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Traveling with the Past

Traveling with the Past

Mindset

C.L. Harmon

As we build our lives moment by moment, we are cognizant of the seconds which are eroding behind us. As such, we move forward in hopes of leaving what was to a distant void we call our past. But nothing is ever truly gone as long as we still breathe. Though the minutes of yesterday have vanished, we carry a residue with us that is alive.

Within that residue can be despair, regret, and shame. Each of these is impervious to the erosion which destroys time. They are a part of us, but a part we can control and conquer. As such, we are not prisoners of our past but stewards of what we become in the future. We can choose to be victims of yesterday or conquerors of tomorrow.

As our yesterdays crumble away into the abyss, we have the power to send our past mistakes into an internal prison liberating us from what was. It is imperative we retain what we consider negative in order to gain enlightenment, but equally necessary to realize that these are only ghosts which possess no power if we keep them under our control. Each moment born belongs to us, but each one past should be imprisoned away from tomorrow and free of us as we step into the future.

 

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New Book Due Out

Hey Everyone,

I realize I haven’t posted in a while, but life has been very busy for me these past months. I would, however, like to announce that I have a new book coming out very, very soon. The book will be available on Amazon and I will post more details after it is released. Unlike my first book “In the Midst of Reality”, which is a compilation of writings like I usually post here, this one is more of a journey into life. I am excited for this work to be available to those who read my work because it will allow you to get a glimpse into how Mindsets originated and evolved. Thank you to all you who read my musings! More Mindsets and book details will be coming soon.

CL

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Where Have I Been?

I haven’t posted much lately. I have been in a place where my life passion to create art with words has become lost on a dark road. I have felt this absence like the death of a friend whom I miss terribly. For whatever reason, tonight was the first inspiration I have felt in some time. I don’t always know what messages these inspirations are supposed to mean or to whom they are intended. But this one, I think was given to me for me. I hope others get as much out of this as I have.

Thanks for reading!

To be lost on a dark road is not to be forsaken, but to be found in the hollow path of someone who has traveled before you to the light of a new direction. As much as we may feel alone or lost in our hearts or minds in this life, we have never been completely abandoned for our roads are shared, sometimes by many and other times by only a few. Existence is a network of connecting roads and pathways that bridge time and consciousness from minutes to millennia, from souls to spirits. Whatever it is that burdens you today is simply a stone awaiting you to throw into the future for someone else to pick up and carry into their tomorrow. See, it is not your troubles which you give them with that stone, but your promise that we can all free ourselves of our burdens once we decide we have carried them long enough. This is the gift you leave for those who will one day find themselves on their own road wrapped in darkness. You may not be their direction on that road, but you will be their inspiration, their hope, their reason to one day throw that stone into someone else’s future. Always remember that you matter more than you can ever comprehend because your travels lead you through the darkness to become someone else’s light. And it is those same travels which shine onto another’s darkness becoming their light. We are all someone else’s rock and that matters to those who need you to throw them something they can hold onto and carry until they find their way to the morning light.

~C.L. Harmon

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Mindset: Happiness Is A State Of Acceptance

Mindset: Happiness Is A State Of Acceptance

It’s often said that we are responsible for our own happiness and that we simply choose our internal strength and will of mind to help us find comfort and joy. I don’t believe this to be completely accurate.
Although I do believe that we are responsible for our own happiness to a degree and that choice is a contributing factor in our happiness, I also believe that others play a key role in how we feel as well.
Human beings were not created to be alone or to exist in solitude. We are created to learn, live and love with others. Though it is true that we experience love from our Creator, it is only through others that we can experience intimate love with another, trusting love with a friend or the pure love that is raising a child.
Each one of these types of loves brings happiness and a sense of joy that is unmatched anywhere else in creation. The absence of them will most certainly cause us to feel sadness, depression, and pain. We can only learn to accept this absence with grace and a belief that there is a purpose in that absence. But true happiness only comes through our connections to each other, our will to seek happiness and the choice to make them one.

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CL’s Sayings
CL’s Sayings

CL’s Sayings

Equality is not a question of race or religion, but a choice to treat others as we wish to be treated. Division between ourselves is not caused by natural barriers but by man’s flawed perceptions that inequality is natural.

~C.L. Harmon

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CL’s Sayings

CL’s Sayings

Vision is not about what you see but about what you will see. Faith is not about what you believe but what you know.  Morality is not an ideal but a life-long pursuit practiced every day.

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10 Rules I Live By

10 Rules I Live By

  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’ 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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IRREPLACEABLE – Mindset

Most of us never give a thought to the incredible intricacy of the environment which surrounds us. We squash bugs, cut down trees and countless other actions which destroy or disrupt the awesome phenomenon all around us.

We perform these actions as though we have the power to undo what we’ve done if we choose. The truth is…we can’t. We don’t have the power to bring back what we destroy. What we take from nature, ourselves and others are gone forever from this plane of existence.

The only real power any of us have is the ability to create and only then with the help of the Supreme Creator who made us. When we cultivate a relationship, build a dream, plant a tree or even step to the side in an effort to avoid stepping on a bug then we have become aware of the true significance.

The value of life, whether it be a relationship which is born into life when two come together or the smallest creature in the forest muddling through the dirt, is only valuable because it is irreplaceable and the lack of power to replace it is the only power we have to learn how valuable we are to each other and our environment is to us.

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Are You An Enemy To Authority

The right to speak, to be informed, to be heard and to understand are not free, nor are
they easily attainable or kept. They represent the very essence of self and the expression associated
with identity. A sense of self and one’s belief to expression is an enemy to authority.Control and
freedom can only co-exist within a society when both are respective of the role the other plays and its
importance in maintaining the balance that is necessary for harmony. Although there can be harmony,
one must always be dominant. We can choose to be free with limits of control or we can choose to be
controlled with limited freedom. We cannot have both.People of every nation must choose for
themselves which it is they wish to be. They must not ask their governments or other nations to choose
for them because it is individuals who desire freedoms and liberties, not governments. Authority by
definition is control and it is rarely in the nature of authority to grant the freedom that limits or
abolishes that control.In order to be free, we must act as free. Control desires nothing more than a
willingness not to act by people for it to rule.

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