A nation in which half the population is criminal would be more diversified than a wholly honest one, but it would not be a better nation. Much relief is experienced when we realize that by adopting a spiritual life, righteous condemnation and the hate that ensues from it can be left to other. This pursuit of the spiritual good benefits all humankind, and it could therefore be said to be the most praiseworthy vocation all the. The spiritual commitment then defines a distinct role which differs from that of the uncommitted person. It implies a different set of standards and focus of energy and attention for the rightful exercise of human choice. As a Victorian, some live, of course, in a society which not only frowns on things like free love, adultery, and Sabbath breaking but also vigorously applied the social sanction of ostracism to any who committed these sins. Intolerance is a necessary preservative of society. The modern liberal state is possibly precisely because society was able to discipline itself through unwritten laws. #RandolphHarris 1 of 8

 It is a good thing for humans to be compelled by social intolerance to keep laws of conduct which the wisdom of the ages has shown to be good. Goodness is varied, but that does not mean that variety itself is good. In knowledge of good and evil, it is true that the understanding is clouded by the desires of the will. Heresy is often accompanied by sedition or blasphemy. A very sublime and grand thing is Truth, in its way, though like other sublime and grand thins, such as thunderstorms and that, we are not always over and above glad to see it. There are yet great truths to tell, if we had either the courage to announce or the temper to receive them. Away then with all perplexing fears and desponding thoughts. To undertake vigorously, and reply confidently on the divine assistance, is more than half the conquest. Let us arise and be doing, and the Lord will be with us. It is true, religion in the souls of humans is the immediate work of God, and all our natural endeavors can neither produce it alone, not merit those supernatural assistances by which it must be wrought. #RandolphHarris 2 of 8

The Holy Ghost must come upon us, and the power of the Highest must overthrow us, before that holy thing can be begotten, and Christ be formed in us. However, yet, we must not expect that this whole work should be done without any concurring endeavors of our own. We must not lie loitering in the ditch, and wait till Omnipotence pull us from thence. No, no: we must best ourselves, and actuate those powers which we have already received. We must put forth ourselves to our utmost capacities, and then we may hope that our labor shall not be in vain in the Lord. All the art and industry of human cannot form the smallest herb, or make a stalk of corn to grow in the field; it is the energy of nature, and the influences of Heaven, which produced this effect. It is God who causes the grass to grow, and herb for the service of humans; and yet nobody will say that the labors of the husbandman are useless or unnecessary. So, likewise, the human soul is immediately created by God. It is God who both formed and enlivens the child; and yet he has appointed the marriage bed as the ordinary means for the propagation. #RandolphHarris 3 of 8

Though there must intervene a stroke of Omnipotence to effect this mighty change in our souls, yet ought we to do what we can to fit and prepare ourselves; for we must break up our fallow ground, and root out the weeds, and pull up the thorns, that so we may be more ready to receive the seeds of grace, and the dew of Heaven. It is true, God has been found of some who sought him not. He has cast himself in their way, who were quite out of his. God has laid hold upon them, and stopped their course on a sudden. However, not, that I may detain you no longer, if we desire to have our souls molded to this holy frame, to become partakers of the divine nature, and have Christ formed in our hearts, we must seriously resolve, and carefully endeavour, to avoid and abandon all vicious and sinful practices. There can be no treaty of peace, till once we lay down these weapons of rebellion wherewith we fight against Heaven; nor can we expect to have our distempers cured, if we be daily feeding on poison. #RandolphHarris 4 of 8

Why would an infinitely good God choose to create a being that is by its very nature capable of willfully introducing evil into the order of creation? Would it not have been better to have left such a being uncreated, or to have created a being that would not have been capable of doing this willful evil? Freedom of choice or action is the mark of a relatively superior being. Physical objects, machines, and brutes are inferior precisely because they are not capable of self-willed or self-determining action, but are instead passively dependent on external or internal impulses. Such inferior being are acted upon rather than self-active. God himself is the most perfect possible agent or self-active beings, a being who delights in things merely because they are chosen. The very goodness of things depends on their having been chosen to exist: the Divine election therefore is not determined by the goodness of things, but the goodness and fitness that arises from that election. #RandolphHarris 5 of 8

What is true of God is true to some extent of the most superior of his Earthly creatures, namely, humankind. We indeed continually experience in ourselves the principle of free choice or free election. We are conscious that we are the true cause of our actions, that we have an ability to act and please ourselves in contradicting our natural appetites, our senses, and reasons. Such, however, is the power of free will and such is the pleasure of acting freely that we are capable of making decisions and choices that cause pain to ourselves and others. Human beings are capable of throwing away their fortune, life, and soul least they should be disappointed in a foolish choice. In other words, rather than relinquish the special pleasure that attaches to a free choice, even a perverse, irrational, or foolish one, human agents are prepared to risk loss of property or life. This preparedness to persist in a foolish choice confirms that the peculiar pleasure to be had from the sheer exercise of the will may be greater than the pleasure to be had from the sheer exercise or the understanding. #RandolphHarris 6 of 8

