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"Daily Dose of Discernment: Quote 5 A Day" 2004
by Kevin E. FitzMaurice, M.S., LPC
2004-12-31
Who comes to your senses?
Who comes back to yourself?
Who in you judges yourself?
Who in you is aware of yourself?
Who in you has feelings about yourself?
2004-12-30
My self exists without name.
My self exists without trying.
My self exists without danger.
My self exists without change.
My self exists without becoming.
2004-12-29
You have two jobs: run your mind and share your reality.
People want to run your mind and deny your reality with what it should be.
You have conflict with others when they either want to run your mind or do not accept your reality.
Your fighting to prove your reality by denying their reality leads to more of the same from them.
You get along with others by accepting both how they run their mind and their subjective reality.
2004-12-28
Faith overcomes reason.
Hope overcomes reason.
Charity overcomes reason.
Love overcomes reason.
Mercy overcomes reason.
2004-12-27
Control means responsibility.
To be means to control your own mind.
To control your own mind means to control how you feel.
If we can't control your mind, then we can't make you feel anything.
When you are happy you say you are controlling your mind--but hypocritically when you are unhappy you say we are controlling your mind.
2004-12-26
I'm not doing what I want, so you or they must be making me.
I'm not doing what I want, so you or they must be doing it for me.
I'm not doing what I want, so you or they must be wanting it for me.
I'm not doing what I want, so you or they must be choosing it for me.
I'm not doing what I want, so you or they must be conditioning me for it.
2004-12-25
Jesus Christ: the only help and hope.
Jesus Christ: the only wisdom and truth.
Jesus Christ: the only way and salvation.
Jesus Christ: the only meaning and purpose.
Jesus Christ: the only good and source of good.
2004-12-24
There is no self as pleasure or pain.
There is no self as memory or experience.
There is no self as possession or property.
There is no self as sensation or stimulation.
There is no self as characteristic or personality.
2004-12-23
Confusion is another name for choice.
Confusion is another name escapism.
Confusion is an excuse for avoidance.
Confusion is an enjoyable excuse for laziness.
Confusion is not knowing how to make the should-not-be into the should-be because it is impossible.
2004-12-22
Don't feed it and it won't start.
Dwelling on it is feeding it.
Stop feeding it and it will pass.
Taking it to heart is keeping it.
Starve it out and let it go.
2004-12-21
No one can be what we think.
No one can be what you think.
No one can be what they think.
No one can be who you think they are.
No one has ever been who they were thought to be.
2004-12-20
You are a group of one.
Have the confidence of a group of one.
Have the perspective of a group of one.
Have the self-reliance of a group of one.
Have the self-preservation of a group of one.
2004-12-19
Adversity is a call to the higher.
Adversity brings out the best in the best.
Adversity is not to be blamed but thanked.
Adversity is used for instruction by the wise.
Adversity is the opportunity to do the right thing.
2004-12-18
Children are hurt by their parent's fighting.
Children are hurt whenever either parent hurts the other.
Children love themselves when their parents love each other.
Children are identified with both parents and so feel what each does.
Children blame themselves for not being good children when their parents divorce.
2004-12-17
If you were thoughts, then you wouldn't know it.
If you were thoughts, then you couldn't think thoughts.
If you were thoughts, then you wouldn't have thoughts.
If you were thoughts, then you couldn't remember thoughts.
If you were thoughts, then you wouldn't be aware of thoughts.
2004-12-16
Christianity is giving that is receiving.
Christianity is doing the right thing anyway.
Christianity is having faith: dependence on God.
Christianity is having hope: expectation of a good future.
Christianity is having charity: thinking well of others.
2004-12-15
There are those who want you to run their mind so they can be free of responsibility.
There are those who want you to run their mind their way so they can have both submission and independence.
There are those who want you to stop trying to run their mind so they will do the opposite of what you want.
There are those who want you to praise them for running their own mind so they will seek to impress you.
There are those who want you to run your own mind like they do so they will help you to regain responsibility.
2004-12-14
Addiction is self-avoidance.
Addiction is an escape from inner conflict.
Addiction is relief and release from consciousness.
Addiction is trying to find peace by choosing to love the negative side.
Addiction is using one set of sensations to replace another set of sensations.
2004-12-13
Seeing it as so doesn't make it so.
Publishing it is so doesn't make it so.
