If you want to see the world, open your eyes. If you want to visualize the world, close your eyes. If you want to change the world, look no further than inside yourself.
~C.L. Harmon
1 CommentThe works of Author C.L. Harmon
The works of Author C.L. Harmon
If you want to see the world, open your eyes. If you want to visualize the world, close your eyes. If you want to change the world, look no further than inside yourself.
~C.L. Harmon
1 CommentPerspective is a main building blocks of life. It’s the only way to create a world where everyone can find their own niche.
~C.L. Harmon
Leave a CommentVulnerability is like being stranded in shark-infested waters. And though there are boats nearby, you fear that all the sharks want only to attack you and none of the boats see you. In reality, it’s likely the opposite. If you give into fear though, the sharks already have you. But if you hang on to hope, all you see are the boats.
~C.L. Harmon
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We are surrounded by mystery and awe. It is in all creation. But for all of creation’s magnificence, it does not beg us for attention. It does not need us, and it knows it. There is so much beauty and brilliance to be seized upon by our senses and yet we miss so much. Though science reveals many of the mysteries, it only provides us with even more puzzles we never even thought existed and awes us at what we do discover.
From the simplest to the most complex creations, there are enigmas which are truly remarkable. But when we fail to acknowledge them, we deny ourselves everything that makes them so incredible. What we fail to experience never becomes a part of us. We do not see a Creator if we do not see the details in creation. They simply become phenomena with no reason and little meaning.
Creation is meant to enlighten us on a different level than education and talent. It is a direct connection to our very being which gives us an understanding we otherwise would not acquire. Knowledge is learned but enlightenment is a metamorphosis of the senses into consciousness. If we just take moments to experience what is around us, we will awaken to not just one world, but to countless ones that invite us into an existence beyond our imagination.
Leave a CommentWhen you find mystery, follow it. When you capture desire, live it. When you discover passion, chase it. When you taste the sweet, savor it. But when you find your true self, give yourself away so that others can experience all the above.
~C.L. Harmon
Leave a CommentWe rise with the sun, fall with the rain, move with the wind and seek in the fog. We are the seasons of loneliness and happiness together and alone. And with all that we are and do, we may still fall out of rhythm, but not so far that the seasons cannot bring us back into harmony with our nature.
~C.L. Harmon
Leave a CommentWe see beauty in art and sunsets because they touch us emotionally where we rarely dwell. They stir something inside us that we experience all too infrequently. Each time we open up to others, we build a bridge from that hidden away area to them. And yes, some will burn that bridge, but know that having built that bridge, changes you into that same beauty which stirs something into others.
~C.L. Harmon
Leave a CommentBeing delivered from most situations is often painful because it is a form of salvation which always comes at a cost to someone. Sometimes it will be a price you suffer and other times a payment from those whom you are delivered. But if that delivery brings peace to that situation, then its value will always outweigh the cost.
~C.L. Harmon
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In 1796 at the end of his second term, first President of the United States, George Washington had two major concerns. The first was that if he were to seek a third term and then died in office, it would be construed that the presidency was a lifetime position. The second was that the two political parties which had emerged during his presidency and to his dismay, Republicans and Democrats, would tear the nation apart through division of the people.
In fact, he declared that, “The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.” He feared that political parties growing in power would interfere with the electoral process. As a patriot and former subject to the British Monarchy, he opted to not set the example that a leader should be in office for life. It also turns out his concerns on the people becoming divided over political parties was valid based on what we see in America today.
What is most interesting about his concerns is that he was a man who had lived under British rule and had fought for this country’s independence. Obviously, both of those experiences were still in his mind. What else is interesting is that no one, not anyone in Congress or in this country, has had those experiences. No one alive today can claim they have had to fight for America’s independence. Many have fought for others’ and to maintain our freedom, but not independence for themselves.
When those who govern are sworn into office, they are promising to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. This is done, in part, so they will be tied to the sacrifices of those who made this country a reality…men like Washington. It is their responsibility to remember for the rest of us what price was paid to deliver us from tyranny and oppression. It is their sworn duty to honor the choices of those early leaders and patriots who placed fairness, justice and the individual rights of the people above all else…especially their own desire for power and personal gain.
These who govern now are so removed from the origins of this country that they have all forgotten what their oath truly means. And it has come at a terrible price to the American way of life. If Washington were here today, I believe he would tell us that as those we elect have forgotten the spilt blood that was sacrificed for all generations of Americans and that they have lost all respect for the Constitution and its meaning. He would go on to say we the people have forgotten that we are to be self-governed and not conquered and divided by the few who believe in tyranny and oppression. The simple truth is, if we do not remember to govern ourselves through our actions of unity and the principles on which this country was founded, we have already lost our independence and once again become the subjects under the rule of a few.
Leave a CommentWhen you are a vessel of kindness to others, you are in harmony with all things which move in creation. When we become bitter and remain resentful, we cease to move in any direction. Nature no longer recognizes us as it is blind to what is still. Nature only knows to move and seek out motion and what it fails to see it leaves behind.
~C.L. Harmon