This is not to say that the individual human will is essentially perverse, or that it takes particular pleasure in being perverse. If that were so, then God would indeed have created something wicked in itself. It is of course God’s intention that the chief happiness of human agents should consist in the proper use of will. The happiest choices will be those made within the bounds prescribed by God and nature. As a rule, human agents will in fact choose the courses of action that are the most likely to bring them happiness. However, it is here that certain natural imperfections or natural evils make their presence felt. Because of the natural evils of ignorance and inadvertence, people will be led to make undue elections. Decisions and choices are sometimes made in the absence of the sufficient knowledge or understanding; or, where there is sufficient knowledge, there is sometimes a failure of attention or due care on the part of the agent. Virtue is one all over the World, and there is only one faith, one conceivable conduct of life, one manner of dying. #RandolphHarris 7 of 8

Nature never intended humans to be tyrants. Every willful sin gives a mortal wound to the soul, and puts it at a greater distance from God and goodness; and we can never hope to have our hearts from vicious actions. Now, in this case, we cannot excuse ourselves by the pretense of impossibility; for sure our outward human s some way in our power. We have some command of our feet, and hands, and tongue, nay, and of our thoughts and fancies too, at least so far as to divert them from impure and sinful objects, and to turn our mind another way; and we find this power and authority much strengthened and advanced, if we were careful to manage and exercise it. In the meanwhile, I acknowledge our corruptions are so strong, and our temptations so many, that it will require a great deal of steadfastness and resolution, of watchfulness and care, to preserve ourselves, even in this degree of innocence and purity. We should shut our ears to distrust, and keep them open only for its opposite. #RandolphHarris 8 of 8

It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all; for a secret is often innocently babbled out by those who know but half of it. They learn their Art at the hazard of our lives, and make experiments by our deaths. God, since he is not a confounder of human sense and reason, would not choose to speak in riddles or mysteries. He chooses to speak in terms that are intelligible to us—terms that reveal rather than obscure and mystify. The glory of God and the stints in Heaven is represented by the brightness of the Sun and the glory of an Earthly kingdom, which are the greatest images we are able to frame of it. The word glory invokes a future happy state, the reward of a virtuous life. The word, despite its obscurity, is semantically promising—that is, it includes or evokes a kind of expectancy or hope, namely that it expects me in the Heavens, that I shall enjoy it, and be made partaker of it; and that it will render me happy beyond all imagination. Revelations must rely upon the evidence of faith. Mystery does not designate what cannot be known by humans but, rather, what is revealed on to the chosen few. #RandolphHarris 1 of 5

How is it possible to think, or make any intelligible statements, about a transcendent God or a supernatural World? How can ideas produced in the course of sensational encounters with the natural World at the same time serve to report a reality that is beyond the reach of sensation? If the supernatural World is beyond the reach of our natural experience, is it not also beyond the reach of ideas formed on the basis of that experience? Faith, the hallmark of Puritanism, is consequently of no avail without the confirmation of reason. Spiritual progress is based on acceptance as a matter of free will and choice and thus everyone experiences only the World of their own choosing. All is self-creating as the manifestation of the mind of God. Because the Universe is self-evolving and self-fulfilling, no intervention is necessary. All is in perfect balance and harmony. It is no longer a World with individuals who need saving, but an energy field to life and reinforce. God has sent out his Holy Spirit, whose sweet but powerful breathings are still moving up and down in the World, to quicken and revive the souls of humans, and awaken them unto the sense and feeling of those divine things for which they were made. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5

God is ready to assist such weak and languished creatures as we are, in our essays towards holiness and felicity: and when once it has taken hold of a soul, and kindled in it the smallest spark of divine love, it will be sure to preserve and cherish, and bring forth into a flame, which many waters shall not quench, neither shall the floods be able to drown. Whenever this day begins to dawn, and the day-star to arise in the heart, it will easily dispel the powers of darkness, and make ignorance and folly, and all the corrupt and selfish affections of humans, flee away as fast before it as the shades of night, when the Sun comes out of his chambers: For the path of the just is as the shining light, which shines more and more unto the perfect day. They shall go on from strength to strength, till every one of them appears before God. Choose to be easygoing, benign, forgiving, compassionate and unconditionally loving towards all life in its expressions without exception, including oneself. Focus on unselfish service and the giving of love, consideration, and respect to all creatures. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5

