- The fewer things you have in mind while you listen, the better you will hear.
- The fewer things in your mind while you pray, the better your prayers will be.
- The fewer things in your mind while you speak, the better your speech will be.
- The fewer things in your mind while you enjoy, the better your enjoyment will be.
- The fewer things in your mind while you seek the truth, the better your search results will be.
© 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 76 books in ebook, paperback, hardback, and audiobook formats.
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Things Keep Getting in the Way: 07-07-2026
Monday, July 6, 2026
HALT Formula (AA) for Safety: 07-06-2026
- Don’t get too hungry, because you’ll likely follow your flesh nature and act stupidly, causing more problems.
- Don’t get too angry, because you’ll likely follow your flesh nature and act stupidly, causing more problems.
- Don’t get too lonely, because you’ll likely follow your flesh nature and act stupidly, causing more problems.
- Don’t get too tired, because you’ll likely then follow your flesh nature and act stupidly, causing more problems.
- The pull of your flesh nature increases with whatever you host that is like or of it.
- The more things you host, the more things you follow; the more things you follow, the more you destroy yourself, others, and your life.
Sunday, July 5, 2026
What Are You Hiding?: 07-05-2026
- What evil does your pride hide?
- What evil does your desire hide?
- What evil does your power hide?
- What evil does your facade hide?
- What evil does your speech hide?
- What evil does your money hide?
- What evil does your politics hide?
- What evil does your passion hide?
- What evil does your religion hide?
- What evil does your authority hide?
- What evil does your appearance hide?
- What evil does your entertainment hide?
Saturday, July 4, 2026
Refuse to Wear False Clothing: 07-04-2026
- Wear no idols.
- Wear no stories.
- Wear no objects.
- Wear no thoughts.
- Wear no self-images.
- Wear no mental objects.
- Wear no thought-things.
- Wear no self-constructions.
- Wear nothing born of the ego.
- Wear nothing born of self-esteem.
Friday, July 3, 2026
Be Careful What You Wear: 07-03-2026
- You clothe your vessel in sin, and wonder why you are not accepted of God.
- You clothe your vessel in ego’s and self-esteem’s idols, and wonder why you are not accepted of God.
- You pursue all manner of ungodly clothing to please the world, and wonder why you are not accepted of God.
- Be clothed in virtue and be accepted of God.
- Be clothed in righteousness and be accepted of God.
Thursday, July 2, 2026
Host to Serve & Share the Good: 07-02-2026
- You cannot be the good, but you can host it and thereby serve and share it.
- You cannot be the good, but you can reflect it and thereby serve and share it.
- You cannot be the light, but you can host it and thereby serve and share it.
- You cannot be the light, but you can reflect it and thereby serve and share it.
- You cannot be the evil, but you can reflect it and thereby serve and share it.
- You cannot be the darkness, but you can reflect it and thereby serve and share it.
- In the end, you will get what you served most.
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Location Is Not Proof: 07-01-2026
- Just because you (a feeling or thought) are inside me does not mean you are me.
- Just because you (a feeling or thought) are inside me does not mean I caused you.
- Just because you (a feeling or thought) are inside me does not mean I can control you.
- Just because you (a feeling or thought) are inside me does not mean I can change or influence you.
- The presence of a feeling or thought in your vessel is proof that it is there, not of your causation or power over it.
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
A Jar Is Not Its Contents: 06-30-2026
- A jar cannot control its contents but relies on an external force to do so.
- A jar cannot change its contents but relies on an external force to do so.
- A jar trying to modify its contents is misguided because it lacks the power to do so.
- A jar is advised to contain healthy, useful contents; however, it needs external help to do so.
- A jar is advised to switch its contents when they are harmful; however, it needs outside help to do so.
Monday, June 29, 2026
Be the Jar, Not the Contents: 06-29-2026
- A jar that thinks it is its contents is insane.
- A jar is as open to something new as it is empty.
- A jar is labeled to identify its contents, not the jar.
- You can label a jar, but that jar will never become that label.
- The only way for a jar to become its contents is to be destroyed by them.
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Solitude Refreshes Self: 06-28-2026
- If you never make time for solitude, you never make time to be heard.
- If you never make time for solitude, you never make time to sort out your life.
- If you never make time for solitude, you will likely lose contact with yourself.
- If you never make time for solitude, you never make time to be alone with God.
- If you never make time for solitude, you never make time to understand yourself.
