- Some wish for friends, and those who make new friends by befriending others.
- Some complain they have no friends, and those who make new friends by befriending others.
- Some blame others for not having friends, and those who make new friends by befriending others.
- Some blame their life for not having friends, and those who make new friends by befriending others.
- Some blame their childhood, circumstances, and something about their body for not having friends, and those who make new friends by befriending others.
© 2025 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, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Google Play for Kevin's 70 books & audiobooks.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Having Friends Is a Choice: 05-21-2025
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Two Kinds of People: 05-20-2025
- There are two kinds of people; those who provide benefits, and those who take benefits.
- There are two kinds of people; those who blame obstacles, and those who overcome obstacles.
- There are two kinds of people; those who seek to be understood, and those who seek to understand.
- There are two kinds of people; those who seek what they can get, and those who seek what they can give.
- There are two kinds of people; those who seek to be something in the world, and those who seek to a servant in Heaven.
Monday, May 19, 2025
The Key for Having Resilience: 05-19-2025
- The more settled you are in your identity as a host, the less unsettled things can make you feel.
- The more confident you are in your identity as a host, the less things can shake your confidence in God.
- The more stabilized you are in your identity as a host, the less trials and tribulations can destabilize you.
- The more invested you are in your identity as a host, the less being divested of material things can affect you.
- The more established you are in your identity as a host, the less the world will be able to devalue and invalidate you.
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Don’t Argue with Fools & Mean People: 05-18-2025
- Liberal Hypocrisy: “Your rules don’t exist, but my exceptions to the norms and standards are rules.”
- Many people should not be engaged with or taken seriously because they will argue that your black dog is not a black dog without any intention of agreement or mutual understanding.
- People live in different internal worlds, and often, when they argue, they do not share an accurate account of their own world, have any interest in seeing the other’s world, and want to present the other’s world in a negative light without even first experiencing it.
- Many people should not be engaged with or taken seriously because they claim there are no rules, but simultaneously propose a rule based on exceptions instead of the majority of cases to force destructive, false, and unrealistic changes to society.
- Understand the intention of the person you are talking with. If they intend to manipulate you, divert the conversation and remove yourself. If they intend to prove themselves right and you wrong, divert the conversation and remove yourself. If they intend to sow discord and resentment, divert the conversation and remove yourself. If they intend to whine, blame, and damn to gain power, then divert the conversation and remove yourself.
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Do the Right Thing: 05-17-2025
- Host the right, not do the right.
- The right thing to do is to host the right doing things.
- Do less in your life while relying on God to do more.
- Measure success by your doing less and God doing more.
- Measure success by your being less and God being more in your life.
- Measure success by your knowing less and God knowing more for you.
- The less you are at the center of your life, feelings, intentions, and thoughts, and the more God is, the more you are on the right path.
Friday, May 16, 2025
What to Respond to?: 05-16-2025
- Respond to your sensing of the hosted.
- Respond to the sensations that you, as the host, experience.
- Respond to the feelings that you, as the host, experience.
- Respond to the intentions that you, as the host, experience.
- Respond to the actions that you, as the host, experience.
- Respond to the experiences that you, as the host, have.
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Where to Respond From?: 05-15-2025
- Respond from the position of being the host, not from being the hosted.
- Respond from the position of knowing the host, not from knowing the hosted.
- Respond from the position of doing the host, not from doing the hosted.
- Respond from the position of having memories of hosting, not from memories of being, knowing, or doing the hosted.
- A little child responds to experiencing, not to being, knowing, or doing something that was hosted.
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
The Path of Non-Responding: 05-14-2025
- Non-being or no-self is when you host God being God instead of your claims to be something.
- Non-doing is when you host God doing instead of your claims to do.
- Non-knowing is when you host God knowing instead of your claims to know.
- Non-responding is when you host God responding instead of your semantic-objects pretending to respond.
- Being a host is being humble and enjoying your wonderful ability to host God and creation.
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Where and When to Host?: 05-13-2025
- Who should I host? God, not self.
- What should I host? God being, knowing, and doing.
- Where should I host? God being in my heart, God doing in my soul, and God knowing in my mind.
- When should I host? Always host God and return to hosting God if you slip off the narrow path.
- Why should I host? Because I am a host, not a source or a god.
Monday, May 12, 2025
What to Host?: 05-12-2025
- We must host the right being good, not ourselves being good.
- We must host the right knowing the good, not ourselves knowing the good.
- We must host the right doing the good, not ourselves doing the good.
- We must seek for the right to respond inside, not ourselves.
- We must wait for the right to respond inside and not try to respond ourselves.
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Start Being Wrong More Often: 05-11-2025
- If you are never wrong, then you can never be right.
- The more often you are wrong, the more often you can be right.
- No human being is wrong; however, their feelings, intentions, beliefs, plans, and actions can be wrong.
- When you admit you are wrong, remember that it is not your being or design that is wrong, but what you host and serve that is wrong.
- Being wrong means things don’t add up, follow, match, and do contradict and deviate from each other because your thinking processes lack integrity.
