5 Rules for Life: 07-31-2026

• The order of these rules is arbitrary.

1. The first rule of life to realize is that everything is guided and espcially that which appears or claims not to be guided.
2. The second rule of life is not to allow yourself ever to be guided by flesh, matter, mental objects, or thinking alone.
3. The third rule of life is to be guided primarily and sometimes only by energy or spirit.
4. The fourth rule of life is that you will inherit for eternity what the majority of your internal and external speech was: you get what you served most.
5. The fifth rule of life is that the story of life is about God, not you. You will never be a main character in life except as you represent and stand for God.

I Cannot Do Good: 07-30-2026

1. I must be good, but I have neither the desire nor means of my own to be good.
2. I must follow God’s will, but I have neither the desire nor means of my own to follow God’s will.
3. I must stay on the narrow path, but I have neither the desire nor means of my own to stay on the narrow path.
4. I must practice all of God’s teaching, but I have neither the desire nor means of my own to practice any of God’s teachings.
5. Miserable creature that I am because I know better than myself and following my own nature, and still I follow foolish destruction with all my effort if not drawn of God against my nature and will.

The Narrow Path: 07-29-2026

1. The right path is so narrow that as soon as you claim to be on it, you fall off because your claim is off the path.
2. The right path is so narrow that as soon as you claim to know it, you fall off because you cannot know the path of your own will.
3. The right path is so narrow that as soon as you claim to be seeking the path, you fall off because you cannot seek the path of your own will.
4. The right path is so narrow that as soon as you claim to be doing good, you fall off because you cannot do good on your own.
5. The right path is so narrow that as soon as you claim to be following the good, you fall off because you cannot follow the good of your own will.
6. The right path is so narrow that as soon as you claim to be following the path, you fall off because you must be drawn to follow the path by God, given that human nature chooses a different path.

Failing to Control Mental Objects: 07-28-2026

1. We claim to know by identifying with (eating) knowledge as ideas, images, or things. This process makes them and us into mental objects.
2. When we don’t want a particular mental object because it is disturbing, painful, or ugly, we often try to make it not exist by demanding it go away (no-ting), only to feed it.
3. When we don’t want a particular mental object because it is disturbing, painful, or ugly, we often try to control it. However, it is uncontrollable because it is us, so we feed it.
4. When we don’t want a particular mental object because it is disturbing, painful, or ugly, we often try to change it. However, it is unchangeable because it is us, so we feed it.
5. When we don’t want a particular mental object because it is disturbing, painful, or ugly, we often complain that we are fixated, frozen, stuck, or trapped by it. However, it is our identifying with it that is the trap, not the idea or image itself.

The Drives of Sin: 07-27-2026

1. The original sin is claiming to know by becoming knowing (eating knowledge, identifying as it).
2. The drive for being knowing is to gain the ability and excuse (self as good) to destroy, and especially to destroy others as the bad.
3. The rewards for knowing and destroying are pride in being positive knowing; however, you are always both sides of any duality even when you consciously identify only with one half.
4. A main problem in being knowledge is that you cannot examine, sense, or verify reality or results when you are being knowledge (semantic blindness and blockage).
5. The problem in being knowledge is that you are always both sides, and you will not be able to cover, hide in darkness, and suppress yourself as the negative forever.

Human Glory: 07-26-2026

1. Our glory is in serving the glory of God.
2. Our glory is in being made in the image of God.
3. Our glory is in being available to be used by God.
4. Our glory is in being made so that we can serve God.
5. Our glory is in resisting serving anyone or anything above or more than God.

