- Hearing requires space, not stories.
- Hearing is what a vessel does, not an ego.
- Hearing requires emptiness, not narratives.
- Hearing requires experiencing, not categorizing.
- Hearing is not a product of activity, but of stillness.
- Hearing is not a product of activity, but of doing nothing.
- Hearing is not a product of noise or thinking, but of silence.
© 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 74 books in ebook, paperback, hardback, and audiobook formats.
Thursday, May 7, 2026
Hearing Is Not Thinking: 05-07-2026
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Peace Is Waiting: 05-06-2026
- Peace can only be found within.
- Peace is waiting because it exists permanently.
- You cannot create or develop peace because it is eternal.
- You can live at peace in the world only when you live at peace inside.
- You have nothing to do with there being peace or not, but only with choosing to live in it or not.
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Now or Never: 05-05-2026
- The future is built in this minute.
- The progress you make is made only now.
- The time to pray exists only in this moment.
- There is never time to love if you don’t love right now.
- It is never the right time to forgive unless it is always the right time to forgive.
Monday, May 4, 2026
Heart Over Mind: 05-04-2026
- You trust your heart too little and your mind too much.
- Your answers will arrive only when you look for them from your heart, not your mind.
- There are matters where the mind knows best, such concern things, not life or anything of depth.
- The heart tends to advise in a delicate, soft manner that can be easily dismissed, ignored, or missed.
- You should not reject the advice of your heart or mind, but you should give more credence to the advice of your heart.
Sunday, May 3, 2026
Change What You Can—Your Mind: 05-03-2026
- Stop trying to change minds; start changing one mind.
- Stop trying to change life; start changing your mind about life.
- Stop trying to change others; start changing your mind about others.
- Where do your conflicts and stress reside? In your mind. Change your mind about your conflicts and stress, and they lessen or disappear.
- Where does your anxiety and depression reside? In your mind. Change your mind about your anxiety and depression, and they lessen or disappear.
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Go to the Center: 05-02-2026
- The center is still, be there.
- The center is silent, be there.
- The center is where you should find yourself.
- The center is where you should respond from.
- The center is your authentic nature as a vessel.
- Practice Mind-Moving (M-M) until you are recentered.
Friday, May 1, 2026
Pause & Wait: 05-01-2026
- Pause and pray.
- Pause and wait for inspiration.
- Pause and wait for a better response.
- Pause and wait for God to guide you.
- Pause and practice Mind-Moving (M-M) to recenter yourself.
- Pause and wait for your human responses to subside and be replaced by wise responses.
Thursday, April 30, 2026
The Self Is Never Defeated: 04-30-2026
- The self cannot be defeated because it is what hosts your defeats.
- The self cannot be defeated because it is what hosts your conflicts.
- The self cannot be defeated; however, you easily lose awareness of the self.
- The self cannot be defeated because it is never directly involved in any war.
- As long as you are alive, the self remains as it was created, untouched by your life.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Self-Narratives Are Delusions & Illusions: 04-29-2026
- End your self-narratives, end your ego.
- In Eastern psychology, your self-narratives are seen as dreams you must wake from.
- Your self-narratives, also known as self-talk, erase your actual life in favor of fiction.
- Self-narratives are about narrative identities, as if you were composed of and existed only as stories, like fictional characters.
- Stop taking self-narratives, also known as personal narratives, seriously about you based on your being mental objects that no one is or can be.
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Nothing Makes You Anything: 04-28-2026
- Everything is happening in you, nothing as you.
- Everything is happening in you, nothing about you as a host except for God.
- Nothing has the necessary magical power to make you any mental objects.
- No experience has the necessary magic or power to make you any self-constructions, you foolishly choose to identity with them.
- Your logic might be that “if x happens, it will make me y.” However, that logic is based on manipulating your imagination rather than reality.
- Nothing is making you, your life, or your body into mental objects, despite many things tempting you to identify with and focus on the false importance of all forms of mental objects.
Monday, April 27, 2026
2 Kinds of Shame: 04-27-2026
- Shame has no curative or magical powers.
- Shame in the form of self-hate is counterproductive.
- Shame about being the wrong mental objects will destroy you, not heal you.
- The shame of our choices and mistakes can be used to learn to make better choices.
- The shame of our base human nature can be used to rely on God more and our fleshly inclinations less.
Sunday, April 26, 2026
Connect to Your Real Nature: 04-26-2026
- Connect to the space within you because that is your true nature; you, as a host.
- Connect to the silence within you, because that is your true nature; you, as a host.
- Connect to the stillness within you because that is your true nature; you, as a host.
- Connect to the formless within you, because that is your true nature; you, as a host.
- Connect to the shapeless within you, because that is your true nature; you, as a host.
- Connect to the emptiness within you because that is your true nature; you, as a host.
- Connect to the unformed within you, because that is your true nature; you, as a host.
- Connect to the unknowing within you, because that is your true nature; you, as a host.
