Anger is binding, not freeing. Humans are a creature of fellowship, created with tendencies that find their fulfillment in a variety of natural groupings, each concerned with a certain facet of human’s life in society. One of those groupings was church, another the state. Church and state are differentiated primarily by reference to their different tasks. The concern of the church is the spiritual realm, the life of the inner human, the concern of the state is the temporal realm, the regulation of external conduct. In regulate external conduct, the general aim of the state is to ensure justice or equity in society at large. This equity has two facets. Obviously, the state must enforce restrictive justice, but the state should also secure distributive justice, doing its best to eliminate gross inequalities in the material status of its members. If the Senate makes a weak person weaker, it makes a strong person stronger, owing to the very temptations one must resist from the day one enters, the compromises one is forced to make, and the danger to one’s convictions from the subtler brains of others. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 5

You speak the Lord loving his own; you make out the Lord to be your own, and use your religion like a drug. There are some remains of religion left in the human mind, even after every moral sentiment hath abandoned it; the most execrable ruffian finds means to quiet the suggestions one one’s conscience, by some reversionary hope of Heaven’s forgiveness. It is the duty of the church to seek the welfare of the state, but equally it is the duty of the state to seek the welfare of the church. Thus, part of the state’s duty is to promote piety; and it is generally regarded that blasphemy is a civil crime. However, the church and state ought to be structurally independent of each other. Church officials are not, by virtue of their office, to have any official voice in the state; and state officials are not, by virtue of their office, to have any official voice in the church. There are none whose conduct should be so strictly watched as that of bailiffs, these necessary evils in the society, as their office concerns for the most part those poor creatures who cannot do themselves justice, and as they are generally the worst of people who undertake it. Good laws should execute themselves in a well-regulated state. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 5

Although the best forms of government will vary with circumstances, it is firmly believed that the ideal government would be a republic in which those of the aristocracy who are competent to rule are elected by the citizenry, and in which powers is balanced and diffused among a number of different magistrates. The magistrate has their authority from God. In a sense of their authority is God’s authority; for magistrates are ministers of Divine justice, vicegerents of God. Thus, the duty of the magistrate is to apply the law of God, implanted on the hearts of all and clarified in the Scriptures, to the affairs of civil society. To what extent and under what circumstances are regarded as civil disobedience as justified is a matter of debate. Where our self-interest sleeps and the real interest is awakened. God writes our new name only on those places in our lives where the Lord has erased our pride, self-sufficiency, and self-interest. Some of us have our new names written only in certain spots, like spiritual air. And in those areas of our lives we look all right. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 5

A true hearted lover forgets all trespasses, and a smile cureth the wounding of a frown. However, do not dare look at us when we are not in the mood. A true disciple is one who has one’s new name written all over themselves—self-interest, pride, and self-sufficiency have completely erased. What is clear is that the law of nature is regarded in some sense a standard by which the decisions of the magistrate are to be judged, and at the same time regarded revolutions which rip apart the entire fabric of human society as not to be condoned. A secure attachment combined with the cultivation of competency builds an internal locus of control, the key factor in healthy coping throughout life. Securely attached children learn what makes them feel good; they discover what makes them (and others) feel bad, and they acquire a sense of agency: that their actions can change how they feel and how others respond. Securely attached children of God learn the difference between situations they can control and situations where they require help. They learn that they can play an active role when faced with difficult situations. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 5

In contrast, people with histories of abuse and neglect and abuse learn that their terror, pleading, and crying do not register with their caregiver. Nothing they can do or say stops the beating or brings attention and help. In effect, they are being conditioned to give to when they face challenge later in life. There are enough negative influences in our life without adding more. Especially when we look at the fact that all emotions generate vibrational energy in the Universe, what is the point of surrounding ourselves with negative thought forms about those we view as enemies? Why go out of our way to hold onto them as enemies by stockpiling resentments and negativity in ourselves? Likely, when we review our own personal experiences, we will see relinquishing anger brings us many benefits. We are free to experience emotional comfort and ease, gratitude for the daily opportunities to grow and heal, mutual caring with another without subtle special demands or limitations that affects something such as an agreement, improvement in health, and more life energy. These breakthroughs allow us to move up to a more effective and effortless state of state of inner freedom. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 5