God knows what he is doing in your life. Avoid negativity and the desire for Worldliness and its greed for pleasure and possessions. Forego opinionating, the judgment of right versus wrong, the vanity of being right. Seek to understand rather than to condemn. Trust in the love, mercy, infinite wisdom and compassion of Divinity which sees through all human error, limitation, and frailty. Place faith and trust in the love of God. Like the Sun, the love of God shines equally on all. Why should we think it impossible, that true goodness and universal love should every come to sway and prevail in our souls? Is not this their primitive state and condition, their native and genuine constitution, as they came first from the hands of their Maker? Sin and corruption are but usurpers, and though they have long kept possession, yet from the beginning it was not so. That inordinate self-love, which one would think were rooted in our very being, and interwoven with the constitution of our nature, is nevertheless of a foreign extraction, and has no place at all in the state of integrity. #RandolphHarris 4 of 5

They know not what they do. The only sin is that lack of understanding. It is not very efficient or rewarding to battle sin and get into a struggle to use will power to overcome defects. The way out of conflict is not to try to eliminate the negative but instead choose to adopt the optimistic view. Our understandings are easily convinced, that we ought to be wholly devoted to God from whom we have our being, and to love God infinitely more than ourselves, who is infinitely better than we; and our wills will readily comply with this, if they were not disordered and put out of tune: and is not he who made our souls, able to rectify and mend then again? Shall we not be able, by God’s assistance, to vanquish and expel those violent intruders, and turn unto flight the armies of the aliens? No sooner shall we take up arms in this holy war, but we shall have all the saints on Earth, and all the angels in Heaven, engaged on our party. It is God’s wish to see the divine life thriving and prevailing in this World; and the will of God may be done by us on Earth, as it is done by themselves in Heaven. Fear not, for they that be with us are more than they that be against us. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5

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In life, there is ever the intellectual and the emotional nature—the mind that reasons, and the mind that feels. Of one come the people of action—generals and statesmen; of the other, the poets and dreamers—artist all. Light is the plants’ only source of energy, so they are entirely dependent on light. The sea walnut uses some of its energy to generate its own light in the deep ocean. Cells convert energy from one form to another as they carry out the business of life. Plants, convert light energy into chemical energy—food for themselves and for the animals that eat them. Some organisms convert the chemical energy of food into light, as does this small deep-sea animal, called a sea walnut. Instead of using chemical energy from food only to grow or reproduce, the sea walnut illuminates its environment. Why does it spend energy in such an apparently frivolous way? In fact, nobody knows for sure—it has been suggested that the animal uses its light to frighten off potential predators, but not many biologist believe this. The function of light emission by sea walnuts remains a mystery. #RandolphHarris 1 of 11

We are creatures of the Sun. Its light is the source—direct or indirect—of the free energy that powers life on Earth. As biologist, we can say, “We are creatures of the chloroplasts.” This abundant organelle, which gives green plants their color, captures the Sun’s energy for us. Inside plants, within stacks of connected, inner membranes wrapped in two outer membranes, chemical reactions convert and store the energy that we draw. Plant growth depends on photosynthesis, and photosynthesis depends on efficient carbon dioxide fixation. The mechanism in turn depends on how much carbon dioxide in the air, it is not always abundantly available to the cells inside the leaves of land plants. Leaves have a waxy covering that retards moisture loss, and water escapes mainly through tiny passages (stomata) across the leaf’s surface. On hot, dry days the stomata are closed and plants conserve water. This means, however, that carbon dioxide cannot enter the lead. At the same time, oxygen builds up inside the leaf as a by-product of photosynthesis. #RandolphHarris 2 of 11

I saw a bright light. The stage is set for a wasteful process called photorespiration. In this process, oxygen instead of carbon dioxide becomes attached to the RuBP (ribulose bisphosphate, is a 5-carbon compound involved in the Calvin cycle, which is part of the light independent reactions of photosynthesis). Our own dependence on the Sun, although absolute, is indirect. Like the other animals, the fungi, many protists, and most monerans, we depend upon a ready supply of partially reduced, carbon-containing compounds as a food source. From such compounds we get all the free energy that keeps us alive and functioning. From them, too, we obtain the carbon atoms used in every organic molecule in our bodies. In a word, we are heterotrophs: We need to feed upon something else. In a World populated exclusively by heterotrophs, all life would grind to an end as the food gradually disappeared. Our World owes the continued existence of life to the presence of autotrophs—organisms that do not need previously formed organic substances from their environment. #RandolphHarris 3 of 11

