You Cannot Compare the Incomparable: 04-24-2024

1. The changing cannot understand the changeless.
2. Eternal truths cannot fit inside human words because human words are not eternal.
3. God is unfailing but all human systems fail; therefore, it is impossible for human systems even to approach God.
4. Idols are material things, and spiritual ideals are not things; therefore, idols can only represent material beauty, not spiritual beauty.
5. No human thought can touch or point to divinity, eternity, or spirit because human thoughts can only point to other human thoughts or material things.

Opinions Are Only One Tool: 04-23-2024

1. If you understand the purpose of opinions as providing information for immediate decisions and choices, then you understand that opinions are only useful in certain contexts and situations.
2. Opinions should be avoided when discovering, examining, exploring, inquiring, investigating, questioning, learning, problem-solving, researching, searching, seeking understanding, and any process that requires an open mind to function properly.
3. Opinions, being fixed in nature, require constant correcting and updating of the information they are based on. This means that when new information becomes available, it should be used to revise those opinions, ensuring they remain practical and useful.
4. Opinions are not the same as facts. Opinions are shortcuts for quick responses and should not be regarded as the thinking processes they are based on or the events or subjects they are about. Facts, on the other hand, are objective and verifiable pieces of information.
5. Opinions get a bad name because people hide behind them rather than do the necessary work to uncover enough facts and information to form reasonable understandings of events that are open to correction and updating over time. It is better to say, “I don’t know,” than to use someone else’s opinion as if you formed it.

Spiritual Ego Is Material Ego: 04-22-2024

1. It is a dangerous process to give up your material ego for a spiritual ego because a spiritual ego is much harder to give up because it is pleasing to everyone but God.
2. Your material and spiritual egos are both yourself as opinions, the difference being what the opinions are about, typically people (material) and ideals (spiritual).
3. Spiritual paths will encourage you to give up your ego as opinions about people and to switch to accepting your ego as opinions about God, ideals, life, nature, oneness, the world, or the universe.
4. The spiritual and material egos are yourself as self-constructions, and self-constructions can be understood as mental objects, opinions, reified thoughts, and thought-things, but not as human beings.
5. The main difference between the spiritual and material egos is that the material ego concerns concrete things in your life, while the spiritual ego concerns abstract things that encompass life or a part of life.

Ego Is Disguised As Concern: 04-21-2024

1. Your concern for others is your concern for how they think of you, which is concern for your ego (self-constructions).
2. Your concern for yourself is your concern for how you think of yourself, which is concern for your ego (self-constructions).
3. Your concern for society is your concern for how society will think of you, which is concern for your ego (self-constructions).
4. Your concern for the world is your concern for how the world will think of you, which is concern for your ego (self-constructions).
5. Your concern for your family and friends is your concern for how they will think of you, which is concern for your ego (self-constructions). 

The Ego Must Be Right: 04-20-2024

1. There is no need to be right except for the ego because negotiating requires correcting and updating information.
2. There is no need to be right except for the ego because understanding requires correcting and updating information.
3. There is no need to be right except for the ego because problem-solving requires correcting and updating information.
4. There is no need to be right except for the ego because perspective-taking requires correcting and updating information.
5. There is no need to be right except for the ego because correcting and updating information is always required when processing human information.

The Ego Is the Center of Delusions: 04-19-2024

1. The ego’s demand to be at the center makes your life delusions and a dream because life is never about your ego.
2. The ego’s demand to be at the center cripples and distorts your relationships because everything is not about your ego.
3. The ego’s demand to be at the center distorts your understanding of life because God, not the ego, is at the center of life.
4. The ego’s demand to be at the center distorts your self-narratives and self-talk because you cannot always be the main focus, even in your petty problems.
5. The ego’s demand to be at the center eliminates the possibility for you to be authentic, genuine, natural, real, and spontaneous because the ego is composed of dead things (self-constructions) that must be maintained as living things (fake selves and spirits).

Stop Seeking Ego Consciousness: 04-18-2024

1. What people call self-consciousness is ego consciousness.
2. When people say they are seeking themselves, they are usually seeking a better ego.
3. When people say they are finding themselves, they are usually finding variations of their ego.
4. When people say they are bettering themselves, they mean they are learning to appear better for the sake of their ego.
5. If people were seeking themselves, they would seek themselves as nobody and nothing in the material world and as living hosts in the spiritual world.