Humans must every be the slave of routine; but in the old days it was a routine of great thoughts, and now it is a routine of little ones, and we must revert to the predecessor. The programming of human concerns as a legitimate scientific endeavor represents the central hope of all scientific-love-seekers. Sensation is the necessary cause of our ideas, feelings, needs, and will. Since sensitivity is the connection between the biological life and mind, the mental is only the physical considered from a certain point of view. The stomach is a machine for digesting food, and the brain is a machine for digesting impressions, by the secretion of thought. There are no causes except those which can act on our senses, no truths except in relation to the general way of feeling of human nature, which varies with such optimistic factors as age, gender, disposition, health, climate, and so one. To act right simply because it is one’s duty is proper; but a good action which is the result of no law of reflection shines more than any! To do right, for the pure love of right, or the love of God, is a very difficult thing. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 13

Thus, the state of abdominal viscera may influence the formation of ideas. People are regularly thrust into situations that put them in danger, and so they gain protection from the anxiety surrounding death by investing in supernatural beliefs that make them feel, in some way, immortal. Generally, religious beliefs involve supernatural thinking: thoughts and attitudes that relate to entities, events, or actions that are at odds with our understanding of the laws of physics. Supernatural thinking is a normal part of human development, which can help people understand what they see around them. The first point is to know one’s own mind. The next is, to act up to the decision. We are not judges of our own ailments: physicians do not often prescribe for themselves.Perhaps, on the whole, more power is lost than gained by habits of secrecy. When each individual has subdued one’s own spirit, then there will be no war and no other enemies to conquer. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 13

 Supernatural thinking helped our ancestors make sense of the World. The organs, like all else in nature, are in constant motion, and are therefore involved in decomposition and recomposition. If we accept God as infinite, all must be contained in Him. Where, then, is there a place for matter outside of God? It is believed that God is a voluntary self-contraction with the concept of emanation. God, prior to creation, was actually infinite. To make room for creation, however, He voluntarily contracted or limited Himself. Some excess of spiritual substance overflowed into the space from which God had removed Himself, and this excess, or emanation, is how the World was created. The completed series of emanation served the additional purpose of providing the conduit by which humans aspiring spirit might reach the heights of divinity; thus, it served both as the mechanism of creation and as the itinerary of the mind to God. Supernatural beliefs are still activity in the twenty-first-century and are derived from faith in God and the power of prayer. And believing in God serves psychological functions. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 13

Believing in God manifests psychological well-being because it increases people’s sense of control when they feel uncertain or stressed out. For instance, Elle Woods had to attend church one morning, and she had some animosity towards Polly. So, in perpetration, she drank some sweet tea before church to calm her nerves. “I had to drink a jar of sweet tea before church because if I seen this harlot at the cathedral, I was finna kick her grits (in reference to ‘Kiss my Grits’ from Mel’s Diner).” Because supernatural beliefs are at odds with a scientific understanding of the World, though, tension may arise between religious individuals who hold such beliefs and nonreligious people who reject such beliefs. Religion is like an ancient weapon, but many people are “frightened with your sorcerer’s ways” because they think it has the power to conjure up the stolen data tapes or gives clairvoyance enough to find the rebel’s hideaways. Therefore, religion can create friction between believers and nonbelievers and can be a source of animosity and derision. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 13

 Though science and religion are often portrayed as being at odds with each other, we have the framework to help organize and make sense of the information.  This allows science and religion to co-exist peacefully. Sensitivity and irritability is a basic biological phenomenon; sense both are dependent on the nerves, they are essentially the same. There are metaphysical forces beyond science at work in the World, which will lead to a coronation a reign of truth, justice, and mercy. The ideal of salvation in thus the establishment of an Earthly paradise of human life, raised to its highest humanity. There is an idea that this regeneration cannot take place until all pre-existing souls have had satisfactorily completed their Earthly existence and that, since some souls are too weak to go unassisted through life to perfection, other superior souls might coexist with them in one body to insure their success. Transmigration means to pass from one condition, place, or body to another. The entrance requirement for God’s kingdom is a new birth. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 13