Saturday, April 25, 2026
Your Self Is Not Lost: 04-25-2026
- There is never a loss of the self.
- There exist many losses of fake selves.
- You lose self-constructions for different ones, but none is the self.
- The self cannot be lost; it can only be hidden behind the coverings of mental objects.
- Without the self, you cannot function, because the self is your internal host through which all passes.
Friday, April 24, 2026
Education Not Always Educational: 04-24-2026
- Education that focuses on knowledge produces uneducated people.
- Education that focuses on experience produces competent and sometimes skilled workers.
- Education that focuses on both theory and practice produces educated and sometimes wise people.
- Generally, the more educated you become, the less educated you are because the less you rely on experience and the more you rely on verbal knowledge.
- Generally, the more educated you become, the more you live in verbal worlds and ignore physical words. Such education often leads to the promotion of policies, political programs, and virtuous-sounding causes that do more harm than good because there is no concern for measuring historical, current, and long-term results.
Thursday, April 23, 2026
You Cannot Do It Alone: 04-23-2026
- You alone cannot stop a river, the wind, or your thinking.
- You alone cannot steer a river, the wind, or your thinking.
- You alone cannot control a river, the wind, or your thinking.
- You alone cannot change a river, the wind, or your thinking.
- You, with the help of God, can stop, steer, control, and change your thinking.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Stop Claiming, Start Living: 04-22-2026
- We say surrender to God like there is any other power you can surrender to.
- We say surrender it to God, but this assumes you were ever in control when you cannot be.
- We say turn it over to God. Only, you never had, and never will have, it; only mental objects representing it.
- You host ideas of control that control nothing.
- You host ideas of trying that try to do nothing.
- You host claims of abilities and powers you are incapable of.
- You might appear to others to have power or control; however, you have none of your own.
- When you try to do, all you do is make noise with children’s toys.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Knowledge Is Not the Answer: 04-21-2026
- Knowledge is not the practice of doing something.
- Knowledge of all the theology of a religion does provide belief or faith in that religion.
- Knowledge of all the parts and processes of the human body does not make you a doctor.
- Knowledge of how to build a house does not magically convey the skills necessary to build one.
- Knowledge of all the parts and processes of any form of government does not teach you how it works.
- Knowledge of how something works is not the same as knowledge of how to operate it, for example, a sailboat.
- Knowledge of all the parts of an engine does not provide an understanding of how the engine works or how to fix it.
- Knowledge of all the parts and processes of the making and performing of music does not teach you to be a musical composer or a musician.
Monday, April 20, 2026
Knowledge Is Not the End: 04-20-2026
- Knowledge is not it.
- Knowledge is not skill.
- Knowledge is not ability.
- Knowledge is not the answer.
- Knowledge is not intelligence.
- Knowledge is not understanding.
- Knowledge is not compassion or love.
- Knowledge is not faith, hope, or charity.
Sunday, April 19, 2026
Appearances Are Deceptive (GS): 04-19-2026
- The role is not the actor.
- The costume is not the actor.
- The clothes are not the person.
- The cover is not what is covered.
- The purchase is not what was sold.
- The appearance is not what is inside.
- The advertisement is not the product.
- The package is not what is packaged.
- The decorations are not the decorated.
- The product is not what was promised.
- The hiding place is not what is hidden.
- The paint is not the wall that was painted.
Saturday, April 18, 2026
7 Steps to Resigned Death: 04-18-2026
- First, you were a unique space, place, time, and seat of energy that you abandoned.
- Second, you envision yourself as a mannequin, a movie screen, a whiteboard, tabula rasa, an uncarved block of wood, an unformed statue/picture, all of which can be understood as an unformed mental object, ready to be projected onto.
- Third, you create a story by imagining this subject object (unformed mental object) as something in the past, present, and future.
- Fourth, you argue and worry about which concepts and images put over these subject objects are true and which work against the appearances you want to present to the world.
- Fifth, you submit to projecting one or a series of images for the sake of worldly appearances.
- Sixth, you adjust the projections as needed to achieve the desired effects you seek from others.
- Seventh, you devote your life to perfecting, projecting, and protecting the appearances that you desire.
Friday, April 17, 2026
ADHD Is a Chosen Defense Mechanism: 04-17-2026
- ADHD is a self-defeating rebellion.
- ADHD is when you rebel against authority and refuse to submit to it internally by short-circuiting long-term controls.
- ADHD is the ultimate act of rebellion because it disconnects long-term control from short-term control and generally resists submitting to long-term control.
- Because you have retained short-term controls, you must learn to combine long-term efforts with your short-term efforts.
- Because you have retained short-term controls, you must learn to combine long-term planning into your moments of short-term planning.
- Because you have retained short-term controls, you must make room for long-term actions whenever you find yourself engaged in short-term actions.
- Because you have retained short-term controls, you must condition yourself to accept long-term planning and scheduling alongside your short-term planning and scheduling.