Desiring it to be so doesn't make it so.
Broadcasting it is so doesn't make it so.
Remembering it as so doesn't make it so.
2004-12-12
If they think it and you don't--how can it hurt?
Worry about what people think of you is worry about nothing you are or can be.
Just because other people think bad of me doesn't mean that I have to think bad of me.
My thinking bad of me based on your thinking bad of me means both confuse the actor with the action.
Since all they can think of me is images and labels, and I cannot be images or labels, then why make it important?
2004-12-11
I think you think bad of me so I have to and it's your fault.
Worrying about how we are trying to run your mind means we are.
When we try to run your mind you say we can't, but when you are upset you tell us we are.
You run your mind based on how you think we might run your mind and then blame us for it.
Imagine we do imagine we don't, either way you are right about our controlling your mind.
2004-12-10
Evolution is a theory of social class.
Evolution promotes pride and shame.
Evolution props up ego so will be defended until death.
Evolution is neither verifiable nor predictive so is unscientific.
Evolution provides license to kill by claiming the ends justify the means.
2004-12-09
If he, she, it runs your mind, then you do not.
If your body runs your mind, then you do not.
If your genetics run your mind, then you do not.
If your conditioning runs your mind, then you do not.
If your environment runs your mind, then you do not.
2004-12-08
Life does not follow your plan.
Life does not follow your agenda.
Life does not follow your timeline.
<Life does not follow your to-do-list.
Life does not follow your schedule.
2004-12-07
Ego is much ado about nothing.
Ego is a comedy about a tragedy.
Ego is a collection of dirt and dust.
Ego is sound and fury signifying nothing.
Ego is created out of the dead bodies of others.
2004-12-06
If you avoid risks, you avoid learning.
If you avoid failing, you avoid learning.
If you avoid criticism, you avoid learning.
If you avoid mistakes, you avoid learning.
If you avoid correction, you avoid learning.
2004-12-05
You don't, haven't, and won't ever know the good.
You don't, haven't, and won't ever do the good.
You don't, haven't, and won't ever be the good.
You don't, haven't, and won't ever have the good.
You don't, haven't, and won't ever control the good.
2004-12-04
Free to do anything as I can become no thing.
There is no thing to fear except thingness itself.
No thing can make me any thing as I am no thing.
I am no thing therefore no thing can make me any thing.
Identity as habits and labels is identifying with things and things are dead.
2004-12-03
Memory of self cannot exist but only memories of actions and labels.
Memory is the result of either the desire to be or the desire to not be some response.
Memory is the result of either not completing a transmission or wanting to be some completion.
Experience is the projection of some identification of self as some goal into a partial memory of some event.
Experience is just one more form of death, of self as something in relation to something whether positively or negatively.
2004-12-02
God has no cause but God.
God has no reason but God.
God has no service but God.
God has no purpose but God.
God has no meaning but God.
2004-12-01
Repetition creates habit.
Music is written to be repeated.
Repetition is the same always new.
If you don't repeat you don't exist.
Repetition as variation equals life.
2004-11-30
There is no self as trait or tendency.
There is no self as success or failure.
There is no self as behavior or action.
There is no self as habit or conditioning.
There is no self as experience or memory.
2004-11-29
Nothing can evolve the image of God, hence, nothing can evolve me.
Nothing can control the image of God, hence, nothing can control me.
Nothing can change the image of God, hence, nothing can change me.
Nothing can damage the image of God, hence, nothing can damage me.
Nothing can diminish the image of God, hence, nothing can diminish me.
2004-11-28
The basic human need is to complete inner transmissions.
However, sometimes it is best to let it complete as incomplete.
So-called "unfinished business" refers to your lack of completing your signals.
So-called being heard or understood refers to your being able to complete your transmissions.
So-called attention and contacts needs are misinterpretations of the completion need.
2004-11-27
The first principle of psychology: monkey see monkey do.
The second principle of psychology: repetition forms habits.
The third principle of psychology: habits must be replaced by new habits.
The fourth principle of psychology: you choose what to dwell on and take to heart to cause your feelings.
The fifth principle of psychology: you are a being not a behavior, habit, label, trait, thought, or thing.
2004-11-26
Beating them will not make them better.
Whipping them with words will not make them better.
There is a reason we don't kick the ill to make them better.
Negative self-talk is as stupid as whipping yourself to get over a cold.
