- “Thou shalt” is the eternal enemy because you can never do it.
- Thou shalt, but thou cannot.
- Thou shalt, but trying to is sin and failing.
- Thou shalt, but claiming to is sin and lying.
- Thou shalt, but appearing to is sin and deceiving.
- Thou shalt, but pretending to is sin and dishonest.
- Thou shalt, but becoming it is sin, lying, and stealing.
© 2026 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 and Google Play for Kevin's 72 books in ebook, paperback, hardback, and audiobook formats.
Saturday, February 14, 2026
Thou Shalt Is Thou Won’t: 02-14-2026
Friday, February 13, 2026
Stop Your Working on Yourself: 02-13-2026
- Stop trying to run your heart and failing; turn to God to run your heart.
- Stop trying to run your soul and failing; turn to God to run your soul.
- Stop trying to run your mind and failing; turn to God to run your mind.
- Stop trying to run your feelings and failing; turn to God to run your feelings.
- Stop trying to run your intentions and failing; turn to God to run your intentions.
- Stop trying to run your relationships and failing; turn to God to run your relationships.
Thursday, February 12, 2026
“Must” Can Help or Harm: 02-12-2026
- Must can do.
- A must can defeat a try.
- A must can defeat a wish.
- A must can defeat a want.
- A must can defeat a should.
- A must can defeat a lazy impulse.
- A must can also cause negative stress if you have a must for something you cannot do because you do not have or did not get the authority and power you need to do it.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Who Is a Warrior?: 02-11-2026
- A warrior is reliable unto death.
- A warrior does not know how to quit.
- A warrior persists even when it is over.
- A warrior who would rather die than surrender.
- A warrior keeps going even when it is impossible.
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
The Path Must Be Chosen: 02-10-2026
- Insight and inspiration do not come when you are choosing laziness over work.
- Insight and inspiration do not come when you are choosing pride over surrender.
- Insight and inspiration do not come when you choose to avoid and escape rather than face and overcome.
- Insight and inspiration do not come when you choose denial and suppression over coping and problem-solving.
- Most claim to want the highest; few take the path of suffering to attain it.
Monday, February 9, 2026
Be True to Yourself: 02-09-2026
- Don’t change your virtues to fit in with the virtues of a relationship, job, group, or society.
- Don’t change your natural style to fit into the style of a relationship, job, group, or society.
- Don’t change your vibrations to fit into the vibrations of a relationship, job, group, or society.
- Don’t change your character to fit in with the character of a relationship, job, group, or society.
- If you give up your integrity for a relationship, job, group, or society, you will pay hell to regain it.
Sunday, February 8, 2026
Choose Work for the Best Results: 02-08-2026
- If you don’t make the effort, don’t expect anything.
- If you talk big without working big, you will get small.
- If you don’t work for your dreams, your dreams won’t work for you.
- If you don’t work longer and smarter than others, then you will envy those who do.
- If you don’t take big risks, you don’t get big rewards. However, most big risks are not worth the price—choose wisely.
Saturday, February 7, 2026
Search & Find: 02-07-2026
- When you search for problems, you find problems.
- When you search for solutions, you find solutions.
- When you search for ugliness, you find ugliness.
- When you search for beauty, you find beauty.
- When you search for corruption, you find corruption.
- When you search for good works, you find good works.
- When you search for the negative, you find the negative.
- When you search for the positive, you find the positive.
- You decide what you search for and focus on.
- You decide what to promote and protect.
Friday, February 6, 2026
Choose Success Or Failure: 02-06-2026
- If you believe in failure, you will find problems.
- If you believe in success, you will find solutions.
- If you believe in failure, you will find excuses.
- If you believe in success, you will find new information.
- If you believe in failure, you will find causes, defenses, and justifications for failure.
- If you believe in success, you will find encouragement, motivation, and new information and skills to keep you going.
Thursday, February 5, 2026
Encourage Coping Statements: 02-05-2026
- A bad experience does not make a bad life or relationship.
- A step backward does not mean that you cannot take two steps forward next time.
- A failure does not mean success is impossible; it only means you need to learn new information and skills.
- Setbacks are part of progress, so if you experience one, encourage yourself to stay on the path and learn more, not quit.
- Obstacles are often insurmountable until you ask for help, admit shortcomings, admit errors, and learn more information and higher skills.
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Dreams Must Involve More: 02-04-2026
- If your dreams are not plans, they are fantasies.
- If your dreams don’t involve new habits, they are fantasies.
- If your dreams do not require daily work, they are fantasies.