Transmigration is usually identified with the Greek word metempsychosis (change of the soul), the transmigration of souls draws on the Greek Orphic mysteries, which combined genuine piety with magic. “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, one cannot see the kingdom of God,” reports Christ in John 3:3-8. Nicodemus wondered, how could be born when he is old? Christ replied “Most assuredly, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, one cannot enter the Kingdom of God. The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. And all who trust in Him—God’s Son—to save them have eternal life; those who do not believe and obey Him shall never see Heaven, but the wrath of God remains upon them,” reports Christ in John 3.36. German Hasidism promoted a new religious ideal of spiritual equanimity. They believed that God could assume a visible form in the guise of fire and clouds. It is not the mystic who ascends through the palaces, but the relational aspects of God that descends to humans. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 13

The three chief elements in this devoutness were mental serenity, ascetic renunciation, and extreme altruism, leading to heights of devotion in which true fear of God and love of God becomes one. At these heights, the Hasid is thought to achieve a creative power of a magical nature. God can be made manifest in the World through prayer. God is one and unique, yet He can create occasional representations of Himself that can appear in a visible form in the World. Despite the problems inherent in reporting that God has a created representation on Earth, the German Hasidim were able to preserve both the concepts of God’s absolute uniqueness and His accessibility to humanity. The nervous system is affected by internal changes, that is, by memory and imagination; thus, within humans exists another internal human in constant action, the effects of which are noticeable in dreams. The pre-scientific conception of the dream which obtained among the ancients was, of course, in perfect keeping with their general conception of the Universe, which was accustomed to project as an external reality that which possessed reality only in the life of the psyche. #RyanPhillippe 7 of 13

Many people take for granted that dreams are related to the World of Supernatural beings in whom believe, and that they brought inspirations from the gods and demons. Moreover, it appears to some philosophers that dreams must serve a special purpose in respect of the dreamer; that, as a rule, they predicted the future. Further, it accounted for the main impression made upon the waking life by the morning memory of the dream; for in this memory the dream, as compared with the rest of the psychic content, seems to be something alien, coming, as it were, from another World. It would be an error to suppose that the theory of the supernatural origin of dreams lacks followers even in our own times; for quite apart from pietistic and mystical writers—who cling, as they are perfectly justified in doing, to the remnants have been swept away by scientific explanations—we not infrequently find that quite intelligent person, who in other respects are averse to anything of the romantic nature, go as far as to base their religious belief in the existence and co-operation of superhuman spiritual powers on the inexplicable nature of the phenomena of dreams. #RyanPhillippe 8 of 13

The validity ascribed to the dream-life by certain schools of philosophy—for example, by the school of Schelling—is a distinct reminiscence of the undisputed belief in the divinity of dreams which prevailed in antiquity; and for some thinkers, the mantic or prophetic power of dreams is still a subject of debate. This is due to the fact that the explanations attempted by psychology are too inadequate to cope with the accumulated material, however strongly the scientific thinker may feel that such superstitious doctrines should be repudiated. However, the hereditary disposition, the state of the organs, dreams, and automatic or unconscious impulses are factors that are more significant than experience (sensations) in determining the individual’s behavior; for the tabula rasa concept ignores what the child or adult brings to experience. The influence of temperament is the determining effects of the inherited physical constitution. Because of heredity, the human race can be improved by hygienic methods. #RyanPhillippe 9 of 13

The inheritance of acquired characteristics and can be used to advance the species through crossbreeding, programs of eugenics will do for the human species what human beings have done for dogs and horses. Psychology tends to impoverish human experience by reducing it to the physical and mechanical level, and by denying the possibility of transcending internal and external sensations. Humans are ultimately considered to be their own justification and the master of their own destiny. They have faith in their capacity to progress indefinitely by means of their own resources. God is too close to humans and the World to be the Supreme Mystery that the mystical temper insists He must be. God Himself, the Boundless, the Infinite, the Transcendent, did not perform the material act of creating the World. This was the work of lesser spirit, or demiurge, who was brought into existence by God in order to do this specific job. As the conception of God’s transcendence developed, one demiurge seemed insufficient to express the sense of awesome distance between the divinity and the material World. #RyanPhillippe 10 of 13