There is a reason we don't try to make the unwell feel worse to make them better.
2004-11-25
Bring the negative to light so the light dispels it.
Flee from the negative so that you are safe from any temptation to magnify it.
Resist agreeing to magnify the negative by disputing its veracity and usefulness.
Negate the negative by seeing it as not an option because of its negative consequences.
Reward yourself for not serving the negative.
2004-11-24
The past sees the future past.
The present sees the future present.
The future sees the future unknown.
Thought cannot see beyond itself.
The present is its own perfect purpose.
2004-11-23
Suffering is fighting facts.
Suffering is pain turned problem.
Suffering is irritation made horrible.
Suffering is inconvenience made intolerable.
Suffering is not accepting what you cannot change.
2004-11-22
How come nobody says they got to "things"? Is it only one-way ESP?
How come nobody says they got to "it"? Is it only a one-way alien broadcast?
How come nobody says they got to "society"? Is it only one-way radio control?
How come nobody says they got to "them"? Is it only one-way mind control?
How come nobody says they got to "life"? Is it only a one-way transmission?
2004-11-21
Adversity lets experience teach or crush.
Adversity lets the best rise and the worst fall.
Adversity lets nobility shine or disability cloud.
Adversity lets calmness deepen or panic exaggerate.
Adversity lets the strong succeed and the weak fail.
2004-11-20
You can't remake self so stop trying.
You can't change self so stop trying.
You can't escape self so stop trying.
You can't switch self so stop trying.
You can't avoid self so stop trying.
2004-11-19
Even though I do not know who I am, I am still afraid of my opinion.
Even though I do not know who people are, I am still afraid of their opinion.
Even though I do not know what people think, I still imagine what they could think and scare myself with that.
Even though I am afraid of what people think of me, it is only because I use that to determine what I think of me.
Even though no one knows me including me, I still decide what I am based on what I think they think.
2004-11-18
People can give you germs not feelings.
People can cause you inconvenience not feelings.
People can cause your body pain not your mind.
People can give you bad news not a bad attitude.
People can tempt you to push your buttons, but people cannot push your buttons for you.
2004-11-17
You fear the opinion of yourself, instead, fear the opinion of God.
You fear the opinions of people, instead, fear the opinions of God.
When you stop fearing what people think and start to fear what God thinks, you have started to become wise.
Yes, care what people think of your behavior.
No, do not care what people think of your self.
2004-11-16
How can "it" get to you? By plane or train?
How can "things" get to you? By bus or car?
How can society get to you? By ESP or magic?
How can people get to you? By crawling in your eye or ear?
How can life get to you? By sneaking in through your mouth or nose?
2004-11-15
Ignoring the radio does not get rid of it.
Analyzing the radio does not change it.
Cursing the radio does not make it worse.
Praising the radio does not make it better.
Taking the radio apart to discover what it is, will render it not a radio.
2004-11-14
You can't send your behavior to work so your behavior is not you.
You can't have your behavior take a bath so your behavior is not you.
You can't have your behavior eat your dinner so your behavior is not you.
You can't have your behavior go to the party for you so your behavior is not you.
You can't have your behavior make a speech for you so your behavior is not you.
2004-11-13
Christianity is waiting on God.
Christianity is utter dependence on God.
Christianity is selfless emptiness for God.
Christianity is giving positive for negative.
Christianity is magnifying God as the meaning and purpose of life.
2004-11-12
Reading about love is not love.
Reading about charity is not charity.
Reading about peace does not give peace.
Reading about food does not satisfy hunger.
Reading about freedom does not give freedom.
2004-11-11
The thought is not the observation.
The thought is not the perception.
The thought is not the experience.
The thought is not the awareness.
The thought is not the sensation.
2004-11-10
Truth is best expressed negatively as truth is not things.
Truth is best expressed negatively as truth is not images.
Truth is best expressed negatively as truth is not thought.
Truth is best expressed negatively as truth is not sensations.
Truth is best expressed negatively as truth is not experiences.
2004-11-09
There is no past for the self.
There is no present for the self.
There is no future for the self.
There is no time for the self.
There is only being for the self.
2004-11-08
Scientific thinking is atomistic and mechanistic and as such is neither holistic nor systemic (systems-minded).
Hence, medicine is foolish as it does not teach doctors about the health system of an interacting mind and body but ignorantly continues to treat medical problems as mechanical problems.