Saturday, June 27, 2026
What Do You Listen To?: 06-27-2026
- When you are still inside, you can hear the soft-voiced angels directing your spiritual path.
- How do you become still inside so you can listen attentively again? You do nothing.
- When you are busy inside, you can hear the loud-voiced mental objects directing your path to destruction.
- How do you become busy inside so you think you are knowing, doing, and being something? You take mental objects seriously and regard them as realities.
- How does my confusion start? You lose awareness of being the house and exchange it for awareness of being the furniture.
Friday, June 26, 2026
The Spiritual Life: 06-26-2026
- The spiritual life is your real life.
- The spiritual life is being in God.
- The spiritual life is living in the Spirit.
- The spiritual life is not our choice, but God’s choice for us.
- The spiritual life appears when you bump into your vessel nature.
- The spiritual life does not remove you from the world; it removes the world from you.
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Processes Cannot Give Humans An Identity: 06-25-2026
- No human being can be given an identity through any comparison or judgment.
- No human being can be given an identity using any measurement or rating techniques.
- No human being can be given an identity using any profiling, testing, or typing techniques.
- No human being can be given an identity through any evaluative or trait-cataloging techniques.
- No human being can be given an identity using any definition, description, or diagnosis techniques.
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Stop Doubling Your Trouble: 06-24-2026
- Doubling problems is the first problem you need to overcome.
- People are often anxious about their anxiety, and need to stop that anxiety first.
- People are often depressed about their depression, and need to stop that depression first.
- When you fight problems, you create a problem that stops you from fixing them.
- When you run from problems, you create more problems because they will chase and follow you wherever you go.
You Cannot Force Good: 06-23-2026
- Chasing positive is negative.
- The struggle for the positive reinforces the negative.
- The more you demand the good, the more you live with evil.
- You will never command the good; you can only be commanded by the good.
- You will never own the good; however, if you are fortunate, you can be owned by the good.
Monday, June 22, 2026
Determination Gets It Done: 06-22-2026
- Determination has overcome more than education, facts, and information ever have.
- Determination has overcome defeat, delusion, and discouragement, no matter the degree.
- Determination has overcome addictions, bad habits, and all manner of psychosocial problems.
- Determination has overcome deficiencies, disabilities, and disadvantages better than anything else.
- Determination can grow into an unstoppable force, surely a gift from God.
Sunday, June 21, 2026
Give to Receive: 06-21-2026
- Often, the best way to get what you need is to give it away.
- You need forgiveness, so you must start giving forgiveness away.
- You need God’s mercy, so you must start praying for others to receive it.
- You need salvation by being born again of the Spirit, so you must start praying that others receive salvation by being born again of God.
- You need to be under God rather than your human nature and ego impulses, so you must start praying for others to be under God rather than themselves.
Saturday, June 20, 2026
Attend to What Happens Inside: 06-20-2026
- What happens inside you affects you more than what happens outside you.
- It is not the outside of yesterday, today, or tomorrow but the inside of today that matters most.
- If you want to fix problems, then focus on what is inside you, because that is where most problems start and end.
- If you want to complain, complain about what is inside you, because that is where your problems and sorrows mainly come from.
- If you look outside of yourself for the causes of your problems and the world’s, you will find many good suspects beyond your control and influence. However, when you look inside for the causes of your problems and the world’s, you will find many good suspects that you can control and influence.
Friday, June 19, 2026
Be Aware of Your Spiritual Life: 06-19-2026
- The spiritual life encompasses and fulfills all of life.
- When you ignore your spiritual life, you ignore your life.
- You do not have to become spiritual; you are always spiritual.
- You have to become more aware of your spiritual life because it is your only life.
- The spiritual life is beyond the moral life just as the abstract is beyond the concrete.
Thursday, June 18, 2026
What Should You Rely On?: 06-18-2026
- The surest way to know what you should truly follow is to test its hardness or softness. The softer the form, the more reliable it is. The best guidance ultimately comes from the formless (Spirit) or moving (living) water.
- Test what you are serving by asking, “Is it more like air, water, or earth?” Air and water flow, adapt, and carry you effortlessly—they are reliable. Earth is solid and useful for information, but rigid and unfit for direction or control because it is incapable of carrying you. Instead, it wants to be carried.
- All mental objects are internal forms with varying degrees of hardness, just like everything else in existence (places and things). Following or serving mental objects as self, others, life, virtue, intelligence, or God will consistently lead to errors, failures, mistakes, and suffering.