The remoteness of God from the World was heightened, therefore, by adding other intermediaries and thus forming a chain from God to matter whose links were increasing materiality. Intellectual abstraction is an act of objective illumination. The first principles of reasoning are known by virtue of the sense experience; not only them meaning of the terms of such principles but also the nexus of the judgment enunciating them originates in sense perception. Thus, our knowledge comes from the sense. Concerning the human soul, it is immortal. However, immortality of the soul is not rationally demonstrable, the mysteries are put in faith. Nonetheless, there are reasons not everyone can invent flying machines, even now that the blueprints exist. Nearly all wisdom we possess consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and ourselves. Knowledge of God is so interrelated with knowledge of ourselves that the one cannot be had without the other. When we accurately reflect on ourselves, we realize that our exercise of these gifts that our being is subsistence with the one God. Without this realization of our misery and dependence—especially of our misery—none of us comes, or even tries to come, to a knowledge of God. #RyanPhillippe 11 of 13

On the other hand, there is also no knowledge of self without a knowledge of God. Without a standard by which to measure ourselves, we invariably yield to pride, overestimating the worth of our natural gifts and overlooking the corruption that has resulted from the exercise of those gifts. The philosopher, without knowing God, can give us so much accurate and worthwhile information concerning human’s faculties and constitution. However, philosophy cannot yield a true estimate of our worth and condition. It is very important to understand what it means to know God. To know God, we must know the truth about God and an essential aspect of our knowledge of God is our acknowledgment of his attitude toward us, especially his attitude of benevolence and love. God’s benevolence toward presupposes worshiping and obeying him. The concept of knowing God, there is no knowledge of God apart from worship of, and obedience to, him. What can be known about God is never his nature (quid est), but only what he is like (quails est); and more specially, what he is like toward us. #RyanPhillippe 12 of 13

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How is knowledge of God to be achieved? Knowledge of God can, in principle, be achieved by nourishing one’s subjective awareness of deity and its will, with reflection on the structure of the World. There is, within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, as awareness of divinity [sensus divinitatis]. The Universally innate sense of divinity in humankind, accounts for the Universality of religion in human society. It is a seed of life; it was not invented by the subtlety and craft of a few to hold the simple folk in thrall. Never tolerate, because of sympathy for yourself or for others, any practice that is not keeping with a holy God. Holiness means absolute purity of your walk before God, the words coming from your mouth, and every thought in your mind—placing every detail of your life under the scrutiny of God Himself. Holiness is not simply what God gives me, but what God has given me that is being exhibited in my life. All of us possess every good and bad instinct in the whole book of human nature, but few of us have imagination enough to find it out. No one knows till the time comes, what depths are within one. #RyanPhillippe 13 of 13

When you view another person as less than human, you feel entitled to do whatever you want to the person. Fear of those who are different can lead to mistreatment; fear of losing power and privilege can lead to inequality; fear of change can lead to close-mindedness; and fear of pain can lead to desperation and betrayal. Why do some feel guilty about hurting people who have hurt them over and over without seeming to care about the consequences? Many of us actually have a conscience and care about people. Some prefer to deal with problems in private, but that is not always possible and it can be embarrassing when you are trying to help a person and when they do something bad, they run and hide. However, deep down you know that person is hurting and being a good person you do not want to hurt them in return. And although people may know what is going on, it is still very embarrassing to get upset with another person and the perception of being means and knowing that you might have made someone sad, can in turn make you sad. When you combine unhealthy fear with a lack of empathy, you open a psychological door that allows people to harm others without pangs of conscience. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 7

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good person and a bad one is the choice between the cause. The lack of human companionship or the loss of a loved one can have serious effects on our physical and mental well-being. And, somethings can trigger painful memories, especially when the person has not apologized nor paid for the damage. Some people will do things they know hurt you because they know that it will alter your life and because you pain. And others allow them because they need money. Sometimes we can tell people who hurt us have good inside, there is a light hidden deep inside the dark shadows. Both light and the dark sides unite us all. The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and divine. Even if other people have hurt us or behave in ways we do not understand, why should try to be kind to them because traumatic brain injury can alter the way a person acts, feels, or thinks. An individual may not be able to express himself like he was able to in the past. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 7