- Always include some long-term with every short-term until you have reconditioned and rewired yourself to value and seek both sets of tools all the time.
Thursday, April 16, 2026
Use Your Vessel Nature, Not Thinking: 04-16-2026
- The spiritual practice of faith in God must be done with your vessel nature, not your feelings or thoughts.
- The spiritual practice of hope in God must be done with your vessel nature, not your feelings or thoughts.
- The spiritual practice of seeking God must be done with your vessel nature, not your feelings or thoughts.
- The spiritual practice of waiting on God must be done with your vessel nature, not your feelings or thoughts.
- The spiritual practice of surrendering to God must be done with your vessel nature, not your feelings or thoughts.
- The spiritual practice of showing charity to God must be done with your vessel nature, not your feelings or thoughts.
- The spiritual practice of accepting that there is only One Self, One God, and that you are nobody must be done with your vessel nature, not your feelings or thoughts.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
How to Know: 04-15-2026
- If you want to know, study silence.
- If you want to know, study stillness.
- If you want to know, study not-trying.
- If you want to know, study non-doing.
- If you want to know, study not-owning.
- If you want to know, study not-claiming.
- If you want to know, study not-knowing.
- If you want to know, study being nobody.
- If you want to know, study being nothing.
- If you want to know, study non-becoming.
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Stop Struggling with Thinking: 04-14-2026
- You are an eternal sucker for the game of fighting thinking with thinking.
- You are an eternal sucker for the game of trying to change thinking with thinking.
- You are an eternal sucker for the game of trying to control thinking with thinking.
- You are an eternal sucker for the game of fighting your thinking being you with your thinking being somebody else.
- You are an eternal sucker for the game of fighting your thinking being you with your thinking being something else.
- Thinking is never a being, a change agent, a controller, or a fighter because it has no being, power, or virtue of its own.
Monday, April 13, 2026
Seek & Find: 04-13-2026
- You will find peace when you can sit alone and do nothing.
- You will find yourself when you stop seeking to be somebody or something.
- You will find the truth when you find the one God, the one Self, the one to whom all glory belongs.
- You will find God when you seek the One Self with three parts, who is the source of all and the only one deserving of praise.
- You will find your purpose and meaning when you find your way to share and worship the one God, the one Self, the only one deserving of glory and praise.
“Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.” —Psalm 148:13
Sunday, April 12, 2026
Path of Finding Yourself: 04-12-2026
- The path of finding yourself is littered with the bodies of who you are not.
- The path of finding yourself is littered with the bodies of your Frankenstein monsters.
- The path of finding yourself is littered with the bodies of fictional characters from your self-stories.
- The path of finding yourself is the discovery that you are nobody and nothing because there is only one self.
- The path of finding yourself is more about who you are not than who you are because who you are is nobody.
- The path of finding yourself is the discovery that you are nobody and nothing because you exist to host, reflect, and worship the One.
Saturday, April 11, 2026
Stand Up for Your Host Nature: 04-11-2026
- Does angry, anxious, depressive, and self-story thinking drone on just to block my existence?
- While that angry, anxious, depressive, or self-story thinking is droning on, where am I in that noise?
- Does angry, anxious, depressive, and self-story thinking drone on just to deprive me of my time, space, place, and energy?
- While that angry, anxious, depressive, or self-story thinking is droning on, why is my existence as a host being ignored?
- While that angry, anxious, depressive, or self-story thinking is droning on, how are the goals and interests of my nature as a host being served?
Friday, April 10, 2026
Face Your Internal Rulers: 04-10-2026
- Either you rule your thinking, or it rules you.
- Why is your thinking so insistent on being in control?
- If you cannot free yourself from your thinking, guess who is in charge?
- Either you consider your self-stories nonsense, or they become all-important.
- When are you going to revolt and take back your mind from thinking, self-talk, and self-stories?
- Perhaps you should devote yourself to God’s story instead of your meaningless mess of self-stories that are incomplete, inconsistent, and impermanent?
Thursday, April 9, 2026
Self-Stories Steal Your Life: 04-09-2026
- How much of your day is spent lost in thought about your self-stories that never materialize?
- If your self-stories are so important that they dominate your day, why don’t you record and film them?
- If your self-stories are so important, why will you forget them tomorrow unless they caused internal conflict?
- How much of your life is spent performing for the imaginary audiences of your self-stories no one sees or hears?
- What if life has one crucial story that you are not aware of or serving instead of yourself?
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Where Does the Time Go?: 04-08-2026
- How much time does doubt take from your present?
- How much time does worry take from your present?
- How much time does insecurity take from your present?
- How much time is spent recovering or relaxing in the present?
- How much time does concern for correcting the past take from your present?
- How much time does concern for appearing good in the future take from your present?
- By now, you get the idea that much of your present time is wasted in ways that are not productive, do not fulfill your dreams, and do not serve your purpose in life. Now you know why you are where you are in life.
