has all power, both in Heaven and in Earth. We will be strengthened, and our lives will be filled with peace and joy. We will come to realize that most of what we worry about is not of eternal significance—and if it is, the Lord will help us. However, we must have the faith to look up and the courage to follow God’s direction. “Therefore, lift your heads, and rejoice, and put your trust in God (Mosiah 7.19).” #RandolphHarris 1 of 5

Encouraging people to look up is a metaphor for remembering God. As we remember him and trust in his power, we receive strength through him. “I can do all things through God, whom strengthens me (Philippians 4.13).” That means we can be relieved of our stress, burdens, and our suffering. we can be forgiven and healed from the pain of our sins. God has the power to allow us to receive the faith and strength to endure all things. Spiritually looking up is not a one-time experience. We learn from the sacrament prayer that we are to always remember God and to keep his commandments, that we may have his spirit to be with us every day to guide us. The nature of Fatherly love is that God makes demands, establishes principles and laws, and after we pour out our hearts and souls to Heavenly Father in prayer, he leads us to forsake the things of the World, repent, and change. He leads us as we keep his commandments and try to be more like him. And God leads us through the Holy Ghost. We must act on the direction we receive, and as we do, we will cheer up, for God wants us to be happy. God wants to be part of our lives and bless us and help us. He will heal our wounds, dry our tears, and assist us along our path to return to his presence. As we look up to God, he will lead us. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5

Faith is real power, not just an expression of belief.  The acknowledgement of God is a creative act making possible his manifestation in human experience. Let us remember God and not hang down our heads. As we look up to God, our sins are forgiven and burdens are lightened. Spiritual inspiration, understanding, and awareness arise from compassion and virtue. They are aspects of God’s grace that become operational by consent of the seeker’s will. All states of spiritual awareness are actually mystical in that they are subjectively profound and transforming and can procure God’s love. God’s love is grace, the religious attitude is to have faith in this grace, and to make oneself realize that whatever happens to us, God shall rescue us, save us, and forgive us. Needless to say, my love for God and God’s love for me cannot be separated. If your father has passed away, or you never knew your father, simply look up to our Heavenly Father. We live in a World where all children are born of a mother and every last one of them has a Father, they just have to choose to get to know him. God made a covenant with Noah, in which he promises never to destroy the human race again, a covenant by which he has bound himself. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5

Each of us have a personal responsibility to do what is necessary to obtain and keep a strong testimony. Not only is God bound by his promises, he is also bound by his own principle, that of justice, truth, and love. As we study, pray, and seek the truth, we will develop greater patience while seeking answers from the Lord. Willingness to be patient is part of our search for truth and part of God’s pattern of revealing truth. Faith will grow and answers will come. Prayer established a serenity within the soul, enabling it to have confidence in that spirit of acceptance without which the divine gift is never complete. For how can the divine gift become complete until one accepts it? There is no song without a singer. If Aaliyah had never dared to start her music career, the World would have never heard those beautiful ballets. It was not easy, but she persevered because it was her passion and she had something to share with the World. And so, we must learn joyfully to enter into our divine inheritance. We should learn to have confidence in life, to believe in the Eternal Father, and accept the divine bounty. This transformation of thought from negation to affirmation, much like a music career, is seldom instantaneous, so we must maintain flexibility of thought, be willing to bend somewhat before the storms of life, but refuse to break. #RandolphHarris 4 of 5

Our thought should have an elasticity which permits it to spring back in place, but it cannot do so unless it is first fully convinced that it does know in whom it has believed, unless it is completely convinced that the Universe is a spiritual system governed by a beneficent consciousness. It is the nature of faith to believe God upon his bare word. It will not be, says the sense; it cannot be, says reason; it both can and will be, says faith, for I have a promise for it. By some divine interior awareness there is an intuition within human beings which pushes us forward. There is some spark in our souls which have never been entirely extinguished. The prayer of faith and belief, communion of the soul with it source, fans this spark into a divine blaze in whose light allows no dark shadows to lurk. We must not allow challenges of each day to dominate our time and energy because we will neglect the eternal things that matter most.  Heavenly Father’s great plan of happiness includes the doctrine, the ordinances, the covenants, and the exceeding great and precious promises whereby we can become partakers of the divine nature. We should realize that we are today in the Kingdom of Heaven, that today God is our host, and then we would see that wilderness has become paradise. And we have to say, what a wonderful life it is here. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5