- If your dreams do not cause you to learn new skills, they are fantasies.
- If your dreams do not involve preparation, research, and study, they are fantasies.
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Discomfort Must Not Stop the Good: 02-03-2026
- If you are uncomfortable doing good, do it anyway.
- If you are uncomfortable confronting evil, do it anyway.
- If you are uncomfortable praying in public, do it anyway.
- If you are uncomfortable speaking the truth, do it anyway.
- If you are uncomfortable forgiving someone, do it anyway.
- If you are uncomfortable showing compassion, do it anyway.
- If you are uncomfortable professing your belief in God, do it anyway.
- If you are uncomfortable performing an act of kindness, do it anyway.
- If you are uncomfortable telling someone you love them, do it anyway.
- If you are uncomfortable praying before you eat at a restaurant, do it anyway.
Monday, February 2, 2026
Some Warning Signs for Choices: 02-02-2026
- If a choice is too easy, it’s likely wrong.
- If a choice is difficult, chances are it’s right.
- If a choice is too comfortable, it’s likely wrong.
- If a choice is too hard, chances are it’s right.
- More often than not, the safe choices are the wrong choices.
- More often than not, the difficult choices are the right choices.
- More often than not, the convenient choices are the wrong choices.
- More often than not, the painful choices are the right choices.
- More often than not, the low-risk choices are the wrong choices.
- More often than not, the impossible or high-risk choices are the right choices.
Sunday, February 1, 2026
Win with God: 02-01-2026
- When you rely on and stay true to God when God is attacked, you win.
- When you rely on and stay true to God in a negative situation, you win.
- When you rely on and stay true to God, no matter the situation, you win.
- When you rely on and stay true to God even when all desert Him, you win.
- When you rely on and stay true to God even at the risk of your life or your family’s life, you win.
Saturday, January 31, 2026
Where Is the Focus of Your Life?: 01-31-2026
- Focus your life on what is true.
- Focus your life on what is good.
- Focus your life on what is eternal.
- What is true, good, and eternal but God?
- God is life, light, and love; therefore, focus your life on God.
Friday, January 30, 2026
Your Past Is Your Toolbox: 01-30-2026
- Your past is a school, not a home.
- Your past is a teacher, not a companion.
- Your past is your workshop, not your prison.
- Your past is a reality check, not a condemnation.
- Your past is how you measure your behavior today.
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Detachment Is a Needed Skill: 01-29-2026
- Logic requires objectivism.
- Judgment requires detachment.
- Clear thinking requires calmness.
- Reason requires freedom from emotionality.
- Understanding requires composure and tranquility.
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Overcome Obstacles: 01-28-2026
- Overcome anger with stoicism and wisdom.
- Overcome laziness with virtuous ambitions.
- Overcome jealousy with acceptance, peace, and serenity.
- Overcome ego through the surrender of all claims to know.
- Overcome fear by gaining faith through making contact with Spirit through right contemplation, meditation, and prayer.
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
You Will Be Judged & Damned: 01-27-2026
- You will be judged and damned for whatever you do, so be judged and damned for following virtue.
- You will be judged and damned for whatever you do, so be judged and damned for standing up for God.
- You will be judged and damned for whatever you do, so be judged and damned for standing up for freedom of belief and speech.
- You will be judged and damned for whatever you do, so be judged and damned for standing up for the original tenets of Christianity.
- You will be judged and damned for whatever you do, so be judged and damned for following ancient principles over modern liberties.
Monday, January 26, 2026
You Are Neither the Thinker Nor the Thoughts: 01-26-2026
- You do not think thoughts; you host thoughts.
- You do not create thoughts; you host thoughts.
- You do not change thoughts; you switch to different thoughts.
- You do not control thoughts; you switch to different thoughts.
- You do not struggle with thoughts; you struggle with what thoughts you will focus on.
- You do not struggle with thoughts; you struggle with what thoughts you will identify with.
Sunday, January 25, 2026
All the Humans Are a Stage: 01-25-2026
- I, the inner vessel, am where it happened, not the cause or cure.
- I, the inner vessel, am the scene of the good or evil, not the good or evil in the scene.
- I, the inner vessel, am the stage where thoughts play their roles, not the thoughts or their roles.
- I, the inner vessel, am the time, space, and place in which thoughts act as if they are more than thoughts, not the creator of them.
- I, the inner vessel, am the location where the signal is received and retransmitted because I am a transceiver, not a signal or a source.
Saturday, January 24, 2026
Playing It Safe Is Losing: 01-24-2026
- Playing it safe means you cannot be trusted.
- Playing it safe means living without integrity.