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Science Has Been Compromised: 04-07-2026
- Science has zero intelligence.
- Like intelligence, science has no power of its own.
- Science has no intelligence of its own to share with anyone.
- Science is not a mini-god who can bestow intelligence on you.
- Worshipping science will not increase your intelligence, but it will lower your perspective-taking abilities.
- The only payoff for believing in science is that you can feel superior to those who do not; however, acknowledging actual scientific work (repeatable, testable) is often useful.
Monday, April 6, 2026
One Story for All: 04-06-2026
- Wake up and work for God’s story because yours is forgotten every day.
- There is only one story in life, and it is not yours or humanity’s; it is God’s.
- You can work for God’s story by following His will, not your own.
- You can be on the side of the story that explains how Christ overcame human nature, or you can be on the side of the story that explains how human nature needed to be overcome.
- If you choose to live for Jesus’s story, you will go to Heaven and praise Him there forever. If you choose to live for your own or humanity’s story, you will go to Hell and agonizingly recite its failings there.
Sunday, April 5, 2026
The Path Was Made Once: 04-05-2026
- There exists only one path out of our human nature.
- There are many false paths to overcoming yourself, but only one that succeeds.
- There is only one who could and did make a path for us to overcome our human nature.
- Many make claims while trying to steal the Kingdom of God or take it by force; in the end, they will all fail.
- Appearances and high-sounding words are not enough to overcome yourself, but only to deceive yourself and others.
Saturday, April 4, 2026
Start with Hard Work: 04-04-2026
- Every victory began with hard work.
- All prosperity began with hard work.
- Every success began with hard work.
- Every new fortune began with hard work.
- All positive results began with hard work.
- Every great work of art began with hard work.
- Every new famous athlete began with hard work.
- Every accomplishment of note began with hard work.
Friday, April 3, 2026
Beyond Pleasure: 04-03-2026
- For those who seek pleasure, you should know that joy is beyond pleasure.
- For those who seek pleasure, you should know that love is beyond pleasure.
- For those who seek pleasure, you should know that joy in God is beyond pleasure.
- For those who seek pleasure, you should know that meditating on God is beyond pleasure.
- For those who seek pleasure, you should know that the joy we will have in Heaven is immeasurable and unfathomable.
Thursday, April 2, 2026
Respond to Life With Your Best: 04-02-2026
- The best response to life is joy in God.
- A great response to life is gratitude for God.
- A great response to life is gratitude for the chance to go to Heaven.
- A great response to life is to devote your time to following the will of God.
- A great response to life is overcoming yourself so that God might overcome you.
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
Use Negatives to Surrender to God: 04-01-2026
- Negatives are an opportunity to rise.
- Negatives are an opportunity to show character.
- Negatives are an opportunity to exercise restraint.
- Negatives are an opportunity to put virtue in charge.
- Negatives are an opportunity to surrender to God’s will.
- Negatives are an opportunity to test your resolve to follow the right path.
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Now Is the Only Right Time: 03-31-2026
- The right time to stand up for God is always now
- The right time to stand up for the truth is always now.
- The right time to choose good over evil is always now.
- The right time to choose your heart over your mind is always now.
- The right time to choose to listen to the soft inner voices over the loud thoughts is always now.
Monday, March 30, 2026
Provide While You Can: 03-30-2026
- Provide a smile for someone’s struggles.
- Provide a rainbow inside someone’s clouds.
- Provide soothing words for someone’s tears.
- Provide a word of comfort inside someone’s loss.
- Encourage a sense of gratitude inside every place.
- Provide a word of calm inside someone’s anger and fear.
Sunday, March 29, 2026
Signal Theory of Behavior: 03-29-2026
- Two strong signals can overcome one mighty strong signal.
- If your response signal is stronger than the external signal, it can override it.
- If you and your response signals are stronger than a problem’s signal, then you can overcome it.
- If you are a stronger signal than any signal that you receive, then you maintain the option of choice.
- If you receive a signal that is stronger than your signal and the signal of your response to it, then it will dominate.
You Do Not Exist: 03-28-2026
- When you become mental objects (ego, self-esteem), you do not exist.
- When you compare yourself to different mental objects (ego, self-esteem), you do not exist.
- When you measure and rate yourself as mental objects (ego, self-esteem), you do not exist.
- When you measure and rate others as mental objects (ego, self-esteem), you do not exist because you must first become the mental objects you wish on others.
- When you live in a world of mental objects, you live in a dream world where no one and nothing is real, and nothing exists outside the delusions and illusions of your imagination.
For more information on mental objects, please read Human Nature Confesses, The Three, or Fast-Facts: Semantics.
Friday, March 27, 2026
Best Over Worst: 03-27-2026
- The best handle the worst.
- The best overcame the worst.
- The best were once the worst.
- The best learn to help the worst.