Classic Cause of Homosexuality: 07-25-2026

• (1) Blocked modeling of same sex parent. You naturally follow your same sex parent to learn how to live in the world. The usual exceptions are if you only have an opposite sex parent and no acceptable same sex role model, or you feel compelled to reject following your same sex parent (various reasons).
• (2) Sensations of same sex. Experience attractive same sex people.
• (3) Reframe reality. Falsely interpret same sex sensations as causing desire (sexual procreation drive).
• (4) Reverse nature. Focus procreation drive on same sex targets.
• (5) Reinforce procreation drive with life force. Make your interest into a passion by putting your life energies behind it.
• (6) Claim it is natural. Find excuses and rationalizations for the perversion of your procreation drive.
• (7) Claim sex is love. Sex is desire. Sex can be coupled with love, but the drive for sex is desire, not love.
• Generally, homosexuality occurs when the procreation drive is thwarted from focusing on the opposite sex, so it reverts to focusing on the same sex. However, some practice homosexuality or bisexuality for social approval.

Your Control Issues: 07-24-2026

1. Stop seeking control because only One is in control.
2. Stop trying to control your life; instead, surrender your life to His control.
3. There is very little that we can control, and few focus on those things while most focus on what they cannot control.
4. You can control your attitude, feelings, responses, and what gets to repeat inside. How often do you exercise that control?
5. You cannot control the past, present, or future, and most things, because you don’t have power and authority over them. How often do you try to control them anyway?

Try the Opposite Approach: 07-23-2026

1. Instead of seeking who you are, start throwing out who you are not.
2. Stop trying to find yourself, and start undressing yourself until you are naked and real.
3. Start deleting all your self-concepts and self-images to see what is left after all the disguises are removed.
4. You will never find yourself until you negate all the darkness, games, and walls hiding your true character.
5. First find out what and who you are not, so that you might walk an honest path to rediscovering what and who you are.

Storms Destroy Without Deep Foundations: 07-22-2026

1.  Let your roots be in the Word of God, so the winds of the world do not break you.
2. Let your security be in Jesus the Christ, and none can harm anything but your body.
3. You need a solid base in Scripture, and can only develop this by reading quietly on your own.
4. Let your foundations be in the teachings of Christ, so the trials and tribulations of the world will not bring your house down.
5. The strongest foundations go the deepest into bedrock and make possible skyscrapers; therefore, put your foundations in the ancient values of God.

Backward Logic Fails Horribly: 07-21-2026

1. Do your feelings originate inside you? If so, then who is inside controlling and influencing them?
2. What backward and primitive logic allows people to believe that they can control the feelings of others but not their own?
3. How do you imagine that other people invade your heart, soul, and mind to control your feelings? Do they come in through your ears?
4. What superstitious forces do you believe in that allow another human being to enter your heart, soul, and mind and control how you feel?
5. Can you name the magical power that allows others to take control of your heart, soul, and mind in order to make you feel the way that they want?

Control What You Can: 07-20-2026

1. The best expression of powerlessness is “You made me mad.”
2. The best expression of emotional manipulation is “How do you think that makes me feel?”
3. The weakest individual is the one whose responses are determined by circumstances and others.
4. You relate maturely when you focus on changing your responses to others rather than on others’ responses to you.
5. You are most effective when you focus on changing your responses to the world rather than on the world’s responses to you.

Choose Where to Fortify: 07-19-2026

1. Salute God, not yourself or the world.
2. Stand for God, not yourself or the world.
3. Submit to God, not yourself or the world.
4. Suffer for God, not yourself or the world.
5. Stoop before God, not yourself or the world.
6. Support God’s word, not yours or the world’s.
7. Subject yourself to God, not yourself or the world.
8. Steel your faith in God, not in yourself or the world.
9. Succumb to God’s way, not your or the world’s way.
10. Sustain your faith in God, not in yourself or the world.
11. Substantiate God’s teachings, not yours or the world’s.
12. Surrender to God, not your desires or those of the world.
13. Strengthen your faith in God, not in yourself or the world.

Choose Self or God: 07-18-2026

1. Having faith in yourself is to deny faith in God.
2. Having hope in yourself is to deny hope in God.
3. Having charity for yourself is to deny having charity for God.
4. Believing in yourself requires losing belief in God.
5. Having self-confidence requires losing confidence in God.
6. Relying on yourself requires that you stop relying on God.
7. Taking credit for yourself means stealing credit from God.