- Playing it safe means you will betray virtue in case of need.
- Playing it safe means betraying anyone when the time comes.
- Playing it safe means getting nothing, losing something, or losing everything.
Friday, January 23, 2026
Switch Experiences from The Three: 01-23-2026
- Inside, you find yourself caught between a desire to think something and a desire not think about it, which has you divided into a triality of three desires: start, stop, escape.
- Move your internal sensing and experiencing from those three conflicting desires to the sounds of drums, oceans, music, or movies, and own the power of switching.
- Move your internal sensing and experiencing from those three conflicting desires to the experience of a sunset, a forest, walking on a beach, working in a garden, and own the power of switching.
- Move your internal sensing and experiencing from those three conflicting desires to the experience of children playing in the park, people walking on the sidewalk, driving your car, and own the power of switching.
- Move your internal sensing and experiencing from those three conflicting desires to the experience of cleaning your house, preparing breakfast, washing the dishes, or cleaning the floor, and own the power of switching.
Thursday, January 22, 2026
Switch from Thinking to Non-Thinking: 01-22-2026
- 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.
- 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.
- Move your internal following of your thoughts to the movements of clouds, and follow those movements as intensely as you would your thoughts.
- 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.
- 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.
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Work Smarter, Not Harder: 01-21-2026
- The harder you work on your ego, the worse it gets.
- The harder you work on your anxiety and depression, the louder they become.
- The harder you work on yourself, the more distant you become from yourself.
- The harder you work on your bad habits, the more entrenched they become.
- There are constructive ways to approach such problems; however, they do not involve control or changing them, but switching from them.
- 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.
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Know the Costs of Your Choices: 01-20-2026
- 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.
- Learning a trade or just taking what comes your way has costs, including career, education, experience, legacy, retirement, and constrained or delayed future outcomes.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Monday, January 19, 2026
Heal with Clean Hands (legal sense): 01-19-2026
- You need to heal without judging and damning.
- You need to heal without blaming and damning.
- You need to heal without judging and demanding.
- You need to heal without complaining or whining.
- You need to heal without anger and anxiety (worry).
Sunday, January 18, 2026
Fear Can Be Rational: 01-18-2026
- Fear Satan because he can make you sin against God.
- Fear Satan because, from the beginning, he wants to destroy you as knowing.
- Fear God because He alone has the power to give you the gift of eternal life.
- Fear knowing because it is regularly used to boost your ego and kill your soul.
- Fear knowing because it leads to dangerous, foolish, and harmful consequences.
- The ego fears inferiority; however, there is none, because human beings are all made in the image of God.
- Fear Islam because of its history, practices, teachings, and desires for world domination make it the most destructive and poisonous ideology of all time.
Saturday, January 17, 2026
Spend Your Life Well: 01-17-2026
- If you spend your life thinking the wrong things, you are part of the problem.
- If you spend your life chasing the wrong things, you end up with the wrong things.
- If you spend your life doing the wrong things, don’t expect to get the right things in the end.
- If you spend your life loving the wrong things, don’t expect the right things to love you in the end.
- If you spend your life serving the wrong things, you will not get to serve the right things for eternity.
Friday, January 16, 2026
From the Worst, the Best Can Arise: 01-16-2026
- The worst suffering can lead to the best spiritual results.
- The worst hardships can lead to a final surrender to God.
- The worst loss can improve your understanding the most.
- The worst experiences can teach you the most about human nature.
- The worst betrayals can finally teach you the need to rely only on God.
Thursday, January 15, 2026
Be Stronger Than Your Weaknesses: 01-15-2026
- When there is a conflict between your emotions and your mind, who is stronger?
- When there is a conflict between your emotions and your virtues, who is stronger?
- When there is a conflict between your desires and your mind, who is stronger?
- When there is a conflict between your desires and your virtues, who is stronger?
- When there is a conflict between your laziness and your goals, who is stronger?
- When there is a conflict between your laziness and your dreams, who is stronger?
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Perseverance Wins With God & Learning: 01-14-2026
- Perseverance wins if you are learning to do better while you persevere.
- Perseverance wins when you discover better strategies along the way.
- Perseverance wins when you rest in God.
- Perseverance wins when you wait on God to help.
- Perseverance wins when you return to living under God’s will.
- Perseverance wins when you have confidence in God to run your life.
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Diligently Seek Good Results: 01-13-2026
- Attract the results you seek.
- Pray for the results you seek.
- Envision the results you seek.
- Work for the results you seek.
- Get help to achieve the results you seek.