Just like many people see others who look perfectly normal, but they are autistic and we may be unaware. However, because the people look perfectly normal, we expect them to behave in certain ways and community the way we do, but they may not be able to. A normally empathic individual will be particularly prone to experiencing sadness when others around him or her feel blue, fear when others get scared, or happiness when others are upbeat. And some people do not communicate verbally as others do. They speak with their eyes, facial expression, and the like. And so, learning to forgive others is to make sure we do not coldly exploit them or hurt them when they may need us most. Basic human emotions such as fear and anger, all of which serve a variety of adaptive survival function, send some down the path to the dark side. Good people can lose touch with their own moral concerns for many reason beyond their control when they do not learn to forgive and try to understand others. That is why it is important to rise to the occasion when friends and others need you most, especially if you know the worse days are behind you. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 7

There was once these two little boys, and they both were pretty normal. However, one went away to Summer camp and suffered a traumatic injury and his friend did not know. When he came home, the boy who suffered the injury looked angry and made faces at his friend and then would vanish for weeks, then return and just look at his friend and walk away. So, of course this created conflict between the two. Then the boy who went to Summer camp, let the air out of his friend’s bike tires and locked his bike so he could not use it. And the boy got so upset that he yelled and screamed at his friend and did not want to talk to him anymore. However, later on, he found out the boy who went to Summer camp suffered an injury and had late set autism. And he did not know how to verbally communicate. So, he would do things like let the air out of his friend’s tires so he would not go anywhere and get hurt. And he would vanish because he was sad and liked to spend time alone in his room watching the TV. Different strengths contribute to our virtues. People judge heroic acts in terms of how altruistic those actions are, the degree to which they involve selflessly helping other is not always clear. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 7

We have to remember that just because people look normal, it does not mean that they do not have physical, mental, or verbal limitations. One delightful discovery we will make when we learn to accept others and ourselves as we are, we discover that our capacity for love is far beyond what we ever dreamed. The more we let go of our expectations of others, the more loving we become. As this happens, our life will become transformed. We look different. People respond differently to us. We are relaxed, happy, and easy-going. People are attracted to us because they feel comfortable and happy around us. As we let go of the negative, we come into our own power. So, the boys we talked about earlier, the one who was not autistic finally realized his friend has changed. When he saw him one night and said, “Hello,” and his friend just opened his mouth and tried to say, “Hello” back, but the words did not come out. No one told him that his friend had went through some changes because it was a private matter. What made him finally let go of his anger and see that something was different is because he did not want to be a bully, too. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 7

Love is the most powerful of the emotional vibrations. For love, people will go to any lengths and do things that they would never do for any amount of money. When I turn to God and by belief accept what God reveals, the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ instantly places me into a right relationship with God. And as a result of the supernatural miracle of God’s grace, I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, or because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done. Having the reality of God’s presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually. Our problems arise when we refuse to place our trust in the reality of God’s presence. If our everyday decisions are not according to His will, God will press through them, bringing restraint to our spirit. Then we must be quiet and wait for the direction of His presence. It is generally recognized that children need love, and if they do not receive it from their biological parents, society has an obligation to help them. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 7

Similarly, when adults suffer from interruptions in dialogue of life—when they are bereaved, experiencing divorce or separation, living alone or lonely—they too need help, and it is in society’s collective interest to provide it. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we know, and who know us! How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with! Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth. We must also remember another aspect of the connection between health and companionship, everyone’s life is unique. No two people experience precisely the same social support, either in childhood or in adult life. Thus, while overall health trends can be assessed by examining mortality statistic in large populations, eventually that macroscopic view must be complemented by an examination of the unique social experiences of the individual. In order to bridge this gap and examine how human relationships affect the healthy status of individual people, we must focus on the individual through his unique life experiences. #RyanPhillippe 7 of 7

The great truth, this World is well designed, and we weaken ourselves if we do not love the real World. We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. People are strongly inclined to worship what they do not understand. A grand secret, upon which imposers on humankind have total relied for the success of their frauds, causeless distrust is able to drive deceit into a simple person’s head. Our capacity to destroy one another is matched by our capacity to heal one another. Restoring relationships and community is central to restoring well-being; language gives us the power to change ourselves and others by communicating our experiences, helping to define what we know, and finding a common sense of meaning; we have the ability to regulate our own physiology, including some of the so-called involuntary functions of the body and the brain, through such basic activities as breathing, moving, and touching; and we can change social conditions to creative environments in which children and adults can feel safe and where they can thrive.  #RyanPhillippe 1 of 9

