- 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.
© 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, June 21, 2026
Give to Receive: 06-21-2026
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.
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