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The Love of Earth is Recognition of God
Love leads to God, through art or in acts. Opinions, whether true of false, are always facts, and as such they deserve and require to be made the object of research and verification. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of humans more than the people of the Earth. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nations seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. We ought be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven cannot be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained. Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he looks down from Heaven; he sees all the children of man; from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the Earth, he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes their deeds. Experience and intuition give us the harmonious unity that the reason cannot supply. Philosophers are especially prone to torture themselves with unanswerable questions; the wise is content if life is successful on the level of practice. #RandolphHarris 1 of 7
My heart assures me, a want of faith is a want of nature. Religion is not only the belief in the kingdom of God, but the attempt to make it come about while recognizing its impossibility. This religion not only has a warmth and poetry, but also represents in its radical from the highest point to which the human mind, or rather the human hearts, is capable of raising itself. Religious doctrines govern practices such are: Beliefs in supernatural beings (God and angels). The demarcation of certain objects as sacred. Ritual acts focused around sacred objects. A moral code believed to be sanctioned by God. Characteristic feelings, such as awe and sense of mystery, which to be aroused in the presence of the sacred objects and which are associated with God. Prayer and other forms of communication with God. A world view, that is, a general of its over-all significance, and a picture of the place of the individual in the World. The individual’s more or less total organization of one’s life is based on a World view, and a social organization bound together by preceding characteristics. #RandolphHarris 2 of 7
Personality is the unique, limitless part of our life that makes us distinct from everyone else. It is too vast for us even to comprehend. An island on the sea may be just the top of a large mountain, and our personality is like that island. We do not know the great depths of our being; therefore, we cannot measure ourselves. We start out thinking we can but soon realize that there is really only one Being who fully understands us, and that is our Creator. To say that a word is vague is to say that there are cases in which there is no definite answer to whether it applies to something. Thus, middle-aged is vague, for it is not clear whether a person aged 40 or a person aged 59 is middle-aged. Of course, there are uncontroversial a areas of application and nonapplication. At age 5 or 80 one is clearly not middle-aged, and at age 45 one clearly is. However, on either side of the application of the area of clear application there are indefinitely bounded areas of uncertainty. To say that there is no definite answer to the question, is a person 40 middle-aged? is not to say that we have not yet been able to find the answer because of insufficient information. #RandolphHarris 3 of 7
Our inability to say whether a 40-year-old man is middle-aged is not the result of lack of information about such things as blood pressure and metabolic rate. No additional information would settle the matter, expect indirectly by leading us to tighten up the meaning of the word. The indeterminacy is due to an aspect of the meaning of the term rather than to the current state of our knowledge. Regardless, by the time a person is considered middle-aged, there are certain things that are expected of him or her from oneself and others. American values is a phrase that refers to what people think is right or obligatory and even to whatever they believe to be true. I have spent my life working towards a goal and am not on the path I thought I would be on, but have not let obstacles that have been in my way stop me from trying to reach my goal. However, because I am not seeing the kind of results that I would like and have no idea when I will reach my goal, this does cause anxiety daily. While many young and old adults are playing games, and wasting time, I stay focused on trying to fulfill my destiny. However, I had set of boundaries of when I wanted to accomplish my goals, and by the time I am considered middle-aged I want to be established. #RandolphHarris 4 of 7
From time to time, I get worried because I fear I will be old and wrinkled before I reach my goals, and I certainly want to enjoy some of my youth. Many of my days are programed trying to develop my own business, looking at houses, and thinking about retirement, while others have fun. Even though I have no idea when I will reach my goals, I kept in mind that things are not paid for with money, we pay for things with time. For instance, when people take about a mortgage, they know they will pay it off in 10,15, or 30 years. When one wants to buy a vacation house, they think, “It will take me five year to save up enough money.” So, I feel that I am spending my time wisely. Another thing that keeps me going is faith. When you get in agreement with God and believe what he says about you, then what you believe can supersede any natural law. I prayer that we will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power through belief in him. The power of faith is only activated when we believe. When you believe, God will see that it is taken care of. Pleasure, knowledge, aesthetic experience, beauty, truth, virtue, harmony, love, friendship, justice, freedom, self-expression–let this be the foundation of your spirit. #RandolphHarris 5 of 7
Thinkers may also regard such things as intrinsically good, but only is and because they are pleasant, self-realizing, or excellent. Satisfaction of a desire is the quality of being enjoyed or enjoyable. Being ontologically perfect, or being willed by God, our dreams have an individually dynamic frequency, and activity and novelty in the atom are reminders of the spirit. In the cellular order, internal purposes are introduced. Spirit is eminently creative, and its action follows structures, or a priori methods of logical inference for intellect, of values or norms for will, and of aesthetic unities for feelings. Our dreams may be found implications for both reality and the life of spirit. Our goals and dreams, an emotionally intuited image, observes principles which, although more lucid in the work itself, have general applications in reality. Faith is constructed by a believe out of the continuum of natural pitch from the spirit. The activity of building faith in God is similar to constructing a scale analogous to that of intelligence in separating and ordering the objects of sensation; the discontinuity of the chords of faith is similar to that of quantum phenomena in physics. #RandolphHarris 6 of 7
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We cannot always understand them, but we have to trust them. Faith in God expressed the transformation of the spirit in the pursuit of value. It is formal and intellectual and a life can be saved from decay in gigantism or sensuality only by increasing our faith and living by the divine laws, as this is a mode pf passionate affirmation of the human will. Faith in God does not decline; passion either destroys the spirit or saves it by a change to religious ardor. Passion is directed from a temporal and human object to an eternal and divine object. Passion need not retreat from fate, it can be fully satisfied in the divine. It combines transcendence, emotional illumination, and infinite love. Christianity becomes an affirmation of life. 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 you learn the principle of faith, you will see the fullness of what God has in store and make it all the way to dreams and goals. #RandolphHarris 7 of 7
And God Granted His Request—Courage can Only be Opened from the Inside
Eternal life in Heaven is promised to the believer that is sealed by the Holy Spirit. You can be sure you have a house of in Heaven when you know God. We shall find our hearts enlarged in charity toward humans; by considering the relation wherein they stand unto God, and the impressions of his image which are stamped upon them. They are not only his creatures, the workmanship of his hands, but such of whom he taken special care, and for whom he hath a very dear and tender regard, having laid the designs of their happiness before the foundations of the World, and being willing to live and converse with them in all the ages of eternity. The meanest and most contemptible person whom we behold is the offspring of Heaven, one of the children of the Most High; and however unworthy he might behave himself of that relation, so long as God hath not abdicated and disowned him by a final sentence, he will have us to acknowledge him as one of him, and as such to embrace him with a sincere and cordial affection. The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus Christ, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6