- The best learn to ignore the worst.
- The best have a lot more character than the worst.
- The best keep going when the worst have quit long ago.
- The best have a mindset that the worst can only dream about.
- The best have an internal drive that makes the worst look like they have no drive at all.
- The best take failure and make it work for them, not against them, as the worst do.
- The best have greater consistency, resilience under fatigue, attention to detail, and willingness to learn and outwork others.
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Mental Objects Murder: 03-26-2026
- Mental objects dehumanize you.
- Mental objects reify and robotize you.
- Mental objects objectify and ossify you.
- Mental objects fixate, fossilize, and freeze you.
- Mental objects calcify, characterize, concretize, and crystallize you.
- You and others have no self composed of knowledge-things, memory-objects, mental-objects, mental-things, self-constructions, semantic-objects, thought-things, verbal-objects, or any of the other tools that the ego uses under its modern name of self-esteem.
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Restrain Reactions: 03-25-2026
- Pause, step back, and restrain your reaction.
- Pause, step back, and restrain your reaction to improve it.
- Pause, step back, and restrain your reaction to avoid conflict.
- Pause, step back, and restrain your reaction to avoid overreacting.
- Pause, step back, and restrain your reaction to avoid unnecessary risks.
- Pause, step back, and restrain your reaction to avoid harming someone.
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Games Mental Objects Play: 03-24-2026
- Mental objects are your enemies that care about how you appear to them, not God.
- Mental objects are your enemies that always use the same playbook: whine, blame, and damn.
- Mental objects are your enemies that talk high and mighty and never worry about their results.
- Mental objects are your enemies that accuse you of the wrongs they have committed and plan to commit.
- Mental objects are your enemies that put self-righteousness and pride over ethics and doing good.
- Mental objects are your enemies that project their evil onto you and then commit greater evil in the name of overcoming your evil.
- Mental objects are your enemies that find your tiniest injustices to advocate for while defending and protecting their worst injustices.
- Mental objects are your enemies that emotionally blackmail and guilt-trip you into doing what they want, even when it makes everything worse.
- Mental objects are your enemies that preach disgrace, not reconciliation, recovery, redemption, rehabilitation, overcoming, and forgiveness.
- Mental objects are your enemies that play the negative conscience of the world while seeking their own fame and fortune at the expense of you and everyone else.
Monday, March 23, 2026
Mental Objects Cannot Admit Error: 03-23-2026
- Mental objects are enemies that are illogical without awareness.
- Mental objects are enemies that are unthinking because they cannot think.
- Mental objects are enemies that are unreasonable because they cannot reason.
- Mental objects are enemies that are unethical because they cannot follow any ethics.
- Mental objects are enemies that are unfair in their approaches, responses, and tactics.
- Mental objects are enemies that cannot admit errors or mistakes because they have no conscience.
- Mental objects are enemies that cannot learn from experience because they have no self-awareness.
- Mental objects are enemies that are uncaring because they cannot care, meaning all appeals to emotion and empathy are ignored.
- What is said about mental objects is true of people who base themselves and their beliefs on them.
- When you argue with someone who exhibits the characteristics of mental objects, you waste your time on a dead person.
Sunday, March 22, 2026
The Curse of Better: 03-22-2026
- You lose your soul wanting to be better than others.
- When you want to be better than others, you live for your ego, not God.
- You lose your life’s meaning and purpose when you seek to be better than others.
- You strive for human approval, not God’s, because you want to be better than others.
- When you seek to be better than others, you also, in darkness, seek for others to be worse.
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Mental Objects Are Not Intelligent: 03-21-2026
- Stop regarding mental objects as thinking.
- Stop regarding mental objects as judgment.
- Stop regarding mental objects as reasoning.
- Stop regarding mental objects as reflection.
- Stop regarding mental objects as cogitating.
- Stop regarding mental objects as processing.
- Stop regarding mental objects as knowledge.
- Stop regarding mental objects as viewpoints.
- Stop regarding mental objects as understanding.
- For more information on mental objects, please read Human Nature Confesses, The Three, or Fast-Facts: Semantics.
Friday, March 20, 2026
Stop Comparing Mental Objects: 03-20-2026
- Stop rating mental objects.
- Stop relating mental objects.
- Stop balancing mental objects.
- Stop measuring mental objects.
- Stop comparing mental objects.
- Stop connecting mental objects.
- Stop contrasting mental objects.
- Stop associating mental objects.
- Stop splitting mental objects into opposites.
- For more information on mental objects, please read Human Nature Confesses, The Three, or Fast-Facts: Semantics.
Thursday, March 19, 2026
Don’t Use Mental Objects for Anything: 03-19-2026
- Don’t use mental objects for decisions.
- Don’t use mental objects for dreams.
- Don’t use mental objects for drives.
- Don’t use mental objects for goals.
- Don’t use mental objects for laws.
- Don’t use mental objects for plans.
