Switch from Thinking to Non-Thinking: 01-22-2026

1. Move your internal listening from your thoughts to the sounds of a babbling brook, and follow those sounds as intensely as you would your thoughts.
2. Move your internal listening from your thoughts to the sounds of waves crashing on a beach or rocks, and follow those sounds as intensely as if your life depended on it, because it does.
3. Move your internal following of your thoughts to the movements of clouds, and follow those movements as intensely as you would your thoughts.
4. Move your internal following of your thoughts to the movements of a flock of migrating birds, a school of goldfish in a pond, or a herd of animals seeking water, and follow those movements as intensely as if your life depended on it, because it does.
5. Move your internal listening of your thoughts to the sounds of a Baroque, Mozart, or Beethoven symphony, and listen to those sounds as intensely as you would your thoughts.

Work Smarter, Not Harder: 01-21-2026

1. The harder you work on your ego, the worse it gets.
2. The harder you work on your anxiety and depression, the louder they become.
3. The harder you work on yourself, the more distant you become from yourself.
4. The harder you work on your bad habits, the more entrenched they become.
5. There are constructive ways to approach such problems; however, they do not involve control or changing them, but switching from them.
6. Why is it that working on psychological processes makes them worse? Because working on them is based on false assumptions of power and control that you will never have.

• Please read Not, to understand why demanding and forcing things mainly backfire.

Know the Costs of Your Choices: 01-20-2026

1. If we choose the best way, the middle way, the worst way, or something in between the best and the middle or the worst and the middle (5TP), all have unavoidable prices in energy, stress, time, and constrained or delayed future outcomes.
2. Learning a trade or just taking what comes your way has costs, including career, education, experience, legacy, retirement, and constrained or delayed future outcomes.
3. Living as an honest citizen or a criminal has costs, including limitations on association, career, family, legacy, personal freedom, retirement, and constrained or delayed future outcomes.
4. Choosing to work hard or do the minimum has costs, including those in association, career, contribution, culture, honesty, integrity, legacy, productivity, society, and constrained or delayed future outcomes.
5. Remaining a virgin or sleeping around before marriage has costs, including those related to attachment, bonding, health and safety, honesty, innocence, integrity, purity, simplicity, virtue, wholeness, and constrained or delayed future outcomes.

Heal with Clean Hands (legal sense): 01-19-2026

1. You need to heal without judging and damning.
2. You need to heal without blaming and damning.
3. You need to heal without judging and demanding.
4. You need to heal without complaining or whining.
5. You need to heal without anger and anxiety (worry).

Fear Can Be Rational: 01-18-2026

1. Fear Satan because he can make you sin against God.
2. Fear Satan because, from the beginning, he wants to destroy you as knowing.
3. Fear God because He alone has the power to give you the gift of eternal life.
4. Fear knowing because it is regularly used to boost your ego and kill your soul.
5. Fear knowing because it leads to dangerous, foolish, and harmful consequences.
6. The ego fears inferiority; however, there is none, because human beings are all made in the image of God.
7. Fear Islam because of its history, practices, teachings, and desires for world domination make it the most destructive and poisonous ideology of all time.

Spend Your Life Well: 01-17-2026

1. If you spend your life thinking the wrong things, you are part of the problem.
2. If you spend your life chasing the wrong things, you end up with the wrong things.
3. If you spend your life doing the wrong things, don’t expect to get the right things in the end.
4. If you spend your life loving the wrong things, don’t expect the right things to love you in the end.
5. If you spend your life serving the wrong things, you will not get to serve the right things for eternity.

From the Worst, the Best Can Arise: 01-16-2026

1. The worst suffering can lead to the best spiritual results.
2. The worst hardships can lead to a final surrender to God.
3. The worst loss can improve your understanding the most.
4. The worst experiences can teach you the most about human nature.
5. The worst betrayals can finally teach you the need to rely only on God.

Be Stronger Than Your Weaknesses: 01-15-2026

1. When there is a conflict between your emotions and your mind, who is stronger?
2. When there is a conflict between your emotions and your virtues, who is stronger?
3. When there is a conflict between your desires and your mind, who is stronger?
4. When there is a conflict between your desires and your virtues, who is stronger?
5. When there is a conflict between your laziness and your goals, who is stronger?
6. When there is a conflict between your laziness and your dreams, who is stronger?

Perseverance Wins With God & Learning: 01-14-2026

1. Perseverance wins if you are learning to do better while you persevere.
2. Perseverance wins when you discover better strategies along the way.
3. Perseverance wins when you rest in God.
4. Perseverance wins when you wait on God to help.
5. Perseverance wins when you return to living under God’s will.
6. Perseverance wins when you have confidence in God to run your life.

Diligently Seek Good Results: 01-13-2026

1. Attract the results you seek.
2. Pray for the results you seek.
3. Envision the results you seek.
4. Work for the results you seek.
5. Get help to achieve the results you seek.
6. Learn new information and skills to achieve the results you seek.