You know what a great concernment we are wont to have for those that do any ways belong to the person whom we love; how gladly we lay hold on every opportunity to gratify the child or servant of a friend and sure our love towards God would as naturally spring forth in charity towards humans, did we mind the interest that God is please to take in them, and consider that every soul is dearer unto one than all the material World; and that God did not account the blood of his Son too great a price for their redemption. Heaven should be considered one of the most important subjects of faith. The fear of eternal torment in Hell could be a strong incentive to choose salvation, but is it is not the foundation of our faith. Heaven is the place where our Savior Jesus Christ sits at the right hand of our Almighty Father God. Jesus is the foundation of our faith; the chief corner stone. Our blessed hope is the appearing of Jesus Christ who will redeem us. It is the Creator’s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief. With these facts before you, now try to guess human’s chief’s pet name for this ferocious Commander-in-Chief? I will save you the trouble, but you must not laugh. It is our father in Heaven. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6
What is pleasant is good. Knowledge is pleasant. Therefore, knowledge is good. Value means the worth of a thing, and valuation means an estimate of its worth. Philosophers from the time of Plato had discussed a variety of questions under such headings as the good, the end, the right, obligation, virtue, moral judgement, aesthetic judgment, the beautiful, truth, and validity. All these questions belong to the same family, since they are all concerned with value or what ought to be, not with what is, was, or will be. In the next place, for purifying our souls, and disentangling our affections from the pleasures and enjoyments of this terrestrial life, let us frequently ponder the excellency and dignity of our nature, and what a shameful and unworthy thing it is for so noble and divine creatures as the soul of human, to be sunk and immersed in brutish and sensual lusts, or amused with airy and fantastical delights, and so to lose the relish of solid and spiritual pleasures; that the best should be fed and pampered, and the human and the Christian be starved in us. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6
Did we but mind who we are, and for what we were made, this would teach us, in a right sense, to reverence and stand in awe of ourselves; it would beget a modesty and shamefacedness, and make us very shy and reversed in the use of the most innocent and allowable pleasures. We should mediate often on the joys of Heaven. It will be very effectual to the purpose that we frequently rise our minds towards Heaven, and represent to our thoughts the joys that are at God’s right hand, those pleasures that endure for evermore; for every human that hath this hope in God purifies oneself, event as God is pure. If our Heavenly country be much in our thoughts, it will make us strangers and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul, and keep ourselves unspotted from this World, that we may be fit for the enjoyments and felicities of the other. However, we must see that our notions of Heaven be not gross and carnal, that we dream not of a Mahometan paradise, not rest on those metaphors and similitudes by which these joys are sometimes represented. #RandolphHarris 4 of 6
If we focus on the pleasures of the flesh, it might entangle us farther in carnal affections, and we should be ready to indulge ourselves in a very liberal foretaste of those pleasures wherein we had placed our everlasting felicity. However, when we come once to conceive aright of those pure and spiritual pleasures; when the happiness we propose to ourselves is from the sight, and love, and enjoyment of God, and our minds are filled with the hopes and forethoughts of that blessed estate; O how mean and contemptible will all things here below appear in our eyes! With what disdain shall we reject the gross and muddy pleasures that would deprive us of those celestial enjoyments, or any way unfit and indispose us for them. Jesus Christ is the Conqueror of Death, and all the Enemies of our Salvation: he bids his dispels of good cheer, in that he has overcome the World, and therein the Prince of the World. It is not great satisfaction and comfort that we shall fall into such fate, careful, and faithful hands as those of truly Angels; that never miscarried in any executions or embattles of this kind? Nor, indeed, in any others. #RandolphHarris 5 of 6
They may object, that they are strangers to, and unacquainted with the way to Heaven; they never went it, not have spoken to any that have gone it. However, there is not enough to silence such reformings? For we have all the satisfaction about it that the care will admit of. It is a point of faith, and not of sense, and we are offered that none have miscarried in, but all have got safe through it; and there is nothing wanting on God’s part to secure and bring them to Bleffednefs in Heaven. The happiness which we obtain by Christ, has also this peculiar advantage, which renders it most estimable and wonderful, in that it contains deliverance from death and destruction, as well as a right to life. It supposed a forgiveness of all trespasses, as well as an admission into Heaven, to behold the Mediator’s Glory there. God’s created natural covering is designed to protect the spiritual life, but our individuality must yield to God so that our spiritual life may be brought forth into fellowship with him. God, bless us and enlarge our territory! Let your blessings be with us, and keep us from harm so that we will be set free from pain. #RandolphHarris 6 of 6
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All who Rage Against you Will Surely be Ashamed and Disgraced
The most attractive solution to the problems of human existence, to the tragic sense of is, is the hope for eternal life expressed in human’s perennial hunger for immortality. God said, “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him or her who curses you; and in you all the families of the Earth shall be blessed” (Genesis 12.1-3). This hunger has two dimensions—it refers either to the nondestruction of the soul with the Universe or the totality of being. The destruction of a human’s consciousness is an a priori impossibility: We cannot even conceive of the nonexistence of consciousness, since that conception is itself an act of consciousness. Human is nothing if he or she is not everything—to exist is yearning to reach all space, all time, all being. To be a man or a woman is to seek to become God. Unless human is God, he is not even human: Either all or nothing. We ask not only if we can ever know the truth of statements about the past, or whether we can ever be sure of the existence of minds other than our own. #RandolphHarris 1 of 14
The existence of God is the supreme cause. Creatures are infinite, God is infinite. Seeing God as the ultimate cause of all perfections; and recognizing the transcendence of those perfections in God; God created the Universe in a hierarchical order ranging from the first luminous intelligence through lesser intelligences, human, animals, elements, and material principles. In all creatures there is a real distinction between essence and existence, and in all material substances there is only one substantial form. Created intellectual substances, seeing the eternal Ideas in God, illuminate lesser intelligences to know truth. The human mind has four immediately evident (per se nota) rules by which it can investigate theology, the science of the faith: God is the supreme Truth and cause of all truth; primary Truth can neither deceive nor be deceived, therefore his Word should be believed; we should believe everything clearly revealed by God through his spokesmen; Scripture is true precisely because God gave it to us in that way. Unlike these rules, the articles of faith are not immediately evident, but in the light of faith and these rules, the articles of faith become objects of scientific study. #RandolphHarris 2 of 14