- Don’t use mental objects for pleasures.
- Don’t use mental objects for prayers.
- Don’t use mental objects for prizes.
- Don’t use mental objects for rules.
- Don’t use mental objects for seeking.
- Don’t use mental objects for sharing.
- Don’t use mental objects for values.
- Don’t use mental objects for worship.
- For more information on mental objects, please read Human Nature Confesses, The Three, or Fast-Facts: Semantics.
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Should Men Get Married?: 03-18-2026
- Does a woman bring help or work into your life?
- Does a woman bring peace or war into your life?
- Does a woman bring stress or calm into your life?
- Does a woman bring support or criticism into your life?
- Does a woman bring loyalty or subversion into your life?
- Does a woman bring financial stability or debt into your life?
- Does a woman bring family life or social media into your life?
- Does a woman bring encouragement or discouragement into your life?
- Does a woman bring guaranteed sex or sex withholding into your life?
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Mental Objects Cause Problems: 03-17-2026
- Mental objects have no intelligence.
- Mental objects have no life of their own.
- Mental objects have no power of their own.
- Mental objects have no abilities of their own.
- Mental objects first cause problems by leading you to rely on them to do something, then they accuse you of being stupid for failing to do what they ruined.
- Mental objects first cause problems by leading you to rely on them to do something, then they accuse you of being stupid for failing to do what they interfered with.
- For more information on mental objects, please read Human Nature Confesses, The Three, or Fast-Facts: Semantics.
Monday, March 16, 2026
Mental Objects Are the Problem: 03-16-2026
- When your mental objects fight, you lose.
- When you listen to mental object, you listen to stupid.
- Stop praying for mental objects and start praying for your vessel.
- Stop worrying about mental objects and start dealing with reality.
- God is not going to serve your mental objects, no matter how long you pray for them.
- God is not interested in your mental objects, no matter how much faith, hope, and charity you have for them.
- For more information on mental objects, please read Human Nature Confesses or The Three.
Sunday, March 15, 2026
It Is a Temporary Gift: 03-15-2026
- Being able to practice a skill or talent with ease is a temporary gift.
- Being a living vessel aware of and enjoying God is a temporary gift.
- Being able to use intelligence to create and perform is a temporary gift.
- Whenever people compliment you for doing well, redirect it to a compliment to God for giving you a gift.
- Whenever people praise you, refocus it to praising God by acknowledging that anything they perceived you doing that was good was done by Him through you.
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Step Back to Hosting: 03-14-2026
- Whatever the problem, step back from being it or a part of it to being aware of hosting it.
- Whatever the problem, step back from being it or a part of it to being aware of surrendering it to God.
- Whatever the problem, step back from trying to fix it and be aware of relying on God to take care of it.
- Whatever the problem, step back from being it or a part of it to being aware of waiting for God to take care of it.
- Whatever the problem, step back from being it or a part of it to being aware of hosting it, and then step back again to being aware of being aware of hosting it.
Friday, March 13, 2026
You Can Claim Nothing: 03-13-2026
- You can claim nothing because God owns all good.
- You can claim nothing because God owns all intelligence.
- You can claim nothing because you are a vessel for everything.
- You can claim nothing because God owns all energy and power.
- You can claim nothing, because all skill and talent belong to God.
- You can claim nothing because you are not capable of sourcing anything.
- You can claim nothing because you are not capable of creating anything on your own.
- You can claim nothing because your job is to reflect what is inside you, not be it.
Thursday, March 12, 2026
You Own Nothing: 03-12-2026
- You own nothing because God owns all good.
- You own nothing because God owns all intelligence.
- You own nothing because you are a vessel for everything.
- You own nothing because God owns all energy and power.
- You own nothing, because all skill and talent belong to God.
- You own nothing because you are not capable of owning anything.
- You own nothing because you are not capable of causing anything.
- You own nothing because your job is to reflect what is inside you, not be it.
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
How to Do Good: 03-11-2026
- For the possibility of doing good, we must first be drawn to the good by God. So pray for and wait for that.
- When God draws us to the good, thank Him and have faith in the good to do good.
- When God draws us to the good, have faith in His power to do what He wants, which is always good.
- Never forget that your first inclination is stupid, and that you must overcome yourself with God’s help.
- Never forget that only God is good and that if you are to do good, it must be done by God acting through you and not you.
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Virtue Is Not Words (GS): 03-10-2026
- Verbal ethics are no ethics at all.
- Love exists in results, not words.
- Charity exists in actions, not words.
- Purpose exists in reality, never in words.
- Faith exists in internal responses, not words.
- Hope exists in internal responses, not words.
- Work exists in reality, or it is words, not work.
- Dreams must start to materialize in reality, or they remain only words.
Monday, March 9, 2026
Meaning Exists in Actions (GS): 03-09-2026
- Meaning exists in truth, not words.
- Meaning exists in deeds, not words.
- Meaning exists in reality, not words.
