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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
All of the Brain Structures are Online
When some people remember horrendous accidents that they were in, two key areas of the brain go blank: the area that provides a sense of time and perspective, which makes it possible to know that was then, but I am safe now, and another area that integrates the images, sounds, and sensations of trauma into a coherent story. When those parts of the brain are knocked out, you experience something not as an event with a beginning, a middle, and an end but in fragments of sensations, images, and emotions. A trauma can be successfully processed only if all those brain structures are kept online. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) allow some to access their memories of an accident without being overwhelmed by them. When the brain areas whose absence is responsible for flashbacks can be kept online while remembering what has happened, people can integrate their traumatic memories as belonging to the past. #RandolphHarris 1 of 7
In some, dissociation (shutting down completely) can complicate recovery in a different way. None the brain structures necessary to engage in the present were online, so that dealing with the trauma is simply impossible. Without a brain that is alert and present there can be no integration and resolution. These type of people need to be helped to increase their window of tolerance before they can deal with their posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Hypnosis was the most widely practiced treatment for trauma from the late 1800s. However, hypnosis fell out of favor in the early 1990s and there have been no recent studies of its effectiveness for treating PTSD. Still, hypnosis can induce a state of relative calm from which people can observe their traumatic experiences without being overwhelmed by them. Since that capacity to quietly observe oneself is a critical factor in the integration of traumatic memories, it is likely that hypnosis, in some form, will make a comeback. #RandolphHarris 2 of 7
Still, many people turn to spirituality to calm their minds down and heal their bodies, as spirituality arises from an authentic longing to know God. For us to evolve and maintain a vital, mature personal self out of our inborn potentials, we require caregivers who facilitate our individuation by meeting certain developmental requirements. We have a holding requirement, a requirement for caregivers who suspend the expression of their own subjectivity and are present simply as loving onlookers who give us room to discover our own subjective reality. This imagine of God helps to heal people because they are able to fill in holes in their psyche that formed as a result of childhood needs inconsistently met due to the lack of guidance or abandonment. Many of us want to experience ourselves as part of a calm, wise, loving authority who possess qualities we admire and are latent with us. We require relationships with others who are very much like ourselves. #RandolphHarris 3 of 7
Our caregivers facilitate the emergence of our authentic individual selfhood when they optimally respond to these requirements of forming a loving and protective bond with us. People who feel safe and loved are usually happy and want to make others in their presence feel comfortable and at peace also. I see ahead of me the City of God, all golden and shimmering in the distance. I am so excited. I want it so much. When we feel a connection we God and His house, we experience so many wonderful feelings of love and joy. If you feel empty, keep going, far beyond this emptiness until you melt into God’s love and feel a blissful union with him. Some people feel that the World is so painful, and humiliating. They may feel rejected, abandoned, and alone. Well, these feeling pop up, turn them off and think about how that beautiful tree in the park appears to be alone, but has a root system blow it that helps it thrive and develop. Just like we may not be able to see the roots, we know they are there, much like God is here feeding and protecting us, but we may not be able to see him. Yet our faith tells us God is here with us. #RandolphHarris 4 of 7
Some of us try to prove our value through some activity of earning it. Perhaps we try to earn it by being kind and accommodating toward others—whatever fits our concept of having value. However, the more that we try to earn our value, the more that that very project reinforces the underlying premise that we do not intrinsically have it—it forever remains something extrinsic to who we are. And then that premise propels us to keep trying to earn it, and we are caught in a loop. This phenomenon manifests in relationship dynamics all the time. Perhaps we are drawn to someone, and so we try to get them to love us. The problem is, who we become in that attempt usually is not very appealing. We are trying to make something happen rather than allowing it to happen naturally, so we are constantly manipulating ourselves, or the other person or both. #RandolphHarris 5 of 7
In the process of trying to manipulate love, we may present ourselves in a way that is not open nor authentic, or we may try to pressure or control the other—none of which is likely to evoke feelings of love. Our attempt to get the other to love us actually makes them less likely to love us, and then we feel even more desperate for love, even more convinced that love will not arise unless we make it arise—and the cycle continues. Or perhaps we are trying to maintain our sense of space in our relationship. Perhaps we see our space as something that could be easily consumed or usurped by the other. So we assert our requirement for space in a way that is hard-edged or hostile, that has a quality of pushing the other away. The very way that we go about promoting our requirement for space makes it hard for the other to welcome giving us our space. And then we feel even more convinced that the other does not want us to have our space, and we all the more antagonistically go about asserting our requirement for space. #RandolphHarris 6 of 7