Beauty is characteristically pleasurable. Ethical attitudes vary much more, from society to society and even between individuals, than do our beliefs about the external World or other people’s feelings. The patent fact of ethical disagreement forces us to re-examine the bases of our moral beliefs. Furthermore, the disagreements we encounter concerning moral issues often seem to involve deep matters of principle which leave no common ground between the disputants. This is sometimes referred to as the problem of disagreement about ultimate moral principles. It is this problem—whether ultimate moral principles are susceptible of rational justification—which will be examined. Just as the field of ethics comprises responsible human actions of which some are evil and blameworthy, so, among perceptual objects, there are some which have negative aesthetic value. This does not mean that such objects simply lack the characteristics by virtue of which things are beautiful; it means, rather, that they possess recognizable properties that are opposites of those found in beautiful objects. #RandolphHarris 3 of 14
Existence is a mystery, absurdity is a mystery, and anguish is a mystery. Love is the basic force of human existence. It encompasses all conative relations of humans to being and enables them to overcome anguish of their contingency by giving them the rich feeling of their own existence. The relation between beauty and ugliness has commonly been conceived in hedonistic terms, that is, whereas a beautiful object is a source of pleasure in the spectator, an ugly object arouses its opposite, pain. The proper function of art and life is to create pleasure. Yet, it is clear that there is seeming conflict between this view of the World and the empirical fact that works of art often represent objects and events that are ugly. What type of visual art depicts things which in themselves we view with pain. The painting, picture, or news itself arouses pleasure in some, a phenomenon that is explained by our intellectual interest in recognizing the object. Comedy, moreover, imitates people who are ignorable and therefore ludicrous; and though this is a kind of ugliness, the comedy is, for unspecified reasons, kept from being painful. #RandolphHarris 4 of 14
I supposed it is because the protagonist is a good individual who suffers adversity, tragedy is not merely shocking when we live in a place where stateworkers are forced to take furloughs and Governor Jerry Brown eliminates affordable housing, but raises taxes and spends $30,000,000.00 taxpayer dollars to defend illegal immigrants. This initiates the controversy over the paradox of tragedy that has survived to this present day. Taxation without representation is a situation in which a government, in this case Jerry Brown (governor of California), imposes taxes on a particular group of its citizens, despite the citizens not consenting nor having an actual representative deliver their views when the taxation decision is made. Many people are having a hard time finding jobs and housing because it is too expensive and the City of Sacramento decided it was better to build a $600,000,000.00 sport complex and tear down the mall that was under 20 years old, without voter approval and Jerry Brown cut funding for Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency, which provided houses and apartments that were based on one’s income. #RandolphHarris 5 of 14
Humans are painfully aware of the contingency. That they exist or that one is the particular person he or she happens to be is neither necessary nor permanent. By usurping taxpayer funds, and redistributing them to illegal immigrants, we are displacing many Americans who are born in the United States and lived here all of their lives, but no one is protesting for their rights! This is the same type of situation that trigged the original 13 American colonies to revolt against the British Empire during the Seven Years’ was (1756-1763). Many people believe that the way their tax money is being used is illegal because they have no Parliamentary representation and were denied the right to a trial by jury about the use of their money. How can we support undocumented citizens and build unnecessary bridges when we cannot even afford to take care of our own people nor maintain our infrastructure? As has been shown, this paradox is not the sole instance of the problem of ugliness, but it states the problem most acutely, both because the tragedy is sorrowful or pathetic. Why do we esteem narratives of evil and suffering? #RandolphHarris 6 of 14
Why are we not demanding more affordable housing? The whole ugliness has transcended and instead of protesting about our own needs, everyone is attacking the President about people who have absolutely no right to be here. The tragic melting plot in America has been painful to watch, and therefore ugly. Simply because democrats and the people they have illegally voting for them and causing chaos in America and stealing American tax money wish to hold that ugliness does not exist, and since their thesis runs counter to ordinary belief, they are constrained to justify it. The unreality of the ugliness is enjoined by the media because they fear American will go back to being a lawful and righteous country and the reporters will no longer be able to run amuck and produce lies and wild facts for entertainment. And 50 percent of the people who regularly watch the news say it is too much and they cannot stand it anymore, so perhaps they need to turn the TV off and let the news ratings fall. So, they can fire the pundants and disrupters. #RandolphHarris 7 of 14
Stated theologically, the World and everything in it has been created by an infinitely good God, as an expression of his goodness; stated metaphysically, existence is not neutral with respect to value and disvalue, but is rather an embodiment, through and through, of beneficial value. In such a World view, the apparent presence of evil of any kind poses a problem, and I consider sin and blindness just such problems. However, this aesthetic disvalue is a particular issue for me because my conception of reality is conspicuously aesthetic. Aesthetic aspects of life are beautiful and harmonious. All things are images of the ideas of form and harmony that exist in the mind of God, and together they make up an internally ordered unity. Objects are beautiful by virtue of their form, but if there is so, then ugliness does not exist, since sheer formlessness cannot exist. The opposite of beauty is not anything real, but mere the absence or privation of optimistic value. There is a degrees of value characteristic of metaphysical optimism and idealism. An object may not have the form appropriate to things of its kind, but this lack constitutes a relative deficiency of beauty, not sheer ugliness. #RandolphHarris 8 of 14
Moreover, objects that lack a certain degree of aesthetic value must be seen not in isolation, but as parts of the Universe as a whole. Seeming ugliness sets off, and thereby enhances, the beauty of the World. Jerry Brown, Vivek Ranadive, and other dangerous animals, which are not in any clear way lacking in form, but are considered ugly because they are displeasing or offensive to the sight. They are unbeautiful—the mere negative absence of beauty—conforming to a belief that language and practices which could offend political sensibilities (as in matters of sex or race) should be eliminated—rather than the ugly. Ugliness itself is a species of beauty that is present whenever such concepts as evil and disaster enter into the aesthetic pleasure we gain from the total object. Sometimes we may also want to say people are bad because they express a deficiency or relatively slight degree of aesthetic goodness. The work of Governor Jerry Brown, the City of Sacramento and Vivek Ranadive is less than it promises; they are lacking in vitality, ethics, morals, and charm. The muddy orchestration or incoherent plot structure is, significantly, opposite to orchestral clarity or unity of plot. There is a total absence of compensating virtues. #RandolphHarris 9 of 14
Lying is wrong suggests that the fact that a statement is known to be false is a reason for not making it to someone. Adultery is wrong suggests that the fact that someone is married is a reason for his refraining from the sexual intercourse with any person who is not his spouse. And, again, one ought to be kind suggest that there are reasons for performing kind actions rather than unkind ones. Asserting a moral principle of this kind and denying the suggestion about reasons results in paradox. Saying the governor upholds the law, but then raises taxes and steals money from hard working legal citizens, to redistribute to unlawful immigrants constitutes a lie and fraud. The Bible states that sinners earn the death penalty (Romans 6.23). Forgiveness of those sins requires blood to be shed to satisfy that penalty (Hebrews 9.22). Christ’s sacrifice of himself made is possible to take away the sin of the World (John 1.29). Because he is God, and human beings were created through him (Colossians 1.16), his life is worth immeasurably more than all other human lives throughout history. This, Christ’s sacrifice was more than sufficient as total payment for the death penalty we have earned because of sin. #RandolphHarris 10 of 14