Hence, dentistry is foolish as it does not teach doctors about the system of bite and balance between all the teeth and the jaw.
Hence, psychiatry is foolish as it has the upside-down view that the symptom of chemical imbalance is causal while ignoring the interacting system of heart, soul, mind, and body.
Hence, physics is foolish as it has no systems understanding of energy sustaining all but continues its upside-down view of the symptoms of particles as causal.
2004-11-07
There is no self as people think of self.
There is no self as label or idea.
There is no self as name or term.
There is no self as object or image.
There is no self as thought or thing.
2004-11-06
The thing-in-itself has no idea or thought.
The thing-in-itself carries no idea or thought.
The thing-in-itself contains no idea or thought.
The thing-in-itself is missed by any idea or thought.
The thing-in-itself is not caught by any idea or thought.
2004-11-05
Work cannot get to you as "work" is a label not a magical mind-controlling being.
Things cannot get to you as "things" is a label not a magical mind-controlling being.
Society cannot get to you as "society" is a label not a magical mind-controlling being.
Parents cannot get to you as "parents" is a label not a magical mind-controlling being.
Holidays cannot get to you as "holidays" is a label not a magical mind-controlling being.
2004-11-04
Knowledge is not fact.
Knowledge is not truth.
Knowledge is not the way.
Knowledge is not freedom.
Knowledge is not liberating.
2004-11-03
There is no way for life to get to you.
There is no way for things to get to you.
There is no way for people to get to you.
There is no magical "it" that can get to you.
You exist as a mind in a body that is not even approachable by people, places, or things.
2004-11-02
Purpose is to serve the good not you.
Purpose is to enjoy the good not you.
Purpose is to share the good not you.
Purpose is to increase the good not you.
Purpose is to make God look good not you.
2004-11-01
Be under virtue not virtue.
Be under virtue not over virtue.
Be under virtue not seeking virtue.
Be under virtue not becoming virtue.
Be under virtue not identifying with virtue.
2004-10-31
Self is not the contents of self anymore than a house is the contents of the house.
Self is not the contents of the mind anymore than a ship is the contents of the ship.
Self is not the contents of being anymore than an airplane is the contents of the airplane.
Self is not the contents of consciousness anymore than a hotel is the contents of the hotel.
Self is not the contents of personality anymore than a warehouse is the contents of the warehouse.
2004-10-30
Anyone you hate is just a self-projected fool.
Anyone you follow is just a self-projected ideal.
No one exists as we are just your self-projected experiments.
Your higher and lower selves are fictions used to avoid your self.
Your game of should-not-be versus should-be works to escape self.
2004-10-29
What is your relationship with your self?
Do you appease and bargain with your self?
Do you justify or condemn your self?
Do you protect and cover your self?
Do you avoid and escape your self?
2004-10-28
You make your self a crypt of identities.
You make your self a tomb of experiences.
You make your self a vault of memory movies.
You make your self a furniture warehouse by identifying with possessions.
You make your self a Frankenstein monster collection of other's opinions.
2004-10-27
Positive poverty.
Secure insecurity.
Promising emptiness.
Confident dependence.
Optimistic desperateness.
2004-10-26
No one can be thought.
No one can be thought of.
No one can be thought of accurately.
No one can be thought of completely.
No one can be thought of realistically.
2004-10-25
Conceit is inept.
Exclusivity is inanity.
Snobbery is absurdity.
Superiority is stupidity.
Pretentious is preposterous.
2004-10-24
Mind void but void mind.
Mind never but never mind.
Mind empty but empty mind.
Mind naught but naught mind.
Mind nothing but nothing mind.
2004-10-23
Nobody knows anybody, yet everybody claims to know everybody.
They don't know themselves, so why assume they can know you!?
Even you don't know who you are, so how is their opinion supposed to be you!?
Ask people who they are and they will only describe either their personality or their roles--never their self.
"Know thyself" does not mean gather knowledge about traits, personality, roles, habits, conditioning--it means be aware of your being.
2004-10-22
Does your inside or outside world control you?
Is your self-control from inside you or outside you?
What do you have the power and authority to control?
Do you try to control your inside world or your outside world?
When you try to control what you can't, you lose control of what you can.
2004-10-21
The object of ego is not self.
The object of identity is not self.
