- Life is about learning what to do instead of what you want to do.
- The wise spend their entire lives learning what to replace their inclinations with.
- You don’t overcome yourself because it remains ready to mislead you whenever it can.
- Christ ordered us to hate our lives because our lives follow the desires of flesh, not Spirit.
- Life is about learning to interrupt and reject your urges and to replace them with righteous directions.
- The first life lesson is not to trust your nature, because it serves death, darkness, and destruction when left to its own device.
3D: Daily Dose of Discernment
© 2026 by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice. Daily quotations cover topics crucial to your emotional and behavioral health, including emotional and psychological skills, psychotherapy, and more. These quotations serve as a preview for the annual publication of 365 quotations from one year; for example, 3D: Daily Dose of Discerment: 2025 was first previewed here. Visit https://kevinfitzmaurice.com or Amazon and Google Play for Kevin's 76 books in ebook, paperback, hardback, and audiobook formats.
Friday, October 9, 2026
Learn to Reject Yourself: 10-09-2026
Thursday, October 8, 2026
Switch, Not Change: 10-08-2026
- Hate never becomes love.
- Stupid never becomes smart.
- Greed never becomes generosity.
- Meanness never becomes kindness.
- Evil never becomes good without first dying.
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Replace Human Nature: 10-07-2026
- God plans to replace your nature.
- The world plans to improve your nature.
- The Spirit seeks to advance human beings through replacing human nature with a spiritual nature.
- Honest people observe in themselves that they do better only when they replace failing systems with superior ones, not by trying to change failing into succeeding.
- The world seeks to advance human beings by controlling and changing the human self (the ego). This futility is known as becoming better, developing, growing, learning, maturing, and other pleasant terms.
- All benefit in mental health counseling comes from people replacing feelings, intentions, thoughts, and habits; none comes from trying impossibly to make what is harmful and self-defeating into something helpful.
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
How to Do More: 10-06-2026
- You will live more when you focus more on energy states than on physical or thinking states of being.
- You will help more when you focus more on energy states than on physical or thinking states of being.
- You will love more when you focus more on energy states than on physical or thinking states of being.
- You will accomplish more when you focus more on energy states than on physical or thinking states of being.
- You will be more effective and efficient when you focus more on energy states than on physical or thinking states of being.
Monday, October 5, 2026
Two Vessels in One: 10-05-2026
- When your body moves somewhere, your self moves with it because your body is a vessel for your self.
- When your body dies, your self must find a new body to inhabit or wait in Death to get a new one.
- You can focus on being in your physical or spiritual body, but not both at once.
- If your body is safe and still, your self can leave it to commune with angels in Heaven.
- There are times to focus on being in your body and times to focus on being in the inner world.
- In the end, the life you spend in your inner world is what will matter.
Sunday, October 4, 2026
Thought Cannot Do It (GS): 10-04-2026
- Thought cannot feel.
- Thought cannot think.
- Thought cannot plan.
- Thought cannot respond.
- Thought is not thought as you know it because it is a container.
- Thought is not itself because you falsely think of thought as being, doing, and knowing something.
- Thought is not itself because you falsely think that thought is a mental object or a separate and independent reality.
Saturday, October 3, 2026
Thought Is Not What You Think (GS): 10-03-2026
- Thought is not sensing but a flash of a material form on your mind’s eye or screen.
- Thought is not feeling but a flash of a material form on your mind’s eye or screen.
- Thought is not intention but a flash of a material form on your mind’s eye or screen.
- Thought is not thinking but a flash of a material form on your mind’s eye or screen.
- Thought is not acting but a flash of a material form on your mind’s eye or screen.
- Thought is a material container that you mistake for some of its contents, inner actions upon it, and actions in response to it.
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