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Mindset: Exit The Madness

Mindset: Exit The Madness

The heart does not lie, judge or justify action. It only asks for that which it desires and then leads us to those yearnings without fear and apprehension while offering us no control over where it chooses to lead. It is our minds which must follow our hearts and our will which must make them do so. Reason can destroy our dreams and squash our desires if we follow the mind, which is capable of judgment and justification.

The world in which we inhabit is often corrupt and embroiled in confusion. We think about methods to survive the madness allowing our thought processes to guide us through the chaos. We believe reason can free us from what we can’t control.
But in doing so we allow the part of us, which is capable of judgment, justification and even deceit to make some of the most important decisions in our lives.

Do we truly want to make those decisions without the benefit of complete truth?
When we follow our hearts, we are led to places that fulfill us and we are never led astray. In fact, we are actually led out of the madness which consumes our thoughts and into the safety of true understanding and reasoning.

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Cracks In The Distance

Cracks In The Distance

Distance is of varied sources and it is what separates one from another. However, it is usually words, not miles that brings about the greatest distances. One word, one sentence or one misunderstanding is all it takes to make us step back, separating people and making them enemies. When we truly think about this, we must recognize just how close we are to creating a lasting negativity at any given time.

We all say and do things without realizing the ripple effect of those actions. They seem harmless enough at the time and so their result seems inconsequential. But this is only to the person responsible for those words or actions.
To the other person, they become a small crack in which understanding, forgiveness, and compassion slowly seep out altering our perceptions of that person and theirs of us, creating space between us. Initially, we are completely unaware of these changes and yet they still grip a part of us.

When we eventually realize that we have been affected, then we must use a kind word or action to help others understand what they’ve done and then forgive them. Otherwise, we allow that crack to widen to a point that it drains us and them completely separating us to a point that we can no longer see the other at all.

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Lost Meaning to the World

Mindset

When we think of our lives, our place in humanity and our world, we tend to think of it on a broad scale that encompasses all that we do and experience as an ordinary ritual of sorts. But what if that world we focus so heavily on each day causes us to lose sight of so much more.

Consider that all life, each individual entity, is a world all its own, made up of countless functions and processes in constant motion. We must realize that life is happening in each ability, every talent, each characteristic—every second. Examine them as though they are the only thing in your world. See them as a sole entity, full of energy and vitality and become enlightened as to the extraordinary genius of your creation.

Within each thought that becomes an idea, every ability that becomes a creation and each characteristic that brings interaction with others, there is an opportunity to discover that perhaps the meaning of life is simply that life has meaning. The hours we are given to live are our opportunity to find that meaning in each and every aspect of our lives.

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Mindset: The Will To Have Freewill

Mindset: The Will To Have Freewill

By C.L. Harmon
The concept of free will is simple in its definition, but baffling to
many of us since the choices we make do not always lead us to the
outcomes for which we hoped and believed. How is it that some make
choices to pursue specific goals and make similar choices as others to
attain those goals, but do not the achieve the goals while others do.
I believe this is because of the choices we make with the actual
freewill we are given. One of the greatest gifts we can give our
Creator, who gave us free will, is to trust him so much that we give
it back to Him. This action tells Him that we believe so much that His
choices for us will be greater than any we could have chosen for
ourselves.
However, as a result of this, we are led on a journey that is often
blind and appears to make no sense. Others who choose to keep their
freewill and guide themselves often do reach their goals, but will not
attain the greater gifts and understanding in this life He had set
aside for them.
It is our choice to trust in our Creator or to trust in ourselves.
This is true free will. However, we cannot serve ourselves and the
Creator too. Perhaps the greatest gift He gave us was the opportunity
to give our destinies back to him, instead of leaving us to battle the
world without His guidance.

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Mindset: The World In Which We Live

Mindset: The World In Which We Live

By C.L. Harmon
We live in a world that contains many other worlds within it.
Understanding that we all live in these different worlds is key to
finding peace and making sense of our realities.

We live in the world that our parents built for them and us as
children. We live in the world we build for ourselves as adults and we
live in the world that we and our children create for themselves.
Think for a moment of the complexities of living in so many
worlds at the same time and how our transition into these worlds each
day affect our lives.
If we spend time with our parents, then we must grasp the concept that
part of their lives has been spent in a time in which we did not exist
and in a world that is still only real to them. We will never fully
understand that part of their lives and the impact it had on who they
became as individuals.
When we spend time with our children, we must also grasp that they are
developing in a time that is very different from the one we
experienced at their age of development. As times change, so do the
circumstances of people.
So it is not the belief that one is right and the other wrong that
should dictate how we live, but the choice to understand that concepts
are born out of circumstance and rhythm and harmony between different
worlds are obtained only through choosing to understand. And that
the choice is always ours, regardless of what world we are living in at
the moment

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Mindset

Mindset

By C.L. Harmon

Is it not reasonable to assume that each and every aspect of our lives is different and unique from another’s? Consider the incredible fact that each human being is created differently. We are created in the same way, but are never the same and never duplicated.