Saturday, May 10, 2025
The Future Is Built in the Present: 05-10-2025
- If you want better, do better, not blame and damn better.
- You build a good future on a good present, not a bad past.
- A good future stands on good work, not whining about unfairness.
- A good future is based on good choices in the present, not a bad past.
- No amount of blaming and damning, whether justified or not, can build a good future.
Friday, May 9, 2025
Psychological Nondoing: 05-09-2025
- Switch from trying to perform (do) some psychological response to an inner event to resting in God.
- Switch from trying to perform (do) some psychological response to an inner event to relying on God to respond.
- Switch from trying to perform (do) some psychological response to an inner event to waiting for God to respond.
- Switch from trying to perform (do) some psychological response to an inner event to praying for God to respond.
- Switch from trying to perform (do) some psychological response to an inner event to returning to God for direction.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Spiritual Emotional-Resilience: 05-08-2025
- The spiritually emotionally-resilient can handle negative stress in positive and productive ways.
- The spiritually emotionally-resilient can access reasoning, coping, and problem-solving in challenging and disturbing situations.
- The spiritually emotionally-resilient are centered and grounded in their identity as a hosting being.
- The spiritually emotionally-resilient prioritize their relationship with God and His commands over the demands of others, society, and all media.
- The spiritually emotionally-resilient are confident in God and their prayerful connection to and dependence on God.
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Laziness Produces Poor Cultures: 05-07-2025
- The most advanced cultures all have a work ethic.
- Your flesh nature prefers sloth; therefore, you must constantly choose against laziness.
- Our biggest mistake in life is calling the desires of our flesh nature the desires of our self.
- Teach yourself to prefer the soft inner voice that provides choices and directions based on morality and spirituality.
- When you identify with the feelings and intentions of your flesh nature, you believe serving laziness and other forms of immorality is what you want.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Get What You Give: 05-06-2025
- The amount of service is equal to the amount of eternal reward.
- The amount of sharing is equal to the amount of eternal reward.
- The amount of support is equal to the amount of eternal reward.
- The amount of sacrifice is equal to the amount of eternal reward.
- The amount of surrender is equal to the amount of eternal reward.
Monday, May 5, 2025
Thought On Lower Order (GS): 05-05-2025
- Thought is not on the same order (hierarchy) as energy; therefore, thinking trying to control energy must fail.
- Thought is not on the same order (rank) as sensing; therefore, thinking trying to control sensing must fail.
- Thought is not on the same order (level) as sensations; therefore, thinking trying to control sensations must fail.
- Thought is not on the same order (place) as feelings; therefore, thinking trying to control feelings must fail.
- Thought is not on the same order (structure) as intention or will; therefore, thinking to do something without emotional intention will fail to get done.
- Thought is not on the same order (grade) as actions and responses; therefore, thinking how to respond without emotional intention will fail to cause the desired response.
- For more information, please read Feeling-Intention Therapy.
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Learn Better Problem-Solving: 05-04-2025
- Use the 3Rs: Recognize, Remove, and Replace problems.
- Define, discover, and explore the problem systematically.
- Research and compare potential interactive solutions.
- Choose, plan, and practice one systemic solution.
- Evaluate results, reflect, and predict long-term contextual and environmental results.
- Redo, refine, and adjust the plans and solutions as needed to address multivalued issues.
- If required, choose a more comprehensive solution. Reflect on how to add more to handle long-term systemic consequences and plan how to maintain the solutions.
- For more information, please read Problem Solved! 3Rs.
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Right Proportions Are Needed: 05-03-2025
- The only thing worse than control is no control.
- The only thing worse than method is no method.
- The only thing worse than government is no government.
- The only thing worse than too much thinking is no thinking.
- The only thing worse than too much restraint is no restraint.
- The only thing worse than too much direction is no direction.
- The only thing worse than too much constraint is no constraint.
Friday, May 2, 2025
Blame Is Lame: 05-02-2025
- Fix more and blame less.
- Cope more and blame less.
- Learn more and blame less.
- Accept more and blame less.
- Improve skills and blame less.
- Advance knowledge and blame less.
- Problem-solve more and blame less.
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Increase the Positive for Others: 05-01-2025
- Human nature is a disaster that spreads destruction; however, you can choose to respond virtuously and increase positive examples for others.
- Human nature is a disaster that spreads destruction; however, you can choose to live with simplicity and spirituality to increase the amount of positive energy available to others.
- Human nature is a disaster that spreads destruction; however, you can choose to respond with charity and kindness to increase the amount of positive experiences available to others.
- Human nature is a disaster that spreads destruction; however, you can choose to respond with empathy and forgiveness to increase the amount of positive attitudes available to others.
- Human nature is a disaster that spreads destruction; however, you can choose to respond with compassion and understanding to increase the amount of positive emotions available to others.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Have a Good Day: 04-30-2025
- Each day, you uplift another person; your day was worthwhile.
- Each day, you encourage another person to cope; your day was worthwhile.
