- The surest way to know what you should truly follow is to test its hardness or softness. The softer the form, the more reliable it is. The best guidance ultimately comes from the formless (Spirit) or moving (living) water.
- Test what you are serving by asking, “Is it more like air, water, or earth?” Air and water flow, adapt, and carry you effortlessly—they are reliable. Earth is solid and useful for information, but rigid and unfit for direction or control because it is incapable of carrying you. Instead, it wants to be carried.
- All mental objects are internal forms with varying degrees of hardness, just like everything else in existence (places and things). Following or serving mental objects as self, others, life, virtue, intelligence, or God will consistently lead to errors, failures, mistakes, and suffering.
- Find out internally if this is true: The harder the mental object, the more problems, failings, and suffering it will eventually lead to if you continue to follow it, no matter how righteous or virtuous it sounds or claims to be.
- The longer you serve or follow rigid internal forms (mental objects), the more destructive and disruptive the consequences become—and the scale of that destruction is directly proportional to their hardness and intractability. Instead, surrender to the formless and living water.
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.
Thursday, June 18, 2026
What Should You Rely On?: 06-18-2026
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Testing What to Rely On: 06-17-2026
- The surest way to know what you should truly follow is to test its hardness or softness. The softer the form, the more reliable it is. The best guidance is ultimately formless.
- Test this by asking: Is it more like air or like earth? Air flows, adapts, and carries you effortlessly—it is reliable. Earth is solid and useful for information, but rigid and unfit for direction or control.
- All mental objects are internal forms with varying degrees of hardness, just like everything else in existence.
- Prove it to yourself: The harder the mental object, the more problems, failings, and suffering it will eventually lead to.
- The longer you serve or follow rigid internal forms, the more destructive and disruptive the consequences become—and the scale of that destruction is directly proportional to their hardness.
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Strength Comes from Calmness: 06-16-2026
- Strength comes from calmness, not anger.
- Strength drives perseverance, tenacity, and resolve.
- Strength comes from accepting and overcoming fear.
- Strength comes from accepting and coping with tragedy.
- Strength comes from the courage to continue regardless of the odds and naysayers.
- Strength comes from focusing on the highest even when confronted with the lowest.
Monday, June 15, 2026
The Only Way Ahead: 06-15-2026
- The only way forward is through fear.
- The only way to know is to admit you don’t.
- The only way to rise is first to reach the ground.
- The only way forward is to stand still and listen.
- The only way to arrive is to stop trying to arrive.
- The path to achievement starts where you are now.
- The only way home is to walk the road you are on.
- The only way out of being lost is to move forward.
Sunday, June 14, 2026
The Only Way Out: 06-14-2026
- The only way out is through the now.
- The only way is to begin where you are.
- The only way is to start at the beginning.
- The only way is to start by taking one step at a time.
- The only way to change is through acceptance of not changing.
Saturday, June 13, 2026
Where Are You Now?: 06-13-2026
- Where else do you wish to be than in your own life?
- Where else do you want to be than in the moment of life?
- Where else do you want to be than in this life with the chance to go to Heaven?
- The wise person wishes to be who they are.
- The wise person wishes to be where they are.
- The wise person wishes their life to be what it is.
- The wise person wishes their fate to be what it is.
- Only through absolute acceptance of what exists does a door open to possibility.
Friday, June 12, 2026
Stop Living in Shadow Land (GS): 06-12-2026
- Thoughts are at best shadows of the real.
- If you want to look at what is casting a shadow, rather than its shadow, then you must have direct contact with it.
- If you want to look at what is casting a shadow, rather than its shadow, then you must turn away from thinking about it.
- If you want to look at what is casting a shadow, rather than its shadow, then you must turn away from your stories about it.
- If you want to look at what is casting a shadow, rather than its shadow, then you must turn from your mind to pure sensing.
- If you want to look at what is casting a shadow, rather than its shadow, then you must stop making it about you (personalizing it).
- If you want to look at what is casting a shadow, rather than its shadow, then you must turn away from your mental objects about it.
- If you want to look at what is casting a shadow, rather than its shadow, then you must stop categorizing, comparing, and measuring it.
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