- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.