The object of personality is not self.
The object of self-esteem is not self.
The object of self-reflection, self-consciousness, or self-awareness is not self.
2004-10-20
Life's absurd: your work turns to dust.
Life's absurd: you work to keep working.
Life's absurd: your memory is distorted then forgotten.
Life's absurd: species keep going so they can keep going.
Life's absurd: humans agree to meaning and value that exist only in fantasy.
2004-10-19
Bound by or beyond the past.
Bound by or beyond the future.
Bound by or beyond the present.
Bound by or beyond the teaching.
Bound by or beyond the conditioning.
2004-10-18
If I act stupid it does not make me stupid--but only my acting.
If I bark like a dog it does not make a dog--but only means I acted like a dog.
If I behave good or bad it does not make me good or bad--but only my behavior.
If I caw like a crow it does not make me a crow--but only means I acted like a crow.
If I act the part of a crook in a movie or play it does not make a crook--but only someone who acted the part of a crook.
2004-10-17
Relationships are ego contracts.
Relationships are agreements on who we are supposed to be.
Relationships are attempts to establish your identity in another.
Relationships are attempts to resolve ego conflicts through another.
Relationships are wars about who you should be based on who they must be.
2004-10-16
The length of your mind who can measure!?
The height of your mind who can find out!?
The width of your mind who can discover!?
The depth of your mind who can reach!?
The limits of your mind who can map!?
2004-10-15
Negation to stop is genius.
Negation to do is foolishness.
Negation of self to change is delusion.
Negation of self results in denial of self or self as pain.
Negation of self along with problem freezes problem in place.
2004-10-14
Detach the pain from your self-identity or you will increase it.
Detach the pain from your body-identity or you will increase it.
Detach the pain from your work-identity or you will increase it.
Detach the pain from your social-identity or you will increase it.
Detach the pain from your health-identity or you will increase it.
2004-10-13
Wanting it so cannot make it so.
Feeling it is so cannot make it so.
Knowing it is so cannot make it so.
Thinking it is so cannot make it so.
Acting like it is so cannot make it so.
2004-10-12
Choices are beliefs.
Choices are answers.
Choices are opinions.
Choices are the winning attitude.
Choices are the stronger opinion.
2004-10-11
Is this thinking self-disabling?
Is this thinking self-disturbing?
Is this thinking self-discrediting?
Is this thinking self-discouraging?
Is this thinking self-disappointing?
2004-10-10
Self-consciousness is free.
Self-consciousness is intentional.
Self-consciousness is not a thing to be found.
Self-consciousness is a slave to your choices.
Self-consciousness is energy, light, perception, constant motion, constant attention, constant awareness.
2004-10-09
Life is uncaring but you can bring care with your forgiving heart.
Life is empty but you can bring fullness with your positive dreams.
Life is absurd but you can bring purpose with your productive goals.
Life is unjust but you can bring justice with your compassionate heart.
Life is meaningless but you can bring meaning with your existential philosophy.
2004-10-08
Feel the anger and act caring anyway.
Feel the shame and act confident anyway.
Feel the anxiety and act assertive anyway.
Feel the guilt and accept your self anyway.
Feel the depression and act positive anyway.
2004-10-07
No excuses: you can move your identity at any time.
No excuses: you can move your attention at any time.
No excuses: you can choose your attitude at any time.
No excuses: you can choose your thinking at any time.
No excuses: you can move your self-awareness and-or other-awareness at any time.
2004-10-06
You can be your self or prove your self.
You can be your self or seek high self-esteem.
You can be your self or seek to improve your self.
You can be your self or seek to become your self.
You can be your self or seek approval for your self.
2004-10-05
Seeking to achieve you fail.
Seeking to be good you become evil.
Seeking to be wise you become foolish.
Seeking to find your self you lose your self.
Seeking to be genuine you become phony.
2004-10-04
Base desires should be ruled by reason.
Noble desires should rule reason.
Base passions should be ruled by reason.
Noble desires should rule reason.
Neither desire nor passion is the problem, rather, it is "how" they are used that is the problem.
2004-10-03
Self is your relation to your experience.
Self is the container feeling the contained.
Self is the vessel touched by the contents.
Self is the receiver relating to the received.
Self is the host being affected by the hosted.
2004-10-02
I can act bad not be bad.
I can host bad not be bad.