Religion or Spirituality?: 07-17-2026

1. Religion at its best is performance.
2. Spirituality at its best is surrender.
3. Religion at its worst is persecution.
4. Spirituality at its worst is spiritual ego.
5. Religion has a history of control through fear.
6. Spirituality has a history of liberation through light.
7. Religion takes many forms, including blind belief in science and socialism.
8. Spirituality takes many forms, including the false worship of arcane practices, gurus, and secret teachings.

Hope Works Wonders: 07-16-2026

1. Hope is not of this world.
2. Hope aligns you with the good.
3. Hope refocuses you on the good.
4. Hope often follows persistent work.
5. Hope inspires you to serve the good.
6. Hope is expressed in acts of forgiveness.
7. Hope demonstrates your faith in the good.
8. Hope is not of words because it focuses on the invisible Spirit.

The Way of Our Inner Light: 07-15-2026

1. The inner light is bright in the darkest night.
2. The inner light shines through our darkest intentions.
3. The inner light reveals our self-esteem to be fake, false, and fatal.
4. The inner light is a cleansing fire that must be endured unto the death of your self-esteem (ego).
5. The inner light guides us back to itself, away from our flesh urgers to hide our evil in darkness while covering it with good images and words.

Choose the Right Guides: 07-14-2026

1. May you be driven by faith, not fear.
2. May you trust honesty, not hypocrisy.
3. May you remain humble, not humiliated.
4. May you live courageously, not cowardly.
5. May you serve charity, not counteractions.
6. May you be guided by fairness, not fortune.
7. May you be guided by hope, not hopelessness.
8. May you provide forgiveness, not fulmination.
9. May you practice self-control, not control of others.

The Narrow Path: 07-13-2026

1. All glory belongs to God.
2. All honor belongs to God.
3. All praise belongs to God.
4. The path is narrow because any claim you make drops you from it.
5. Whenever you try to be good, you fall off the path because only God is good.
6. Whenever you try to do good, you fall off the path because only God does good.
7. Whenever you do something right, you want to claim you did it, or at least part of it, rather than giving all the credit to God.

Look to Your Vessel Nature: 07-12-2026

1. Find faith in the nature of your vessel nature.
2. Find virtue in the nature of your vessel nature.
3. Find yourself in the nature of your vessel nature.
4. Find humility in the nature of your vessel nature.
5. Find egolessness in the nature of your vessel nature.
6. Find the straight path in the nature of your vessel nature. 

Find It Within: 07-11-2026

1. Find space in the space of your vessel nature.
2. Find peace in the peace of your vessel nature.
3. Find silence in the silence of your vessel nature.
4. Find calm in the calmness of your vessel nature.
5. Find emptines in the emptiness of your vessel nature.
6. Find non-doing in the non-doing of your vessel nature.

Will You Give Up Your Ego Gains?: 07-10-2026

1. Finding yourself requires undressing yourself from all the coverings of self-esteem (ego).
2. Finding yourself requires you to stop hiding, justifying, and suppressing your evil intentions and repent of them.
3. Finding yourself requires giving up all the gains your self-esteem has made because they are all deceptions or delusions.
4. Finding yourself requires giving up the maintenance of all the appearances your self-esteem (ego) has collected to wall itself safely inside.
5. Finding yourself requires that you stop pretending you are good or are becoming good, repent of your evil human nature, and seek to be under God, not self.

Be the Life of Hosting: 07-09-2026

1. Don’t be the life of your sensations or experiences. Be the life of hosting your experiences and sensations, and they will reveal themselves.
2. Don’t be the life of your feelings. Be the life of hosting your feelings, and your feelings will be coherent with your values.
3. Don’t be the life of your intentions. Be the life of hosting your intentions, and your intentions will align with your beliefs.
4. Don’t be the life of your choices. Be the life of hosting what guides your choices, and your choices will serve that guide.
5. Don’t be the life of your thoughts. Be the life of hosting what guides your thoughts, and your thoughts will serve that guide.
6. Don’t be the life of your reactions. Be the life of hosting all that comes before your reactions, and your reactions will be in accord with your values.
7. Don’t be the life of your memories. Be the life of hosting your present, and your past will fall into place.