- Learn new information and skills to achieve the results you seek.
Monday, January 12, 2026
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
- For everything you are angry about in the world and others, first see to it that it does not exist in you.
- For everything you condemn and damn in the world and others, first see to it that it does not exist in you.
- For everything you complain and whine about in the world and others, first see to it that it does not exist in you.
- For everything you blame and hold responsible in the world and others, first see to it that it does not exist in you.
- 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
- You sense (scan) using thinking: unreliable and must be wrong.
- 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.
- You sense (scan) using your physical body’s senses: reliable in context.
- You sense (scan) using your internal body’s senses: reliable in a large context.
- You sense (scan) using feelings: reliability is based on the coherence of the feelings.
- You sense (scan) using the energies of the external world: reliable in the world.
- You sense (scan) using the energies of the internal world: reliable in both worlds.
Knowledge Cannot Replace Anything: 01-02-2026
- Knowledge cannot love.
- Knowledge cannot hope.
- Knowledge cannot learn.
- Knowledge cannot contain faith.
- Knowledge cannot provide insight.
- Knowledge cannot perform actions.
- Knowledge cannot provide wisdom.
- Knowledge cannot dance or play music.
- Robots are not knowledge; they are software mimicking human responses, developed by thousands of programmers.
Knowledge Is Not Living: 01-03-2026
- Knowledge has no logic.
- Knowledge has no reason.
- Knowledge is not life.
- Knowledge is not reality.
- Knowledge is not intelligence.
- Knowledge is not understanding.
- Knowledge is devoid of common sense.
- Knowledge cannot prove or check itself.
Knowing Is From Above: 01-04-2026
- Knowing is death.
- Knowing is dying.
- Knowing is not ours.
- Knowing is the enemy.
- Knowing that is not from above is ego.
- Knowing that is not from above is false.
Focus on Yourself First: 01-11-2026
- If you blame others, then you lack the experience of introspection and of understanding your intentions.
- If you whine about others, then you lack the experience of introspection and of emotional responsibility.
- If you damn others, then you lack the experience of introspection and of understanding of your human nature.
- If you worry about what others are doing, then you lack the experience of introspection and of understanding the virtue of work.
- 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.
Saturday, January 10, 2026
You Are Your First Job: 01-10-2026
- The person devoted to learning has no time for gossip.
- The hard-working person is too busy to spend time complaining.
- If you have time to criticize others, you are not working hard enough.
- The person seeking excellence has no time for worry, as that time is better spent practicing.
- You can work on your own habits, not others’; therefore, stop wasting time on others and get busy with yourself.
Friday, January 9, 2026
Your Vessel Is Perfectly Made: 01-09-20026
- No good or bad works can affect the nature of your vessel.
- You are the perfect vessel because you, as a vessel, are made in the image of God.
- Computer implants cannot add any capabilities or enhancements to your vessel’s nature.
- AI cannot improve upon your vessel’s nature, even after thousands of years of AI development.
- Your vessel nature cannot be made better in any way because your vessel self is made in the image of God.
- 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.
Thursday, January 8, 2026
Go Beyond the Familiar: 01-08-2026
- If you don’t push past the common, you will never discover the uncommon delights of higher values.
- If you settle for the predictable, you will never discover the unpredictable benefits of working harder.
- If you don’t do more than the expected, you will never discover the unexpected rewards of excellence.
- If you don’t leave the harbor (conventionality), you will never discover the unconventional paths to greatness.
- If you don’t leave your comfort zone, you will never discover that your dreams are beyond its boundaries and limits.
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Help Your Vessel Be a Vessel: 01-07-2026
- You can receive better when you are still.
- You can reflect better when you are silent.
- You can reshare better when you are humble.
- You can channel better when you are resting in God.
- You can mirror better when you are waiting on God.
- You host better when you return to living under God’s will.
- You can telecast better when you have confidence in God to run your life.
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Beware Friendships: 01-06-2026
- Friends can encourage your best or bring out your worst.
- Friends can help you become more emotionally mature or help you whine like a baby.
- Friends can help with problem-solving and coping, or help with quitting and excusing your failures.
- Friends can support your efforts to overcome disadvantages and obstacles, or they can support your whining, blaming, and damning.
- 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.
Monday, January 5, 2026
Suffering Reaps Rewards: 01-05-2026
- If you only work when it is easy, your work will never be outstanding.
- If you avoid pain and discomfort, you will never leave great works behind you.
- If you do not strive for excellence in all things, you will never produce excellent things.
- If you only pursue your dreams when it is convenient, you will never reach your dreams.
- 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.
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