- Find out internally if this is true: The harder the mental object, the more problems, failings, and suffering it will eventually lead to if you continue to follow it, no matter how righteous or virtuous it sounds or claims to be.
- The longer you serve or follow rigid internal forms (mental objects), the more destructive and disruptive the consequences become—and the scale of that destruction is directly proportional to their hardness and intractability. Instead, surrender to the formless and living water.
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Testing What to Rely On: 06-17-2026
- The surest way to know what you should truly follow is to test its hardness or softness. The softer the form, the more reliable it is. The best guidance is ultimately formless.
- Test this by asking: Is it more like air or like earth? Air flows, adapts, and carries you effortlessly—it is reliable. Earth is solid and useful for information, but rigid and unfit for direction or control.
- All mental objects are internal forms with varying degrees of hardness, just like everything else in existence.
- Prove it to yourself: The harder the mental object, the more problems, failings, and suffering it will eventually lead to.
- The longer you serve or follow rigid internal forms, the more destructive and disruptive the consequences become—and the scale of that destruction is directly proportional to their hardness.
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Strength Comes from Calmness: 06-16-2026
- Strength comes from calmness, not anger.
- Strength drives perseverance, tenacity, and resolve.
- Strength comes from accepting and overcoming fear.
- Strength comes from accepting and coping with tragedy.
- Strength comes from the courage to continue regardless of the odds and naysayers.
- Strength comes from focusing on the highest even when confronted with the lowest.
Monday, June 15, 2026
The Only Way Ahead: 06-15-2026
- The only way forward is through fear.
- The only way to know is to admit you don’t.
- The only way to rise is first to reach the ground.
- The only way forward is to stand still and listen.
- The only way to arrive is to stop trying to arrive.
- The path to achievement starts where you are now.
- The only way home is to walk the road you are on.
- The only way out of being lost is to move forward.
Sunday, June 14, 2026
The Only Way Out: 06-14-2026
- The only way out is through the now.
- The only way is to begin where you are.
- The only way is to start at the beginning.
- The only way is to start by taking one step at a time.
- The only way to change is through acceptance of not changing.
Saturday, June 13, 2026
Where Are You Now?: 06-13-2026
- Where else do you wish to be than in your own life?
- Where else do you want to be than in the moment of life?
- Where else do you want to be than in this life with the chance to go to Heaven?
- The wise person wishes to be who they are.
- The wise person wishes to be where they are.
- The wise person wishes their life to be what it is.
- The wise person wishes their fate to be what it is.
- Only through absolute acceptance of what exists does a door open to possibility.
Friday, June 12, 2026
Stop Living in Shadow Land (GS): 06-12-2026
- Thoughts are at best shadows of the real.
- If you want to look at what is casting a shadow, rather than its shadow, then you must have direct contact with it.
- If you want to look at what is casting a shadow, rather than its shadow, then you must turn away from thinking about it.
- If you want to look at what is casting a shadow, rather than its shadow, then you must turn away from your stories about it.
- If you want to look at what is casting a shadow, rather than its shadow, then you must turn from your mind to pure sensing.
- If you want to look at what is casting a shadow, rather than its shadow, then you must stop making it about you (personalizing it).
- If you want to look at what is casting a shadow, rather than its shadow, then you must turn away from your mental objects about it.
- If you want to look at what is casting a shadow, rather than its shadow, then you must stop categorizing, comparing, and measuring it.
Thursday, June 11, 2026
Negative Conscience Wants You to Fail: 06-11-2026
- Your negative conscience does not tell you to learn to switch, not to fix.
- Your negative conscience does not tell you that you must host the good, not the evil.
- Your negative conscience does not tell you that your errors are not correctable by you.
- Your negative conscience does not tell you that you must host God, being, not try to be by yourself.
- Your negative conscience does not tell you that you must host right doing, not try to do good by yourself and fail.
- Your negative conscience does not tell you that you must host right knowing, not try to know on your own and fail.
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Your Negative Conscience Is Your Enemy: 06-10-2026
- Your negative conscience does not tell you that you must host better beings, not be better.
- Your negative conscience does not tell you that you must host better forces of doing, not do better.
- Your negative conscience does not tell you that you must host better sources for knowing, not know better.
- Your negative conscience tells you to be being better, but that is compounding the problems and the lies.