Although our hearts beat in the same way, pump blood in the same manner and break down over time in the same fashion, they are all different in the aspects of how we suffer loss and heartbreak. The pain we experience may differ, but how we choose to cope with it may be completely different than even our closest companions.

Our responses to experiences in life are not mathematical formulas hard wired within us. They are individual reactions of the same unique design that gives us our personalities, sense of humor and physical appearances. Just as we are not designed to look exactly like others, we too should not be expected to act or react as others do either.

There is a divine purpose as to why we are unique. That purpose is not to judge others based on what we believe an action or reaction should be, but to accept those differences which separate us and keep us from reaching the greater understanding that our Creation was designed without limits.

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WHAT ARE WE TRULY WORTH

 

When we become objects we no longer contain value. When persons become only ‘the
people’, liberty becomes an idea and not a practice and living becomes a curse and not a gift, then there
is no longer any value to them.Creation gives an intrinsic value to what it creates. Humanity decides
whether or not to keep and respect that inherent worth. Each person takes in air, food and water. We
bleed, love and suffer as individual creations with value that is understood through its preciousness to
each of us. When we become an object, we become something with a label or assembled together in a
category with lesser or no value.It’s easier to destroy that which is only an object or a ‘thing’. Objects do
not feel as people do or suffer as creations with value. As such, they can be tortured, annihilated and
enslaved by those blinded by their ignorance of what is true in nature.The ignorance of man is because
of man. It is each person’s responsibility to see the value of themselves and of others and to hold tight
to that understanding. It is further our obligation to keep what we hold sacred and priceless from
becoming the object of destruction by those who hold only themselves as worthy of being valuable.

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Mindset: 10-14-16

By C.L. Harmon

When we make room for others in our lives, we fill up spaces in our souls that might otherwise become cluttered with the baggage that accumulates over time. Life is in constant motion from our first breath to our last and within that time comes the sum of all our actions.

We have no control over the rate in which time passes, but we do have dominion over how that time is spent. We can spend it creating baggage that we must store in the limited spaces that are available. Or we can use that time to share with others.

Time with others is not the creation of a burdensome load that clutters the chambers in our soul, but the expansion of a life that creates more rooms to house the valuable relationships of love and friendship we acquire.

Happiness and misery are both results of time plus choices. When we choose baggage, we crowd ourselves into a small existence that revolves only around ourselves. However, when we share ourselves with others, we grow as large as we need to be to hold all the valuables our time allows us to discover.

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Mindset 7-2-15

By C.L. Harmon

What separates us? What unites us or draws us together? Differences of opinions, belief systems and even traditions distance from each other. This is a fundamental fact of humanity since the beginning. What comes of these when we focus so heavily on what divides us as opposed to what unites us?

There are wars, acts of terror, violence, political upheaval and even attempts at genocide. We are so focused on being right and having our beliefs accepted by others that we lose sight that our opinions are stealing from us what allows us to connect to each other. Love, forgiveness, compassion and generosity connect us all to each other in a way that beliefs and opinions cannot.

Different races, religions, and cultures will live in harmony by simply loving and respecting the other. Harmony and peace need no agreement of like-minded individuals to prosper. They only need acceptance and tolerance. Our world is a reflection of our choices. If this is not the world you hope for, then change it by exchanging an opinion for an act of kindness toward those who feel differently than you.

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The Lost Forgotten

Nothing has ever been destroyed by peace, lost through understanding, burdened by compassion or stolen through honesty. These are lessons that have slipped from the human conscience as we have grown older and grown apart.

We have become a people that has forgotten to raise our nations in simplicity, thus we have become a race lost unto itself.

We have forgotten to teach honesty to our children so they will be become adults with integrity. We have forgotten to teach that we all must accept responsibility for our actions and learn to apologize so we can understand that the true meaning of respect is earned not self-proclaimed.

We have forgotten to live with understanding so that new generations discover fairness and compromise and that one only works when applied to the other. We have forgotten to express compassion to friend and enemy alike and so our world has suffered the tragedies of indifference and not the benefit of charity.

We have simply forgotten to be who we should be. If we continue to allow these lessons to slip away from our lives, then eventually they will be beyond our reach. A people who can no longer learn the simple lessons of life are a people who lose themselves and ultimately become lost to history.

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