- You experience your ego inside because you are the experiencer, not your ego.
- The ego is concerned with semantic objects, while the self is concerned with sensations.
- The ego is about claiming to know, do, and be things, while the self is about experiencing things.
- The ego cannot experience itself because it is not a being with self-consciousness but a facade built out of semantic delusions.
- The self and the ego compete for your identity because your identity provides self-awareness, either accurately for the self or delusionally for the ego.
© 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 67 books & audiobooks.
Friday, January 31, 2025
Your Ego Needs You But You Don’t Need It: 01-31-2025
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Materialists Pursue Mental-Things: 01-30-2025
- Adults usually serve mental-things (mental-objects, semantic-objects, thought-things).
- The desires and plans of adults are for the acquisition or destruction of mental-things.
- There are no physical materialists, but many mental materialists pursue and cling to mental-things represented or “materialized” by physical things.
- Adults pursue mental-things and are concerned about physical reality only in so far as it indicates or excuses their mental-things without realizing that makes them believers in the philosophies of Idealism and Postmodernism.
- With few exceptions, materialists pursue mental-objects because that is how they believe they acquire physical things. For example, acquiring a famous painting is more important as a mental-object (conquest, pride in a superior collection, proof of superiority, self-esteem object) than a physical object.
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
There Is No Christianity Without Judaism: 01-29-2025
- The Jews started Christianity.
- Christianity is a part of Judaism now and forever.
- Everything Christianity has—came first from the Jews.
- Christianity started with the Jews and will end with the New Jews.
- Those who try to remove Jews, Judaism, and Israel from Christianity are the enemies of Christianity.
- Christianity owes everything to the Jews because it was founded and started by Jews, and Jews wrote all its primary texts.
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Symbols Rule the World: 01-28-2025
- Symbols demand authority and power.
- Symbols demand control of the narrative.
- Symbols displace reality with propaganda.
- Symbols demand that they are more important than truth.
- Symbols claim they are causes, and all good should be attributed to themselves.
- Symbol conflicts exist in the world of politics and power. They are attempted to be resolved by propaganda and false claims of superiority and inherent knowing.
Monday, January 27, 2025
Be the Experiencer, Not the Experience: 01-27-2025
- I am the experiencer, not the experience.
- I am the experiencer, not any responses to the experience.
- I am the experiencer, not any claims to know, do, or be the experience.
- I am the experiencer, not any feelings or thoughts about the experience.
- I am the experiencer, not any interpretations or perspectives on the experience.
Sunday, January 26, 2025
You Are the Experiencer: 01-26-2025
- You are the experiencer, not the observer or the observed.
- You are the experiencer of hate, not the hater or the one hated.
- You are the experiencer of knowing, not the knower or the known.
- You are the experiencer of thinking, not the thinker or the thoughts.
- You are the experiencer of naming, not the namer or the one named.
- You are the experiencer of mocking, not the mocker or the one mocked.
Saturday, January 25, 2025
Your Ego Is Your Mental Block: 01-25-2025
- The ego blocks the receptors for intelligence because the ego is built on claiming.
- The ego blocks creativity, insight, inspiration, and intuition because the ego claims to know.
- Practice passive and direct observation, and you will be a host (vessel) open to receiving the new and profound.
- When you are stuck or experiencing a mental block, realize that it is your ego trying, and when your ego tries, it all fails.
- Free yourself from the ego trying to know by meditating, praying, walking, or doing yoga; you will find creativity, insight, inspiration, and intuition arriving on their own.
Friday, January 24, 2025
Get Outside of the Problem: 01-24-2025
- Solutions come from outside problems.
- When inside problems, you wind up reinforcing and feeding them.
- You can get outside of problems by accepting and detaching from them.
- When inside problems, your solutions wind up as whining, blaming, and damning, not real solutions.
- Once you are outside of a problem (not identifying with it, making it about you, making it artificially important, trying to fix it, complaining), you will gain perspective that will suggest new solutions.
Thursday, January 23, 2025
The Problem Isn’t the Solution: 01-23-2025
- Fixating cannot end fixating.
- Looping cannot end looping.
- Addiction cannot end addiction.
- Obsessing cannot end obsessing.
- Ruminating cannot end ruminating.
- Compulsion cannot end compulsion.
- Switch out and refocus on acceptance, detaching, and the opposites of knowing, doing, or being the problem.
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
What Do You Feel About It?: 01-22-2025
- It doesn’t make you feel, but you do feel about it.
- Want to know why you do what you do? Ask yourself how doing it makes you feel.
- Want to know why you won’t quit a bad habit? Ask yourself how doing it makes you feel.
- Face the fact that you often want to feel bad, relate to, identify with, and feel the energy of death and destruction in darkness.
- Human nature’s first impulse is to experience and feel death and destruction under the cover of darkness. It is only by the grace of God that we ever choose good over evil.
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Ethics Come from Christianity: 01-21-2025
- The belief in human rights comes from Christianity, not science.