A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appears and vanished on the path. For autotrophs, an energy source (such as light) and an inorganic carbon source (such as carbon dioxide gas) suffice as a diet. From these simple ingredients, autotrophs make the reduced carbon compounds from which their bodies are built and their food needs met. By feeding on autotrophs, the heterotrophs of the World meet their needs for energy and matter. The principal autotrophs are photosynthetic organisms that use visible light as their energy source. From light, carbon dioxide, and water, they begin the chemistry that sustain almost the entire biosphere. Photosynthesis is the conversion of light energy to chemical energy by living things. Organisms that conduct photosynthesis—pants and photosynthetic protists and monerans—stand at the gateway to the living World, at the interface where inorganic becomes organic, where nonlife becomes life. The Worldwide extent of photosynthetic activity is stunning: Each year, tens of billions of tons of carbon atoms are taken from carbon dioxide and incorporated into molecules of sugars, amino acids, and other compounds. #RandolphHarris 4 of 11

 Photosynthesis is known to use three principal ingredients—water, carbon dioxide (CO2), and light—and to produce not only food but also oxygen gas (O2). Scientists had learned that the water for photosynthesis comes primarily from the soil (for plants living on land) and mist travel from the roots to the leaves; that carbon dioxide is taken in from the atmosphere through tiny openings, called stomata (singular, stoma), in the leaves; and that light is absolutely necessary for the production of oxygen and food. The carbon dioxide uptake and oxygen release are closely related and both depend on light actions. CO2 + H2O + light energy –> sugar + O2, but many details in the process remain hidden. Oxygen released during photosynthesis comes from the carbon dioxide or from water. Trees combat climate change. Excess carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by many factors is a building up in our atmosphere and contributing to climate change. Trees absorb CO2, removing and storing the carbon while releasing the oxygen back into the air. In one year, an acre of mature trees absorbs the amount of CO2 produced when you drive 26,000 miles. #RandolphHarris 5 of 11

The morning woods are utterly new. Trees absorb orders and pollutant gases (nitrogen oxides, ammonia, sulfur dioxide and ozone) and filter particulates out of the air by trapping them on their leaves and bark. Trees provide oxygen—in one year, an acre of mature trees can provide enough oxygen for 18 people. Trees cool the streets and the city. Average temperature in Los Angeles, California USA have risen 6 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 50 years as tree coverage has declined and the number of heat-absorbing roads and buildings have increased. Trees cool the city by up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit, by shading our houses and streets, and breaking up urban heat islands, and releasing water vapor into the air through their leaves. Urban heat islands can affect communities by increasing Summertime peak energy demand, air conditioning costs, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, heat-related illness and mortality and water quality. On a hot, sunny Summer day, roof and pavement surface temperature can be 50-90 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than air, while shaded or moist surfaces–often in more rural surroundings—remain close to air temperatures. #RandolphHarris 6 of 11

Trees are the cradle of the race and dwelling place of the supreme God. Three trees places strategically around a single-family house can cut Summer air conditioning needs by up to 50 percent. By reducing energy demand for cooling our houses, we reduce carbon dioxide and other pollution emissions from power plants. Shade from trees slows water evaporation from thirsty lawns. Most newly planted trees need only fifteen gallons of water a week. As trees transpire, they increase atmospheric moisture. Trees reduce runoff by breaking rainfall this allowing the water to flow down the trunk and into the Earth below the tree. This prevents storm water from carrying pollutants to the ocean. When mulched, trees act like a sponge that filters this water naturally and uses it to recharge ground water supplies. On hillsides or stream slopes, trees slow runoff and hold soil in place, which prevent soil erosion. Skin cancer is the most common form of cancers in the United States of America, trees shield people from ultraviolet rays exposure by about 50 percent, thus providing protection to children on school campuses and playgrounds—where children spend hours outdoors. #RandolphHarris 7 of 11 

The grove is the center of their religion and trees also provide food. An apple tree can yield up to 15-20 bushels of fruit per year and can be planted on tiny urban lots. And trees also provide birds and wildlife with food. Studied have also shown that patients with views of trees out their windows heal faster and with less complications. Furthermore, children with ADHD show fewer symptoms when they have access to nature. Exposure to trees and nature helps concentration by reducing mental fatigue. Moreover, neighborhoods and houses that are barren have shown to have a greater incidence of violence in and out of the home than their greener counterparts, so trees help to reduce violence and trees and other landscaping help to reduce levels of fear. Tree also mark the seasons and people enjoy the color changes or the beauty of strong evergreen trees. In addition, trees create economic opportunities. By harvesting fruit, community orchards can be sold, this providing income. Small business opportunities in green waste management and landscaping arise when cities value mulching and its water-saving qualities. #RandolphHarris 8 of 11 