- Meaning exists in loyalty, not words.
- Meaning exists in actions, not words.
- Meaning exists in courage, not words.
- Meaning exists in responses, not words.
- Meaning exists in performing, not words.
Sunday, March 8, 2026
You Are the Playing Field: 03-08-2026
- You are the playing field; the game played on your turf is not you or about you.
- You are the playing field; those who play on it treat you like a sucker, stealing your time and energy.
- You are the playing field; the game played on your turf is not concerned with you, despite appearances.
- You are the playing field; those who play on it deceive you into thinking it is about you, but it is about them.
- You are the playing field; you are sacrificing your time, space, place, and energy for nothing worth anything.
- You are the playing field; none of the characters or experiences on it exist in the real world because they are just mental objects about mental objects.
Saturday, March 7, 2026
Make the Right Choice Between Two: 03-07-2026
- If you struggle to choose between two, choose the kinder response.
- If you struggle to choose between two, choose the more virtuous response.
- If you struggle to choose between two, choose the one from the quieter place.
- If you struggle to choose between two, choose the one from the most lit location.
- If you struggle to choose between two, choose the one that helps the most people.
- If you struggle to choose between two, do not choose the one you cannot see clearly in the open.
- If you struggle to choose between two, do not choose the loud, forceful one over the quiet, peaceful one.
Friday, March 6, 2026
The Best Will Subdue the Worst: 03-06-2026
- The best can handle the worst.
- The best can overcome the worst.
- The best are prepared for the worst.
- The best never surrender to the worst.
- The best are not worried about the worst.
- The best can help the worst get back on track.
Thursday, March 5, 2026
Rescuing Is Often Harming: 03-05-2026
- Don’t rescue people when you can offer them a job or training for a job.
- Don’t rescue people when you have the option to help them to help themselves.
- Don’t rescue people; refer them to people who will teach them to help themselves.
- Rescuing people often leads to dependence, discouragement, failure to try, laziness, and quitting.
- Rescuing people often teaches them to believe in a self-fulfilling prophecy that they cannot succeed on their own because they are defective or inferior.
- Parents must help their children to help themselves, not rescue or do for them, when their children can learn to do for themselves. This self-help training starts with simple things and gradually progresses to more complex ones.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Overcome Failures Or Lose: 03-04-2026
- Failures hold back failures.
- Failures do not stop those who seek the best.
- Failures are forgotten when you win the prize.
- Failures do not count for those who persist to the end.
- Failures can motivate or demotivate; you decide which.
- Failures can break you or make you, depending on your mindset.
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Choice is Between Distractions & Focus: 03-03-2026
- We blame distractions instead of taking responsibility for our focus.
- If you are focused on minor things, you will miss the big things.
- If you are focused on the past, then you will miss the present and future.
- Who causes us to lose focus if not ourselves, since our focus is under our control?
- If you fail to focus on first things first, you will miss opportunities and squander your time.
- A good focus is to put God first, your spouse second, your children third, and your community fourth.
Monday, March 2, 2026
Control What You Can: 03-02-2026
- You might try to control how others treat you and fail; however, you should control how you treat yourself.
- You might try to control how others identify you and fail; however, you should control how you identify yourself.
- You might try to control how others think of you and fail; however, you should control how you think of yourself.
- You might try to control how others speak to you and fail; however, you should control how you speak to yourself.
- You might try to control how others react to you and fail; however, you should control how you react to yourself and others.
Sunday, March 1, 2026
Who Controls Your Mindset?: 03-01-2026
- Nothing fails as well as a poor mindset.
- Your mindset determines most of your life.
- If you are not controlling your mindset, then who is?
- The proper mindset has historically overcome every obstacle and setback.
- The proper mindset has historically overcome every disadvantage and unfairness.
Saturday, February 28, 2026
Know the Limits of Negative: 02-28-2026
- The negative never creates the positive.
- The negative can only spawn more negatives.
- The negative is a useful tool, never a useful product.
- The negative in charge will never result in the positive becoming in charge.
- The negative has its place and use in critiques and problem-solving, but never as a goal or purpose in itself.
Friday, February 27, 2026
Reframing Can Help You Reformulate: 02-27-2026
- Do you have disasters or tests?
- Do you have problems or challenges?
- Do you have hardships or new chances?
- Do you have disadvantages or opportunities?
- Do you have unfairness or new hope and courage?
- Do you have obstacles or windows of opportunity?
- Whatever they or something wants for you and what you respond with can be opposite in nature.
Thursday, February 26, 2026
React Less & Win More: 02-26-2026
- React less, pray more.
- React less, pause more.
- React less, forgive more.
- React less, choose perspective-taking more.
- You can react less when you are emotionally mature.
- You are emotionally mature when you are responsible for your feelings, but not anyone else’s.
Discipline Is Required by All Good: 02-25-2026
Without discipline, your dreams are dust.