To assuage their anguish, humans must feel in their existence, even of one is lead to suffering. One must learn to experience their uniqueness by expanding the range and the self-consciousness of their perceptions of the World. The central temporal dimension of human existence is the future, which leads to a desire for immortality and to a concern with death. This focus on the future is expressed as a means of both honors and hope and the means of eternal waiting. The structure of the future expresses both human’s determination to continue to live and their permanent dissatisfaction and despair concerning existence. Goals are self-created and are permanent commitments. This covenant with God guarantees a permanent right to the land. It is unconditional, as seen in the statements “God will,” without corresponding obligations. This covenant promises the ultimate return to the land in repentance and faith in circumstances will God will prosper them. This covenant will be fulfilled in the Millennium. Convent theology teaches that God initially made a covenant of works with Adam, promising eternal life for obedience and death for disobedience. Christ is the ultimate mediator of God’s covenant of grace. #RandolphHarris 11 of 14
Truth is subjective, it exists only as it is manifested in authentic belief. Belief, in turn, is an expression of human’s total being and consequently is realized in action. Objective truth is, strictly speaking, a meaningless conception. Through its identity with belief and actions, truth is ultimately an act of will. It is a will to create; and the will as creator wants and loves at the same time. Because of this persona and volitional factor in truth, the opposite of truth is not error but the lie. This subjective view of truth gives a distinct idealistic, even mystical cast to this thought. All knowledge about human and the World is subjective in the sense that it begins with first-person experience. To think of truth as transcending first-person experiences is, strictly speaking, a contradiction, because the very program of transcending first-person experience is a first-person project and concept and a construction. There is, however, another kind of truth, illustrated by mathematics, which is the function of reason alone, whereas true belief is a function of human’s whole being. Reality is a state of permanent flux, so that no two experiences are ever the same. #RandolphHarris 12 of 14
There are two metaphysical alternatives. Reality may be a vast sea of consciousness with my subjectivity at the center. There is no easy way to distinguish this consciousness from a mere dream. Its sole foundation is the fact that I experience it and that I will it to be real. The other view is that the focus of our being may be outside ourselves. We may identify ourselves with the realities of other people, cars, houses, trees, flowers, and mountains. This care and watchfulness over our own actions must be seconded by frequent and serious reflections upon them, not only that we may obtain the divine mercy and pardon for our sins, by an humble and sorrowful acknowledgment of them; but also that we may re-enforce and strengthen out resolutions, and learn to decline or resist the temptations by which we have been formerly foiled. It is an advice worthy of a Christian, though it did first drop from a heathen pen, that before we betake ourselves to rest, we renew and examine all the passages of the day, that we may have the comfort of what we have done aright, and my redress what we find to have done amiss, and make the shipwrecks of one day be as marks to direct our course in another. #RandolphHarris 13 of 14
This may be called the very art of virtuous living, and would contribute wonderfully to advance our reformation, and preserve our innocence. However what we must nor forget to implore the divine assistance, especially against those sins that do most easily beset us: and through it be supposed that our hearts are not yet moulded into that spiritual frame which should render our devotions acceptable; yet, methinks, such considerations as have been proposed to deter us from sin, may also stir us up to some natural seriousness, and make our prayers against it as earnest, at least, as they are wont to be against other calamities: and I doubt not but God, who hear the cry of the ravens, will have some regard even to such petitions as proceed from those natural passions which himself hath implanted in us. Besides, that those prayers against sin, will be powerful engagements on ourselves to excite us to watchfulness and care; and common ingenuity will make us ashamed to relapse into those faults which we have lately bewailed before God, and against which we have begged his assistance. All who rage against you will surely be ashamed and disgraced; those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish. #RandolphHarris 14 of 14
The Authority of Truth
You may be shocked by these words coming from me. However, on this pilgrimage, what I have seen, and experiences, has forced me to rearrange much of my thought-patterns previously held, and to toss aside some of my previous conclusions. This was not too difficult for me. Despite my beliefs, I have always been a man who tried to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfold it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth. However, it will not suffice to consider these things once again, nor to form some resolutions of abandoning our sins, unless we maintain a constant guard, and be continually watching against them. Sometimes the mind is awakened to see the dismal consequences of a vicious life, and straight we are resolved to reform; but alas! It presently falls asleep, and we lose that prospect which we had of things, and then temptations take the advantage; they solicit and importune us continually, and so do frequently engage our consent before we are aware. #RandolphHarris 1 of 5
It is the folly and ruin of most people to live at adventure, and take part in everything that comes in their way, seldom considering what they are about to say or do. If we would have our resolutions take effect, we must take heed unto our ways, and set a watch before the door of our lips, and examine the motions that arise in our hearts, and cause them to tell us whence they come, and wither they go; whether it be pride or passion, or any corrupt and vicious humour, that prompt us to any design, and whether God will be offended or anybody harmed by it. And if we have no time for long reasoning, let us at least turn our eyes toward God, and place ourselves in his presence, to ask his leave and approbation for what we do. Let us consider ourselves under the all-seeing eye of that divine Majesty, as in the midst of an infinite globe of light, which compasses us about both behind and before, and pierce to the innermost corners of the soul. The sense and remembrance of the divine presence is the most ready and effectual means, both to discover what is unlawful, and to restrain us from it. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5
There are some things a person could make a shift to palliate or defend, and yet he dares not look Almighty God in the face, and adventure upon them. If we look unto him we shall be lightened; if we set him always before us, he will guide us by his eye, and instruct us in the way wherein we ought to walk. I am accountable to God for the way I control my body under his authority. Every Christian can have his or her body under absolute control for God. What I must decide is whether or not I will agree with my Lord and Master that my body will indeed be his temple. Once I agree, all the rules, regulations, and requirements of the law concerning the body are summed up for me in this revealed truth—my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. It is the will of God that human beings should get into a right-standing relationship with him, and his covenants are designed for this purpose. When I have really transacted business with God on the basis of his covenant, there is no sense of personal achievement—no human ingredient at all. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5
Instead, there is a complete overwhelming sense of being brought into union with God, and my life is transformed. Our job is to get the fact and be sober in doing that. Acceptance is the great healer of strife, conflict, and upset. It also corrects major imbalances of perception and precludes the dominance of negative feelings. Everything serves a purpose. Humility means that we will not understand all events or occurrences. The foundation of Christianity is repentance. Strictly speaking, a person cannot repent when one chooses—repentance is a gift of God. No matter what or what we are, God restores us to right standing with himself. Put God in remembrance of his promises. Keep not silent. Give him no rest till it comes to pass. When God hears his promises, he dispatches angels with the answers. He sets the miracle into motion. God will change things in your favor. It may not happen overnight, but just stay in faith and keep reminding God what he promises you day in and day out. #RandolphHarris 4 of 5