Humans come from the Earth. Whether as houses for children or creative and spiritual inspiration for adults, trees have provided the space for human retreat throughout the ages. Tree planting also provide an opportunity for community involvement and empowerment that improves the quality of our life in our neighborhoods. All cultures, ages, and genders have an important role to play at a tree planting or tree care event. Trees also are helpful landmarks and can give a neighborhood a new identity and encourage civic pride. Trees provide a canopy and habitat for wildlife, and they can mask concrete walls, parking lots, unsightly views and also add privacy. Another benefit is that tree muffle sound from nearby streets and freeways, and create an eye-soothing canopy of green. Trees also absorb dust and wind and reduce glare. During the cold winter month, tree provide wood for fuel and craft wood. The butterflies were vaulting and furling about.  The beauty of a well-planted property and its surrounding street and neighborhood can raise property values by as much as 15 percent. Even the evergreens looked greener, newly created and washed.  #RandolphHarris 9 of 11

Studies have shown that the more trees and landscaping a business district has, the more business will flow in. A tree-lined street will also slow traffic—enough to allow the driver to look at the store fronts instead of just speeding by. And finally, a healthy lawn increases soil stability through its deep and expansive root structure which reduces land degradation and erosion from wind and water. A healthy lawn has the same cooling effect as an 8.5-ton air conditioning compressor. Lawns also increase property values, reduce stress are a great place for recreation, they absorb noise, and save water. A soccer field can absorb 50,000 gallons of water before runoff occurs and stores it in the Earth.  Grass also reduces carbon dioxide and traps an estimated 12 million tons of dust and dirt released annually into the atmosphere. Turfgrass areas measuring 2,500 square feet produce enough oxygen for a family of four to breathe. An average size healthy lawn can capture as much as 300 pounds of carbon per years and a golf course can capture 1,500 pounds per year. One soccer field can offset the carbon produces by a car driving 3,000 miles. #RandolphHarris 10 of 11

 The environmental benefits of trees and grass and their impact on the greenhouse effect is the most sensible and economically feasible approach to countering the greenhouse effect in urban areas. On a hot summer day, a well-maintained lawn area will be at least 30 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than asphalt and 14 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than bare soil.  Each generation takes the Earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forest and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed. The forest are the flags of nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that some time an immortal time will be the flag of a united peaceful World. When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the beauty shade of the cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity? The groves were God’s first temples. #RandolphHarris 11 of 11

Who can part, forever; only when we come so close that nothing separates us can we meet again, only when what binds us is not my need of you or your need of me nor any chance circumstance, but a deep ingrained likeness of nature that cannot pass away. The face is but a reflecting surface of the soul. Natural law is a rational participation in the eternal law of God and suggests that all people have a sufficient knowledge of what is morally right (the justum) to be able to regulate their own actions. You cannot expect the constituted authorities to inquire into the state of a person’s soul—or is it only one’s liver? The judgment of synderesis (an intellectual quality enabling any person to intuit the first principle of practical reasoning) is simply the proposition “Good should be done and sought after; evil is to be avoided.” Human’s substantial nature is toward the conversation of its own existence and physical well-being, that of human’s animal nature to seek such biological goods as the sexual reproduction and the care of offspring, and that of human’s reason whereby one tends toward universal goods, such as consideration of the interests of other persons and the avoidance of ignorance. #RandolphHarris 1 of 10

I cannot repeat an emotion. No one can, except sentimentalists. Every calamity severs a strong from the heart, until one scene of sorrow on the back of another matures us for eternity. Is there stagnation in your spiritual life? Get into God’s presence and find out the reason for it. You will possibly find it is because you have been interfering in the life of another—advising when you had not right to advise. When you do have to give advice to another person, God will advise through you with the direct understanding of His spirit.  All inclinations are presented as natural and good, provided they are reasonably pursued. They form the bases from which one may conclude to a number of rules of natural moral law. Law in general is any ordinance of reason that is promulgated for the common good by one who has charge of a community. Reason is the key word in this definition. Right reason (recta ratio) is the justification of ethical judgment of thought. In the case of volitional activities, the proximate standard is human reason (regula proxima est ratio humana) but the supreme standard is the eternal law. #RandolphHarris 2 of 10

Therefore, whenever a human’s action proceeds to its end in accord with the order of reason and of eternal law, then the act is right; but when it is twisted away from this rightness, then it is called sin. It is a very great thing to obey, to live under a superior and not to be one’s own master, for it is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live-in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented and dejected on the slightest pretext; they will never gain peace of mind unless they subject themselves wholeheartedly for the love of God. Go where you may, you will find no rest except in humble obedience to the rule of authority. Dreams of happiness expected from change and different places have deceived many. Everyone, it is true, wishes to do as one pleases and is attracted to those who agree with them. However, if God be among us, we must at times give up our opinions for the blessings of peace. Furthermore, who is so wise that one can have full knowledge of everything? We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God. #RandolphHarris 3 of 10