I can serve bad not be bad.
I can praise bad not be bad.
I can experience bad not be bad.
2004-10-01
I can act good but not be good.
I can host good but not be good.
I can serve good but not be good.
I can praise good but not be good.
I can experience good but not be good.
2004-09-30
You can never say all there is to say about anything.
You can never see all there is to see about anything.
You can never hear all there is to hear about anything.
You can never learn all there is to learn about anything.
You can never know all there is to know about anything.
2004-09-29
Focus on the positive leading you.
Focus on the positive being power.
Focus on the positive empowering you.
Focus on the positive overcoming the negative.
Focus on the positive as your main relationship.
2004-09-28
Who can control who you are?
What can control who you are?
Can this be life or death for who you must be?
Can you still be you if they keep treating you badly?
Can you be at risk or can only your body or ego be at risk?
2004-09-27
To hate another, you first become them.
To judge another, you first become them.
To punish another, you first become them.
To control another, you first become them.
To criticize another, you first become them.
2004-09-26
The unbegun is self.
The unknown is self.
The unformed is self.
The uncharted is self.
The uncontrived is self.
2004-09-25
Just be the self.
Become who you were first.
Be the individual self of being.
The self that repeats unchanged is your true self.
Stop being anybody and everybody and be nobody.
2004-09-24
The self is done before you begin.
The self is changeless by humans.
The self is changed only in delusion.
The self is complete and without work.
The self is well when it remains unbegun.
2004-09-23
I am doing wrong not being wrong.
I am feeling wrong not being wrong.
I am desiring wrong not being wrong.
I am thinking wrong not being wrong.
I am knowing wrong not being wrong.
2004-09-23
I am doing wrong not being wrong.
I am feeling wrong not being wrong.
I am desiring wrong not being wrong.
I am thinking wrong not being wrong.
I am knowing wrong not being wrong.
2004-09-22
Nature and nurture determine choice.
You are responsible for your ongoing conditioning.
Choice is the strongest conditioning factor after nature.
Your nature is the condition of your choices followed by your experience.
Choose conditioning that will drive you to choose better conditioning.
2004-09-21
The best one can do is to rule their conditioning.
Choice is the active pursuit of one's conditioning.
There is no free will as all wills have preconditions.
Will exists in order to satisfy the conditions that imprison it.
You only get to choose for your conditioning in order to create new conditioning.
2004-09-20
Your ego loves to think you are smart and we are stupid.
You even enjoy your thinking you are smart about your being stupid.
Reality TV makes it easy to imagine you are smart and we are stupid.
The news is twisted to make you think you are smart about our being stupid.
Errors such as thinking people are stupid can make no one stupid.
2004-09-19
Acting as aversion not self.
Trying as aversion not self.
Feeling as aversion not self.
Thinking as aversion not self.
Experience as aversion not self.
2004-09-18
Stinking trying not being.
Stinking feeling not being.
Stinking thinking not being.
Stinking behaving not being.
Stinking motivating not being.
2004-09-17
See it, hear it, fulfill it.
Sense it, grasp it, act it.
Under it, magnify it, live it.
Host it, amplify it, share it.
Contact it, attend it, express it.
2004-09-16
Feel it, think it, do it.
Feel it, mean it, live it.
Feel it, express it, goal it.
Feel it, understand it, act it.
Feel it, own it, demonstrate it.
2004-09-15
You have two active attentions or awarenesses: one for self and one for other.
Enjoying something, you switch other-attention to self-attention and lose the pleasure, the experience.
When you move your other-attention onto self-attention, you lose awareness of body, experience, or any other.
When in a trance or hypnotized, your self-attention is asleep and only your other-attention is awake.
To live now requires that you keep your attentions functioning separately, however, to know your self requires that sometimes you move your other-attention onto your self-attention: contemplation.
2004-09-14
Be the blank screen, the tabula rasa.
The projection screen is the self not the images on the screen.
Repeat meaningless words and find self in relation to those meaningless words as just the host.
Hear a word you do not understand and in that moment you can choose to be aware of self instead of lost in word.
The uncarved block that Taoism identifies as self is that self unformed by self-esteem images, concepts, or constructs.
2004-09-13
In the space between two thoughts, find knowing nothing and find your self.
In the space between two thoughts, find doing nothing and find your self.
In the space between two thoughts, find being nothing and find your self.