Heart, Soul, & Mind: 07-08-2026

1. Your heart must lead your soul.
2. Your soul must lead your mind.
3. Your mind must lead your memory.
4. Your heart connects you to invisible energy.
5. Your soul connects you to nonverbal experience.
6. Your mind connects you to knowledge, language, and memory.
7. Let your heart connect you to pure energy, your soul connect you to direct experience, and your mind to honest knowledge.

Things Keep Getting in the Way: 07-07-2026

1. The fewer things you have in mind while you listen, the better you will hear.
2. The fewer things in your mind while you pray, the better your prayers will be.
3. The fewer things in your mind while you speak, the better your speech will be.
4. The fewer things in your mind while you enjoy, the better your enjoyment will be.
5. The fewer things in your mind while you seek the truth, the better your search results will be.

HALT Formula (AA) for Safety: 07-06-2026

1. Don’t get too hungry, because you’ll likely follow your flesh nature and act stupidly, causing more problems.
2. Don’t get too angry, because you’ll likely follow your flesh nature and act stupidly, causing more problems.
3. Don’t get too lonely, because you’ll likely follow your flesh nature and act stupidly, causing more problems.
4. Don’t get too tired, because you’ll likely then follow your flesh nature and act stupidly, causing more problems.
5. The pull of your flesh nature increases with whatever you host that is like or of it.
6. The more things you host, the more things you follow; the more things you follow, the more you destroy yourself, others, and your life.

What Are You Hiding?: 07-05-2026

1. What evil does your pride hide?
2. What evil does your desire hide?
3. What evil does your power hide?
4. What evil does your facade hide?
5. What evil does your speech hide?
6. What evil does your money hide?
7. What evil does your politics hide?
8. What evil does your passion hide?
9. What evil does your religion hide?
10. What evil does your authority hide?
11. What evil does your appearance hide?
12. What evil does your entertainment hide?

Refuse to Wear False Clothing: 07-04-2026

1. Wear no idols.
2. Wear no stories.
3. Wear no objects.
4. Wear no thoughts.
5. Wear no self-images.
6. Wear no mental objects.
7. Wear no thought-things.
8. Wear no self-constructions.
9. Wear nothing born of the ego.
10. Wear nothing born of self-esteem.

Be Careful What You Wear: 07-03-2026

1. You clothe your vessel in sin, and wonder why you are not accepted of God.
2. You clothe your vessel in ego’s and self-esteem’s idols, and wonder why you are not accepted of God.
3. You pursue all manner of ungodly clothing to please the world, and wonder why you are not accepted of God.
4. Be clothed in virtue and be accepted of God.
5. Be clothed in righteousness and be accepted of God.

Host to Serve & Share the Good: 07-02-2026

1. You cannot be the good, but you can host it and thereby serve and share it.
2. You cannot be the good, but you can reflect it and thereby serve and share it.
3. You cannot be the light, but you can host it and thereby serve and share it.
4. You cannot be the light, but you can reflect it and thereby serve and share it.
5. You cannot be the evil, but you can reflect it and thereby serve and share it.
6. You cannot be the darkness, but you can reflect it and thereby serve and share it.
7. In the end, you will get what you served most.

Location Is Not Proof: 07-01-2026

1. Just because you (a feeling or thought) are inside me does not mean you are me.
2. Just because you (a feeling or thought) are inside me does not mean I caused you.
3. Just because you (a feeling or thought) are inside me does not mean I can control you.
4. Just because you (a feeling or thought) are inside me does not mean I can change or influence you.
5. The presence of a feeling or thought in your vessel is proof that it is there, not of your causation or power over it.