- 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.
© 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 75 books in ebook, paperback, hardback, and audiobook formats.
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Be, Do, & Have to Know: 05-31-2026
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.
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