- The belief in human dignity comes from Christianity, not science.
- The belief in a universal brotherhood comes from Christianity, not science.
- The belief that we all share one human nature comes from Christianity, not science.
- The belief that the rich have an obligation to help the poor comes from Christianity, not science.
Monday, January 20, 2025
Control What You Can Control: 01-20-2025
- You are not writing the computer code (plans) to run your life.
- You host the computer code (plans) that run your life, whether you are aware of it or not.
- You can accept or reject the computer code (plans) determining the circumstances of your life.
- When it seems you are not controlling or running your mind, look to your emotions and what they want to feel because what you want to feel runs every aspect of your life.
- Want to know what motivates you? Ask yourself what you want to feel. However, you must be fearless because often you want to feel death and destruction for yourself, others, and things.
Sunday, January 19, 2025
Worship & Love God: 01-19-2025
- To host God is to love and worship God.
- To experience God is to love and worship God.
- If you are not worshiping God, you are not hosting God.
- If you are not worshiping God, you are not experiencing God.
- The impulse to love and worship God is irresistible to all who experience or host God.
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Question Every Thought: 01-18-2025
- Question every thought to asses it’s worth.
- Question every thought to understand what it’s serving.
- Question every thought to judge if it’s serving God or garage.
- Question every thought to evaluate if it’s bringing peace or conflict.
- Question every thought to determine if it is helping or hurting your goals and state of mind.
Friday, January 17, 2025
There Is More than Meets the Eye: 01-17-2025
- You know there is more to you than the views of evolution and science allow for because you sometimes experience a deeper, invisible, and unnameable reality of your being. Be brave, stay the course, and pursue it.
- You know there is more to you than the views of evolution and science allow for because you experience yourself as more than an animal seeking pleasure without meaning or purpose. Be brave, stay the course, and pursue it.
- You know there is more to you than the views of evolution and science allow for because you sometimes experience a dimension to reality that is not materialistic or measurable with science. Be brave, stay the course, and pursue it.
- You know there is more to you than the views of evolution and science allow for because you sometimes experience a dimension to reality that is not materialistic and cannot be explained away because it appears more real than your common-day reality. Be brave, stay the course, and pursue it.
- You know there is more to you than the views of evolution and science allow for because you experience yourself as more than an animal seeking pleasure without meaning or purpose when you experience transformative moments of unbounded and unconditional love for your spouse, child, parents, and friends. Be brave, stay the course, and pursue it.
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Human Nature Has a Problem: 01-16-2025
- Human history is filled with wickedness in the name of goodness.
- The beautifulest plan made by humans will require the ugliest execution.
- The higher the virtue human nature seeks, the more suppression and repression will be required.
- The greater the ideal human nature seeks, the greater the murder and genocide that will be committed.
- The more noble the purpose human nature seeks, the more devious and vicious the means used to achieve it will be.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Virtue Requires Action: 01-15-2025
- The godly do good works, or they are hypocrites and phonies.
- Salvation is a gift from God that you do not have if you do not engage in good works.
- If you are not helping anyone but yourself and those close to you, you are not helping anyone.
- If you don’t like your lot in life, learn the right actions to improve it, none of which will include whining or inactivity.
- Charity begins at home because you must take care of your own; however, if charity ends there, so do your chances to enter Heaven.
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Failing by Choice: 01-14-2025
- You can know exactly what to do, but if you don’t trust it can be done through you, you will somehow sabotage it.
- You can practice what to do until it becomes automatic, but if you don’t believe it can be done through you, you will short-circuit it somehow.
- You can have done the same thing many times before, but if you don’t have faith that it can be done through you this time, you will somehow subvert it.
- You can easily perform something; however, this is the first time you have been pressured to do it, and you lack confidence that you can do it under pressure, so somehow, you spoil it.
- You can easily perform something; however, this is the first time people have been watching you perform it, and you lack conviction that you can do it in front of people, so somehow, you scuttle it.
Monday, January 13, 2025
Humans Are Not Animals: 01-13-2025
- Animals are aware of life only on the outside.
- Animals are aware of the life of their body, not their brain, thoughts, instincts, memories, or conditioning.
- When animals dream, it is their body that dreams, not their mind.
- Humans are aware of life on the inside and outside.
- Humans are aware of the life of their physical and spiritual bodies (which animals do not have).
- When humans dream, their minds dream, not their bodies.
- Humans can switch their feelings, thoughts, memories, and conditioning; however, animals cannot.
Sunday, January 12, 2025
You Cannot Change Yourself: 01-12-2025
- Common fools want to change society to change themselves.
- Complete fools want to change others to change themselves.
- Intelligent people want to change themselves to change themselves.
- Wise people don’t want to change themselves; they want to surrender themselves to God.
- You cannot change yourself; however, you can change your habits and beliefs for the better.
- God can change you through the death and resurrection of the Savior of the World, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Life Requires Contact: 01-11-2025
- Are you mainly in contact with thinking?