Our need to love lies in the experience of separateness and the resulting need to overcome the stress of separateness by the experience of union. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Faith is a trusting and confident attitude toward God, faith may be compared with trust in one’s fellow human beings. In addition, as a cognitive act or state whereby people are said to know God or to have knowledge about him, faith may be compared with our perceptual awareness of our material environment or our knowledge of the existence of other persons. Faith is belief in revealed truths. Ultimately the object of faith is God himself. We are so constituted that faith in love overcomes the belief in hate. Our nature is that faith in life destroys our fears of death. Our nature is such that faith routs all fear all alone the line. The great affirmations of life must, of necessity, destroy their apparent opposites. We have a certain and firm knowledge of God’s benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise that we will be saved and have eternal life, and this faith in the truth is revealed to our minds, and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit. There is a permanent relationship between faith and the word of God. #RandolphHarris 1 of 5

We do not have to experience the sorrow caused by sin, the pain caused by others’ actions, or the painful realities of mortality alone. Faith is the indispensable volitional component within the process of acquiring knowledge, and it plays a basically similar role in both religion and nonreligious life. “And we are willing to enter into a covenant with our God to do his will, and to be obedient to his commandments in all things that he shall command us, all the remainder of our days, that we may not bring upon ourselves a never-ending torment, as has been spoken by the angel, that we may not drink out of the cup of wrath of God (Mosiah 5.6).” Wherefore, we must press on with a steadfastness in God, having a perfect brightness of hope, and love of God and of all people. Wherefore, if we shall press forward, feasting upon the word of God, and endure to the end, and we shall have eternal life. As we increase our understanding of God, we soon discover that we are developing a deeper understanding of the great plan of happiness. Prayer is the communion of the soul with the oversoul, with the divine creative presence which is not only in the soul, but which is the soul. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5

The religious form of love, that which is called the love of God, is, psychologically speaking, not different. It springs from the need to overcome separateness to achieve union. The love of God has as many different qualities and aspects as the love of human beings has—and to a large extent we find the same differences. God stands for the highest value, the most desirable good. Hence, the specific meaning of God depends on what is the most desirable good for a person. The understanding of the concept of God must, therefore, start with an analysis of the character structure of the person who worships God. Prayer in its truest sense is not a petition, not a supplication, not a wail of despair; it is rather an alignment, a unifying process which takes place in the mind as it reaches to its divine self and to that power which is greater than human understanding. In the act of such prayerful and reverent communion with God one sense the unity of good, the completeness of life, and at times the veil of doubt is lifted and the face of reality appears. This consciousness, which has been referred to as the secret place of the Most High, is an experience rising out of the conviction that God is all there is, beside whom there is none else. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5

We are aware of God acting toward us in and through the events of the World around us, so that at all times we are having to do with God and God with us. Our concern is to draw others into this direct awareness of God, rather than to induce them to make James’s gamble. James presumes a complete absence of grounds for belief and, in this situation, he proposes a prudent gamble. Prayer, then, is communion, and this communion produces life to be good. Prayerful communion ascends to that place where unity has not yet become variety, where the unformed one is ready to take any specific shape. In this act of communion, the individual becomes copartner with the Eternal and gives birth to time, space, and conditions. A very important connection has long been recognized between faith and what may be called the cognitive freedom of the human mind in its relation to God. And not merely in works, but also in faith, has God preserved the will of humanity and free and under our own control. God is willing to appear openly to those who seek him with all their hearts, and to be hidden from those who flee from him with all their hearts, he so regulates the know of himself that he has given signs of himself, visible to those who seek him, and not to those who seek him not. #RandolphHarris 4 of 5

God, having created human beings as personal, always acts toward humans in ways which respect and preserve human’s freedom and responsibility. For this reason, God does not reveal himself to human beings in his unveiled glory, for in a direct, unmediated awareness of infinite perfection human’s frail moral autonomy would be destroyed. Therefore, the divine presence is always mediated through the events and circumstances of a World which God has created to be relatively independent sphere of interactions with him human beings. Human’s personal autonomy is protected by the fact that we can become conscious of God’s activity toward us only by an uncompelled response of faith. Faith and belief in the communion of the soul with its source is becoming pronounced rather than a petition. Belief, faith and acceptance cause one to transcend the lesser good and ascend into that holy mount within where the eyes view the World as one vast plain and one boundless reach of sky. We should think on whatsoever things are true, lovely, and of good report; we should dwell on these things rather than on their apparent opposites. We must believe that there is a divine power awaiting our use. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5