We keep going around in circle doing the same. Insanity is believing that we can keep doing the same thing and get different results. We keep doing the same thing in order to avoid feeling some experience of emptiness, and when it does not work, rather than recognizing that it does not work, we keep doing it harder. We think that is we try harder at the thing that does not work, we can make it into something that works. This is the way that the conditioned mind works and we find ourselves in an environment that does not support our full openness, and this leads to us being lost and confused. Perhaps our environment remains stable as long as we are happy, confident, and doing well, but begins to unravel if we are having a hard time and do not get over it quickly. #RandolphHarris 7 of 7
Victorian Frame of Mind
Currently, perhaps the most common reason for intimacy to suffer or vanish entirely is an exclusive focus on someone’s history of past trauma and the resulting issues. Fire in straw will not be hidden, and the flames of affection will burst forth at length, though it be long kept under. Reliving a strong negative emotion causes significant changes in the brain areas that receive nerve signals from the muscles, gut, and skin—areas that are crucial for regulating basic bodily functions. The brain scans, as you recall, showed that recalling an emotional event from the past causes us to actually re-experience the visceral (internal organs) sensations felt during the original event. Each type of emotion produced a characteristic pattern, distinct from the others. For instance, a particular part of the brain stem was active in sadness and anger, but not in happiness or fear. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6
All of these brain regions that produce emotions are below the limbic system, to which emotions are traditionally assigned, yet we acknowledge their involvement every time we use one of the common expressions that ink strong emotions with the body: You make me sick; it made my skin crawl; I was all choked up; my heart sank; he makes me bristle. The elementary self-system in the brain stem and limbic system is massively activated when people are faced with the threat of annihilation, which results in an overwhelming sense of fear and terror accompanied by intense physiological arousal. To people who are reliving a trauma, nothing makes sense; they are trapped in a life-or-death situation, a state of paralyzing fears or blind rage. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6
People who are traumatized have their mind and body constantly aroused, as if they are in imminent danger. They startle in response to the slightest noises and are frustrated by small irritations. Their sleep is chronically disturbed, and food often loses its sensual pleasures. This in turn can trigger desperate attempts to shut those feelings down by freezing and dissociation. How do people regain control when their caveman brains are stuck in a stand your ground or escape for survival mode? If what goes on deep inside our caveman brains dictates how we feel, and if our body sensations are orchestrated by subcortical (subconscious) brain structures, how much control over them can we actually have? #RandolphHarris 3 of 6
Knowing what we feel is the first step to knowing why we feel that way. If we are aware of the constant changes in our inner and outer environment, we can mobilize to manage them. However, we cannot do this unless our watchtower, the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), which controls a person’s personality, learns to observe what is going on inside us. This is why mindfulness practice, which strengthens the MPFC, is a cornerstone of recovery from trauma. However, do not be discouraged. Many people have survived trauma through tremendous courage and persistence, only to get into the same kinds of trouble over and over again. Trauma has shut down their inner compass and robbed them of the imagination they require to create something better. #RandolphHarris 4 of 6
The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, the often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from themselves. The more people try to push away and ignore internal warning signs, the more likely they are to take over and leave them bewildered, confused, and ashamed. People who cannot comfortably notice what is going on inside or become vulnerable to respond to any sensory shift either by shutting down or by going into a panic—they develop a fear of fear itself. People’s lives will be held hostage to fear until that visceral (internal organs) experience changes. #RandolphHarris 5 of 6
The price for ignoring or distorting the body’s messages is being unable to detect what is truly dangerous or harmful for you and, just as bad, what is safe or nourishing. Self-regulation depends on having a friendly relationship with your body. Without it you have to rely on external regulation—from medication, drugs like alcohol, constant reassurance, or compulsive compliance with the wishes of others. Do not let anyone look down upon you because you are young. Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through a prophetic message when the body of elders laid their hands on you. Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. Watch your life and doctrine closely. Preserve in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers. #RandolphHarris 6 of 6