- Your negative conscience tells you to do doing better, but that is compounding the problems and the lies.
- Your negative conscience tells you to know knowing better, but that is compounding the problems and the lies.
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Exist for God, Not Yourself: 06-09-2026
- Be the host for the one who is a being: God.
- Be the host for the one who does and allows work: God.
- Be the host for the one who knows and shares knowing: God.
- You do not exist without God, who is the one true self all must serve.
- You do not exist without hosting, despite your false claims of other abilities and powers.
Monday, June 8, 2026
Right Is Right & Wrong Is Wrong: 06-08-2026
- Excuses do not fix problems.
- Alibis do not prove innocence.
- Apologies do not make amends.
- Evasions do not remove wrongs.
- Justifications do not right wrongs.
- Defenses do not prove wrongs are rights.
- Rationalizations do not prove it was virtuous.
- Circumstances do not prove a lack of bad intentions.
- Forgiveness and pardons do not mean what was wrong is now right.
Sunday, June 7, 2026
Spiritually, Always Know Your Place: 06-07-2026
- It is an important spiritual practice always to know your place in relation to God.
- Whenever anyone gives you glory, know your place and tell them that all glory goes to God, who sometimes works through you.
- Whenever anyone gives you credit for any good works, immediately correct them and inform them that only God deserves the credit.
- Whenever you feel tempted to make claims for yourself, remember that all good comes from God and you are incapable of good on your own.
- Knowing your place is to know that you are a wondrous vessel that can host God and the universe, but, on your own, are incapable of doing the works that you host.
Saturday, June 6, 2026
Feelings Are Enemies Depending on Focus: 06-06-2026
- Agitation can be an enemy when it is about self-constructions rather than correctable situations.
- Agony can be an enemy when it is about self-constructions rather than the mistakes that separate you from God.
- Aggressiveness can be an enemy when it is about self-constructions rather than defending life and liberty.
- Alarm can be an enemy when it is about self-constructions rather than dangerous physical situations.
- Anguish can be an enemy when it is about self-constructions rather than confessing sins.
- Annoyance can be an enemy when it is about self-constructions rather than dealing with the stupidity of human nature.
- Anxiety be an enemy when it is about self-constructions rather than real-world events.
- Apathy can be an enemy when it is about self-constructions rather than giving them importance.
- Apprehension can be an enemy when it is about self-constructions rather than your salvation.
Friday, June 5, 2026
Confess Your Bad Choices: 06-05-2026
- Salvation does not cover or excuse bad choices; it exposes them.
- There is no salvation for the person who cannot admit having wrong choices.
- Because you did, felt, or thought wrong, that cannot make you wrong, but only a servant of wrong.
- Don’t say I was wrong. Say I hosted and followed wrong choices, feelings, thoughts, or otherwise.
- Don’t say I was wrong because you are made in the image of God, and that is not wrong; instead, say I hosted and followed wrong choices, feelings, or thoughts.
Thursday, June 4, 2026
Actions Convey Meaning: 06-04-2026
- Lying defines the liar.
- Hating defines the hater.
- Judging defines the judger.
- Blaming defines the blamer.
- Whining defines the whiner.
- Loathing defines the loather.
- Shaming defines the shamer.
- Damning defines the damner.
- Worrying defines the worrier.
- Excusing defines the excuser.
- Rejecting defines the rejecter.
- Resenting defines the resenter.
- Panicking defines the panicker.
- Punishing defines the punisher.
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Right Resistance Or Worse Results: 06-03-2026
- Resistance is basically either good or bad, depending on how you do it.
- What you resist persists when you resist it with the same nature that it uses.
- Keep your door shut to evil to protect your time, space, place, and energy from being used against you.
- What you resist is reinforced and takes up more of your time and space when you resist it with your thinking.
- You should resist letting evil come into your vessel, but resist with the Good, the Light, or Spirit, not other or milder forms of evil.
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Peace Is Faith in God: 06-02-2026
- Peace is not giving up but giving all to God.
- Peace is not inaction but action without noise.
- Peace is not surrender to the world, but surrender to God.
- Peace is not the end of work, but the end of striving with your mind.
- Peace is not the elimination of problems but the elimination of resistance to God.
Monday, June 1, 2026
Claiming to Know Is Lying: 06-01-2026
- Knowing is not reciting facts or knowledge, but understanding through direct and total experience.
- Unlike Socrates, I do not know that I don’t know because such knowing is beyond my capabilities.
