Knowledge Is Not the Answer: 04-21-2026

1. Knowledge is not the practice of doing something.
2. Knowledge of all the theology of a religion does provide belief or faith in that religion.
3. Knowledge of all the parts and processes of the human body does not make you a doctor.
4. Knowledge of how to build a house does not magically convey the skills necessary to build one.
5. Knowledge of all the parts and processes of any form of government does not teach you how it works.
6. Knowledge of how something works is not the same as knowledge of how to operate it, for example, a sailboat.
7. Knowledge of all the parts of an engine does not provide an understanding of how the engine works or how to fix it.
8. 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.

Knowledge Is Not the End: 04-20-2026

1. Knowledge is not it.
2. Knowledge is not skill.
3. Knowledge is not ability.
4. Knowledge is not the answer.
5. Knowledge is not intelligence.
6. Knowledge is not understanding.
7. Knowledge is not compassion or love.
8. Knowledge is not faith, hope, or charity.

Appearances Are Deceptive (GS): 04-19-2026

1. The role is not the actor.
2. The costume is not the actor.
3. The clothes are not the person.
4. The cover is not what is covered.
5. The purchase is not what was sold.
6. The appearance is not what is inside.
7. The advertisement is not the product.
8. The package is not what is packaged.
9. The decorations are not the decorated.
10. The product is not what was promised.
11. The hiding place is not what is hidden.
12. The paint is not the wall that was painted.

7 Steps to Resigned Death: 04-18-2026

1. First, you were a unique space, place, time, and seat of energy that you abandoned.
2. 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.
3. Third, you create a story by imagining this subject object (unformed mental object) as something in the past, present, and future.
4. 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.
5. Fifth, you submit to projecting one or a series of images for the sake of worldly appearances.
6. Sixth, you adjust the projections as needed to achieve the desired effects you seek from others.
7. Seventh, you devote your life to perfecting, projecting, and protecting the appearances that you desire.

ADHD Is a Chosen Defense Mechanism: 04-17-2026

1. ADHD is a self-defeating rebellion.
2. ADHD is when you rebel against authority and refuse to submit to it internally by short-circuiting long-term controls.
3. 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.
4. Because you have retained short-term controls, you must learn to combine long-term efforts with your short-term efforts.
5. Because you have retained short-term controls, you must learn to combine long-term planning into your moments of short-term planning.
6. Because you have retained short-term controls, you must make room for long-term actions whenever you find yourself engaged in short-term actions.
7. 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.
8. 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.

Use Your Vessel Nature, Not Thinking: 04-16-2026

1. The spiritual practice of faith in God must be done with your vessel nature, not your feelings or thoughts.
2. The spiritual practice of hope in God must be done with your vessel nature, not your feelings or thoughts.
3. The spiritual practice of seeking God must be done with your vessel nature, not your feelings or thoughts.
4. The spiritual practice of waiting on God must be done with your vessel nature, not your feelings or thoughts.
5. The spiritual practice of surrendering to God must be done with your vessel nature, not your feelings or thoughts.
6. The spiritual practice of showing charity to God must be done with your vessel nature, not your feelings or thoughts.
7. 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.

How to Know: 04-15-2026

1. If you want to know, study silence.
2. If you want to know, study stillness.
3. If you want to know, study not-trying.
4. If you want to know, study non-doing.
5. If you want to know, study not-owning.
6. If you want to know, study not-claiming.
7. If you want to know, study not-knowing.
8. If you want to know, study being nobody.
9. If you want to know, study being nothing.
10. If you want to know, study non-becoming.

Stop Struggling with Thinking: 04-14-2026

1. You are an eternal sucker for the game of fighting thinking with thinking.
2. You are an eternal sucker for the game of trying to change thinking with thinking.
3. You are an eternal sucker for the game of trying to control thinking with thinking.
4. You are an eternal sucker for the game of fighting your thinking being you with your thinking being somebody else.
5. You are an eternal sucker for the game of fighting your thinking being you with your thinking being something else.
6. Thinking is never a being, a change agent, a controller, or a fighter because it has no being, power, or virtue of its own.

Seek & Find: 04-13-2026

1. You will find peace when you can sit alone and do nothing.
2. You will find yourself when you stop seeking to be somebody or something.
3. You will find the truth when you find the one God, the one Self, the one to whom all glory belongs.
4. 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.
5. 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

Path of Finding Yourself: 04-12-2026

1. The path of finding yourself is littered with the bodies of who you are not.
2. The path of finding yourself is littered with the bodies of your Frankenstein monsters.
3. The path of finding yourself is littered with the bodies of fictional characters from your self-stories.
4. The path of finding yourself is the discovery that you are nobody and nothing because there is only one self.
5. The path of finding yourself is more about who you are not than who you are because who you are is nobody.
6. The path of finding yourself is the discovery that you are nobody and nothing because you exist to host, reflect, and worship the One.