The Best Institutions are Liable to be Abused
As the best institutions are liable to be abused, so are the best people to be vilified. Wickedness, like a flood, is like to drown our World. Both Justin and Britney had become hypersensitive and irritable after the accident, suggesting that their prefrontal cortex was struggling to maintain control in the face of stress. Justin’s flashback precipitated a more extreme reaction. The two white areas in the front of the brain are the right and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. When those areas are deactivated, people lose their sense of time and become trapped in the moment, without a sense of past, present, or future. #RandolphHarris 1 of 8
Two brain systems are relevant for mental processing of trauma: those dealing with emotional intensity and context. Emotional intensity is defined by the Christmas day some alarm, the amygdala, and its counterweight, the watchtower, the medial prefrontal cortex. The context and meaning of an experience are determined by the system that includes the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and the hippocampus. The DLPFC is located to the side in the front brain, while the medical prefrontal cortex (MPFC) is the center. The structures along the midline of the brain are devoted to your inner experience of yourself, those on the side are more concerned with your relationship with your surroundings. I will never forget your love, when I am in low spirits, it is you who push black clouds off my heart and bring me lovely Sunlight. #RandolphHarris 2 of 8
The DLPFC tells us how our present experience relates to the past and how it may affect the future—you can think of it as the timekeeper of the brain. Knowing that whatever is happening is finite and will sooner or later come to an end makes most experiences tolerable. The opposite is also true—situations become intolerable if they feel interminable. Most of us know from sad personal experience that terrible grief is typically accompanied by the sense that this wretched state will last forever, and that we will never get over our loss. Trauma is the official experience of this will last forever. #RandolphHarris 3 of 8
Justin’s scan reveals why people can recover from trauma only when the brain structures that were knocked out during the original experience—which is why the event registered in the brain as trauma in the first place—are fully online. Visiting the past in trap therapy should be done while people are, and grounded as possible. (“Grounded” means that you can feel your butt is in your chair, see the light coming through the window, feel the tension in your calves, and hear the wind stirring the tree outside.) Being anchored in the present while revisiting the trauma opens the possibility of deeply knowing that the terrible events belong to the past. For that to happen, the brain’s watchtower, cook, and timekeeper need to be online. Trap therapy would not work as long as people keep being pulled back into the past. #RandolphHarris 4 of 8
When we look at Justin’s brain scans recorded during his flashback, one can see more white holes in the lower half of the brain. These are his right and left thalamus—blanked out during the flashbacks as they were during the original trauma. As I have said, the thalamus functions as a cook—a relay station that collects sensations from the ears, eyes, and skin and integrates them into the soup that is our autobiographical memory. Breakdown of the thalamus explains why trauma is primarily remembered not as a story, a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, but as isolated sensory imprints: images, sounds, and physical sensations that are accompanied by intense emotions, usually terror and helplessness. #RandolphHarris 5 of 8
It normal circumstances the thalamus also acts as a filter or gatekeeper. This makes it a central component of attention, concentration, and new learning—all of which are compromised by trauma. As you sit there reading, you may hear music in the background or traffic rumbling by or feel a faint gnawing in your stomach telling you it is time for a snack. If you are able to stay focused on this page, your thalamus is helping you distinguish between sensory information that is relevant and information that you can safely ignore. There are ways to strengthen this gating system, which we will explore later. #RandolphHarris 6 of 8
People with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) have their floodgates wide open. Lacking a filter, they are on constant sensory overload. In order to cope, they try to shut themselves down and develop tunnel vision and hyperfoucs. If they cannot shut down naturally, they may enlist drugs or alcohol to block out the World. The tragedy is that the price of closing down includes filtering out sources of pleasure and joy, as well. Some gain love for their words and some for their deeds. You gain it for all your love as a great role model for me. #RandolphHarris 7 of 8
You made my enemies turn their backs in flight, and I destroyed my foes. They cried for help, but there was no one to save them—to the LORD, but he did not answer. I beat them as fine as dust borne on the wind; I poured them out like mud in the streets. You have delivered me from the attacks of the people; you have made me the head of nations; people I did not know are subject to me. As soon as they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cringe before me. They all lose heart; they come trembling from their strongholds. The Heaven declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. #RandolphHarris 8 of 8