In the space between two thoughts, find identifying with nothing and find your self.
In the space between two thoughts, find trying nothing and find your self.
2004-09-12
You are split thinking about how you should have done it now while you are doing it now, so are neither your self nor here now.
You are split thinking about how you will do it in the future while you are doing it now, so are neither your self nor here now.
You are split thinking about how you did it in the past while you are doing it now, so are neither your self nor here now.
You are split thinking about how you will do something in the future while you are doing something else now, so are neither your self nor here now.
You are split thinking about how you did something in the past while you are doing something else now, so are neither your self nor here now.
2004-09-11
Find your self inside not outside.
Find your self inside not in action.
Find your self inside not in others.
Find your self inward not outward.
Find your self by following out your experience.
2004-09-10
You are unknowable through description.
You are unknowable through categorization.
You are unknowable through testing or typing.
You are unknowable through study or experiment.
You are unknowable through thought, image, label, or concept.
2004-09-09
Be true to your own experience.
Follow out your own experience.
Drink from your own experience.
Understand others with your own experience.
Understand their experience with your own experience.
2004-09-08
Still as no thing.
Silent as no thing.
Single as no thing.
Simple as no thing.
Sensitive as no thing.
2004-09-07
I am no thing therefore I cannot be judged as any thing.
I am no thing therefore I cannot be known as any thing.
I am no thing therefore I cannot be labeled as any thing.
I am no thing therefore I cannot be described as any thing.
I am no thing therefore I cannot be understood as any thing.
2004-09-06
There is no thing to become as I am no thing.
There is no thing that can get to me as I am no thing.
There is no thing any one can do to me as I am no thing.
There is no thing to be guilty as, as no thing I do is me as I am no thing.
There is no thing to fear as no thing can do any thing to me as I am no thing.
2004-09-05
What you call your desires should be called your scripts.
What you call your personality should be called your training.
What you call your choices should be called your prejudices.
What you call your beliefs should be called your conditioning.
What you call your thinking should be called your programming.
2004-09-04
Get nothing.
Get it and you kill it.
Don't get it--let it go.
Don't get it--sense it.
There is nothing to get.
2004-09-03
Seek within not without.
Follow within not without.
Relate from within not without.
Understand from within not without.
Experience from within not from without.
2004-09-02
Seeing from form: all is lost.
Seeing from energy: all is won.
Seeing as verbal: all is lost.
Seeing as sensation: all is won.
Seeing is neither receiving nor perceiving.
2004-09-01
The past is the last to be present.
You can't put the past back in the bottle.
The past passed and cannot be resurrected.
You cannot get past the past as it is already past.
Since my past is past and I am present--I cannot be my past.
2004-08-31
Damn damning.
Damning is damnable.
Damning fits only damning.
The only damnable thing is damning.
The only thing like damning is damning.
2004-08-30
Change your mind change your life.
Change your heart change your life.
Change your identity change your life.
Change your attitude change your life.
Change your motivation change your life.
2004-08-29
Fight for your right thinking.
Fight for your right feeling.
Fight for your right acting.
Fight for your right motivating.
Fight for your right identity.
2004-08-28
The expressed is not the experienced.
The experienced is not the expressed.
The expressed is the shadow of the experienced.
The experienced is the shadow of the real.
The real runs unseen, unknown.
2004-08-27
Without end there is no life.
Without end three is no time.
Without end there is no pleasure.
Without end there is no beginning.
Without end there is no movement.
2004-08-26
The outside mirrors the inside.
The inside manipulates the outside.
The outside conforms to the inside.
The inside relates the outside to itself.
To change the outside, change the inside.
2004-08-25
Does returning bad for bad really teach them to give good?
Does treating them bad really teach them to treat you good?
Does convincing them they are bad really make them good?
Does making them feel bad really make them want to feel good?
Does doing bad to them for doing bad really teach them to do good?
2004-08-24
Theories of self are theories of ego.
Theories of history are theories of ego.
Theories of counseling are theories of ego.
Theories of personality are theories of ego.
Theories of psychology are theories of ego.
2004-08-22
Change is impossible.
Change your self change your world.
The only change in self is a change in identity.
Change is a naive concept as the basis of existence is repetition.
Change is mislabeling reshuffling, reorganization, and redistribution.
2004-08-21
Is trying to control yourself and others with pain working?