- Each day, you encourage another person to problem-solve; your day was worthwhile.
- Each day, you cheer up another person so they keep moving forward; your day was worthwhile.
- Each day, you inspire another person to focus on the good they can do rather than the bad that was done to them; your day was worthwhile.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Internalizing Problems Is Self-Defeating: 04-29-2025
- The more naive a person is, the more they internalize outward problems.
- The more sophisticated a person is, the more they internalize outward problems.
- The more introverted a person is, the more they internalize outward problems.
- The internalization of outward problems produces the dilemma of being responsible for what you cannot control.
- The internalization of outward problems produces a god-complex because you believe your thinking is causing reality.
- The internalization of outward problems produces an internal witch-hunt to discover what is wrong with you that causes you to create so many problems.
Monday, April 28, 2025
Externalize at Your Own Peril: 04-28-2025
- The more foolish a person is, the more they externalize problems.
- The more irresponsible a person is, the more they externalize problems.
- The more educated a person is, the more they externalize problems for the lower classes.
- The person who often externalizes problems will become outward-directed instead of inward-directed, which will dimmish their life and personal power.
- By definition, externalized problems are out of your control, such that you will likely wind up whining, blaming, and damning in the hopes that the government or someone else will control them for pathetic you.
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Do You Like Your World?: 04-27-2025
- Angry people live in an angry world because they fail to use empathy and forgiveness to live in a better world.
- Anxious people live in an anxious world because they fail to use faith and hope to live in a better world.
- Ashamed people live in a shameful world because they fail to use grace and mercy to live in a better world.
- Depressed people live in a depressed world because they fail to use courage and encouragement to live in a better world.
- Envious people live in a world of envy because they fail to use simplicity and spirituality to live in a better world.
- Guilty people live in a guilty world because they fail to use compassion and understanding to live in a better world.
- Prideful people live in a prideful world because they fail to use charity and humility to live in a better world.
- Resentful people live in a world of resentment because they fail to use kindness and gratitude to live in a better world.
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Judge Actions, Not Persons: 04-26-2025
- We must judge the sin and not the sinner, or else we will objectify and dehumanize the sinner.
- We must judge the work and not the worker, or else we will objectify and depersonalize the worker.
- We must judge the offense and not the offender, or else we will objectify and concretize the offender.
- We must judge the evil deed and not the evildoer, or else we will objectify and externalize the evildoer.
- We must judge the transgression and not the transgressor, or else we will objectify and demonize the transgressor.
Friday, April 25, 2025
Choose To Re-Choose: 04-25-2025
- Human nature will always make the dark choice and tell you it is your choice; refuse and re-choose from virtue.
- Human nature will always make the mean choice and tell you it is your choice; refuse and re-choose from the better.
- Human nature will always make the lazy choice and tell you it is your choice; refuse and re-choose from the superior.
- Human nature will always make the destructive choice and tell you it is your choice; refuse and re-choose from the higher.
- Human nature will always make the negative choice and tell you it is your choice; refuse and re-choose from something healing.
What’s Your Future?: 04-24-2025
- What you bring to the future is more important than what the future brings to you.
- The person worrying about their future needs to learn from the person creating their future.
- The number of futures you have depends on the number of futures you are equipped to handle.
- The person worrying about their future needs to learn from the person preparing for their future.
- The future will bring what it brings, and those who constantly add to and improve their knowledge and skills will do better than those who do not.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Lying Should Be Avoided: 04-23-2025
- Lying causes a break between yourself and your projected self.
- Sometimes, you can avoid lying by withholding information that is not necessary or pertinent.
- Sometimes, you can avoid lying by distracting or redirecting the conversation to other topics of interest.
- You do not always have to tell people what you think or what your opinion is. Sometimes, it is better to remain silent or engage in small talk.
- You cannot lie under any circumstances, even the threat of a horrible death, if it means denying your core beliefs, because that is worse than death.
- Lying is necessary when you are protecting someone from undeserved harm, such as saying you not hiding Jews when Nazis like Hamas want to murder them.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Thinking Used to Excuse Feeling: 04-22-2025
- Remove the attitude of heaviness from your thoughts, and they will not be used to excuse negative emotions and reactions.
- Remove the attitude of fearfulness from your thoughts, and they will not be used to excuse negative emotions and reactions.
- Remove the attitude of ponderousness from your thoughts, and they will not be used to excuse negative emotions and reactions.
- Remove the attitude of dire seriousness from your thoughts, and they will not be used to excuse negative emotions and reactions.
- Remove the attitude of burdensomeness from your thoughts, and they will not be used to excuse negative emotions and reactions.
Monday, April 21, 2025
Only One Opinion Matters: 04-21-2025
You need only God’s good opinion of you.
Spend time worrying about what God thinks about you and your actions, not people.
Your opinion of yourself is as meaningless and unimportant as the opinion of any other person.
The good opinion of your family and friends is often helpful, but unnecessary.
The good opinion of your society, peers, and fellow employees is convenient but unnecessary.