 Love is supposed to be the outcome of a spontaneous, emotional reaction, of suddenly being gripped by an irresistible feeling. To love somebody is not just a strong feeling—it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision? Certain types of love are exclusively an act of will and commitment, and therefore fundamentally it does not matter who the two persons are. Whether the marriage was arranged by others, or the result of individual choice, once the marriage is concluded, that act of will should guarantee the continuation of love. We are all one—yet every one of us is unique, unduplicable entity. While it raises no objection to apply the concept of love to various objects, it is a widespread belief that, while it is virtuous to love other, it is sinful to love oneself. However, the Bible tells us to love others as we love ourselves. “Who could have supposed that our God would have been so merciful as to have snatched us from our awful, sinful, and polluted state (Alma 26.17)?” #RandolphHarris 1 of 5

If it is virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue—and not a vice—to love myself, since I am a human being, too. It implies that respect for one’s own integrity and uniqueness, love for and understanding of one’s own self, cannot be separated from respect and love and understanding for another individual. The love for my own self is inseparably connected with the love for any other being. Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternative. An attitude of love toward oneself will be found in all those who are capable of living others. Genuine love is an expression of productiveness and implies care, respect, responsibility, and knowledge. “Cry unto God for all your support; let it be in the Lord; let all your thoughts be directed unto the Lord; let the affections of your heart be placed upon the Lord forever. Counsel with the Lord in all your doings, and he will direct you for good; when you lie down at night lie down unto the Lord, that he may watch over you in your sleep; and when you rise in the morning let your heart be full of thanks unto God; and if you do these thing, you shall be lifted up at the last day (Alma 37.36-37).” #RandolphHarris 2 of 5

The desire for happiness is in this World. Love is not an affect in the sense of being affected by somebody, but an active striving for the growth and happiness of the loved person, rooted in one’s own capacity to love. Deeper than this psychic life is a spiritual intelligence which transcends even objective processes of reasoning, and it can distinguish between illusions and reality. Our subconscious reactions will coerce unless we control them, will cause us to believe all kinds of fantastic things unless reason sits in judgment. Therefore, we should be careful at all times to study any alleged revelation in the light of this truth, knowing as we do that one’s personal opinion may masquerade as any revelation which one’s unconscious desire may order, for the entire race thought is more or less active in all of us. Truth has been revealed—not only to give vitality to the belief, but to equip it with power and give it a performance which has been good. There is no God who holds one person superior to another. It is not the will of God that some people should be free while other are bound, since God is the author of freedom and not of bondage. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5

You focus on the good in life, you can shake the negative emotions and patters. Spiritual power works through human beings at the level of our faith, and we find that throughout the ages faith has been honored. Most certainly some people’s prayers have been answered, but not all persons’ prayers have been answered in the way which they wished them to be answered. To love a person is the actualization and concentration of the power of love. The basic affirmation contained in love is directed toward the beloved person as an incarnation of essentially human qualities. Love of one person implies love of humans as such because if we love our family, but are without feeling for (a concern for the life of an unknown person) the stranger, that is a sign of a basic inability to love. Love of human beings is not, as is frequently supposed, an abstraction coming after the love for a specific person, but it is its premise, although genetically it is acquired in loving specific individual. More so, we must love ourselves as much as we love other people. The affirmation of one’s own life, happiness, growth, freedom is rooted in one’s capacity to love, in care, respect, responsibility, and knowledge. If an individual is able to love productively, one loves oneself too, if one can love only other, one cannot love at all. #RandolphHarris 4 of 5

Most surely belief is a certain way of thinking; it is an activity of consciousness. Belief is a thing of thought, and being a thing of thought we can change belief. And if what a human being believes decides what is going to happen to one, the most important thing for one to do is regulate one’s belief so that what happens will be good for one, and one will be glad to have it happen, and joyously welcome it. No matter what we have suffered, God is the source of healing. Those who have experienced any manner of abuse, devastating loss, chronic illness or disabling affliction, untrue accusations, vicious persecution, or spiritual damage from sin or misunderstandings can all be made whole by God. We must come unto God and allow God to work his miracles. “And it did work for them according to their faith in God; therefore, if they had faith to believe that God could cause that those spindles should point the way they should go, behold, it was done; therefore, they had this miracle, and also many other miracles wrought by the power of God, day by day (Alma 37.40).” God is the source of peace, and he promises the peace, which passes all understanding, a feeling that comes with his spirit speaks peace to our souls no matter what challenges surround us. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5