God has made nothing in vain. God’s first creation was light. Ethics requires a person to govern one’s actions as reasonably as one can, keeping in mind the kind of agent that one is and the position that one occupies in the total scheme of reality. Human’s own good is achieved by the governance of one’s actions and feelings under rational reflection—and God does not require anything else. For we do not offend God, except by doing something contrary to our own good. It is a part of being reasonable to respect the good of others. The moral good, then, is not so much what people are obligated to do by an all-powerful legislator; rather, it is that which is in accord with the reasonable perfecting of human. In becoming a better agent within oneself, human is making oneself more fit for the ultimate happiness and for the vision of God. This kind of ethics resembles a self-perfectionist theory, without the idealist overtones. Because you honor God, He will do in a fraction of the time what should have taken you a lifetime to accomplish. You are about to see the favor of God profusely abound in your life. #RandolphHarris 4 of 10

Holy and delightsome is the Earth. God saw that everything he had made was very good. All things have specific natures which do not change: dogs are dogs, stones are stones. Certain functions are taken as natural and appropriate to given natures: eating is an act expected of a dog, but not of a stone. Human nature shares certain functions with the higher brutes but is distinguished by the performance of rational activities. Some of these typical functions are always the same in relation to human’s nature and ethical rules pertaining to these do not change. An example of such an immutable rule of justice is simply “Theft is unjust.” Other ethical judgments, however, are not essential to justice (for example, detailed ordinances which contain many variable factors); these secondary rules are by no means absolute and immutable. Examples would be rules concerned with taxation, buying and selling, and other such circumstantially variable regulations. Moral law is composed of both types of rules and is neither absolute nor immutable in all its requirements. #RandolphHarris 5 of 10

Shun the gossip of human as much as possible, for discussion of Worldly affairs, even though sincere, is a great distraction inasmuch as we are quickly ensnared and captivated by vanity. Many a time I wish that I had held my peace and had not associated with humans. Why, indeed, do we converse and gossip among ourselves when we so seldom part without a troubled conscience? This is not a Wendy interview, this is not The Wendy Show! We do so because we seek comfort from one another’s conversation and wish to ease the mind wearied by diverse thoughts. Hence, we talk and think quite fondly of things we like very much or of things we dislike intensely. However, sad to say, we often talk vainly and to no purpose; for this external pleasure effectively bards inward and divine consolation. Therefore, we must watch and pray lest time pass idly. Bad habits and indifference to spiritual progress do much to remove the guard from the tongue. From four till late, I was wringing my hands and crying. I believe to my soul that your daddy is Gulfport bound. From Memphis to Norfolk is a thirty-six-hour ride. #RandolphHarris 6 of 10

A man is like a prisoner and he is never satisfied. A woman is like a dresser, some man is always rambling through its drawers. It is because so many men wear an apron overhaul. From four until late, she get with a no-good bunch and clownin’. Now, she will not do anything, but tear a good man’s reputation down. When I leave this town, I am only going to bid you a fare, farewell. And when I return again, you will have a great long story to tell. Devout conversation on spiritual matters, on the contrary, is a great assistant to spiritual progress, especially when persons of the same mind and spirit associate together in God. Moral conscience is a concrete intellectual judgment whereby the individual agent decides for oneself that a given action or feeling is good or bad, right or wrong, to be done or not to be done. Conscience is not considered a special power or moral sense, nor is it viewed as the source of universal more convictions. It is simply human’s best practical judgment concerning a concrete moral problem. As such, moral conscience is a person’s internal guide to good action; one acts immorally in going against one’s conscience, for it is one’s best judgment on a matter. #RandolphHarris 7 of 10

If it is not one’s best judgment, then the person is clearly required to make a better effort to reach a conscientious decision. I am going to get up in the morning, I believe I will dust my broom. Girlfriend, the Black man you been lovin’, girlfriend, can get my room. I am going to write a letter, telephone every town I know. If I cannot find her in West Hollywood, she must be in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, I know. I do not want no woman who wants every downtown man she meets. She is a no good doney, they should not low her on the street. I believe, I believe I will go back home. You can mistreat me here, babe, but you cannot when I go home. I am going to call up Paris, she is my good girl over there. If I cannot find her on Philippine’s Island, she must be in Ethiopia somewhere. Reasonable consideration is a proposed action includes thinking of the kind of action that it is (the formal object), the purpose to which it is to be performed. These moral determinants are used to complete the theory of right reasoning. I want to know God’s thoughts. The rest are details. Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the less expensive wine after the guest have too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.  #RandolphHarris 8 of 10