- Are you in direct contact with the material world?
- Are you in direct contact with the spiritual world?
- Adults are mainly in contact with thinking about people, places, and things, not with people, places, and things.
- You will have a better life when you are in direct contact with the spiritual world more than the material world and the material world more than the verbal (thinking) world.
Friday, January 10, 2025
Nothing Else Is It: 01-10-2025
- Nothing is true but truth.
- Nothing is good but God.
- Nothing is a fact but a fact.
- Nothing is logical but logic.
- Nothing makes sense but sense.
- Nothing is reasonable but reason.
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Live As a Being: 01-09-2025
- Your being cannot be codified.
- Your being cannot be captured by names.
- Your being cannot be stopped in order to measure it.
- Your being is invisible and only knowable by its effects.
- You can contact your being but not know it as something.
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Knowing Is Your Enemy: 01-08-2025
- You are a non-knowing being.
- Not knowing is the beginning and end.
- It is a gift to know that you cannot know.
- It is a pleasure and privilege to host and serve knowing.
- Claims to know are claims to have intelligence independent from God, which is impossible.
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Stop Globalism Before It’s Too Late: 01-07-2025
- Don’t get lost in the symptoms of Globalism, but work directly to destroy Globalism itself.
- You must educate family, friends, and neighbors until enough resistance exists to foil Globalism.
- You must work against the organizations and billionaires working to establish Globalism for all time.
- Focus on the big picture, Globalism, because then all the political machinations and turmoil will make sense.
- You must understand the many ways in which Globalism is working to destroy governments, control the common person, and thwart each plan.
Globalism exposed: https://viewbook.at/Globalism-God-Paper
Monday, January 6, 2025
Religions Are Different: 01-06-2025
- Buddhism is a system that focuses on you, and Christianity is a system that focuses on God.
- Buddhism is a system of merit, and Christianity is a system of grace, of receiving an unearned gift.
- Buddhism is a system of life’s preparation for enlightenment, and Christianity is a system of God’s preparation for salvation.
- Buddhism is a system of self-development to earn its goal, and Christianity is a system of self-surrender and self-negation to prepare for its goal.
- Buddhism is a system of worshiping enlightenment and enlightened beings, and Christianity is a system of worshiping the one true God and no one and nothing else.
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Lock Your Doors to Evil: 01-05-2025
- You don’t allow rats to live in your house, but you allow worse to live in your heart, soul, and mind.
- You don’t allow cockroaches to live in your house, but you allow worse to live in your heart, soul, and mind.
- If you have pets, you are careful to feed them good food. However, you allow your heart, soul, and mind to overeat bad food.
- You don’t allow your home to fill with dirt and trash; however, you will allow your heart, soul, and mind to fill with dirt and trash.
- If you have little children in your home, you are careful to keep all poisons and toxins away from them; however, you do not keep all poisons and toxins away from your heart, soul, and mind.
Saturday, January 4, 2025
Self-Stories Are Self-Delusions: 01-04-2025
- Self-stories are relationships with semantic dreams, not people.
- Self-stories are relationships with self-constructions, not people.
- Self-stories are relationships with knowings about people, not people.
- Self-stories are relationships with measurements of people, not people.
- Self-stories are relationships with story creation and editing, not people.
Friday, January 3, 2025
You Are the Gatekeeper of Your Mind: 01-03-2025
- Following, listening to, and taking seriously some thinking is like punching yourself in the nose. You can choose to stop this.
- Following, listening to, and taking seriously some thinking is self-defeating, self-disturbing, and self-punishing. You can choose to stop this.
- Following, listening to, and taking seriously some thinking is emotionally and mentally harmful and not something you would tolerate from another. You can choose to stop this.
- Do not assume anything talking inside you is talking for you.
- Do not assume that the lazy, stimulation-seeking talking inside you must be yours; rather, assume it is a challenge to choose better.
Thursday, January 2, 2025
Value Your Inner Attention: 01-02-2025
- What facts say I must listen to and take seriously every stupid and vile thought that comes into my head?
- Where is the evidence I must listen to and take seriously every stupid and vile thought that comes into my head?
- What laws or rules say I must listen to and take seriously every stupid and vile thought that comes into my head?
- What is the logic that says I must listen to and take seriously every stupid and vile thought that comes into my head?
- What are the practical reasons I must listen to and take seriously every stupid and vile thought that comes into my head?
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Voices in Your Head: 01-01-2025
- Some call the voices in your head voices.
- Some call the voices in your head your chattering mind.
- Some call the voices in your head your random thoughts.
- Some call the voices in your head, your mind trying to resolve unfinished business.
- Some call the voices in your head your primitive urges, competing with your social urges.
- Some call the voices in your head the drives and conflicts of your parental, reason, and child natures for control.
- Some call the voices in your head the programming of your parents and society acting out their conflicts with your natural drives.
- Some deny you have voices in your head, but only thoughts that come out of nowhere that frequently mean nothing, which can be ignored as random waste.
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