- All knowing that is in me, besides my personal knowing of the actions of my being, is from outside me.
- I only know my action of hosting because all other knowing that enters or rests within me comes from another source.
- The ego, judging, whining, blaming, and damning cannot last without false claims to know: cut them short now.
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Be, Do, & Have to Know: 05-31-2026
- Knowing is only possible by being, doing, and having what it is that you wish to know.
- Only God can know God because only God can be, do, and have God.
- The ego claims to be, doing, and know thoughts as its way of owning your time and energy.
- We are a vessel and falsely claim to be, do, and know what we host: mental objects (dead things).
- We surrender our abundant and superior life as beings, doing, and knowing our hosting for a false life of being, doing, and knowing mental objects.
Saturday, May 30, 2026
Be, Do, & Know the Host: 05-30-2026
- We are not being what we are hosting.
- We are not doing what we are hosting.
- We are not knowing what we are hosting.
- We are being the host of what we are hosting.
- We are doing the hosting of what we are hosting.
- We are knowing the hosting of what we are hosting.
Friday, May 29, 2026
Control What You Can: 05-29-2026
- You are not in charge of what is inside you.
- You are not in control of what is inside you.
- With help, you can control what gets to come inside you.
- With help, you can control what gets to remain inside you.
- Learn to weed your mind of evil.
- Learn to plant good in your mind.
- Pray for forgiveness whenever you find evil within.
- Thank God whenever you find good inside.
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Comedy & Expectations: 05-28-2026
- The art of comedy is to set an expectation (outcome) in a common scenario for your audience, then to reinforce it with anecdotes, details, or facts until it is considered a given or natural by your audience (this varies across cities, urban populations, age groups, cultures, and around the world). Finally, suddenly or dramatically throw in something wildly unexpected or incongruent as the actual outcome (punch line).
- The last step is where timing comes in. You must wait until your audience has the desired outcome in mind before you break it. If you rush through the joke, the expectation will not be fully formed, and the joke will fail.
- Some can do comedy with total seriousness, which often makes the punchline more effective by providing greater contrast. Others can do comedy while self-mocking, creating a jovial mood among the audience and making them more likely to accept the punch line. Still others can deliver comedy with a playful attitude, creating a jovial mood in the audience and making them more likely to accept the punchline.
- Comedy is based on the fact that when a proven expectation is broken, the mind needs to release the energy that would have gone to the expected ending it can no longer reach, and the laugh mechanism allows this release. This release is allowed because the expectation was not of consequence to the audience. Expectations attract energy and can become destructive when desired outcomes are not met.
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Stop Becoming Things (GS): 05-27-2026
- The self does not grow; the ego grows.
- The self does not develop; the ego develops.
- The self does not become new things; the ego becomes new things.
- The self remains as it was born; the ego changes continuously.
- Personal growth is something to avoid, because it can only involve the ego.
- Change your habits, learn new skills, and gain new insights and information, but none of that is who you are.
Imagination is Unreal by Definition: 05-26-2026
- Everything you imagine is unreal; however, many have turned their imaginations into reality through disciplined effort, persistence, and intelligence.
- Everything you imagine is unreal; however, by focusing on what you imagine, you can often find much of it already exists in the world.
- Everything you imagine is unreal and has no God-like power to manifest itself in the world, no matter what practices (e.g., affirmation or intention) and time you devote to it. The universe does not owe your mental images obedience.
- Everything you imagine is unreal; however, many mistakenly treat the mental objects of imagination as more real than the physical objects of the world.
- Everything you imagine is unreal and has no God-like power to manifest itself in the world; however, many things that were only in the imagination that were fervently prayed for have become real through God.
- The danger and problem is that too many treat their mental constructs as more real than the stubborn, indifferent physical world. They confuse the map for the territory, the fantasy for the fact. This inversion leads to delusion far more often than it leads to creation.
- Hold two truths simultaneously: Imagination is unreal. Imagination is the raw material from which almost everything valuable in human civilization was born.
Monday, May 25, 2026
Ideas Are Not Reality: 05-25-2026
- Worrying about your idea of a person is not the same as worrying about the actual person.
- Feeling depressed about your idea of yourself is not the same as being depressed about who you really are.
- Hating someone in your mind is not the same as hating a living, breathing human being.
- Insecurity born from comparing your “inferior” self-image to someone else’s “superior” one is not just painful—it is fundamentally insane. It has no basis in reality.