Clean the Inside of the Cup First: 01-12-2026

• I finished publishing last year’s postings. So I removed them from the blog. Unfortunately, some of this year’s postings got in the wrong order. I apologize. It was my fault.
• 3D: Daily Dose of Discernment: 2025

1. For everything you are angry about in the world and others, first see to it that it does not exist in you.
2. For everything you condemn and damn in the world and others, first see to it that it does not exist in you.
3. For everything you complain and whine about in the world and others, first see to it that it does not exist in you.
4. For everything you blame and hold responsible in the world and others, first see to it that it does not exist in you.
5. For everything you fear and worry about in the world and others, first see to it that it does not exist in you.

7 Kinds of Sensing: 01-01-2026

1. You sense (scan) using thinking: unreliable and must be wrong.
2. You sense (scan) using thinking and a mix of other forms of sensing, yielding mixed results that will be unreliable in proportion to the amount of sensing with thinking used.
3. You sense (scan) using your physical body’s senses: reliable in context.
4. You sense (scan) using your internal body’s senses: reliable in a large context.
5. You sense (scan) using feelings: reliability is based on the coherence of the feelings.
6. You sense (scan) using the energies of the external world: reliable in the world.
7. You sense (scan) using the energies of the internal world: reliable in both worlds.

Knowledge Cannot Replace Anything: 01-02-2026

1. Knowledge cannot love.
2. Knowledge cannot hope.
3. Knowledge cannot learn.
4. Knowledge cannot contain faith.
5. Knowledge cannot provide insight.
6. Knowledge cannot perform actions.
7. Knowledge cannot provide wisdom.
8. Knowledge cannot dance or play music.
9. Robots are not knowledge; they are software mimicking human responses, developed by thousands of programmers.

Knowledge Is Not Living: 01-03-2026

1. Knowledge has no logic.
2. Knowledge has no reason.
3. Knowledge is not life.
4. Knowledge is not reality.
5. Knowledge is not intelligence.
6. Knowledge is not understanding.
7. Knowledge is devoid of common sense.
8. Knowledge cannot prove or check itself.

Knowing Is From Above: 01-04-2026

1. Knowing is death.
2. Knowing is dying.
3. Knowing is not ours.
4. Knowing is the enemy.
5. Knowing that is not from above is ego.
6. Knowing that is not from above is false.

Focus on Yourself First: 01-11-2026

1. If you blame others, then you lack the experience of introspection and of understanding your intentions.
2. If you whine about others, then you lack the experience of introspection and of emotional responsibility.
3. If you damn others, then you lack the experience of introspection and of understanding of your human nature.
4. If you worry about what others are doing, then you lack the experience of introspection and of understanding the virtue of work.
5. If you demand that others change, then you lack the experience of introspection and of understanding of your need to focus on improving your habits.

You Are Your First Job: 01-10-2026

1. The person devoted to learning has no time for gossip.
2. The hard-working person is too busy to spend time complaining.
3. If you have time to criticize others, you are not working hard enough.
4. The person seeking excellence has no time for worry, as that time is better spent practicing.
5. You can work on your own habits, not others’; therefore, stop wasting time on others and get busy with yourself.

Your Vessel Is Perfectly Made: 01-09-20026

1. No good or bad works can affect the nature of your vessel.
2. You are the perfect vessel because you, as a vessel, are made in the image of God.
3. Computer implants cannot add any capabilities or enhancements to your vessel’s nature.
4. AI cannot improve upon your vessel’s nature, even after thousands of years of AI development.
5. Your vessel nature cannot be made better in any way because your vessel self is made in the image of God.
6. The only change needed for your vessel is to be made of God (Spirit), because it was made of flesh (matter, the universe, the void). And no flesh will live in Heaven with God forever. There is only one path that allows this change: the life, death, and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Go Beyond the Familiar: 01-08-2026

1. If you don’t push past the common, you will never discover the uncommon delights of higher values.
2. If you settle for the predictable, you will never discover the unpredictable benefits of working harder.
3. If you don’t do more than the expected, you will never discover the unexpected rewards of excellence.
4. If you don’t leave the harbor (conventionality), you will never discover the unconventional paths to greatness.
5. If you don’t leave your comfort zone, you will never discover that your dreams are beyond its boundaries and limits.

Help Your Vessel Be a Vessel: 01-07-2026

1. You can receive better when you are still.
2. You can reflect better when you are silent.
3. You can reshare better when you are humble.
4. You can channel better when you are resting in God.
5. You can mirror better when you are waiting on God.
6. You host better when you return to living under God’s will.
7. You can telecast better when you have confidence in God to run your life.

Beware Friendships: 01-06-2026

1. Friends can encourage your best or bring out your worst.
2. Friends can help you become more emotionally mature or help you whine like a baby.
3. Friends can help with problem-solving and coping, or help with quitting and excusing your failures.
4. Friends can support your efforts to overcome disadvantages and obstacles, or they can support your whining, blaming, and damning.
5. Friends can be your reality check and those you can rely on for the truth about your actions. Or, they can be losers and users who don’t care about your integrity and virtue but only about how they can manipulate you.

Suffering Reaps Rewards: 01-05-2026

1. If you only work when it is easy, your work will never be outstanding.
2. If you avoid pain and discomfort, you will never leave great works behind you.
3. If you do not strive for excellence in all things, you will never produce excellent things.
4. If you only pursue your dreams when it is convenient, you will never reach your dreams.
5. If you fear facing your human nature in all its brutality and ugliness, you will never produce an inspiring or uplifting piece of creative expression.