You should not disregard the opinions of your society and fellow citizens regarding your social behaviors unless they conflict with God’s orders and rules.
Do what is socially acceptable and correct when it does not contradict God’s precepts and words.
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Human Nature Is Opposite God’s: 04-20-2025
- God took on our nature so that He might convert it into Himself.
- God became man that He might overcome human nature and replace it with His nature.
- Human nature is the opposite of God’s nature because we naturally seek death, darkness, and destruction.
- God’s nature is the opposite of human nature because all made in God, of His Spirit, seek life, light, and love.
- God made one path to Himself, the Lord Jesus Christ, because no other was first born of God, then born of man, and then born again of God.
For more information, please read The Story of Life (https://geni.us/Storylife).
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Adults Wear Masks & Hide Behind Walls: 04-19-2025
- How can you be yourself if you always objectify yourself as self-constructions (self-concepts, self-images)?
- How can you be yourself if you always claim to be new and different things (semantic-objects)?
- How can you be yourself if you always try to become yourself and never achieve it?
- How can you be yourself if you are always becoming yourself and never arrive home?
- How can you be yourself if you are always trying to appear to be yourself for the sake of others?
Friday, April 18, 2025
History Is Not a Person: 04-18-2025
- You are not your story.
- You are not your history.
- You are not your life story.
- You are not your narrative.
- You are not your biography.
- You are not your life history.
- You are not your autobiography.
- You are not your prosopography.
- You are not your personal history.
- You are a unique internal place that provides or denies continuing space and time for whatever enters that place.
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Computers Have No Intelligence (AI): 04-17-2025
- Computers modeling intelligence cannot create intelligence; however, they can fool people into thinking computers have intelligence.
- Computers simulating intelligence cannot create intelligence; however, they can fool people into thinking computers have intelligence.
- Computers mimicking intelligence cannot create intelligence; however, they can fool people into thinking computers have intelligence.
- Computers faking intelligence cannot create intelligence; however, they can fool people into thinking computers have intelligence.
- Computers feigning intelligence cannot create intelligence; however, they can fool people into thinking computers have intelligence.
- Computers impersonating intelligence cannot create intelligence; however, they can fool people into thinking computers have intelligence.
- Computers pretending to have intelligence cannot create intelligence; however, they can fool people into thinking computers have intelligence.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Thoughts Are Thoughts, Nothing More (GS): 04-16-2025
- Your thoughts have no form but themselves.
- Your thoughts have no reality but themselves.
- Your thoughts have no results but themselves.
- Your thoughts have no essence but themselves.
- Your thoughts have no existence but themselves.
- Your thoughts have no substance but themselves.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Word Reality Is Not Reality (GS): 04-15-2025
- Your word reality is not equal to physical reality.
- Your word reality is not equal to sensation reality.
- Your word reality is not equal to sensing reality.
- Your word reality is not equal to feeling reality.
- Your word reality is not equal to intention reality.
- Your word reality is not equal to results reality.
Monday, April 14, 2025
When There Is Nothing to It, Leave It Alone: 04-14-2025
- When you are insulted, remember that there is nothing of substance to it, and hold fast to being nothing but a vessel.
- When others don’t approve of you, remember that there is nothing of substance to it, and hold fast to being nothing but a vessel.
- When others abandon and turn on you, remember that there is nothing of substance to it, and hold fast to being nothing but a vessel.
- When you get poor marks, grades, or evaluations, remember that there is nothing of substance to it, and hold fast to being nothing but a vessel.
- When others have negative opinions about you or your beliefs, remember that there is nothing of substance to it, and hold fast to being nothing but a vessel.
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Exactness for the Win: 04-13-2025
- Exactness will improve all you do by making it more effective, functional, and lasting.
- When you are exact in everything you do, you will be praised and valued more than most.
- The master seeks exactness in their thoughts, words, and deeds because exactness is the sibling of truth.
- To seek exactness has nothing to do with perfectionism or neuroticism and everything to do with results.
- A culture or country that makes exactness one of its primary purposes and instills it in its youth will do better than one that does not.
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Success Is Work, Not Privilege: 04-12-2025
- Your success is based on your maximizing what you have now.
- Life is not about getting more advantages but about using the ones you have.
- Those who make the most of what they have always do better than those who rely on what they have.
- The untalented achieve more than the talented when they put more effort, quality, and time into their work.
- Life is not about why you have less beauty, intelligence, gifts, talents, or privileges, but about how you maximize what you are given.
Friday, April 11, 2025
Virtue Is Application: 04-11-2025
- You can follow virtue, or you can follow your flesh.
- Virtue is when the results match the idealistic thoughts.
- Virtue is most often applying the positive to the negative.
- You know you are following virtue only when your results are virtuous.
- Virtue is an active good, not thinking, speaking, or writing about doing good.
- To follow virtue is not to follow thoughts but to realize the intentions of virtuous feelings.
Thursday, April 10, 2025
What Is Virtue?: 04-10-2025
- Virtue is works, not beliefs.
- Virtue is not good words but good actions.
- Virtue is a performance art, not a passive art.