Without discipline, your virtues are verbals.
Without discipline, your plans and purposes are pathetic.
Without discipline, your life will be one mess after another.
Without discipline, your good intentions are good for nothing.
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Patience Is Required for Excellence: 02-24-2026
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” —Leo Tolstoy
- Patience has a strong friend: perseverance.
- Patience is about waiting in the right manner.
- Patience is a virtue because it is an act of waiting.
- Patience is a power because it waits for the real power.
- Patience is allowing the ingredients to cure and mature.
The Pause That Refreshes: 02-23-2026
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” —Victor Frankl, (debated, but in tune with his ideas)
- Pause before thinking.
- Pause before speaking.
- Pause before answering.
- Pause before taking action.
- To pause is to wait, to wait is to honor God (the source), to honor God is to honor yourself.
- Waiting is the central characteristic of a well-functioning vessel, and pausing is an act of waiting.
Sunday, February 22, 2026
Facing Fears Builds Strength: 02-22-2026
- Facing fears builds courage.
- Facing fears builds confidence.
- Facing fears builds compassion.
- Facing fears builds competence.
- Facing fears builds consciousness.
Saturday, February 21, 2026
5TP From Idealist to Cynic: 02-21-2026
A pessimist is what an optimist calls a realist.” —Ashley Williams, a character from the video game Mass Effect.
- Thesis: Idealist/Utopian/Visionary/Dreamer. Believes in perfect and ideal forms. Sees mostly or only the good potential and positive outcomes.
- Thesis-Incorporating-Antithesis: Optimist/Hopeful Meliorist/Encourager. Mostly positive, believes things can and likely will improve, but realistically admits some flaws and obstacles will occur.
- Synthesis: Realist/Neutralist/Balancer/Observer. Sees both sides equally, neither strongly affirms nor denies improvement or perfection, focuses with low valence (acceptance, bare attention, cognitive distancing, defusion, detachment, equanimous observation, objectivity, stoicism).
- Antithesis-Incorporating-Thesis: Pessimist/Cautious Skeptic/Cautioner. Mostly negative, expects things to stay difficult or worsen, but grudgingly admits that some good elements or small wins can occur.
- Antithesis: Cynic/Nihilist/Defeatist/Detractor. All-negative, believes perfection is impossible, people and society are fundamentally flawed and corrupt; therefore, no real progress is possible.
- For more information on the Five Thinking Positions (5TP), please read Discovery Demands 5TP.
Friday, February 20, 2026
Freewill Is a Delusion: 02-20-2026
- Freewill is a contradiction in terms.
- Will is bound, or it is not will.
- Will is not free, or it is not will.
- Will is commitment, not debate.
- Will is governed by whatever nature it is given to.
- Before choice comes confusion.
- Clarity provides choice.
- Choice binds, or it is not choice.
- Choice is not free, or it is not choice.
Thursday, February 19, 2026
Calm Mind Works Best: 02-19-2026
- A stormy mind is an erratic mind.
- Only a calm mind can think clearly.
- Only a calm mind can think accurately.
- Only a calm mind can view other perspectives fairly.
- Only a calm mind can hold competing thoughts at the same time without prejudice.
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Alone You Can Share the Most: 02-18-2026
- God is one.
- The loner is the stronger.
- All great artists worked alone.
- Being alone is a gift few can bear.
- The higher you rise, the fewer there are.
- We are all singular and alone at birth and death.
- If you can stand alone, you can stand for the one: God.
- A wise man is never more alone than with a crowd of people.
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Dancing Is Required: 02-17-2026
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” —Nietzsche
- If you don’t dance internally, you don’t live internally.
- You cannot dance with “thou shalt,” and you must dance.
- David danced with all his might to the Lord in praise and gratitude.
- Dancing must be ecstatic, free, and playful because it is an expression of life.
- Dancing tunes you into energy vibrations and helps you surrender to them in all areas of your life.
Monday, February 16, 2026
That Too Is a Gift: 02-16-2026
- Repeat “That too is a gift” when you perform well.
- Repeat “That too is a gift” when you find inner peace.
- Repeat “That too is a gift” when you have done an act of charity.
- Repeat “That too is a gift” because non-doing (Wu Wei) is a fact.
- Repeat “That too is a gift” when you are moving in the right direction.
- Repeat “That too is a gift” until you run out of claims for doing something and the false pride that entails.
- Repeat “That too is a gift” while you deny the chain of your claims all the way back to the actual doer, God.
Thou Shalt Do Cannot Do: 02-15-2026
- A people that cannot dance to music is worthless.
- You can’t sing using “Thou shalt.”
- You can’t dance using “Thou shalt.”
- You can’t paint art using “Thou shalt.”
- You can’t play music using “Thou shalt.”
- You can only act with thou must as energy, not as thinking.
Saturday, February 14, 2026
Thou Shalt Is Thou Won’t: 02-14-2026
- “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.