When we ignore these quintessential dimension of humanity, we deprive people of ways to heal from trauma and restore their autonomy. Being a patient, rather than a participant in one’s healing process, separates suffering people from their community and alienates them from an inner sense of self. Suddenly, your life turns into a horror movie nightmare. With the experience of alienation, an open life imperceptibly merges into a limited life.  Whereas there was a time when there were few if any boundaries, there is now a time when there is nothing but boundaries. Abilities go, memories decay into painful experiences; what one has worked so hard to create is labor lost. It brings limitations and liabilities, loneliness and loss. Even so, however limited and exiled in the present, one still remains the person he or she was. All of these complex problems ultimately lead to a key question that still must be addressed: What can be done to help alleviate the spread of loneliness-induced diseases in our society? We become more sensitive to the rush of time. Years accumulate with increasing rapidity. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 9

 In contrast to physical activity, we tend to look more to mental activity for satisfaction and recognition. Even though there is occasional tiredness, life remains full, active, intact. The very complexity of the issues involved in human loneliness make it clear that no simple or single approach will successfully provide all the answers. Loneliness is ultimately an internal, subjective human experience. Therefore, in order to effectively combat its lethal influence, we must acknowledge that loneliness is an important social factor in physical disease and the implicit denial to this fact has contributed to, and perhaps even fostered, cultural attitudes that have blinded people to human relationships. Human relationships much be taken every bit as seriously as we take such physical factors as serum cholesterol levels, blood pressure, or significant loss of blood. As advisers to our society, we must make people aware that their family and social life are every bit as important to health as dieting and exercise, cars and fashion, food and technology. After all, if you knew something was wrong with your mobile device, you would replace it or repair it right away, but many ignore their human relationships until they decay and disappear. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 9

Few physicians would deny the reality of a broken heart. However, at the same time, most feel they can do precious little to influence psychosocial factors that cause disease, or to alleviate the physical impact of divorce or bereavement. These seems so complicated and overwhelming when compared with other, more precise aspects of modern scientific medicine—a specific antibiotic for a specific infection—that many clinicians see the whole problem as unmanageable. The idea that we are asking people to go out in the World completely alone and call themselves independent is absurd. We need to teach people how to be interdependent, which means teaching them how to have relationships. Playing tragic characters, in life, you have to express emotions and create a reality that comes from a place of depth and sorrow and hurt. That is all some people know. It is life and death every day for them. Losses exceed gains. It is harder to keep life together; we can do it, but only with a greater expenditure of energy. We are fragile, perhaps disabled, and virtually done in. At best, we merely manage to exist. At worst, we simply vegetate. And the nightmare of aging turns into a trauma. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 9

There are yet greater truths to tell, if we had either the courage to announce or the temper to receive them. And so, the weight of attention needs to be shifted more and more away from scientific medicine and to human contact. Many people feel like their life is a case file, and every day they are just managing their files and not really living. Everything they do is a formality to make sure they still have a place to live. One may not like most of the people they see every day, but still have to be nice. People damage your property and pretend not to know what they did, and they pretend to be your friends just to pump you for information, or make a negative statement or insult. The focused subtype reduces the range of involvement by a self-conscious selectivity and prioritizing.  Out of love to oneself, one should confine oneself to truth, for by doing otherwise, one injures the noblest part of oneself, one’s mortal soul. One must possess as much real psychic space as possible. Even if the choice is limited to wearing a pair of shorts that make you feel comfortable, a certain hair style, or a particular shirt, the right to be part of the process of your life is protected. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 9

Concrete decisions and specific acts are what enable people to continue to experience themselves as a part of life. Through such experiences, people feel that they are sharing in the continuing flow of life. A sense of continuity requires an anticipated confidence that what one has known is a hard rind of truth which is discerned by unimaginative, unsympathetic minds. Evolution has attributed to the cause of variations to the activity of organisms and to the inherited effects of the use or disuse of their various functions. Not luck, but cunning displayed by organisms in coping with their environment lies at the basis of evolution. Hence, the activity of organisms is profoundly beneficial. We learn to live with our conditions and function as best we can.  The great mistake of Sir Charles Darwin was to dismiss teleology from the domain of living things, for they then become indistinguishable from machines. Machines are adjuncts to organisms, like extra, though inferior, limbs, by means of which organisms have become more highly evolved. Hence, a leg is only a much better wooden leg than anyone can manufacture. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 9

