What Is the Root of Desire?: 05-28-2025

1. What is the purpose of your desire?
2. Why do you desire what you desire?
3. What is the payoff or reward for your desire?
4. What is the outcome of your desire for your life?
5. Who and what does your desire serve, and is that why you desire it?
6. What is the motivation for your desire, and who or what determined that motivation?
7. Is there one eternal desire that life should be spent on?

Live By a Few Good Rules: 05-27-2025

1. People who do not live by rules live by foolishness.
2. People who do not live by rules are dangerous to themselves and others on a construction site.
3. People who do not live by rules quickly fall into evil habits such as lying, cheating, stealing, and laziness.
4. People who live by too many rules are replaced by rules.
5. People who live by too many rules spend much of their time thwarting progress and productivity.
6. People who live by too many rules seek to destroy the lives of others by forcing them to also be under too many rules.
7. People who live by a few good rules can live healthy and productive lives.
8. People who live by a few good rules can be a good example for others.
9. People who live by a few good rules can be trusted and relied upon in dangerous and uncertain times.

You Are Self-Disturbing: 05-26-2025

1. It hurts because you identify with it as a semantic-object.
2. It is upsetting because you identify with it as a semantic-object.
3. It is annoying because you identify with it as a semantic-object.
4. It is disturbing because you identify with it as a semantic-object.
5. It is difficult and seemingly impossible because you identify with it as a semantic-object.
6. Detach, problem-solve, and cope instead of self-disturbing and stressing others with your whining.

Speaking Is Not Knowing: 05-25-2025

1. Everybody knows everything and nothing simultaneously because wisdom is often spoken without understanding.
2. Everybody knows everything and nothing simultaneously because people can give perfect advice while following the worst advice.
3. Everybody knows everything and nothing simultaneously because wisdom is often spoken without knowing how to implement and test it.
4. Everybody knows everything and nothing simultaneously because people often speak profound truths without applying them to their lives.
5. Everybody knows everything and nothing simultaneously because God gives freely, allowing people to say great things. However, all understanding comes from God, which people will rarely acknowledge receiving, so they don’t receive.

Small Things Can Add Up to Great Things: 05-24-2025

1. You cannot always do great things, but you can always contribute in small ways.
2. You cannot always do great things, but you can always do small things in a great way.
3. You cannot always do great things, but you can always encourage others to do their best.
4. You cannot always do great things, but you can always help others by looking for opportunities in your daily life.
5. You cannot always do great things, but you can do enough small things that their accumulative effect is great.

Two Consciousnesses—Self & Other: 05-23-2025

1. Identity causes attachment to and consciousness of the self; however, it is also used for false selves, such as semantic-objects.
2. Attention causes detachment from and consciousness of the other; however, other consciousness can be misused to observe the self as competing, new, or old false selves that exist as self-constructions.
3. Attachment is understood as becoming one, bonding, commitment, deep connection, extreme dedication, intimacy, joining, and merging.
4. Detachment is understood as abstract distancing, aloofness, disinterest, dispassion, impartiality, indifference, objectivity, open-mindedness, and a scientific attitude.
5. We try to solve our psychological problems with our psychological problems. Our psychological problems exist as semantic-objects, and we try to fight and fix them with more semantic-objects.

Seek Within, Not In the World: 05-22-2025

1. You can seek your purpose in the world; however, it is only found within by serving God.
2. You can seek yourself in the world; however, it is only found within as hosting the world.
3. You can seek fulfillment in the world; however, it is only found within by hosting the good.
4. You can seek meaning in the world; however, it is only found within after you discover yourself as a host.
5. You can seek importance and significance in the world; however, they are only found within when you discover yourself serving God and others.

Having Friends Is a Choice: 05-21-2025

1. Some wish for friends, and those who make new friends by befriending others.
2. Some complain that they have no friends, and those who make new friends by befriending others.
3. Some blame others for not having friends, and those who make new friends by befriending others.
4. Some blame their life for not having friends, and those who make new friends by befriending others.
5. Some blame their childhood, circumstances, and something about their body for not having friends, and those who make new friends by befriending others.

Two Kinds of People: 05-20-2025

1. There are two kinds of people; those who provide benefits, and those who take benefits.
2. There are two kinds of people; those who blame obstacles, and those who overcome obstacles.
3. There are two kinds of people; those who seek to be understood, and those who seek to understand.
4. There are two kinds of people; those who seek what they can get, and those who seek what they can give.
5. There are two kinds of people; those who seek to be something in the world, and those who seek to a servant in Heaven.

The Key for Having Resilience: 05-19-2025

1. The more settled you are in your identity as a host, the less unsettled things can make you feel.
2. The more confident you are in your identity as a host, the less things can shake your confidence in God.
3. The more stabilized you are in your identity as a host, the less trials and tribulations can destabilize you.
4. The more invested you are in your identity as a host, the less being divested of material things can affect you.
5. The more established you are in your identity as a host, the less the world will be able to devalue and invalidate you.

Don’t Argue with Fools & Mean People: 05-18-2025

1. Liberal Hypocrisy: “Your rules don’t exist, but my exceptions to the norms and standards are rules.”
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.

Do the Right Thing: 05-17-2025

1. Host the right, not do the right.
2. The right thing to do is to host the right doing things.
3. Do less in your life while relying on God to do more.
4. Measure success by your doing less and God doing more.
5. Measure success by your being less and God being more in your life.
6. Measure success by your knowing less and God knowing more for you.
7. 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.

What to Respond to?: 05-16-2025

1. Respond to your sensing of the hosted.
2. Respond to the sensations that you, as the host, experience.
3. Respond to the feelings that you, as the host, experience.
4. Respond to the intentions that you, as the host, experience.
5. Respond to the actions that you, as the host, experience.
6. Respond to the experiences that you, as the host, have.