Father in Heaven, this word is for me today. I am raising my expectations. I am building my faith, courage, love, happiness, goals, and dreams. I thank you, God, that You want to do something new and extraordinary in my life. You are God who has blessed me with this beautiful life, amazing family, and great friends. I believe that you are about to flood my life with Your blessings, as you open the windows of Heaven and pour our tsunamis of increased joy, healing, mercy, and blessings that cannot be stopped. Your many blessings and infinite liberality will exceed all my wishes and thoughts. This echo is in my spirit and colonizing my cellular structure, experience and memory, biosocial connection, and body integrity. The goodness of God is denaturing the identity in my body’s reproduction to a genetic code that biotechnical engineers cannot control or manipulate. The bodies deepest structures are possessed and rearranged to overcome me as I heed the echo of the voice of the Lord my God. The body ceases to be a stable spatial map of normalized functions and instead emerges as a highly mobile field of strategic differences known as the divine art of a miracle feeding new events into that pattern. #RandolphHarris 9 of 10

 We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. The World is comprised of systems with interactive technology and biological components, allowing flows of information and energy. Thermodynamic, evolutionary processes in systems are sometimes accelerated by catastrophe. A large-scale process and new replicative chains—catastrophes caused by outside factors probably increase complexity more rapidly—but unpredictably. Accelerated growth alters the normative process of human reproduction and social organization. We are talking of fusion; of chemical change; the structural reinvention of cells, of matter and energy in a new relationship. It is not represented as a weakness or defect, but a doorway to other modes of being. The traditional domestic order based on serialization and inheritance, replacing this structure with a field of riddles, secrets, misnaming, and hybrid discourses. Infinite extensions in infinite process. #RandolphHarris 10 of 10

My love was founded on a rock and it endures. You cannot look away. The mesmerized look in your eyes reveals that watching and listening seems to put you in a trance, and you emerge feeling better. We know from our own experience that the love we have deeply longed for has always been right here.   Peace does not depend on the World looking peaceful, and everything we wanted to be rid of is an expression of the wholeness we are, and that transformation can happen when our minds stop trying to control everything and allow things, moments, people, and feeling to be felt is deeply loving. These aspects of our lives are logically connected with the ideas of human freedom, moral vision, moral criticism, ideas of inventiveness, originality, and the life of the imagination. You are in a trance when you experience past life recall. The recall comes from your unconscious mind, which creates the images that come back up to the surface of your conscious mind. Any times you remember an image you go into a trance, and every time you go into a trance, you are experiencing a form of self-hypnosis. #RandolphHarris 1 of 9

The intellectual life is a social venture. The easier the subject accepts the suggestions from the DJ or music, the more likely he or she is to enter a deeper hypnotic state. This is a term known as fantasy prone personality that describes someone who easily enters a deep trance. The more someone is open to the imaginations, the greater the potential that person have for experiencing a hypnotic trance. Philosophical judgments are ways in which experience progresses toward its goal of intelligibility, and the task of such judgments is to disclose the implications of dynamic coordinates of experience: mind, nature, and other selves. Reality cannot be identified with mind, will, or personality but must be comprehended as a system in which each entity plays a part as an individual and as a significant function of the purposeful whole. Who can part, forever; only when we come so close that nothing separates us can we meet again, only when what binds us is not my need of you or your need of me nor any chance circumstance, but a deep ingrained likeness of nature that cannot pass away.  #RandolphHarris 2 of 9

Sentiment is a disgrace instead of an ornament, unless it leads us to good actions. Creation of the World was freely willed by God, as in no way necessitated, as his nature is love. There is no lack or insufficiency in God that needs the creating of the World to remedy it. Love demands society and community, but the divine society of the Trinity is itself thought of as supplying this scope of love, from eternity. It is possible, therefore, to see the creation of the World as a wholly gratuitous exercise of love. The mysteries of religion can sometimes be beyond human reason, but also contradict it. Something may be unthinkable for human reason that is not so for God in itself. Faith always works in a personal way, because the purpose of God is to see that perfect faith is made real in His Children. Faith is a tremendously active principle that always puts Jesus Christ first. Our faith is limitless. Faith is the entire person in the right relationship with God through the power of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Faith by its very nature must be tested and tried. And the real trail of faith is not that we find it difficult to test God, but that God’s character must be proven as trustworthy in our own minds. #RandolphHarris 3 of 9

If shame was not audacious, one would never attempt to do as they do. However, let us still resist shame; for notwithstanding all shame’s bravadoes, one promteth the fool and none else. Faith being worked out into reality must experience times of unbroken isolation. Never confuse the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life, because a great deal of what we call the trail of faith is the inevitable result of being alive. The most general principle of human knowledge is neither principle of identity nor the principle of contradiction, but a principle concerning what we can and cannot think: What cannot be thought at all is false, and what cannot be thought of as false is true. Our notions of identity and contradiction are based on this principle, which is called the principle of cogitabailitas. It is an inner criterion, depending on the nature of the human understanding. Human reason cannot reach ultimate truth. Knowledge begins with experience, both inner and outer, and in many cases is stopped in its analysis of an order of facts by certain notions that, although they are not simple in themselves, cannot be further analyzed by humans. #RandolphHarris 4 of 9