Living things have come to produce their natural organs and to equip themselves with adaptive habits. The individual plant or animal must know at the start what to do. A fertilized ovum possesses the knowledge it requires to make itself into an embryo and subsequently into an adult organism. This knowledge is really a remembering of what its ancestors did in the past, Hence, we must postulate an unconscious memory (soul) at work in all living things, binding successive generations and providing the basis for the transmission of acquired characteristics. Since evolution involves a continuous process of derivation, there must be an identity between parents and offspring: the latter are not different individuals, but are the parents at a later evolutionary stage. Birth has been made too much of. A new born infant is simply part of an unbroken biological process, not an utterly separate individual. Accordingly, there is a deep unity of all life, so that it constitutes in reality, nothing but one single creature, of which the component members are but, as it were, blood corpuscles or individual cells. #RyanPhillippe 7 of 9

Separation of the organic from the inorganic was unwarranted. What we call the inorganic World must be regarded as up to a certain point of living, and instinct with consciousness. Hence, all space is at all times full of a stuff endowed with a mind and both stuff and mind are immaterial and imperceptible, so long as they are undisturbed, but the moment they are disturbed, the stuff becomes material and the mind perceptible. Evolution is therefore the life history of this primordial World stuff, to which no name can be so fittingly applied as God. If Truth does not speak through the people, it never speaks at all. Although interruptions in human dialogue may be very painful, at least they are clear-cut. Individual may suffer acutely when they lose a loved one, but they usually realize they are suffering, and they understand why. To engage a bereaved person in dialogue means sharing in his or her pain. What emerges from the eyes of a bereaved individual is grief, what emerges from the eyes of those recently divorced is anxiety; what emerges from the eyes of those who live alone is loneliness; what emerges from the eyes of the unloved adolescent is frightened anger. #RyanPhillippe 8 of 9

These people all need to share these painful aspects of their lives through dialogue. The dialogue of pain, anxiety, anger, and loneliness is also part of life. How convenient to label these as scientific-medical problems and therefore have others look into their eyes. In much the same way that medicine slowly abandoned its appreciation for the healing role of bedside manner, society has abandoned its appreciation for the healing capacity of human contact. Emotional support that once came from families, neighbors, friends, ministers, deacons, rabbis, and various other social service agencies. While delivering needed support to people, these professional helping groups have also tended to usurp our functions and relieve us of our sense of personal responsibility. The very fact that a person can tolerate deteriorated dialogue and sometimes even encourage it is something that we would often prefer to deny, for reflecting on the implications is not pleasant. Since dialogue must also be reciprocal, each person must share part of the responsibility. An individual can only receive to the extent that he or she gives, and, in that sense, dialogue is a mirror of one’s personality. The Devil often builds the ladder by which truth climbs up. #RyanPhillippe 9 of 9

My own thoughts are the worst company you could leave me in at the present. We know not to what inconveniences a small departure from principle will lead. Therefore, it is important distinguish between unverified information heard or received from another and error, the former must be eradicated, but latter tolerated for humanity’s sake. We know the World only through our own ideas, and these do not give us its real nature. On the contrary, our ideas transform the nature of things into qualities which a purely subjective. Similarly, our values are our own; and such relative judgments as those involving categories of cause and effect, or whole and part, are arrived at through the constitution of our minds, not discovered embedded in rerum natura (in the nature of things in the World of nature as distinguished from the World of human beings). The things themselves, though remaining unknowable, nevertheless cause ideas to arise in our minds. The human mind projects relations into the external World and no confidence can be placed in an idea contradicted by sensation. There are two kinds of ideas, those of sensation and those of reflection.  #RandolphHarris 1 of 6

Thoughts cannot always be controlled by will. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is the strongest friend of innocence. There are also two kinds of truth—metaphysical and logical. Metaphysical truth is found in the conformity between our ideas and those in the mind of God; logical truth, in the conformity between our ideas and the things of which they are ideas. We cannot apprehend the former kind of truth; but since the latter involves knowing the unknowable, logical truth is reduced to consistency. Many do not accept the doctrine of innate ideas, that the mind is born with ideas and knowledge, and therefore the mind is not a blank slate at birth because we would be able to discover truth through introspection alone. There is a coherent system of ideas, duplicating the system of things, even though no individual possesses it. This system exemplifies God’s ideas, not all knowledge is gained from experience and the senses. However, at least certain ideas, such as those of God, infinity, and substance, must be innate because no satisfactory empirical origin of them could be conceived. The new born child has an explicit awareness of such ideas.  #RandolphHarris 2 of 6

