People don’t choose the hard way because there are other options. They choose it because it is the only option. Life does not always give us a choice. It gives us difficulty with faith in front of it and experience behind it. It does not need judgment from others in the middle of it. C.L. Harmon
You can view the world through the smallest of perspectives if you choose. You can ignore or include whatever you wish. The level of ignorance you possess is directly linked to the size of world you choose to learn from and experience. But know that when the world seems too large and overwhelming, it is because your only perspective to view it, is too small to see anything but the ignorance you chose to be your world. C.L. Harmon
Sometimes there’s a desire to do it our own way, forge a new path even though other paths already exist. At the time, it seems inexplicable as to why we feel the way we do when there are already other paths. But then we realize, it was never about a new path needing to exist, but about a new journey we needed to explore. C.L. Harmon
The devil’s ignorance is such that, despite his intentions, he has become a teacher to humanity. His every action is a lesson in what harms us and keeps us from peace and joy. This foolishness has become our roadmap to enlightenment. So, do not fear the darkness when it swirls about, but instead rejoice, as you note the direction it beckons and then set a course in the opposite direction. C.L. Harmon
You can be positive or negative in any situation. The thing to acknowledge is that the situation doesn’t care. It has no power to control you, only the power to exist. Now think about that the other way. You could be completely controlled by the situation without the option to be positive or negative and have no power other than to exist. Choice is power. It is the only force that offers any control in every situation.C.L. Harmon
Everything you truly desire is on the other side of struggle. Everything you need to overcome adversity is on this side of strength. Everything else between those two points is perseverance. C.L. Harmon
We tend to measure life in hours and years. This implies an urgency to accomplish and succeed before it runs out. How different a course our lives might take if we measured life in distance. This measure implies that the only limit is the one we create if we choose there are no directions to explore with accomplishments we care to seek. C.L. Harmon
Anger is one of those tools that has very few purposes. Much like an axe, it can be used in so many destructive ways that do more harm than any one tool should. But when it’s used correctly for its intended purpose, it’s exactly the right tool to accomplish the task.C.L. Harmon
Nothing we earn, achieve, or acquire will remember us after we pass. All of it will fade away or become the property of another. The memories and words we leave with others will be traces that attach to their souls and the only personal part of us we leave behind. Tomorrow only exists for those who have left a part of today with others. C.L. Harmon
Life is uncertain it seems; a wilderness full of risks to be traversed. But risks are steppingstones leading to fate once we start taking them. And fate is not idle, but patient waiting for us, keeping us company, walking with us. And though we may not know our fate, it knows us. It shows us the way through the pitfalls in the wilderness leading us to what we call risks and what it knows is fulfilment. C.L. Harmon
Sometimes you’re going to lose the rhythm. Sometimes the notes are not going to make any sense and it’s going to sound more like noise than anything melodic. There will be times when you have no partner and other times when the beat fades away. But dance anyway because to the composer of life’s music, your dance is everything. C.L. Harmon
Close your eyes and remember a time when you didn’t feel fear. Think about the freedom you felt in that moment without the grip of something dark clutching your emotions. Think back on the simplicity without stress and a relief that seemed to surround you. Ponder on the calmness of that moment. Now open your eyes and think of everything that is happening in your life. What is that you see which you given the power to ever take that peace from you? C.L. Harmon
Every emotion will either feed us or starve us. Every action will either move us forward or backward. Every betrayal will either enlighten or defeat us. Every loss will either weaken us or empower us. Every victory will either bring us humility or arrogance. And every choice within these will define the whole of us – either through character or judgement.C.L. Harmon
A kindness for an evil man is still a kindness. A merciful act for a cruel man is still an act of mercy. Forgiveness of those who do not ask for it is still forgiveness. Charity when you can afford to give is still sacrifice. Loyalty to those who have none is still integrity. Effort in pursuit of the impossible is still progress. Our actions may often seem futile and feel as though they make no difference. This is because our expectation is that our efforts will change something in the world. The world does not change because our efforts…
Beware of the actions you take to obtain your desires in life. If you change who you are to get them, you may have just changed the very desire that someone else was seeking. C.L. Harmon
I don’t think life was ever meant to be fair. There is too much at stake, too many involved. Everyone has a role and a responsibility and they are all intertwined. God, the devil, demons, angels and Jesus are at the center of our creation. It was something that began before time and something with no end. Humans are just a part of it that came in between. I believe that what happens in life is really just a small part of something so much larger than we can comprehend. And yet this small part is the nucleus and therefore…
Each despair you allow to defeat you becomes a weakness that is part of you. But, the strengths you allow to overcome any weakness becomes all of you. C.L. Harmon
It’s easy to buy a lie because the truth is a much harder sell. It’s easier to make another mistake than to make amends. It’s more fun to dance with the devil than kneel before the Lord. It’s safer to fall than rise and it’s acceptable to be accused but not vindicated. This is why we live on a bedrock of weakness. Solid ground is hard and uncompromising. This is why we choose it to build lasting structures. If your world is falling apart, perhaps it’s time to find a better place to stand. C.L. Harmon