- Virtue is the means to overcoming human nature.
- Following nice-sounding words is not following virtue.
- If you are following virtue, you are not following ideas but are possessed by principles.
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Make Your Goal the Infinite: 04-09-2025
- If you don’t know where you are going, you will end up somewhere, regardless.
- If you don’t know where you are going, you will end up somewhere you did not want to go.
- If you don’t know where you are going, you will end up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- If you don’t know where you are going, you will end up somewhere, often the opposite of your chosen path.
- If you don’t know where you are going, you must choose the infinite because only the infinite is worthy of your life.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Patience Is a Form of Action: 04-08-2025
- Patience is not inaction because it is waiting on God.
- Patience is not inaction but awareness of your place in the scheme of things.
- Patience is not inaction but a coping mechanism that keeps you in your right mind.
- Patience is not inaction but the response of the wise to all things beyond their control.
- Patience is not inaction but a state of mind open to contemplation, meditation, and prayer.
Monday, April 7, 2025
Control Your Responses, Not Others: 04-07-2025
- Focus on what you can control—how you respond.
- It’s not how good or bad it is; it is how good or bad your response to it is.
- It’s not how right or wrong it is; it is how right or wrong your response to it is.
- When something is negative, regard it as a call to respond with your best from the highest, you know.
- People get the responsibility for things backward when they think they can blame their negative responses on the existence of something negative.
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Stop Pleasing Your Ego: 04-06-2025
- When you objectify yourself and others, you please your ego, not truth or virtue.
- When you claim you are, know, or do good, you please your ego, not truth or virtue.
- When you try to be good, you please your ego, not truth or virtue.
- When you think you are becoming good, you please your ego, not truth or virtue.
- When you focus on appearing good, you please your ego, not truth or virtue.
- When you compare, categorize, and measure yourself and others, you please your ego, not truth or virtue.
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Take the Hard Road: 04-05-2025
- Taking the hard road is what fear calls it; however, it is the right road.
- Taking the hard road is what apathy calls it; however, it is the right road.
- Taking the hard road is what laziness calls it; however, it is the right road.
- Taking the hard road is what weakness calls it; however, it is the right road.
- Taking the hard road is what insecurity calls it; however, it is the right road.
- Taking the hard road is what cowardice calls it; however, it is the right road.
Friday, April 4, 2025
Choose Your New Path Now: 04-04-2025
- If you are not happy with your current path, great—you have the opportunity to choose a path with deep meaning.
- If you are not happy with your current path, instead of blaming something or someone, consider the fact that you keep choosing it.
- If you are not happy with your current path, instead of blaming something or someone, seek help and information to get on a better and brighter path.
- If you are not happy with your current path, instead of blaming something or someone, explore what other paths remain open and choose a better one.
- If you are not happy with your current path, it might be true that you were led to take a bad path; however, now, you can choose a better and brighter one.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Start Right to End Right: 04-03-2025
- Before you judge, do your research.
- Before you die, learn to live for God.
- Before you quit, find help and better information.
- Before you speak, check the source of your words.
- Before you claim to believe in God, spend time with God.
Peace Is a Choice: 04-02-2025
- Peace does not come because problems go away, but from solving problems.
- Peace does not come because everyone agrees, but because people choose to disagree peacefully.
- Peace does not come because war stops, but from choosing peaceful practices and solutions during war.
- Peace does not come because psychological conflict ends, but from accepting it or choosing to resolve it.
- Peace does not come because a better system is imposed on people, but because people choose to share common goals.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Words Are Not Results: 04-01-2025
- If you only care about the words, then you can be tricked into believing evil is good.
- If you only care about the words, then you can be tricked into doing evil that is beautified.
- If you only care about the words, then you can be tricked into doing evil that is supposed to result in good.
- The semantic reality of words is not the same as the results of following those words to perform deeds in the world.
- You must look at the words people propose to encourage, excuse, or force an action; however, you must look closer into the results of those actions because they will not mirror or be equal to the words.
Monday, March 31, 2025
Switch Your Focus from People to God: 03-31-2025
- Matter to God, not people.
- Seek God’s attention, not people’s.
- Seek God’s company, not people’s.
- Worry about what God thinks, not people.
- Pay attention to God’s opinions, not people’s.
Sunday, March 30, 2025
WWABADD for Your Soul: 03-30-2025
- Whining is bad for your soul because it seeks the ego pleasure of knowing better instead of seeking God.
- Worrying is bad for your soul because it seeks the ego pleasure of knowing better instead of seeking God.
- Angering is bad for your soul because it seeks the ego pleasure of knowing better instead of seeking God.
- Blaming is bad for your soul because it seeks the ego pleasure of knowing better instead of seeking God.
- Attaching is bad for your soul because it seeks the ego pleasure of knowing better instead of seeking God.
- Damning is bad for your soul because it seeks the ego pleasure of knowing better instead of seeking God.
- Demanding is bad for your soul because it seeks the ego pleasure of knowing better instead of seeking God.