Sometimes we use prayers as an excuse to complain to God about people not treating them right. Or about the price of rent, food, and gas being too high, and that they cannot take it anymore. Instead of complaining, remind God of his promises. Do not keep silent and eventually you will see what God said come true. As consciousness evolves to higher levels, the World changes in appearance and behavior. Everything is viewed whole, perfect, and complete. Father in Heaven, I may not see how it can happen, but I know you have an extraordinary blessing coming my way. Thank you that you make the rivers in the desert and streams in barren places. I am expecting a sudden, rapid, and widespread increase of blessings in my life. I believe that I will see surpassing greatness of you favor and blessings that will advance me years ahead. My hopes and dreams are in your hands and I trust you. Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often powerful auxiliaries. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5
All My Love is in Vain—True Lover of the Soul is Christ
We have eyes, but we cannot see. When I was lonesome, I felt so lonesome, and could not help but cry. All my love is in vain. Early this morning, when you knocked on my door, and said “Hello, Satan. I believe it is time to go.” Me and the Devil was walking side by side. She said you do not see why, that she dog me around. Now baby, you know you are not doing me right, do you not? It must be that old evil spirit so deep down in the ground. The object of any obligation, in the realm of human affairs, is always the human being as such. The Lord does not give us rules, but He makes His standards very clear. There exists an obligation towards every human being for the sole reason that he or she is a human being, without any other condition requiring to be filled, and even without any recognition of such obligation on the part of the individual concerned. If my relationship to God is that of love, I will do what He says without hesitation. The fact that a human being possesses an eternal destiny imposes only one obligation: respect. #RandolphHarris 1 of 10
Has that breaking of my independence come? Few can be supposed to act upon any occasions with all the reasons of action present to their minds. Will I surrender to Jesus Christ, placing no conditions whatsoever as to how the brokenness will come? I must be broken from my own understanding of myself. One of those secret spontaneous emotions of the soul to which the reason is often a stranger are the vital needs of the human being. When I reach that point, immediately that reality of the supernatural identification with Jesus Christ takes place. You may bury my body down the highway side. Baby, I do not care where you bury my body when I am dead and gone. The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not be a saint. We owe our respect to a collectivity, of whatever kind—country, family, or any other—not for itself, but because it is food for a certain number of human souls. #RandolphHarris 2 of 10
You better come on in my kitchen, it is going to be raining outdoors. As we have youth and health in hand, we hope to have time for repentance. No person can disobey reason without giving up his or her claim to be a rational creature. Our needs for sustenance of body and soul are not to be mistaken for wants. We must distinguish between the soul’s foods and poisons. The first of the soul’s needs, the one which touches most nearly its eternal destiny, is order; human beings need a texture of social relationships such that no one is compelled to violate imperative obligations in order to carry out other ones. We love the beauty of the World, because we sense behind it the presence of something akin to that wisdom we should like to possess to slake our thirst for good. A consciousness of the various obligations always proceeds from a desire for good which is unique, unchanging and identical with itself for every person. I have to keep moving. The days keep reminding me that there is a hellhound on my trail. #RandolphHarris 3 of 10
What does it profit a person if they gain the whole World, but lose their soul? The true Lover of the soul, Christ. If today was Christmas eve, and tomorrow was Christmas day, all I would need is my little sweet rider just to past the time away. Faith falls midway between opinion and scientific knowledge; it is more than opinion because it involves a firm assent to its object; and it is less than knowledge because it lacks vision. Both are intellectual acts and habits of assent: in the case of faith a person is not sufficiently moved by the object to accept it as true, so, by an act of will, one inclines oneself to believe. Knowledge implies assent motivated by a personal seeing of the object without any direct influence from will. Where objects of belief have to do with divine matters which exceed human being’s natural cognitive capacity, the disposition to believe such articles of religious faith is regarded as a special gift from God. Moral reform of the individual is important because it is the preparation of the interior or illuminative life. The dialogue between Christ and the soul gives a mystical experience awaiting those who truly love Christ. #RandolphHarris 4 of 10
What good does it do to speak learnedly about the Trinity if, lacking humility, you displease the Trinity? Indeed, it is not learning that makes a person holy and just, but a virtuous life makes one pleasing to God. I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it. For what would it profit us to know the whole Bible by heart and the principles of all the philosophers if we live without the grace and the love of God? Vanity of vanities and all is vanity, except to love God and serve him alone. Have you come to a crossroads of overwhelming circumstances where your theology is about to become a very personal belief? This happens only when a personal problem brings the awareness of our personal need. The greatest wisdom is to seek the kingdom of Heaven. That does not mean that you cannot have nice things, it simply means that your focus in life should be on God and your worth is not based on Worldly riches. Turn your heart from the love of things visible and bring yourself to things invisible. For they who follow their own evil passions and play games with the lives of others stain their consciences and lose the grace of God. #RandolphHarris 5 of 10
Many words do not satisfy the soul; but a good life eases the mind and a clean conscience inspires great trust in God. When I was younger, I used to think that our sins were tracked by God on a sort of Bingo card. It started off as white, and with numbers on it, and as we sinned a hole would be punched in my Bingo card. And every time I would sin, I would think to myself, “I do not want to turn in my Bingo card to God with all these stains on it,” so I would try not to sin, as best I could. If you see another sin openly or commit a serious crime, do not consider yourself better, for you do not know how long you can remain in good estate. All people are frail, but you must admit that none is frailer than yourself. Happy is one to whom truth manifests itself, not in signs and words that fade, but as it actually is. Our opinions, our senses often deceive us and we discern very little. What is much discussion of involved and obscure matters when our ignorance of them will not be held against us on Judgment Day? #RandolphHarris 6 of 10
I would rather feel compunction than be able to produce the most precise definition of it. Dear Father in Heaven, God who are the truth, make me one with You in love everlasting. I am often wearied by many things I hear and read, but in You is all that I long for. Let the learned be still, let all creatures be silent before You; You speak to me alone. The more recollected I am, and the simpler of heart I become, the easier it is to understand sublime things, for that is when one receives the light of knowledge from above. The pure, simple, and steadfast spirit is not distracted by many labors, for one does them all for the honor of God. And since one enjoys interior peace, one seeks no selfish end in anything. What, indeed, gives more trouble and affliction than uncontrolled desires of the heart? A good person arranges in one’s mind the things one has to do, not according to the whims of evil inclination, but according to the dictates of right reason. #RandolphHarris 7 of 10
Who is forced to struggle more than one who tries to master oneself? This ought to be our purpose, then: to conquer self, to become stronger each day, to advance in virtue. Virtue is moral excellence and righteousness; goodness and chastity. However, every perfection in this life has some imperfection mixed with it and no learning of ours is without some darkness. Still, a clean conscience and virtuous life ought always to be preferred. If people used as much care in uprooting vice and implanting virtues as they do in discussing problems, there would not be so much evil and scandal in the World, or such laxity in religious organizations. On the day of judgment, surely, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how well we have lived. When God looks at my Bingo card, I do not want it to look like a hurricane ripped it to shreds. How many there are who will perish because of vain Worldly knowledge and too little care for serving God. They became vain in their own conceits because they chose to be great rather than humble. #RandolphHarris 8 of 10