Stand Up for Your Host Nature: 04-11-2026

1. Does angry, anxious, depressive, and self-story thinking drone on just to block my existence?
2. While that angry, anxious, depressive, or self-story thinking is droning on, where am I in that noise?
3. Does angry, anxious, depressive, and self-story thinking drone on just to deprive me of my time, space, place, and energy?
4. While that angry, anxious, depressive, or self-story thinking is droning on, why is my existence as a host being ignored?
5. 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?

Face Your Internal Rulers: 04-10-2026

1. Either you rule your thinking, or it rules you.
2. Why is your thinking so insistent on being in control?
3. If you cannot free yourself from your thinking, guess who is in charge?
4. Either you consider your self-stories nonsense, or they become all-important.
5. When are you going to revolt and take back your mind from thinking, self-talk, and self-stories?
6. Perhaps you should devote yourself to God’s story instead of your meaningless mess of self-stories that are incomplete, inconsistent, and impermanent?

Self-Stories Steal Your Life: 04-09-2026

1. How much of your day is spent lost in thought about your self-stories that never materialize?
2. If your self-stories are so important that they dominate your day, why don’t you record and film them?
3. If your self-stories are so important, why will you forget them tomorrow unless they caused internal conflict?
4. How much of your life is spent performing for the imaginary audiences of your self-stories no one sees or hears?
5. What if life has one crucial story that you are not aware of or serving instead of yourself?

Where Does the Time Go?: 04-08-2026

1. How much time does doubt take from your present?
2. How much time does worry take from your present?
3. How much time does insecurity take from your present?
4. How much time is spent recovering or relaxing in the present?
5. How much time does concern for correcting the past take from your present?
6. How much time does concern for appearing good in the future take from your present?
7. 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.

Science Has Been Compromised: 04-07-2026

1. Science has zero intelligence.
2. Like intelligence, science has no power of its own.
3. Science has no intelligence of its own to share with anyone.
4. Science is not a mini-god who can bestow intelligence on you.
5. Worshipping science will not increase your intelligence, but it will lower your perspective-taking abilities.
6. 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.

One Story for All: 04-06-2026

1. Wake up and work for God’s story because yours is forgotten every day.
2. There is only one story in life, and it is not yours or humanity’s; it is God’s.
3. You can work for God’s story by following His will, not your own.
4. 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.
5. 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.

The Path Was Made Once: 04-05-2026

1. There exists only one path out of our human nature.
2. There are many false paths to overcoming yourself, but only one that succeeds.
3. There is only one who could and did make a path for us to overcome our human nature.
4. Many make claims while trying to steal the Kingdom of God or take it by force; in the end, they will all fail.
5. Appearances and high-sounding words are not enough to overcome yourself, but only to deceive yourself and others.

Start with Hard Work: 04-04-2026

1. Every victory began with hard work.
2. All prosperity began with hard work.
3. Every success began with hard work.
4. Every new fortune began with hard work.
5. All positive results began with hard work.
6. Every great work of art began with hard work.
7. Every new famous athlete began with hard work.
8. Every accomplishment of note began with hard work.

Beyond Pleasure: 04-03-2026

1. For those who seek pleasure, you should know that joy is beyond pleasure.
2. For those who seek pleasure, you should know that love is beyond pleasure.
3. For those who seek pleasure, you should know that joy in God is beyond pleasure.
4. For those who seek pleasure, you should know that meditating on God is beyond pleasure.
5. For those who seek pleasure, you should know that the joy we will have in Heaven is immeasurable and unfathomable.

Respond to Life With Your Best: 04-02-2026

1. The best response to life is joy in God.
2. A great response to life is gratitude for God.
3. A great response to life is gratitude for the chance to go to Heaven.
4. A great response to life is to devote your time to following the will of God.
5. A great response to life is overcoming yourself so that God might overcome you.

Use Negatives to Surrender to God: 04-01-2026

1. Negatives are an opportunity to rise.
2. Negatives are an opportunity to show character.
3. Negatives are an opportunity to exercise restraint.
4. Negatives are an opportunity to put virtue in charge.
5. Negatives are an opportunity to surrender to God’s will.
6. Negatives are an opportunity to test your resolve to follow the right path.