 Beauty is an angel that no one ever caught; truth is a deception that changes to falsehood while you finger it. We are shadows among shadows. Even if an analysis is completed and humans do reach some simple basic notion, this notion cannot be demonstrated or deduced from a unique source. Each notion must be intuited singly by connecting it with concrete examples. We are called into intimacy with the gospel, and things happen that appear to have nothing to do with us. However, God is getting us into fellowship with Himself. Let God have His way. If you refuse, you will be of no value to God in His redemptive work in the World, but will be a hindrance and a stumbling block. The Lord does not give me rules, but He makes His standard very clear. If my relationship to God is that of love, I will do what He says without hesitation. If I hesitate, it is because I love someone I have placed in competition with Him, namely, myself. Jesus Christ will not force me to obey Him, but I must. If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God. #RandolphHarris 5 of 9

By an appeal to reality (by their concrete representations)—notions such as existence, space, time, and force; or, in psychology, the particular powers of the soul, some mental faculties, and pleasure and pain, the circular process of being attempts to modify experiences to keep the desired image and avoid the threatening ones, and continually reinforces the beliefs and assumptions in the position apart from being. The desire to anchor one’s being in a self is not attacked, but is invited into a process of respectful inquiry and loving challenge. We learn to relinquish attachment and illusion. It is growth through letting go rather than an accumulation of new ideas, new conditions, and new assumptions that must be continued. A sense of what constitutes emotional pain may be associated with experiences of rejection, abandonment, rage, neglect, or abuse. The psychological split is healed when pain is neither retained nor defended against psychologically. Pleasure is neither sought nor rejected. One may move in the direction of health by integrating experiences that have been avoided, but is fully healthy when rejection and acceptance are not options. #RandolphHarris 6 of 9

God’s existence can be proved, but his attributes cannot, properly speaking, be understand completely by humans—among other things, positive infinity is beyond human’s reason. The human notion of God is partially relative and partially negative; nevertheless, it is certain. God is different from created beings both in degree and in essence. Among the attributes of God is free will, which is limited by principle of contradiction and by his goodness. In God and God alone, intellect and will are a single power. Space and time are intimately connected with existence; they are conditions of things insofar as such things exist. There is no real space or time without substance to fill it; outside the real World there is only possible (not sensible) space or time, which is infinite and filled by God. There are empty spaces in the World (otherwise movement would be impossible), but they are only physically—and not metaphysically—empty, because they are filled with God’s presence. Mathematical space and time are distinct from physical space and time, and are abstracted from the relations of things. #RandolphHarris 7 of 9

Spiritual materialism has finite spirits that are simple unextended substances, and they will enter a space and share with material substances the power of motion. Thus, a real interaction between spiritual and material substances is possible, and the doctrines of pre-established harmony and occasionalism are unnecessary. The human soul is an independent substance with two fundamental powers, thinking and willing, both of which are a complex of several independent lesser powers. Immortality of the soul can be proved only if God’s existence is presupposed—that is, by an appeal to moral certitude. Natural duties have been imposed on human beings through God’s free choice. The empirical psychology into free will has a cognitive power that becomes logic. And there is also an aspect of free will that is also placed in ethics. Moral goodness consists in the conformity of the human will with God’s will. The human will is a power to act on the understanding, on the body, and on the will itself, but its connection with the understanding is not altogether clear. We are immediately conscious of freedom, which is the main property of the human will. The will is moved by sufficient reason, which does not necessitate, and therefore the will is free. #RandolphHarris 8 of 9

It is essential that you give people the opportunity to act on the truth of God. The responsibility must be left with the individual—you cannot act for him or her. It must be one’s own deliberate act, but the evangelical message should always lead on to action. Refusing to act leaves a person paralyzed, exactly where one was previously. However, once one acts, one is never the same. An action is moral if it is done out of obligation only, and not in quest of happiness. The moments I truly live are the moments when I act with my entire will. The practice of coming back to the safe place can enhance mindfulness and encourage reorientation to reality, instead of the subjective, personal story about the individual’s suffering. Forgiveness spontaneously arises, as do spiritual understanding.  Virtue is formally conditioned by a coincidence of human will and divine law, and is materially conditioned by love for God. Divine law is known through conscience, which is an immediate power of moral judgment founded on a sort of common sense called moral taste. Evil originates in a wrong use of free will, which, when it submits to unreasonable impulses, corrupts human understanding and the true representation.  I wish you health, wealth, and longevity and your family health, happiness, every success and satisfaction. Happy Birthday (422). #RandolphHarris 9 of 9