- The right path is so narrow that as soon as you claim to be on it, you fall off because your claim is off the path.
- The right path is so narrow that as soon as you claim to know it, you fall off because you cannot know the path of your own will.
- The right path is so narrow that as soon as you claim to be seeking the path, you fall off because you cannot seek the path of your own will.
- The right path is so narrow that as soon as you claim to be doing good, you fall off because you cannot do good on your own.
- The right path is so narrow that as soon as you claim to be following the good, you fall off because you cannot follow the good of your own will.
- The right path is so narrow that as soon as you claim to be following the path, you fall off because you must be drawn to follow the path by God, given that human nature chooses a different path.
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 76 books in ebook, paperback, hardback, and audiobook formats.
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
The Narrow Path: 07-29-2026
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Failing to Control Mental Objects: 07-28-2026
- We claim to know by identifying with (eating) knowledge as ideas, images, or things. This process makes them and us into mental objects.
- When we don’t want a particular mental object because it is disturbing, painful, or ugly, we often try to make it not exist by demanding it go away (no-ting), only to feed it.
- When we don’t want a particular mental object because it is disturbing, painful, or ugly, we often try to control it. However, it is uncontrollable because it is us, so we feed it.
- When we don’t want a particular mental object because it is disturbing, painful, or ugly, we often try to change it. However, it is unchangeable because it is us, so we feed it.
- When we don’t want a particular mental object because it is disturbing, painful, or ugly, we often complain that we are fixated, frozen, stuck, or trapped by it. However, it is our identifying with it that is the trap, not the idea or image itself.
Monday, July 27, 2026
The Drives of Sin: 07-27-2026
- The original sin is claiming to know by becoming knowing (eating knowledge, identifying as it).
- The drive for being knowing is to gain the ability and excuse (self as good) to destroy, and especially to destroy others as the bad.
- The rewards for knowing and destroying are pride in being positive knowing; however, you are always both sides of any duality even when you consciously identify only with one half.
- A main problem in being knowledge is that you cannot examine, sense, or verify reality or results when you are being knowledge (semantic blindness and blockage).
- The problem in being knowledge is that you are always both sides, and you will not be able to cover, hide in darkness, and suppress yourself as the negative forever.
Sunday, July 26, 2026
Human Glory: 07-26-2026
- Our glory is in serving the glory of God.
- Our glory is in being made in the image of God.
- Our glory is in being available to be used by God.
- Our glory is in being made so that we can serve God.
- Our glory is in resisting serving anyone or anything above or more than God.
Saturday, July 25, 2026
Classic Cause of Homosexuality: 07-25-2026
- (1) Blocked modeling of same sex parent. You naturally follow your same sex parent to learn how to live in the world. The usual exceptions are if you only have an opposite sex parent and no acceptable same sex role model, or you feel compelled to reject following your same sex parent (various reasons).
- (2) Sensations of same sex. Experience attractive same sex people.
- (3) Reframe reality. Falsely interpret same sex sensations as causing desire (sexual procreation drive).
- (4) Reverse nature. Focus procreation drive on same sex targets.
- (5) Reinforce procreation drive with life force. Make your interest into a passion by putting your life energies behind it.
- (6) Claim it is natural. Find excuses and rationalizations for the perversion of your procreation drive.
- (7) Claim sex is love. Sex is desire. Sex can be coupled with love, but the drive for sex is desire, not love.
- Generally, homosexuality occurs when the procreation drive is thwarted from focusing on the opposite sex, so it reverts to focusing on the same sex. However, some practice homosexuality or bisexuality for social approval.
Friday, July 24, 2026
Your Control Issues: 07-24-2026
- Stop seeking control because only One is in control.
- Stop trying to control your life; instead, surrender your life to His control.
- There is very little that we can control, and few focus on those things while most focus on what they cannot control.
- You can control your attitude, feelings, responses, and what gets to repeat inside. How often do you exercise that control?
- You cannot control the past, present, or future, and most things, because you don’t have power and authority over them. How often do you try to control them anyway?
Thursday, July 23, 2026
Try the Opposite Approach: 07-23-2026
- Instead of seeking who you are, start throwing out who you are not.
- Stop trying to find yourself, and start undressing yourself until you are naked and real.
- Start deleting all your self-concepts and self-images to see what is left after all the disguises are removed.
- You will never find yourself until you negate all the darkness, games, and walls hiding your true character.
- First find out what and who you are not, so that you might walk an honest path to rediscovering what and who you are.
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