Creation of the Neon Demon
Goodness affords the only comfort which can be enjoyed without a partner. For now, I want to emphasize that emotion is not opposed to reason; our emotions assign value to experiences and thus are the foundation of reason. Our self-experience is the product of the balance between our rational and our emotional brains. When these two systems are in balance, we feel like ourselves. However, when our survival is at stake, these systems can function relatively independently. #RandolphHarris 1 of 9
If, say, you are driving along, chatting with a friend, and a truck suddenly looms in the corner of your eye, you instantly stop talking, slam on the brakes, and turn your steering wheel to get out of harm’s way. If your instinctive actions have saved you from a collision, you may resume where you left off. Whether you are able to do so depends largely on how quickly your visceral reactions subside to the threat. #RandolphHarris 2 of 9
The relationship between the rational brain and the emotional brain have been compared to a competent riders and his unruly horse. As long as the weather is calm and the path is smooth, the rider can feel in excellent control. However, unexpected sounds or threats from other animals can make the horse bolt, forcing the rider to hold on for dear life. Likewise, when people feel that their survival is at stake or they are seized by rages, longings, fear, or sexual desires, they stop listening to the voice of reason, and it makes little sense to argue with them. Whenever the limbic system decides that something is a question of life or death, the pathways between the frontal lobes and the limbic system become extremely tenuous. #RandolphHarris 3 of 9
Psychologist usually try to help people use insight and understanding to manage their behavior. However, neuroscience research shows that very few psychological problems are the result of defects in understanding; most originate in pressures from deeper regions in the brain that drive our perception and attention. When the alarm bell of the emotional brain keeps signaling that you are in danger, no amount of insight will silence it. Anger-management program participants may extol the virtue of the techniques one’s learned by saying, they are great and work terrific—as long as you are not really angry. #RandolphHarris 4 of 9
When our emotional and rational brains are in conflict (as when we are enraged with someone we love, frightened by someone we depend on, or lust after someone who is off limits), a tug-of-war ensues. This was is largely played out in the theater of visceral experience—your guy, your heart, your lungs—and will lead to both physical discomfort and psychological misery. So when the emotional brain and the rational brain are out of balance, people often experience Depersonalization-derealization disorder. People who suffer from this disorder do not feel like they are in control of their thoughts, mind, nor body. #RandolphHarris 5 of 9
Depersonalization-derealization disorder makes people feel like they are possessed, but unlike traditional possession, these people are aware that they are not themselves nor in control of themselves, so to speak. They feel like they cannot even control their own speech and experience emotional or physical numbness of their senses and response to the World. They may feel like their memories are not theirs and they cannot connect with them emotionally. People suffering from derealization may feel like they are in a movie and they are alienated from and unfamiliar with their surroundings. #RandolphHarris 6 of 9
People who experience head trauma, have served in a war, travel overseas a lot, of have had a near death experience often suffer from derealization disorder. They feel disconnected from the people they care about, like they know them, but no longer know who they are. Their surroundings feel distorted, blurry, colorless, or artificial. These individuals have a heightened sense of awareness and clarity of their surroundings, conversely. Many will feel shifts in perception of time, such as recent events feeling like the distant past. #RandolphHarris 7 of 9
Sometimes when you experience traumatic events and you slowly move beyond them and recover, but then people reenact the painful events or bring them up, and can disrupt your psychological equilibrium and mentally take you back in time to when these feelings and emotions were fresh. You may have been separated from a loved one in the past and gone months without seeing them, but then are reunited. However, this healing may be disrupted when people purposely brings the old memories back up and although the initial trauma happened years ago, and you just saw this person a few days ago, you feel like it has been months, or years and return to that state of shock. #RandolphHarris 8 of 9
Depersonalization-derealization disorder produces a feeling of being separate from self and this feeds a sense of suffering. This type of conflict and suffering is a lot like what babies experience when being born into a new World and that is why they are so sensitive and require so much love and attention to feel safe. What is being generated here are messengers, which signal that misperceptions, introjection, and projections are taking place. However, conflict and suffering are not something to get rid of. Instead, we have to overcome our fears and expose and deconstruct these things that make us feel separated, find peace within ourselves, and the suffering will disappear. This is why some feel comfortable in nature, and exactly why your critics stalk you, so that you cannot come back into equilibrium. #RandolphHarris 9 of 9
Make Sure those Babies have something to Drink this Summer!