Love for life are absolutely infectious. How often do you reflect that your covenants reach beyond morality and connect you to the Divine? Making covenants is the expression of a willing heart; keeping covenants, the expression of a faithful heart. Care and responsibility are absolutely necessary for the preservation of life and growth. Other aspects go even further than mere preservation. There is an attitude that instills love for the living, which gives one the feeling: it is good to be alive, it is good to be a human, it is good to be on this Earth! Altruism and unselfish character are considered the highest kind of love, and the most sacred of all emotional bonds. Love gives us a since of power and possession, as it provides us with a natural satisfaction and makes one feel connected to the community. Love requires unselfishness and we have to have the ability to give everything and to want nothing but the happiness of the loved one. “That which is of God invites and entices us to do good continually; and to love God, and to serve him (Moroni 7.13).” Covenants—or binding promises between us and Heavenly Father—are essential for our eternal progression. #RandolphHarris 1 of 5

We promise to love God with all our hearts and love our sisters and brothers as ourselves. In the temple, we further covenant to be obedient, selfless, faithful, honorable, charitable. Every time we reach out with love, patience, kindness, generosity, we express the relationship which exists between God and the individual. You are a child of Almighty God, created to grow, move forward, increase, and constantly break the barriers of the past and advance God’s Kingdom. If we can conceive of the Divine Being as already existing within us, no search is necessary. Instead of a search there is an unfoldment. Prayers, petitions, or attempts at communication with the Infinite is possible because God is omnipresent, and at the center of our own being. God is in our temple. Divine communication is more real and more beneficial when we believe in the indwelling spirit, when we believe that God’s work is already accomplished and perfect even though it is eternally unfolding. Moreover, God’s words have more power when we believe that they are power, and he endows them with power in such degree as he senses the divine presence in back of them. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5

The inner testimony of the soul is real and valid. Covenants renew, invigorate, and refresh our souls. Who could deny the privilege of appreciating beauty? A higher altitude of thought will find a corresponding higher level of manifestation. A deep underlying sense of this spiritual Universe is necessary to the most effective form of mind healing. There is a field of reality higher than the intellect, and it uses the intellect as its instrument. Without feeling, nothing comes into being. We all have life events that, when we recall them year later, acquire new and important meaning. We are blessed with a great and noble heritage that offers a pathway to truth. Applied to mental healing, this means that the words we speak must have a deep meaning to us, and we must sense that behind them there is a power-seeking expression.  Words come from the heart, and are a gift from God. God spoke the World into being by the power of his words and we are in his image in part because of the power we have with words. Words do more than convey information. This power is infinitely greater than our intellect. Appreciation of human experience will be quickened rather than delayed through unity with this indwelling spirit. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5

God has great things in store for his people; they ought to have great expectations. Our spiritual experiences reach high levels at sometimes than at others, and we should seek to being the inspiration of these moments of illumination into our daily living. Because are so blessed, it is also important that we learn and do our duty to God. It is important that we try to cease wars, end unhappiness, resolve economic problems, wipe poverty from the face of the Earth, and have a spirit of mutual helpfulness. We are not called upon to consider ourselves as unholy; we are neither conceived in sin nor shaped in iniquity. By fulfilling our responsibilities, we are given the opportunities to develop spiritually. God is a synonym for wholeness. The Kingdom of God is within you. This Kingdom is finished, complete, and perfect for eternity, but the manifestation of the Kingdom of God is the eternal activity of right ideas, law, order, truth, and beauty. To desire that the divine eternal shall project itself through our thought and makes our nature receptive to the greater side of our nature which lies open to the upper reaches of thought. #RandolphHarris 4 of 5