Do not yield to every impulse and suggestion but consider things carefully and patiently in the light of God’s will. For often, sad to say, we are so weak that we believe and speak evil of others rather than good. Perfect people, however, do not readily believe every talebearer, because they know that human frailty is prone to evil and is likely to appear in speech. Not to act rashly or to cling obstinately to one’s opinion, not to believe everything people say or spread abroad the gossip one has heard, is great wisdom. Take counsel with a wise and conscientious person. Seek the advice of your betters in preference to following your own inclinations. Thus, philosophy entailed reasoning from prior knowledge, or present experience, to new knowledge (the way of discovery) and the rational verification of judgments by tracing them back to more simply know principles (the way of reduction). Where the basic principles are grasped by human’s natural understanding of one’s sensory experiences, the reasoning process are those of natural science and philosophy. #RandolphHarris 9 of 10
If one starts to reason from judgments accepted on religious faith, the one is thinking as a theologian. The purpose of speculation is simply to know; the end of practical reasoning is to know how to act. Philosophy is a natural type of knowledge open to all people who wish to understand the meaning of their ordinary experiences. Repentance, from a just sense of the crime committed, gives an humility which renders the grief less turbulent, and makes way for the rise of some comfortable consideration, even from suffering the punishment which naturally follows the indulgence of violent passions. When you have a good friend, that will stay right by your side, give him or her all your spare time, try to love and treat that person right. Watch your close friend, baby, then your enemies cannot do you no harm. You do not want to wake up and find your biscuit roller gone, then you will have to roll up your own arms. Well, the blues, is an aching old heart disease. Do it now, you gone do it? Like consumption, killing me by degrees. On this planet, there are a lot of lost souls, who need to be taught the love of God. #RandolphHarris 10 of 10
Secrets and Lies of a Broken Heart
Think over your prayers; for He to whom you make the, knows all tongue; that of the heart as we as those of the mouth. Some people must think the Almighty very ignorant, for they never kneel down to speak to him without feeling themselves called upon to explain to him the whole plan of salvation, creation, and damnation: subjects on which, one might suppose, he would be better informed than themselves.
The greatest merit any person could have is to be good and useful. We are all experts on ourselves. We know how we perceive the World, how we respond emotionally, how we generally relate to others. I always have high energy, physically. I have rapid responses to all forms of stimulation through my sense, and my energy level ranges from active to hyper, even with the natural brakes of getting older.
My rapid response system means that I feel physical pain and physical pleasure very quickly and very intensely. It also means that I have trouble staying still. I have a generally heightened awareness of sounds, smells, tactile sensations, my visual surroundings, and even taste.
The good news about my heightened awareness is that I easily take in so much of whatever is pleasurable. The bad news is that I am uncomfortably sensitive to negative experiences. At the biological level, I am easily stimulated. I have a low pain threshold, and a strong negative response to loud noises, bad smells, or unpleasant taste.
Past experiences buried and lost from our conscious memory can be a third eye, yet unrecognized, cause for worry. For some people, event-based anxieties are linked to the trauma of war, abuse, or an accident. For others, it is a series of negative experiences with parents, teachers, siblings, or peers that have left invisible scars.
Because I am constantly taking in so much of what is happening around me, I am better prepared to see and react to danger than many other people. On the other hand, it is sometimes energetically draining to be so hypervigilant; there are too many ordinary situations where my immediate impulse is to rescue, protect, freeze, or flee.
I love honest people who are gentle and enthusiastic, and can express their feelings, even when they are not good, without becoming angry or hostile. This guy called Paul fell in love with his best friend, Michelle. It took him five or six years to admit he loved her. When he made a confession about his feelings, despondently, Michelle rejected him.
However, Paul remained calm and simply stated, “I am not okay right now,” after having his heart broken in front of a crowd. Every time someone does something right, we should notice them and comment enthusiastically about what they did. I think it was so cute of him to be a big enough man to openly communicate his feelings, without being angry.
If you are ever in a situation that makes you feel uneasy, move into a comfortable place where your body and mind feel relaxed. Think about something that is going on in your life right now that is really bothering you. Let yourself concentrate on the details of who or what is really disturbing you. Tell yourself that it is okay to briefly focus on this distressing situation or person because you are not going to stay there.
Some people who do not address their pain, joy, or emotions end up in a very bad place. For instance, former Bachelor contestant, Lex McAllister, killed herself after having her heartbroken. Just acknowledging that makes me feel sad. One of the biggest problems in life is people do not communicate because they are fearful.
Learning to gently deepen your awareness will allow you to get beyond your fear and begin to work with issues that may have caused your years of emotional and mental pain. Because of what I have been through, I do not feel comfortable going to the doctor or visiting friends.
Currently, people are encouraged to accept the idea that they are required to face some of those emotions and memories that they had successfully avoided facing in the past by means of denial or dissociation. Do not worry—you will not be forced to excavate old wounds and dive down into your deepest fears, anxieties, or losses.
This is just a gentle wake-up call to remind you that by gradually becoming more aware of your uncomfortable areas of experience, you will not have to keep working so hard to keep pain in its cage and eventually you will begin to feel less lonely.
He will never leave us or forsake us. Worry is often a solitary burden. We tend to carry it alone. The more we worry, the more alone and helpless we feel. However, if we are the children of God, we are never away from our Father’s watchful eyes and reach. Stay on the designated path, please. No matter how long the road is, no matter where I am, I will give you my sincerest blessing. May we have a brighter future and make greater progress.
Your Love is Eternity
You are in my missing and the happy time has no end. The unforgettable past events are in the memory. There really is no point in going back to relive painful memories unless you can work with you to build a better present. We do not always get that message. There are still many talk shows, reality shows, books, and feature articles that shine the spotlight on someone’s suffering as though suffering is a form of entertainment. Painful experiences may have a negative impact, but most likely, they also crated some of your strengths and special gifts. Whatever philosophy and experience may pretend on such subjects, it is certain that man is disposed to be superstitious in respect to the secret influences that guide his fortunes in the dark passage of the World. There is at least this good in life of toil, that it takes the nonsense and fancy-work out of a man, and leave nothing, but what truly belongs to him. Can mortal prayers ensure immortal happiness? When you do not get everything you require, the deprivation can help you become very resourceful. One will learn some great survival skills, and will not passively waiting for someone else to provide for you. An older friend of mine taught me about masturbation. One day in his mansion, while we were changing from wet swim trunks, he asked me if I had every stroked it before. Well, I had not because I was not allowed to touch myself. He proceeded to soap up his penis and demonstrated his technique.