Babies are such a joy and a blessing. They are just so cute and delicate and charming. Listening to them laugh, sing, talk, and watching them learn to walk is a joy every parent should experience. As you spend more time in the adult World, one learns to appreciate babies more because they are so innocent, pure, and do not want anything, but your love, attention, protection, food and water. Water is especially important to remember as temperature increase. Many people are aware to remove babies from the back seat of the car, but perhaps some are not sure or even forget to hydrate the cute little darlings when you are pushing them in their stroller or taking them for a walk. #RandolphHarris 1 of 2
Children do not always know when they are thirsty because they are so young and more prone to dehydration than adults. Furthermore, newborn babies cannot regulate their body temperature, so they get overheated easily. Babies under six months usually get all the hydration they require from formula, so check with your pediatrician about giving them water. It is recommended that if they are thirsty to give them formula. As for kids over six months, make sure they have access to water and encourage them to take a water break after an hour of playing outside. Likewise, make sure to check on your child in the stroller to see if he or she requires hydration. #RandolphHarris 2 of 2
It is Noble to See a Man’s Hands Subdued to What He Works in
A vast deal of coolness, and a peculiar degree of judgment, are requisite in catching a hat. For me, it seems like something is missing in my life and sometimes it is hard to enjoy the moment because there are things I want to do and people I want to spend time with and I get anxious and start missing them or desiring their company or wanting to go places to have fun. There is just something so exciting about the nightclub, the light, music blaring through the speakers, and all the people having a good time. However, in order to awaken the unconditioned mind, we are required to live in a state of ongoing completion. We are required to be complete with the past and fearless about the future. When we are complete we do not need to think about what we have done, or what we will be doing. This allows us to fully encounter the next moment.
There are two ways in which we create incompletions. Either we do not do what is required to be done, or we do what does not need to be done. Often we find out why some precious seconds, minutes, hours, or days afterwards, when we sense that we have been careless or unconscious with our words or deeds. When our actions come from the conditioned mind they are not optimally responsive to the requirements of them moment. We are unable to read and respond to the uniqueness of each situation because we were operating from a model of what has worked in the past. However, it is also possible to tune into the present moment with a subtlety and depth that lets us sense the potential of our speech and behavior to condition the future. In fact, this sensitivity and care arises naturally when we connect with the unconditioned mind.
When we grow as a person, traditions and nature of the spiritual path change from one of avoiding suffering and pursuing pleasure to one of expanding our capacity to be present to everything that human life can produce—open to the full force and richness of our conditioned existence. We develop a capacity to receive all experiences without fear or addiction. Suffering is not necessarily something wrong—as something that should not happen to us. Problems are natural. We all suffer, and will learn to handle problems better as we walk down our journey in life. We stop making a problem out of having problems! We accept the basic structure and patterns of our experience—our life circumstances, not in a defeatist way, but with dignity and grace. We welcome what is as a gateway to the unconditioned mind.
When we try to escape the burden of boring and limiting thoughts, it is difficult to be effortlessly present. Initial access to the unconditioned mind can be greatly enhanced by slowing our thinking down so that we feel peaceful and serene. If a person’s thoughts are racy or disturbed, a crucial step is to help them slow down and discover a place where they are more composed and less urgent. We do not need to eliminate thoughts completely. We are just required to arrive at the point where thoughts can float through awareness without producing disturbance. This is called serenity. A heart at ease flies into no extremes-it is ever on its center. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent pleasure.
The most direct and effective way to slow down our thinking is to give ourselves nothing to think about. This is logical. If we have nothing to think about we have fewer thoughts. And thinking about nothing also reveals the unconditioned mind. The two practices support each other. Thoughts are thinned out by not feeding the interpretive process, by not digging for problems, by not offering anything to think about. Stay in intimate communication and relationship without pushing your mind to be so active. You do not have to figure everything out. Just take some time to rest and relax.
