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C.L. Harmon

This is a column from 2009. Please leave your thoughts about in the comments section and share if you like it. I thought I would share it again.

During the Holocaust, a brave group of people who had lost everything except their own lives, took a stand to risk their only tie left to this world—their very existence.

On October 7, 1944, several hundred Jewish prisoners at the death camp Auschwitz (at Birkenau,) were being forced to carry corpses from the gas chambers to the furnace to dispose of the bodies. In those horrible moments, they chose to show the scope of humanity’s spirit in one of the world’s darkest hours.

The band of broken, weak souls blew up one of the gas chambers and set fire to another, using explosives smuggled to them from Jewish women who worked in a nearby armaments factory.

Out of the 450 prisoners involved in the sabotage, 250 managed to escape the camp. They would all eventually be found and executed as well as those co-conspirators who never made it out of the camp and the five women from the armaments factory.

Their actions however, are a lesson in the sense that we should never stop fighting for what is right and good even when it seems hopeless. When we choose to give up, then those who oppress and harm us find our acceptance in their deeds, but when we fight, they are to forced to ask why and within that answer lies the self judgement of their very actions.

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When we understand that everything in the universe was created perfectly and that we have the power to throw it into chaos, then we truly realize just how much responsibility is entrusted to us.

~C.L. Harmon

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Confidence is often dependent on surroundings and comfort and may convey the illusion of morality and integrity. But a true moral code needs nothing more than intent to stand alone. Honor needs no illusion to convey confidence.

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When you allow the devil to take your belief that you can change something, then you have lost your ability to change anything.
-C.L. Harmon

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When we fail ourselves, we lose only what we would have gained. But when we fail others, they lose more than we can ever know. We will undoubtedly fail in this life.  Our imperfect nature guarantees us this fact. But that imperfection does not apply when it comes to failing others. We instinctively know what others are capable of even when they themselves are unsure. This is because we see in others what we lack, we recognize it due to its absence in ourselves.

This is not by accident in our intricate creation. We are designed to recognize what we lack and are magically drawn to it. Nature, even through absence, proves that we are reliant on one another…connected through our needs. And because of this dynamic we each have a responsibility to not fail each other. All humans are created equal but not equally created. In other words, we all have been given the same attention with our creation but not all the same gifts and talents.

We rely and trust in others because of what we lack. This is the responsibility we all shoulder in this life. When others put their faith in us, it is because they need what they know we can provide. Because of this faith in us, we are empowered and will only fail if we give up by refusing to accept what others see in us. The very fact they know we are capable is proof that we are exactly that…capable. Through our design, we are programmed to serve others with the strengths they see in us. And with the execution of these strengths, we learn that not only can we refuse to not fail others, but are less likely to fail ourselves.

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A man has two thoughts on a precipice: fear and hope. One of which can make him turn back, the other move forward. Solid ground is our facade. The edge, however, is where we discover our inner identity and true self.
~C.L. Harmon

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By C.L. Harmon

1. Always take the steps, because the people who have to take the ramp, wish they didn’t have to.

2. Commas never killed anyone. When in doubt, use one.

3. Never be cruel to an animal. There just might be an angel in there reporting back to God.

4. No matter how bad someone may be, if that person is willing to pick up a broom and sweep without being told to, then redemption is a possibility for them.

5. Legality is a concept of man, morality is one of God. They are not always the same, so choose your master wisely.

6. Always open a window when you can. Nature speaks and spoke to all the worlds’s inhabitants until man created doors and windows to keep it out.

7. Never minimize someone else’s experiences. Their world may not be the same size as yours and so their problems and triumphs are not an equal comparison to yours.

8. Kindness to others is a signed blank check that awaits you in the future.

9. Dreams either drive you, die because of you or thrive as you choose to live them.

10. Always believe in something greater than yourself. Beyond you is where the rest of everything else lies.

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Learn About Another Culture

It sounds like something most would care nothing about. The truth is however, learning about another culture and people is one of the greatest teachers in life. Even if we had the means, most of us will never get to travel the world. But many of us do get the opportunity to vacation and learn a little outside of our daily bubble. For most everyone else, there is the internet and its vast knowledge at our disposal. Without a doubt, we carry something away from each experience that brings us in touch with those from other cultures. These opportunities affect us in a way that would not have been possible had we not experienced something different.

Learning about others and how they live is pure enlightenment. It allows us the opportunity to understand better the choices others make because we can see what challenges they face. We also experience how they overcome those challenges as well as learn how they define happiness in-spite of their hardships. Learning about other cultures is truly a window into another world. It is extremely difficult to feel prejudice and hatred when confronted with knowledge that contradicts what we think we know. Two things will happen when you take the time to learn about another culture; the first is that you will realize that you are more like others than you ever thought. The second is, others will learn they are more like you than they ever thought.

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Life is an experience in value where the income is often less than the outcome but the value always out weighs the cost.

~C.L. Harmon

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Engulf Yourself In A Thunderstorm

There is immense and awesome power in a thunderstorm with lightning that cracks the sky and the thunder roaring in ferocity. It is an opportunity to bow before nature and be humbled by its force. Knowing that it can become a force of destruction instantaneously awakes our senses and reminds us of the voloatility all around us.

But more than this, is the experience of watching a storm brew, build, execute its will and then fade into nothingness. In each of these phases we feel something different. Feeling the wind pick up and the temperature drastically change, witnessing the sky darken and the clouds moving as though being pushed by invisible forces fills one with a childlike curiosity as to what is coming. And when the storm reaches its potential and releases its force, a sense of terror grips. In that moment, we are powerfully reminded that occasionally in life we are at the mercy of what we cannot control and defiance of this changes nothing. But, regardless of the outcome of the storm, we are reminded that everything changes and passes and that peace always returns in nature and with humanity.

Pull up a porch swing and let Mother Nature entertain you!

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