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Do Not Substitute Words for Experience: 03-29-2025
- Educators substitute words for experience to condition you to be controlled.
- Politicians substitute words for experience to condition you for manipulation.
- Scientists substitute words for experience to condition you to follow authority.
- Atheists and spiritualists substitute words for experience to condition you to follow pride.
- Journalists substitute words for experience to condition you to follow supposed social norms.
- Make testable and repeatable experience your source for reliable information, not words.
Friday, March 28, 2025
You Are a Unique Place: 03-28-2025
- The place you are inside does not exist anywhere else.
- The place you are inside can host great goodness or great evil.
- The place you are inside must be occupied by God, or you are lost.
- The place you are inside must not be sacrificed for the pride of knowing.
- The place you are inside is opened or shut by you, making you responsible for your contents (sensations, feelings, thoughts).
Thursday, March 27, 2025
It’s On You: 03-27-2025
- No one wastes your time more than you.
- No one makes your life harder more than you.
- No one makes you discouraged more than you.
- No one makes you hold onto the negative more than you.
- No one challenges and inspires you to overcome your adversities and obstacles more than you.
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Face Your Own Evil: 03-26-2025
- If you don’t face the ugliness within, you will lead a fake and phony life.
- If you don’t face the ugliness within, you will never understand the need to surrender to God.
- If you don’t face the ugliness within, you will seek false promises of being better than others when you are them.
- If you don’t face the ugliness within, you will never understand that the evil you see in others is an expression of your nature.
- If you don’t face the ugliness within, you will continue to pretend you are getting better while covering and excusing your evil feelings, thoughts, and deeds.
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Destroying Is Not Contributing: 03-25-2025
- Bite the urge to destroy as the path to peace.
- Bite the urge to destroy as the path to change.
- Bite the urge to destroy as the path to winning.
- Bite the urge to destroy as the path to progress.
- Bite the urge to destroy as the path to happiness.
Simplicity Is Happiness: 03-24-2025
- Happiness cannot be separated from honesty.
- Happiness cannot be separated from surrender.
- Happiness cannot be separated from simplicity.
- Happiness cannot be separated from waiting on God.
- Happiness cannot be separated from returning to God.
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Thinking Cannot Do Good: 03-23-2025
- You can think to rest in Energy to do good; however, thinking cannot do that for you.
- You can think to rely on Energy to do good; however, thinking cannot do that for you.
- You can think to return to Energy to do good; however, thinking cannot do that for you.
- You can remember to rest in Energy to do good; however, remembering cannot do that for you.
- You can remember to rely on Energy to do good; however, remembering cannot do that for you.
- You can remember to return to Energy to do good; however, remembering cannot do that for you.
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Choose Your Limits: 03-22-2025
- Your objectifying limits you because it blocks all reason and understanding.
- You can host the universe but are limited by choosing to claim instead of serve.
- You can have the perfect good run through you or limit the good by trying to do it.
- You can serve the good and do great good or limit the good by trying to become the good.
- You can serve the good and do great good or limit the good by trying to appear good.
Friday, March 21, 2025
Parents Who Know Better: 03-21-2025
- If a parent thinks they know best, then why are they not happy and grateful to be in the family?
- If a parent thinks they know best, then why are they so terrible at implementing what they know?
- If a parent thinks they know best, then why don’t they make the children happy and grateful to be in the family?
- If a parent thinks they know best, then why don’t they make their partner happy and grateful to be in the family?
- If a parent thinks they know best, then they should be smart enough to test the benefits and results of their superior knowledge and its overall effects on the family.
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Seeking Attention Is Dangerous: 03-20-2025
- God can justify your life, not people.
- The only approval you need is God’s.
- The only attention you need is God’s.
- Wanting people’s attention is wanting people’s approval.
- Wanting people’s attention is wanting recognition of your ego.
- Wanting people’s attention is wanting people to justify your life.
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Categorical Thinking Can Be a Curse: 03-19-2025
- Duality and categorical thinking are father and son.
- Categorical thinking cannot deal with nuance or variation but only either/or.
- Categorical thinking is based on dualism, such that invoking any category automatically invokes its opposite category.
- Categorical thinking is necessarily limited by the categories used, so in many fields, adding new categories is considered an advancement or a revolution.
- Categorical thinking is useful for catalogs, classification systems, databases, directories, filing systems, identification, memory, organizing, sorting, and storage. However, it must be recognized as imposing limitations on exploration and recognition and encouraging the semantic error of regarding the categorized as the category.
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Categorical Thinking Demands Opposites: 03-18-2025
- Categorical thinking demands opposites even if none exist.
- Categorical thinking demands opposites even when opposites are impossible.
- Categorical thinking demands opposites even when it is inappropriate or unsuitable.
- Categorical thinking demands opposites even when opposites are a delusion or an illusion.
- Categorical thinking demands opposites even when continuums and trialistic (three-part) models better represent reality.
Monday, March 17, 2025
Inner Space Is the Final Frontier: 03-17-2025
- Without space, there is no life.
- Without space, there is no movement.