When I tried it, the sensations felt good, but unlike my friend, nothing came out of my penis. He told me to keep practicing, and I did. Several years later, I had my first ejaculation. He is still fascinated by an old dream, which he cherished for many years. He says it was the greatest unfinished wonder in the World. Where a seal can catch a fish, a man could catch a hundred; where penguins can live a whole town could live. I call you “For real” of the newsroom because you are the truth. When you are pushed into a place where you have to keep yourself alert to avoid being hurt, one will often develop excellent observation skills and survival instincts. This will allow us to see what is going on around us faster than those who grew up protected by the adults in their lives. Everything about you makes me think you are a man of physical action, rather than the man of mental affairs. You are a little under six feet tall, tightly built, with a lean muscular frame and strong fair hair turning white. Your skin, like the skin of many models, and has a luminous golden hue. When you talk to me my mind lights up with prolific ideas, mostly serious subjects. There should always be one steady head to superintend many young ones. You always made me feel welcome and safe. Your eyes were so intent when you told me about “A Summer Night.”
There was no thought of pleasing you when she christened. The last phrase indicates that the World of higher nature, which romance approaches is also a World not of time, but no fulfillment of time, the kind of fulfillment traditionally symbolized by the perpetual spring of paradise. The wound that bleedeth inward is most inward is most dangerous, the fire kept close burnest most furious, the oven dammed up baketh soonest, sore having no vent fester inwardly. If you witnessed a lot of dysfunctional behavior, it may have helped you learn how to avoid potentially harmful situations and people. The World of shipwreck, in White Squall (one of our favorite movies) and treachery has largely spent its force before the action of the movie begins. Gill Martin knew he was doomed the moment he stepped foot on the Albatross. When Gill is forced to face his fears and climb the rope to the top of the ship, his screams and wetting his pants foreshadows the honorable haunted natural man, whom the is trying to raise to a better level of nature. This also represents the total annihilation of everything in time which is the first fact of ordinary life. If you grew up with abusive or impaired parents, it may have strengthened your determination to be healthier in your own adult life. Art and life are identical on its higher level, and guaranteeing, more clearly than any story of lost paradise, a reality in our lives that is clear of the dissolving chaos of experience.
In this scene the interchange of reality and illusion has completed itself. We go out into the real World again, which we know now to be also an illusion because of a reality that we have glimpsed for an instant in the illusion of life. My life was filled with anxiety and worry, but I was able to cover it up, like a lot of people do, until I had an experience that caused me to hit rock bottom. If you grew up having to take care of your parents, you may have some very valuable skills as a listener, caretaker, provider, and counselor. (It is hard to find a dedicated mental health care provider who grew up in a perfect family. The word family evokes warm feelings, but for others it brings up misery or revulsion. As a child, you grew up in a large family with a lot of responsibilities. Family was a source of support and we learned to take responsibility for family gatherings at holidays and birthdays. It was then that you told me you were forced to face your anxieties, fears, dreads, and worries. The greatest discovery was made because you realized that your own strength was not enough. I experienced that discovery. I had nothing left of my own inner resources. I did not seem to have the strength, physically or emotionally to go on. Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
If you felt unsafe with people as a child, you may have developed a very special relationship with nature, animals, books, art, music, sports, and so forth. Childhood suffering created many people whose self-reliance resulted in extraordinary achievements. It also created many people who are content engaging in solitary activities like reading, exploring outdoors, being an artist, or doing scientific research. Suicide is contrary to the first law of nature, self-preservation; and it shocks the natural feelings and common apprehensions of all mankind. You have many more strengths you are not aware of because of having been less fortunate than other children in how you were nurtured and raised. Keep in mind that within our vulnerabilities are the seeds of our greatest strengths. You are no longer a child; you have choices you did not have back then. I am here for you and always will me, I promise I will never leave you. No suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlour. Prayer is power within us to communicate with the desire beyond our thirsts. Have you seen that in the courtyard merged in the moonlight and the Spring breeze, I glean and glean in silence, all my yearning for you can neither sever my affection for you nor forget the dreams of love. I will remember forever your beautiful looks, those pillow soft lips, and sky-blue eyes, help me travel to the end of the World. You love is kind of eternity.
God’s Virtue is the Sweet Pliability of Man’s Heart
Randolph Harris
2 February 2016
1.30pm EST
Sweet pliability of man’s heart, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! No civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is. Anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often.
In order to completely understand the link between human loneliness, lack of love, and cardiac disease, it will officially be necessary to differentiate the happily married from those who are unhappily married. While scientific data on this question are just now being gathered, the preliminary evidence is most suggestive. The muses, like vines, may be pruned, but not with a hatchet, nor with a frying pan, nor by pulling hair.
In describing their own research on psychosocial characteristics of Swedish cardiac patients, Dr. Randolph Harris and Dr. Ryan Phillippe screened 10,000 European adult males before any symptoms of coronary heart disease had appeared. People who have a lack of emotional support from their spouse are more likely to be heart attack victims, and they also have more marital problems than did the control sample.
A series of recent reports have commented on the fact that the occurrence of marital problems and a sense of interpersonal rejection antedate a surprising number of acute myocardial infractions. Poetry and romance ought to be an imitation of real life because romance and love can reduce heart failure, and increase lifespan by as much as 20 years.
It appears that the individuals who are supported by love and a secure family and community bonds can cope much better with stressful psychological situations than individuals who are deprived of such support.
Men who place an inordinate emphasis on their work, and therefore neglect their spouse and families, are more likely to develop subsequent cardiac problems. There is a clear connection between marital discord and the development of coronary heart disease and premature death. This does not mean that marital discord or loneliness causes every myocardial infraction, for clearly such a position would be absurd.
However, there is evidence that indicates something about divorce, bereavement, or being single that made these states hazardous to one’s health. The inference was made that the something common to these states was either the lack of human companionship or the disturbance and disruption of human relationships.
Premature death is clearly linked to interpersonal unhappiness. The lack of love, and human loneliness seem to appear as root cause of the physical problems. Many hidden factors enter into the production of these mortality statistics which tend, I believe, to obscure their full medical impact.
The one overriding concern is that the adults reflected in these mortality statistics were once children, raised in complex Worlds, the impact of which remains largely hidden from our view. The fact is the loss of human contact is not an experienced restricted to adulthood; it is something felt by many children, often in a physically crushing manner.