- Most of what you think is nothing, because you are thinking about ideas of people, places, and things instead of the things themselves.
- Most of what you say is nothing, because you are speaking about ideas rather than reality.
- Test this for yourself: Can you breathe an idea? Can you drink or eat one? Can you feed the starving with the idea of food? Clothe the naked with the idea of clothing? House the homeless with the idea of shelter? Politicians constantly try exactly that—and we all know how spectacularly it fails.
- Reality is not optional. The moment you stop confusing your mental maps with the actual territory, your life becomes lighter, clearer, and far more sane.
Sunday, May 24, 2026
What You Feed & Grow On Becomes Your Goal: 05-24-2026
- Capitalists feed on and grow from profits, so they are incentivized by them.
- Governments feed and grow from taxes, so they are incentivized by them.
- When governments feed on taxes while trying to control or live off capitalism, the result is often authoritarianism, cronyism, and economic failure. They undermine the very system they depend on.
- The core problem with tax-funded governments is that revenue collection becomes an end in itself. This dependence on taxes inevitably incentivizes the expansion of bureaucracies and state power.
- The core problem with profit-driven businesses is that profit becomes an end in itself, leading to exploitation of workers, communities, and the environment.
- One promising solution for businesses is the benefit corporation model, which legally requires companies to consider the well-being of employees, communities, and the environment alongside profits.
- One proven solution for governments is radical downsizing. In Argentina, President Javier Milei has eliminated ministries, significantly cut public spending, reduced bureaucracy, and achieved budget surpluses—demonstrating that shrinking the state is possible.
- We must redesign the system so that both governments and businesses feed on and grow from the prosperity, health, and happiness of the people they serve—not by extracting from them.
Saturday, May 23, 2026
Rituals Substitute for the Real: 05-23-2026
- Pharisees follow rituals, not the Spirit.
- Rituals often become subtle idolatry of forms.
- Discipline matters, but ritual is not discipline; it is habit.
- Rituals substitute motion for genuine engagement and presence.
- Institutions love rituals because they scale, and that provides control and income.
- A candle lit in awe pierces you the first time; however, by the hundredth, it is mere background noise.
- New revivals arise to escape the current dead rituals, only to harden over time into new dead rituals, repeating the cycle across centuries.
Friday, May 22, 2026
Spirit Is Not Ritual: 05-22-2026
- There is nothing ritual about the spiritual.
- Spirituality blooms where inherited forms die.
- Spirituality begins precisely where ritual ends.
- The sacred needs no special building or calendar.
- The living encounter with the divine needs no script.
- True spirituality disrupts the self rather than decorating it.
Thursday, May 21, 2026
Rituals Kill the Spiritual: 05-21-2026
- Rituals soothe the ego, not negate it.
- Rituals kill spirituality, not enliven it.
- The brain habituates rituals, and the fire fades.
- Repetition turns sacred gestures into empty habits.
- Rituals promise transformation but deliver performance.
- Rituals can begin as awe, but soon become muscle memory.
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Limitations Vs. Unlimited Gifts: 05-20-2026
- Every limitation you set on yourself is real because your flesh nature contains every limitation.
- Every limitation the world sets on you is based on the world’s expectations for flesh, for human nature.
- Every limitation you set on yourself is unreal because you can rely on God instead of yourself and experience no limitations.
- Don’t limit yourself to human nature; seek to recognize it, deny and resist it, and replace its choices and works with those of Spirit.
- You are offered the highest gift, the opportunity to host God and have Him work through you; however, you want to be God, so you seek the lowest lies and lose all.
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Be Held by the Perfect: 05-19-2026
- Life is not about understanding perfection, but about loving the Perfect.
- Life is not about chasing perfection, but about being held by the Perfect.
- Life is not about the pursuit of perfection, but about the presence of the Perfect.
- Life is not about becoming like the perfect, but about being loved by the Perfect.
- Life is not about measuring up to perfection, but about being embraced by the Perfect.
- Life is not about fixing yourself into perfection, but about being made new by the Perfect.
- The pattern continues as long as the heart remembers: perfection is not a destination we arrive at through effort—it is a Person we belong to through grace.
Monday, May 18, 2026
Follow Perfection, Not Self: 05-18-2026
- Life is not about earning perfection, but about receiving the Perfect.
- Life is not about achieving perfection, but about abiding in the Perfect.
