- 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.
© 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 68 books & audiobooks.
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Do Not Substitute Words for Experience: 03-29-2025
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.
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