- A jar cannot control its contents but relies on an external force to do so.
- A jar cannot change its contents but relies on an external force to do so.
- A jar trying to modify its contents is misguided because it lacks the power to do so.
- A jar is advised to contain healthy, useful contents; however, it needs external help to do so.
- A jar is advised to switch its contents when they are harmful; however, it needs outside help to do so.
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, psychology, philosophy, spirituality, General Semantics, Eastern psychology and philosophy, meditation, flow, social commentary, responsibility, authenticity, identity, and the self. Visit https://kevinfitzmaurice.com or Amazon and Google Play for Kevin's 75 books in ebook, paperback, hardback, and audiobook formats.
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
A Jar Is Not Its Contents: 06-30-2026
Monday, June 29, 2026
Be the Jar, Not the Contents: 06-29-2026
- A jar that thinks it is its contents is insane.
- A jar is as open to something new as it is empty.
- A jar is labeled to identify its contents, not the jar.
- You can label a jar, but that jar will never become that label.
- The only way for a jar to become its contents is to be destroyed by them.
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Solitude Refreshes Self: 06-28-2026
- If you never make time for solitude, you never make time to be heard.
- If you never make time for solitude, you never make time to sort out your life.
- If you never make time for solitude, you will likely lose contact with yourself.
- If you never make time for solitude, you never make time to be alone with God.
- If you never make time for solitude, you never make time to understand yourself.
Saturday, June 27, 2026
What Do You Listen To?: 06-27-2026
- When you are still inside, you can hear the soft-voiced angels directing your spiritual path.
- How do you become still inside so you can listen attentively again? You do nothing.
- When you are busy inside, you can hear the loud-voiced mental objects directing your path to destruction.
- How do you become busy inside so you think you are knowing, doing, and being something? You take mental objects seriously and regard them as realities.
- How does my confusion start? You lose awareness of being the house and exchange it for awareness of being the furniture.
Friday, June 26, 2026
The Spiritual Life: 06-26-2026
- The spiritual life is your real life.
- The spiritual life is being in God.
- The spiritual life is living in the Spirit.
- The spiritual life is not our choice, but God’s choice for us.
- The spiritual life appears when you bump into your vessel nature.
- The spiritual life does not remove you from the world; it removes the world from you.
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Processes Cannot Give Humans An Identity: 06-25-2026
- No human being can be given an identity through any comparison or judgment.
- No human being can be given an identity using any measurement or rating techniques.
- No human being can be given an identity using any profiling, testing, or typing techniques.
- No human being can be given an identity through any evaluative or trait-cataloging techniques.
- No human being can be given an identity using any definition, description, or diagnosis techniques.
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Stop Doubling Your Trouble: 06-24-2026
- Doubling problems is the first problem you need to overcome.
- People are often anxious about their anxiety, and need to stop that anxiety first.
- People are often depressed about their depression, and need to stop that depression first.
- When you fight problems, you create a problem that stops you from fixing them.
- When you run from problems, you create more problems because they will chase and follow you wherever you go.
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