- Without a place, there can be no space.
- Your inner vessel (place) hosts a space that is a frontier waiting to be explored.
- Explore your inner space because it is more important than the feelings and thoughts in it.
- Value your inner space above your feelings and thoughts because they cannot exist without your inner space.
Sunday, March 16, 2025
Running On Thought Is Running On Vanity: 03-16-2025
- When your self is running on thought, it is running on death.
- When your life is running on thought, it is running on destruction.
- When your thinking is running on thought, it is running on failure.
- When your feelings run on thoughts, they run on darkness and deception.
- When your decisions and responses run on thoughts, they run on bad programming and misinformation.
Saturday, March 15, 2025
School Won’t Teach You: 03-15-2025
- School won’t teach you how to learn; you must discover that on your own.
- School won’t teach you how to think; you must discover that on your own.
- School won’t teach you how to find yourself; you must discover that on your own.
- School won’t teach you how to survive in the wild; you must discover that on your own.
- School won’t teach you how to live like a Christian; you must discover that on your own.
- School won’t teach you how to discern truth from lies; you must discover that on your own.
- School won’t teach you how to find meaning and purpose in life; you must discover that on your own.
- School won’t teach you how to navigate your career, finances, taxes, or transportation; you must discover those things on your own.
Friday, March 14, 2025
Categorical Thinking Is Primitive: 03-14-2025
- Categorical thinking leads to an investment in dualities that do not represent the existing trialities or the continuum of life events and experiences.
- Categorical thinking leads to verbal games as you try to categorize what you don’t like as negative and what you do like as positive.
- Categorical thinking leads to the reification of thought, which means you become psychotic and out of touch with reality because you favor being in touch with thought as reality.
- Categorical thinking, when trusted as a process of truth, leads to becoming lost in thought, dehumanization into a robotic thinker, dullness, idealistic thinking as reality, lack of contact with people and places, lack of reality testing, lack of results testing, lack of understanding, rigid thinking, sloppy thinking, thinking errors, and unrealistic thinking.
- Categorical thinking leads to a denial of how thinking works by ignoring the realities of arbitrary categories, conflicting categories, fake categories, fake understanding as categories, false knowing as categories, imaginary categories, imperfect categories, impossible categories, inexact categories, inflexible categories, membership in more than one category, overlapping categories, projected categories, reflexive dualism, shared categories, temporary categories, and vanishing categories.
Thursday, March 13, 2025
You Find Your Reasons: 03-13-2025
- You find reasons to be glad, or you find reasons to be sad.
- You find reasons to be calm, or you find reasons to be irritable.
- You find reasons to be thankful, or you find reasons to be resentful.
- You find reasons to be inspired, or you find reasons to be depressed.
- You find reasons to be forgiving, or you find reasons to be vengeful.
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Right Focus & Right Responses: 03-12-2025
- Focus on your responses more than on the stimulus (event).
- Focus on your responses to others more than on the responses of others.
- Focus on your responses to your internal world more than on your responses to the external world.
- Focus on your responses being just, fair, and caring, but avoid responding to those who bait to find fault and sow division.
- Focus on your responses being right and abiding by God’s will rather than on the rightness or wrongness of others’ responses.
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Seek Life, Save Life: 03-11-2025
- If you are drowning, how can you help others who are drowning, too?
- You must exist to serve God and others; therefore, you must secure your life.
- You can surrender your life for life but not for the world because the world serves death.
- You can surrender your life for God because He is life, but not for the world because it serves death.
- You must exist to help others survive; therefore, you must make sure you can breathe before helping others breathe (airplane instructions before takeoff).
Monday, March 10, 2025
Believe & Receive: 03-10-2025
- Do you believe in despair or hope?
- Do you believe in boredom or work?
- Do you believe in problems or solutions?
- Do you believe in only helping yourself or in helping others, too?
- Do you believe in all barbaric and failing cultures or only in successful and superior cultures?
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Choose Success In the Face of Failure: 03-09-2025
- Find a new way, not an old excuse.
- Discover new processes, not cry over failing ones.
- Seek advice and help, not people to moan and groan with.
- Embrace your errors, inaccuracies, and failures as teachers on the path to success.
- Research options and previous solutions instead of quitting after trying and failing.
Saturday, March 8, 2025
You Cannot Steal the Good: 03-08-2025
- Trying to be good makes you the enemy of the Good.
- Seeking to be good makes you the enemy of the Good.
- Seeking to be better makes you the enemy of the Good.
- Knowing yourself as good makes you the enemy of the Good.
- Taking credit for any good makes you the enemy of the Good.
- Hoping and praying to be good makes you the enemy of the Good.
Friday, March 7, 2025
Two Kinds of People: 03-07-2025
- There are two kinds of people: those who are unstoppable and those who stop to complain.
- There are two kinds of people: those who think anger proves they’re right and those who think your anger proves you’re wrong.
- There are two kinds of people: those who believe in failure and excuses and those who believe in success and learning to do better.