Experiences of bliss arise in the slipstream of the unconditioned mind. The supremely blissful state of natural rest—is sublime stability, spontaneously present without having to be cultivated. These experiences occur like clockwork when our thinking slows down and we move into more subtle states of consciousness. These experiences can be profoundly healing, especially for people who deprive themselves of pleasure. They are medicine for the mind and the spirit. They soothe our minds and repair the damage done to our nervous system by pain and trauma. However, like all conditioned experiences, bliss comes and goes. When you are healing, there is still further to go. There is at least this good thing of toil, that it takes the nonsense and fancy-work out of a human, and leaves nothing but what truly belongs to one.
Power without Glory the Hard Way
What interesting pictures of the robust modern humans is that of city dwellers in endless lines of cars moving towards the beaches in search of reasonably clean water, while in a modern World one would expect that we would have a mass transit system to relieve the overcrowded streets of so many vehicles, with people stuck in them, wasting precious time. Humans are social beings, and can provide for their wants much more easily by mutual help, and only by uniting their forces can they escape from the dangers that beset them. #RandolphHarris 1 of 8
Abuse of human and natural resources is a by-product of real achievement, and it is a problem that still must be solved. However, the success of campaigns against disease, maternal and infant mortality, birth defects, threats from natural phenomena, and so on, cannot be minimized. We want no debate with those who insist that man would be better off returning to nature and retreating from the paths of technology. They may be right. Yet, we do feel that the comprehensive picture of the human condition has improved compared to what it was like for the majority six thousand years ago. #RandolphHarris 2 of 8
It is also due to the complexity of man’s nature that the species has been able to develop interpersonal relations. Our relations with other humans are often cruel. Nonetheless, man is capable of greater affection, devotion, love, sacrifice than any other species, at least as far as we can tell. In spite of skyrocketing divorce statistics, the majority of human beings seem to have developed some ability to work on and improve their abilities to love and live together. Man knows more today about communicating and loving than ever before. Still, the fact is that there remain gigantic problems in the World that, but that does not mean that we are not closer to realistic answers. #RandolphHarris 3 of 8
The usual assumption we make is that to achieve career success requires a great deal of continuous investment of thought and energy. Just as every part of your body is interrelated with every other part, so each of us is interrelated and integrated into the larger human system, the society which we are part of. And, by extensions, each society is directly related to every other one, as nation is to nation, continent to continent. The entire planet can be seen officially as a gigantic network or web of interwoven parts. One things you can learn when you study your first spider web is that a slight pressure on any single strand of that web is felt everywhere on it. #RandolphHarris 4 of 8
That is how the spider uses its web: when a bit of food lands there and becomes stuck in the sticky coatings, vibrations travel all along the network, and wherever the spider is sitting in watchful waiting, it picks up these vibrations and gets the message. So it is in the network of the human experiences: pressure on any part of it affect the rest of the web. An Earthquake in San Francisco affects individuals the World over, as does the political-religious conflict going on in Sacramento, the Martian explorations of any nation, the race conflicts in the media are felt all over the World. #RandolphHarris 5 of 8
The network that ties each particle of humankind to every other particle. There are virtually no dark or hidden groups of life on the globe. For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. Therefore, consider carefully how you listen. So listen to the word of God, and more understanding will be given to you. However, for those who are not listening, even what they think they understand will be taken away from them. When stone age tribes are discovered in the Germany, it is only a matter of time until the entire World knows about them, and the information gleaned from studying their lives provides insight to every culture and nation in the World. #RandolphHarris 6 of 8
This sort of interrelatedness has its disadvantages. Communications media have literally shrunk the distances between individuals and peoples. A decreasing amount of privacy is available to each of us. Is this lack of privacy important? We think so. People derive enormous pleasure from involvement with each other, but each of us also requires time apart, time alone. Our own personal lives are in need of development just as much as our social lives. If privacy is eliminated, what happens to the interior World of each of us? What happens to our peace of mind? These must not be lost in the patterns of growth and ever-increasing interinvolvement. #RRandolphHarris 7 of 8
To me, one of the most baffling aspects of the behavior of men and women in highly-responsible positions in some segments of our society, is their comparative lack of concern for—perhaps it is lack of awareness of—the factor of communication, as such, in the problems and situations in which they have to deal. It is communication that makes human society possible. Children use work to express how they feel, but many adults use words to hide how they feel. I feel completely integrated. My interest in literature arose from my experiences in life and from my political experience and beliefs. I can say that the theory of love and conflict within people and between people made this all possible. #RandolphHarris 8 of 8
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