The works of Author C.L. Harmon
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People will remember you not as you see yourself, but as a collection of your qualities and deeds which they found either endearing or abhorrent.
~C.L. Harmon
Leave a CommentIf you look at the world and see no beauty, then your heart is blind. If the world sees your heart and finds no beauty, then the world is blind to the nature of the heart.
~C.L. Harmon
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The concept of “Divide & Conquer is attributed to Roman dictator Julius Cesar who used it to great effect during his conquest of Gaul. Simply stated, this method is used to turn one people against themselves so they cannot assemble to fend off those wishing to conquer them. Does this not seem to be the situation in America today? Are we not inundated daily with issues and lies that keep us from uniting and living as one? The only reasonable conclusion as to the division currently in this country is that someone wants to conquer a way of life so it can be changed. Adolph Hitler probably said it best about using deception to achieve division between peoples, “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”.
Regardless of one’s beliefs, the division in this country cannot be denied. What else cannot be denied is that this country was set up to not be ruled and to not be conquered from within. Safeguards were intentionally placed by the Founding Fathers to ensure that the citizens would rule themselves. What has instead happened is that we have allowed ourselves to be ruled by political parties that no longer answer to the people but instead dictate the policies in which the people must live by. The only reason it matters that one is a Republican or democrat or conservative or liberal is that it matters to those who wish to rule. It matters that those seeking to conquer and rule keep the people squabbling so they do not realize they are being sold into bondage.
We have systematically allowed our rights to be taken away because we are told we should be frightened. We have been told that less freedom equates to more security which is the opposite of what the Founding Fathers believed. The way to rule a people is to take away their rights, their ability to fight and to fight with unity. As Abraham Lincoln said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand”. If there has ever been a time to learn from the past, that time is now.
It’s not a party you belong to that should separate you from your neighbor, but you love for freedom, justice, equality and the right to self-govern that should unite you. This nation has always been a diverse union of people with differing opinions that have been able to come together and compromise for the good of the country since its inception. The question we should be asking ourselves now, is why aren’t unity and compromise being encouraged. Seek out who benefits from this division and you will learn the identity of America’s Julius Cesar.
Leave a CommentValue is what we place on ideals and objects that have significance. Ironically, value is also what is lost when we place it on ideals and objects that are insignificant.
~C.L. Harmon
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What Makes Us?
What makes us? Is it our chemical makeup, our cells and molecular processes that give us identity? What about our choices and experiences? Are we a product of them or are they our identity? Our likes and dislikes, where do they originate and are they choices or something ingrained in us that we have little or no control over? Are we a perfect design completely programmed from the factory or a self-driven result created from a blank slate to fill with failures and triumphs?
Maybe it’s as simple as we are a part of everything and all things. Perhaps we are a reasonable creation whose creation is beyond our own reasoning. We are, it seems, a mystery unto ourselves. And yet ignorant, we understand so profoundly our needs and feel so strongly our desires that it makes us question even more what we are. How can we be so absolutely sure of ourselves and utterly lost for direction in the same mind, heart and soul?
Perhaps it is because we are born lost but not without direction. There is no reward in directing one who is not lost, but praise for the one who sets us on the path to be found. We are created of everything so we can be led and counseled from everything. Nothing was left to chance that we would not have the opportunity to receive direction. It is not that some are always right and others wrong, but that each of us receive direction, according to the universe we relate to. When we understand that we are not enemies with purpose but simply travelers in search of a destination, we invite the smaller pieces of everything to become a larger piece of everything else.
Leave a CommentReason brings compromise, fairness and justice. Violence is brought about because those who live by reason no longer wish to live without it.
~C.L. Harmon
Leave a CommentWhile multitudes ask for wealth and many ask for strength, some will ask for knowledge and even a few may ask for wisdom. But I shall ask for faith, for it is the only request that shows I believe only God knows what I truly need to be fulfilled.
~C.L. Harmon
Chaos is the offspring of corruption!
C.L. Harmon
I don’t believe God tests our faith so much as I believe He places us in situations where we must rely on it.
~C.L. Harmon
