- You trust your heart too little and your mind too much.
- Your answers will arrive only when you look for them from your heart, not your mind.
- There are matters where the mind knows best, such concern things, not life or anything of depth.
- The heart tends to advise in a delicate, soft manner that can be easily dismissed, ignored, or missed.
- You should not reject the advice of your heart or mind, but you should give more credence to the advice of your heart.
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 74 books in ebook, paperback, hardback, and audiobook formats.
Monday, May 4, 2026
Heart Over Mind: 05-04-2026
Sunday, May 3, 2026
Change What You Can—Your Mind: 05-03-2026
- Stop trying to change minds; start changing one mind.
- Stop trying to change life; start changing your mind about life.
- Stop trying to change others; start changing your mind about others.
- Where do your conflicts and stress reside? In your mind. Change your mind about your conflicts and stress, and they lessen or disappear.
- Where does your anxiety and depression reside? In your mind. Change your mind about your anxiety and depression, and they lessen or disappear.
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Go to the Center: 05-02-2026
- The center is still, be there.
- The center is silent, be there.
- The center is where you should find yourself.
- The center is where you should respond from.
- The center is your authentic nature as a vessel.
- Practice Mind-Moving (M-M) until you are recentered.
Friday, May 1, 2026
Pause & Wait: 05-01-2026
- Pause and pray.
- Pause and wait for inspiration.
- Pause and wait for a better response.
- Pause and wait for God to guide you.
- Pause and practice Mind-Moving (M-M) to recenter yourself.
- Pause and wait for your human responses to subside and be replaced by wise responses.
Thursday, April 30, 2026
The Self Is Never Defeated: 04-30-2026
- The self cannot be defeated because it is what hosts your defeats.
- The self cannot be defeated because it is what hosts your conflicts.
- The self cannot be defeated; however, you easily lose awareness of the self.
- The self cannot be defeated because it is never directly involved in any war.
- As long as you are alive, the self remains as it was created, untouched by your life.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Self-Narratives Are Delusions & Illusions: 04-29-2026
- End your self-narratives, end your ego.
- In Eastern psychology, your self-narratives are seen as dreams you must wake from.
- Your self-narratives, also known as self-talk, erase your actual life in favor of fiction.
- Self-narratives are about narrative identities, as if you were composed of and existed only as stories, like fictional characters.
- Stop taking self-narratives, also known as personal narratives, seriously about you based on your being mental objects that no one is or can be.
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Nothing Makes You Anything: 04-28-2026
- Everything is happening in you, nothing as you.
- Everything is happening in you, nothing about you as a host except for God.
- Nothing has the necessary magical power to make you any mental objects.
- No experience has the necessary magic or power to make you any self-constructions, you foolishly choose to identity with them.
- Your logic might be that “if x happens, it will make me y.” However, that logic is based on manipulating your imagination rather than reality.
- Nothing is making you, your life, or your body into mental objects, despite many things tempting you to identify with and focus on the false importance of all forms of mental objects.
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