Where to Respond From?: 05-15-2025

1. Respond from the position of being the host, not from being the hosted.
2. Respond from the position of knowing the host, not from knowing the hosted.
3. Respond from the position of doing the host, not from doing the hosted.
4. Respond from the position of having memories of hosting, not from memories of being, knowing, or doing the hosted.
5. A little child responds to experiencing, not to being, knowing, or doing something that was hosted.

The Path of Non-Responding: 05-14-2025

1. Non-being or no-self is when you host God being God instead of your claims to be something.
2. Non-doing is when you host God doing instead of your claims to do.
3. Non-knowing is when you host God knowing instead of your claims to know.
4. Non-responding is when you host God responding instead of your semantic-objects pretending to respond.
5. Being a host is being humble and enjoying your wonderful ability to host God and creation.

Where and When to Host?: 05-13-2025

1. Who should I host? God, not self.
2. What should I host? God being, knowing, and doing.
3. Where should I host? God being in my heart, God doing in my soul, and God knowing in my mind.
4. When should I host? Always host God and return to hosting God if you slip off the narrow path.
5. Why should I host? Because I am a host, not a source or a god.

What to Host?: 05-12-2025

1. We must host the right being good, not ourselves being good.
2. We must host the right knowing the good, not ourselves knowing the good.
3. We must host the right doing the good, not ourselves doing the good.
4. We must seek for the right to respond inside, not ourselves.
5. We must wait for the right to respond inside and not try to respond ourselves.

Start Being Wrong More Often: 05-11-2025

1. If you are never wrong, then you can never be right.
2. The more often you are wrong, the more often you can be right.
3. No human being is wrong; however, their feelings, intentions, beliefs, plans, and actions can be wrong.
4. 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.
5. Being wrong means things don’t add up, follow, match, and do contradict and deviate from each other because your thinking processes lack integrity.

The Future Is Built in the Present: 05-10-2025

1. If you want better, do better, not blame and damn better.
2. You build a good future on a good present, not a bad past.
3. A good future stands on good work, not whining about unfairness.
4. A good future is based on good choices in the present, not a bad past.
5. No amount of blaming and damning, whether justified or not, can build a good future.

Psychological Nondoing: 05-09-2025

1. Switch from trying to perform (do) some psychological response to an inner event to resting in God.
2. Switch from trying to perform (do) some psychological response to an inner event to relying on God to respond.
3. Switch from trying to perform (do) some psychological response to an inner event to waiting for God to respond.
4. Switch from trying to perform (do) some psychological response to an inner event to praying for God to respond.
5. Switch from trying to perform (do) some psychological response to an inner event to returning to God for direction.

Spiritual Emotional-Resilience: 05-08-2025

1. The spiritually emotionally-resilient can handle negative stress in positive and productive ways.
2. The spiritually emotionally-resilient can access reasoning, coping, and problem-solving in challenging and disturbing situations.
3. The spiritually emotionally-resilient are centered and grounded in their identity as a hosting being.
4. The spiritually emotionally-resilient prioritize their relationship with God and His commands over the demands of others, society, and all media.
5. The spiritually emotionally-resilient are confident in God and their prayerful connection to and dependence on God. 

Laziness Produces Poor Cultures: 05-07-2025

1. The most advanced cultures all have a work ethic.
2. Your flesh nature prefers sloth; therefore, you must constantly choose against laziness.
3. Our biggest mistake in life is calling the desires of our flesh nature the desires of our self.
4. Teach yourself to prefer the soft inner voice that provides choices and directions based on morality and spirituality.
5. 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.

Get What You Give: 05-06-2025

1. The amount of service is equal to the amount of eternal reward.
2. The amount of sharing is equal to the amount of eternal reward.
3. The amount of support is equal to the amount of eternal reward.
4. The amount of sacrifice is equal to the amount of eternal reward.
5. The amount of surrender is equal to the amount of eternal reward.

Thought On Lower Order (GS): 05-05-2025

1. Thought is not on the same order (hierarchy) as energy; therefore, thinking trying to control energy must fail.
2. Thought is not on the same order (rank) as sensing; therefore, thinking trying to control sensing must fail.
3. Thought is not on the same order (level) as sensations; therefore, thinking trying to control sensations must fail.
4. Thought is not on the same order (place) as feelings; therefore, thinking trying to control feelings must fail.
5. 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.
6. 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.

Learn Better Problem-Solving: 05-04-2025

1. Use the 3Rs: Recognize, Remove, and Replace problems.
2. Define, discover, and explore the problem systematically.
3. Research and compare potential interactive solutions.
4. Choose, plan, and practice one systemic solution.
5. Evaluate results, reflect, and predict long-term contextual and environmental results.
6. Redo, refine, and adjust the plans and solutions as needed to address multivalued issues.
7. 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.

Right Proportions Are Needed: 05-03-2025

1. The only thing worse than control is no control.
2. The only thing worse than method is no method.
3. The only thing worse than government is no government.
4. The only thing worse than too much thinking is no thinking.
5. The only thing worse than too much restraint is no restraint.
6. The only thing worse than too much direction is no direction.
7. The only thing worse than too much constraint is no constraint.

Blame Is Lame: 05-02-2025

1. Fix more and blame less.
2. Cope more and blame less.
3. Learn more and blame less.
4. Accept more and blame less.
5. Improve skills and blame less.
6. Advance knowledge and blame less.
7. Problem-solve more and blame less.

Increase the Positive for Others: 05-01-2025

1. Human nature is a disaster that spreads destruction; however, you can choose to respond virtuously and increase positive examples for others.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.