- There are two kinds of people: those who think disadvantages destroy their opportunities and those who use disadvantages as a stepping stone to success.
- There are two kinds of people: those who think their failure proves that their family, friends, government, and others are wrong and those who believe their success proves that their family, friends, government, and others are wrong.
Thursday, March 6, 2025
What You Do, You Receive: 03-06-2025
- Your works meet life directly and must return to you like fashion.
- Your works meet life directly and must return outcomes and results complimentary to their nature.
- Your works meet life directly; you must reap them despite your victimhood, excuses, justifications, or rationalizations.
- Your works meet life directly and must return to you in some fashion at some time because of the law of cause and effect.
- Your works meet life directly and must return to you because of the scientific law of “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
Why Avoid Talking to Yourself?: 03-05-2025
People want something to do so they don’t have to talk to themselves.
- People want someone to talk to so they don’t have to talk to themselves.
- People want to avoid conflicts and stress in their self-talk, so they engage in distractions and diversions.
- People want to escape the conflicts and stress in their self-talk, so they run to addictions and compulsions.
- People feel the need to not hear themselves talking inside more and more because one conflict leads to another, and they easily become overwhelmed.
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Your Knowing Fails to Be: 03-04-2025
- Your knowing can’t be.
- Your knowing isn’t being.
- Your knowing defeats being.
- Your knowing prevents being.
- Your knowing is the end of being.
- Your knowing is the enemy of being.
Monday, March 3, 2025
Your Knowing Fails to Do: 03-03-2025
- Your knowing can’t do.
- Your knowing isn’t doing.
- Your knowing defeats doing.
- Your knowing prevents doing.
- Your knowing is the end of doing.
- Your knowing is the enemy of doing.
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Your Knowing Fails to Know: 03-02-2025
- Your knowing can’t know.
- Your knowing isn’t knowing.
- Your knowing defeats knowing.
- Your knowing prevents knowing.
- Your knowing is the end of knowing.
- Your knowing is the enemy of knowing.
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Quality of Culture Is the Great Predictor: 03-01-2025
- The quality of your country is equal to the quality of your culture.
- The prosperity of your country is equal to the quality of your culture.
- The worldwide respect for your country is equal to the quality of your culture.
- The progress of the people in your country is equal to the quality of your culture.
- The advancement of your country’s influence is equal to the quality of your culture.
Friday, February 28, 2025
The Essence of Life: 02-28-2025
- The essence of happiness is hosting God.
- The essence of peace is total reliance on God.
- The essence of your life is your identity as an experiencing host.
- The essence of work is to share your experiences of God with others.
- The essence of your salvation is the surrender of the motivations of your flesh nature to the obedience of God.
Thursday, February 27, 2025
People Over Things: 02-27-2025
- Love people and use things, not use people and love things.
- Love people and damn things, not damn people and love things.
- Love people and discard things, not discard people and love things.
- Love people and replace things, not replace people and love things.
- Love people and give away things, not give away people and love things.
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Choose What Works: 02-26-2025
- What is hard or uncomfortable to do is often the right thing to do because it requires more from us.
- What is hard or uncomfortable to do is often the right thing to do because it means resisting our urge to laziness.
- What is hard or uncomfortable to do is often the right thing to do because it is the opposite of our flesh nature’s will.
- What is hard or uncomfortable to do is often the right thing to do because we have to work for it, and life is about work.
- What is hard or uncomfortable to do is often the right thing to do because what we find easy and comfortable was once hard and uncomfortable.
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Knowledge Not Equal to Experience: 02-25-2025
- The knowledge of God is not equal to the experience of God.
- The knowledge of being loved is not equal to the experience of being loved.
- The knowledge of human equality is not equal to the experience of being equal.
- The knowledge that God is good is not equal to the experience that God is good.
- The knowledge that God is great is not equal to the experience that God is great.
Monday, February 24, 2025
War With Yourself: 02-24-2025
- The war with yourself is a game you play for ego rewards.
- The war with yourself is an impossible war because you play both sides.
- The war with yourself is a pretend game hiding behind the masks of observer and observed.
- The war with yourself is not meant to be won or lost but to continue to provide excuses to claim to know better.
- The war with yourself is a game you play to lose by limiting the number of players to two when there are six.
For more information, please read Games Ego Plays.
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Quality of Life Comes from Quality: 02-23-2025
- The quality of your life depends on the quality of your hosting.
- The quality of your life depends on the quality of your sensing (direct experiencing).
- The quality of your life depends on the quality of your sensations.
- The quality of your life depends on the quality of your feelings.
- The quality of your life depends on the quality of your intentions.
- The quality of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
- The quality of your life depends on the quality of your responses.
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Positive Beats Negative: 02-22-2025
- Positive thinking beats negative thinking whenever you are problem-solving.
- Positive thinking beats negative thinking whenever you are coping with problems.
- Positive thinking beats negative thinking whenever you are following your dreams.
- Positive thinking beats negative thinking whenever you are following creativity and inspiration.
- Positive thinking beats negative thinking when working to help others overcome their problems.