When adults experience divorce or bereavement, quite often a child is caught in the middle—and if adults suffer measurable medical consequences from such experiences, there is no reason to expect that children will remain totally immune.
Children who experience the early disruption of parental contact—whether through divorce, separation, or death—are among the very ones who, upon maturation, will contribute in increased numbers to the ranks of those who encounter interpersonal difficulties.
This does not mean that every child who loses one or both of his parents in childhood will end up divorced, but only that such children are more likely to experience interpersonal difficulties and unstable marriage than will children from intact families.
The relationships between early childhood experiences and the excessive death rates that appear so consistently among nonmarried individuals is a question of great concern. This concern is especially central to coronary heart disease, for it raises the intriguing question of whether this major killer can begin in the lonely and broken hearts of childhood.
Before we leave each other, thousands of thousands of words become one word, I love you and always will. I find the white hair on your temple. Oh, you are so young how can you have it? I am afraid I am too serious for you. Today, when I look at your white hair occasionally, my eyes become wet.
I wish you happy and please let me love the white hairs on your head. In the World you know only you to me are the source of encouragement, the ingenious consolation and the light flickering in the recesses of my heart and mind and body. In ecstasy, I look at you and listen to you breathing.
In your shadow, with the fresh air, I no longer want to gaze at you as I am so tightly hugging you. You hold up my heart, which is listless and dazed. You put it by you on a golden pedestal.
With pure sincerity, I love you as people shun praises and compliments. Look at me once more, impressing in my heart with every smile of yours, every look of yours. For when you are away, recalling will be my only amusement.
Shut Up and Eat that Pot Roast!!!!!!
A reviving personality must be nourished with another kind of new communication—communication with people. Besides opening yourself to the richest of art and knowledge, you must also open yourself to new friendship, particularly to those which can reinforce your newly expanded interests.
Distance is melancholically beautiful, so I have left you for better memory. I have collected all the past dates into a book of verse waiting for your autograph. How long has it been since you noticed yourself warming to someone new, how long since you made even the mildest effort to bring a new person into your life and affections?
I wrote in white clouds, in the blue sky your name, but it was blown away by the wind, and I embroidered it in the sea, but it was broken up by the waves of the sea, so I etched it in my heart, and then nothing would make it disappear. Do not underestimate the difficulty of this process, the true revolution of our times is the disappearance of friendship.
Most of us are so far out of the habit of searching for friends and retaining them that we feel it awkward and painful to begin. Tome goes by slowly, but your baby blue eyes are forever in my heart: they are as pure as crystal, as light as the moon, as deep as abyss and as white as snow…
You have a choice: you do not have to be the victim of loneliness. You can take charge of your present-day relationships by using your awareness and your knowledge of the past. Remembering and understanding the lessons of the past will give you much more control over how you choose to act in the present.
Remembering and getting to the root of your relationship issues can save you from repeating the same mistakes. You can actually choose to avoid that moment when you suddenly realize you have become your mother or father.
We have well-developed wings under your care, roaming in the blue sky homeland. No matter how far and high we fly, there is echo of your instructions. I will never forget your kind words, directing me to the right way.
I will never forget when you were ill, you stood on the platform, teaching us the difficult problems. I will never forget when we blundered, you help us up. I wish the blessing can express our earnings to you. You work hard for the bloom of flowers and maturity of fruits, I will remember your spirits forever.
His Imperial Throne
The nature of reality, words and ideas do have weight, to move people to do things. The man who loves, and loves truly, should not long permit its object to remain in any doubt of his feelings and intensions. People jog, play tennis, ride bicycles have low saturated fat content.
People who exercise keep their hearts, marriage, and career in good shape. However, there has been revealed an interesting connection between changes in a person’s life, and the development of malady, it had one serious flaw—all changes were simply catalogued and given equal importance or weight. The death of a spouse was given equal weight with a recent change of address.
Of the major life events, the loss of companionship, which included the death of a spouse, divorce, marital separation, and the death of a close family member, were consistently ranked as the most stressful and important. Divorce was seen as far more stressful, for example, than going to jail or losing one’s job.
A study was one to measure life changing events that occurred before the onset of an illness. The same pattern was discovered: usually six months to three months, and one week before the onset of illness there was a sudden increase in the weighted value of life change events occurring in the individual’s life.
Life may as properly be called an art as any other’s and the greatest incidents in it are no more to be considered as mere accidents than several members of a fine statue or a noble poem. Among U.S. Navy and Marine Corps personnel, or naval vessels (in essence, there were self-contained, quarantined environments, since the ships were at sea), in underwater demolition terms, in the Royal Norwegian Navy—those who fell ill were those who had been experiencing significant life changes.
In a series of studies in Sweden and Finland, we began to examine the specific relationship between cardiac disease, sudden death, and life changes. The development of a myocardial infraction was frequently precede by an abrupt increase in life change events six months to three months earlier.
The greater the changes in life events, the shorter the time interval. Moreover, by interviewing the spouse or close friends of the heart attack victims, we observed that the greater the life changes before the heart attack, the more likely it was that sudden death would occur.
Before I get into a relationship, I like to consider what kind of impact you will have on my life. Most people hope that an individual we do nice things for, will do the same to us, so we can feel we are worthy or love.
Sometimes I think I know where a person is coming from, but then they change and do somethings that hurt me and make me feel used. I am the type of person who likes to have a companion. The perfect person for me is someone who is mature and likes to work hard and stay home. When I am alone, I like to learn stuff, so I will read books to try and discover something to make life better.
For fun I love to look at nature and architecture. We are so lucky to have such a beautiful World, with people who work hard to make life so dynamic. You will begin to see a vibration and feel a visual depth. Formal relationships can transform otherwise static forms into a visually dynamic environment.
Nothing is more common than to call our own condition the condition of life. Let us cease to dispute, and learn to live. Even a man who has practiced in lovemaking till his own glibness has rendered him skeptical, may at last be overtaken by the lover’s awe.
If I love, I should love at once and without change. We find from the voice of history that those men are thought to have deserved best of their country who have occasionally withstood the intemperance opinion.
An ideal couple is one like my grandparents, two people who spend all of their time together, and are conservative. I love when we are sitting and reading in our cozy living room, a fire going in the fireplace, and soft music playing in the background. I love our deep connection and happiness in our house.
Peacefulness in our relationship is deeply appealing. To know you is happiness and to leave you is agony. At the time we depart, the hope of meeting again supports me. Three years goes by quietly. We have been happy, laughing and singing.
You are honest, kind, multitalented. I will trust the clouds to take my regards to you every moment. Let the time we spend together flow in our hearts like a happy river. The Earth grants beautiful and rich color to flowers, but keeps original plainness—the feeling showed by silent honesties is cherishable. I miss you.
Randolph Harris II International Institute 