Spirituality is beauty, invisible harmony, power, love, happiness, joy and enthusiasm, and the greater rhythm of life flows through everything. It is like the heat in fire, the colours in a prism. The author of peace cannot inspire confusion. God is the author of peace. Divine means love, beauty, harmony, and reason. God cannot be the author of confusion, he does not inspire humans to acts of destruction. In the pursuit of truth one seeks to wed oneself to reason, it is the source that will lead the soul to the alter of reality. We all have promised lands that we would like to go to, and we can have our own light in the World that challenges us. This light comes all wrapped up in love, the Lord’s love for every one of his children, and especially for young people. The Lord knows that we face challenges and temptations, and he provides the light that brightens our hearts, minds, and spirits. God has reported that his word is truth and truth is light. Light is the unity, goodness, and perfection of the supreme being. Prayer is what makes the connection with God’s power, which leads to loving and enlarging our own capacities. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the World as a whole, not toward one object of life. I love you because you fulfill my expectations, because you do your duty, because you are like me. Obedience is the main virtue. People need unconditional love and care physiologically as well as psychically. It is important to use religion as an authority and guidance. God has the function of making us secure in life, teaching us, and guiding us to cope with the problems with which particular society we have been born into that confront us. God does not try to prevent us from growing up, and does not try to put a premium on helplessness. God wants us to have faith in life, so we are not overly stressed, and thus we do not infect others in our lives with chaos and dysfunction. Part of God’s wish is that we become independent, patient, and tolerant, rather than threatening and authoritarian. We should grow to have an increasing sense of competence in life and become our own authority. #RandolphHarris 1 of 5

 There is no misdeed, no crime which could deprive us of God’s love, of his wish for our life and happiness. Mature people become free from the outside figures, and knows that all we need is the God inside of us. Love is an activity, a power of the soul. If we truly love one person, we love the World, we love life. We should have a sense of responsibility, care, respect, knowledge for other human beings as this attitude helps us to further our lives. The differences in talents, intelligence, and knowledge are all negligible in comparison with the identity of the human core common in all people. When we get emotionally and spiritually involved in helping a person who is in pain, a compassion enters our heart. It hurts, but the process lifts some of the pain from another. Sanctification takes place within our souls and we become more like our Savior. We should also learn to pause more often, in our daily lives, and learn to recognize the spirit of God. God is the all-powerful creator of the Universe. An invisible law of God is acting upon us. Once we recognize those feelings for what they are, our faith in them will increase. Soon we will find that we have developed a spiritual sixth sense which cannot be misled. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5

The blind cannot lead the blind. However, alone with truth, one person can pass from weakness into strength, from fear into faith, from defeat into success, and even while we are still living we connect to a realization of everlasting life. We have come to this Earth at a glorious time. The opportunities before us are nearly limitless. Almost all of us live in comfortable homes, with loving families, adequate food, and sufficient clothing. Many of us also have access to amazing technological advances. We as individuals each have our own thoughts, feelings, hopes, aspirations, and desires, and each is directly and intimately connected with God, life, energy, and power. Each of us is a fountain of life.  God that dwells in us does the work. However, sometimes we become so frustrated with our little thoughts and fears and doubts that it makes it impossible for us to let God flow through us with the joy of life. Our problem is not with God, who is the river of life. Our trouble is with ourselves. When God puts a promise in your heart, we have to come to the place where we believe in that promise so strongly no one and no circumstance can move us. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5

When the natural joy of life is unblocked it will flow freely through us and we shall become whole and happy. However, doubt, fear, uncertainty, anxiety, and a sense of insecurity can so congest our mental life that nothing good can get through. However, do not feel badly because you are not where you want to be right this minute. Do not focus on the disappointment, the failure, or the mistakes. They are all a part of God’s plan to prepare you for much bigger opportunities. Keep moving forward, being your best, honoring God, being determined and persistent, and God promises there is something rewarding in your future. We are born with a natural desire to express life. Clear your mind of everything that doubts the existence of God; live as though love is the great reality; bless and curse not, and then accept and let God release everything that belongs to us. He will bring out gift and talents we did not even know we had. God will provide new opportunities. God loves to do exceedingly, abundantly, above and beyond. We have to be faithful day in and day out. Believe that you can break out of what is holding you back and become everything God created you to be. Incredible power is released when we believe. #RandolphHarris 4 of 5

It is time for us to let go and let God. However, before God can do it we must clear our minds of everything that hinders his doing; we must keep our faith strong. We must look at ourselves and be honest. If we find anything in our thinking that denies life, let us clear it away. We can stop being afraid if we want to. We can stop having resentments. We can at once stop all unkindness, winnow out every doubt, and gain faith through the simple practice of learning to believe. Express joy today. Be happy. Bring gladness and enthusiasm into every experience of your life. Maintain a quiet confidence and peace and a sense of serenity. And be glad for the achievements of others and rejoice in their success. We can learn to love people if we wish to. It is this kind of thinking that allows God to flow through us, and brings laughter and joy into everything we do. It can bring health and freedom in place of sickness and bondage. It can bring abundance and prosperity where there might have been impoverishment. That is why we have to be certain to keep our faith in God. We must forgive, we must love, we must make others happy so that we ca draw the divine substance into our own lives. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5