- Life is not about striving for perfection, but about resting in the Perfect.
- Life is not about proving perfection, but about depending on the Perfect.
- Life is not about reaching perfection, but about walking with the Perfect.
- Life is not about performing perfection, but about yielding to the Perfect.
Sunday, May 17, 2026
Perfect Is As Perfect Does: 05-17-2026
- Life is not about becoming perfect, but about following the Perfect.
- Life is not about mastering perfection, but about trusting the Perfect.
- Life is not about being perfect, but about surrendering to the Perfect.
- Life is not about displaying perfection, but about reflecting the Perfect.
- Life is not about becoming perfect, but about recognizing you are not the one who is supposed to be in charge of anything, and you’d better seek God to be in charge of everything.
Saturday, May 16, 2026
Unlearn What Is Unhealthy: 05-16-2026
- Unlearning can free your mind for experiencing.
- The older you get, the more you need to unlearn.
- Unlearning does not require replacing the learning.
- The more educated you are, the more unlearning you need to do.
- Unlearning the conditioning and propaganda of the media is a lifelong job.
Friday, May 15, 2026
How to Be Miserable: 05-15-2026
- Use stories to dislike everyone.
- Use stories to dislike everything.
- Use stories to prove everything is flawed.
- Use stories to make others always wrong.
- Use stories to blame others for everything.
- Use stories to prove others are always doing wrong.
- Use stories to prove they coulda, shoulda, and woulda done better with your stories guiding them.
- Use stories to always find fault: not done right, not effective, not efficient, not fast enough, not flawless, not going to stand the test of time, not going to work, not good enough, not in time, not on time, not perfect, not representative, not self-directed, not self-reliant, not soon enough, not without flaws.
Thursday, May 14, 2026
Habits Rule: 05-14-2026
- Habits rule life.
- Habits rule health.
- Habits rule Karma.
- Habits rule change.
- Habits rule destiny.
- Habits rule success.
- Habits rule survival.
- Habits rule perception.
- You rule yourself through your habits.
- You are the primary conditioner of your life through your habits.
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Suffering Works for You: 05-13-2026
- Suffering shows you how petty all your daily stories are.
- Suffering shows you the meaninglessness of your self-stories.
- Suffering shows you how unimportant all the stories you were working on are.
- Suffering works when you use it to deny all your self-stories.
- Suffering works when you use it to remove all your self-stories.
- Suffering works when you use it to see that all your self-stories are meaningless.
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
It Starts Without Comparing: 05-12-2026
- Without comparing, there are no stories.
- Without stories, there are no mind invaders.
- Without mind invaders, you are free to live as your natural vessel.
- Free to live as your vessel nature, you can be content in the world and blissful in God.
- Content in the world and blissful in God, you can help others find the same within.
Monday, May 11, 2026
You Are Not the Story Writer: 05-11-2026
- You are not the story writer for yourself.
- You are not the story writer for others.
- You are not the story writer for life.
- You are not the story writer for Karma.
- You are not the story writer for the universe.
- None of the stories you write are real or matter.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
Stories Make the Best Excuses: 05-10-2026
- A story is the excuse for everything and the solution for nothing.
- A story is the excuse for everything and the justification for nothing.
- A story is the excuse for every abuse and hate, especially when built on lies.
- A story is the excuse for every breach of courage, honor, and loyalty, especially when fabricated.
- A story is the excuse for every belief in failure and every surrender to discouragement, no matter how inaccurate or based on false predictions.
Saturday, May 9, 2026
End Your Stories for Joy: 05-09-2026
- Happiness is found when you stop all your stories.
- Bliss is a state of being in which you have no stories.
- You stop enjoying something as soon as you start hearing stories about it.
- You stop experiencing as soon as you hear a story about what you are experiencing.
- You stop listening as soon as you start hearing stories about what you were listening to.
Human Nature Is Hopeless: 05-08-2026
- There is no fixing human nature.
- No person has ever been fixed, not even one iota.
- Evil cannot become good without first dying and being remade.
- God cannot fix human nature because it would be a lie, and God cannot lie.
- Repent of your human nature and beware the Pharisees who want to cover your evil with appearances of good.
- The only way for a human to act good is for their human nature to stop being active while good comes through them.
- The only way for a human to become good is for their human nature to die and be remade into good.
Thursday, May 7, 2026
Hearing Is Not Thinking: 05-07-2026
- 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.
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.
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