Just as the Universe is held together by tonos (tension, intensity), pneuma (breath, spirit) and logos (reason), so the physical and metaphysical metabolism and the vital functions of each individual thing in the Universe are also regulated by tonos, penuma, and logos. All these are thus related to the cosmic pneuma and to each other, and account for the harmony in the Universe. This is breathed into things by God himself, but is not to be identified with God. If nothing else, this treatise is valuable as an example of the philosophy of nature which was accepted and learned by humans in the 17^th century. Some people like to find a foundation for morals in something other than appeals to the divine will because nature and revelation are complementary. Self-love and the partisan of an instinct for benevolence are vigorous and impressive ways to analyze human nature. Do not be misled about human nature, either by judging only from one’s own natures or by giving too much weight to exceptions from the general run of others. Humans are neither exceptionally self-regarding to the exclusion of benevolence nor exceptionally benevolent to the exclusion of self-interest. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6

What is more, is that these affections of self-interest and benevolence are not necessarily incompatible and may even reinforce one another. The satisfaction of performing a benevolent action will certainly encourage acts of benevolence in some who desires the advantage of society. Nevertheless, self-love and benevolence are but two affections among many; that neither has any priority over the rest; and that neither is such that all other affections can be reduced to it. Self-love is a complex affection, in that its object is not simply the self, but rather the gain of all things pleasing to the self. There are no affections directly contradictory to self-love or benevolence, namely self-hatred and ill will towards others. Rather, when self-love or benevolence is opposed, it is by passions for particular things; and it is in the pursuit of these objects we may harm ourselves or injure others. It must be remembered that this is a description of the generality of humankind, and not exceptions. Human are something more than a bundle of affections. Human possess a faculty superior to affections, which judges both them and the actions which flow from them.  #RandolphHarris 4 of 6

Humans have a faculty of reflection, or conscience. In one’s strongest characterization of this superior principle, determinately, some actions will be in themselves just, right, good; others will be in themselves evil, wrong, unjust. Conscience without being consulted, without being advised with, magisterially exerts itself, and approves or condemns one the doer of them accordingly. It is conscience (the capacity to reflect on one’s affections) which distinguishes humans from the beasts, by rescuing people from subjection to whatever passions is uppermost at the moment. It is conscience which makes a human a moral agent, by enabling one to be a law unto oneself—a law which one is obliged to obey, because it is the law of your own nature. Conscience approves of whatever contributes to the good of the whole humankind and condemns whatever disproportionately favors some part of the whole. However, how does conscience learn to assess these matters? No question about how conscience does its job need be asked, since it has been designed by God for its appointed end. Conscience, if not forcibly stopped, naturally and always of course goes on to anticipate a higher and more effectual sentence, which shall hereafter second and affirm its own.  #RandolphHarris 5 of 6

When faced with the danger or the threat of danger, human beings can derive an enormous sense of comfort from their fellow humans. Whether the danger is artificially contrived in a laboratory or part of the infinite variety of real life stresses, human beings instinctively seek out each other’s company in adverse circumstances. The child frightened by the darkness of night reflectively cries out to its parents for reassurance and comfort. Indeed, all of us seek human and spiritual reassurances. The idea of being alone, all alone, in the face of danger terrifies children and adults alike. I believe that humans are naturally fitted for life in society, and of course, I approve of social virtues; but virtues are never reckoned to be inherently valuable, unless there is an agent that makes being virtuous more advantageous.  Christ urges us to keep our minds filled with the concept of God’s control over everything, which means that a disciple must maintain an attitude of perfect trust and an eagerness to ask and seek. Fill your mind with the thought that God is there. God is my Father. He loves me, and I will never think of anything that He will forget, so why should I worry? How much more will your Father who is in Heaven give good things to those who ask of Him! #RandolphHarris 6 of 6

On the sixth year of the 2011 Japan Earthquake, we would like to send our hearts and good thoughts to those in Japan. God bless. (11 March 2011).