Is trying to correct yourself and others with pain working?
Is trying to convert yourself and others with pain working?
Is trying to criticize yourself and others with pain working?
Is trying to change yourself and others with pain working?
2004-08-20
Attitudes that are negative cause errors.
Attitudes can be about service and surrender.
Attitudes are often about superiority and inferiority.
Attitudes that are extremely negative cause accidents and injuries.
Attitudes are often about having superior: ability, attractiveness, comfort, contribution, control, desirability, intelligence, social graces, talent, usefulness, worth.
2004-08-19
Accept it overcome it.
Don't accept it be overcome by it.
What you accept you overcome.
What you don't accept overcomes you.
Water accepts all overcomes all.
2004-08-18
Host it don't do it.
Serve it don't do it.
Contain it don't do it.
Magnify it don't do it.
Entertain it don't do it.
2004-08-17
Ego is a corpse.
Ego is a zombie.
Ego is a mummy.
Ego is a Frankenstein monster.
Ego is a collection of dead bones.
2004-08-16
Naming does not create.
Naming does not correct.
Naming does not change.
Naming does not control.
Naming does not convert.
2004-08-15
Adversity says let's see if you are ready.
Adversity says let's see what you're made of.
Adversity says let's see if you have what it takes.
Adversity says let's see if you know how to cope.
Adversity says let's see if you will do the right thing.
Adversity says let's see if you will apply what you have learned.
2004-08-14
Whining is self-deluding.
Whining is self-defeating.
Whining is self-disturbing.
Whining is self-debilitating.
Whining is self-destructive.
2004-08-13
I feel about feelings therefore I am not feelings.
I think about thoughts therefore I am not thoughts.
I behave about behaviors therefore I am not behaviors.
I have attitudes about attitudes therefore I am not attitudes.
I have opinions about opinions therefore I am not opinions.
2004-08-12
Still inside so I can do.
Still inside so I am here.
Still inside so I am found.
Still inside so I am available.
Still inside so He will do with me.
2004-08-11
An accepting mind is a peaceful mind.
An expecting mind is not an accepting mind.
Expectations and acceptance are mutually excluding.
An expecting mind is negative stress waiting to happen.
An expecting mind comes before disappointment, dissatisfaction, and discontent.
2004-08-10
Past experience is not self.
Present experience is not self.
Future experience is not self.
Self is not its experiences--only that which hosts them.
Inner conflict is the comparison of self as remembered experiences with self as should-be experiences.
2004-08-09
I didn't cast it, I can't convert it.
I didn't cause it, I can't correct it.
I didn't create it, I can't change it.
I didn't compose it, I can't control it.
I didn't construct it, I can't convince it.
2004-08-08
Think well of them so you pray the good into them.
Think well of them so you bring out the good in them.
Think well of them so that they might think well of others.
Think well of them so your conversation lifts them into the good.
Think well of them so you help them to believe in the good in themselves.
2004-08-07
The process is its own goal.
Don't miss the present for the goal.
Plan for tomorrow but live for today.
If you act for a reward, you miss the reward of the act.
You can't get past the past because it is already past.
2004-08-06
Nothing is an illusion except your thinking.
Nothing is an illusion except everything you think it is.
Nothing is an illusion except what you think things are.
Nothing is an illusion except descriptions as something.
Nothing is an illusion except your names for everything.
2004-08-05
Resist not evil, resist focusing on evil.
Resist not evil, resist trying to cover evil.
Resist not evil, resist identifying with evil.
Resist not evil, resist trying to convert evil.
Resist not evil, resist trying to change evil.
2004-08-04
Don't try to correct it, switch.
Don't try to control it, switch.
Don't try to change it, switch.
Don't try to criticize it, switch.
Don't try to convince it, switch.
2004-08-03
Bleed then close.
Let it bleed then switch to better.
Bleeding is good only short-term, so limit your whining.
Bleeding is at first cleansing then killing, so limit your venting.
When you are bleeding get a counselor to help close it not open it more.
2004-08-02
You feel the way you act and act the way you feel.
You feel the way you think and think the way you feel.
Switch feeling switch thinking and switch thinking switch feeling.
You feel the way you experience and experience the way you feel.
You think the way you experience and experience the way you think.
2004-08-01
I will use thought to serve not to rule.
I will use thought to point to not to be.
I will use thought to be about not to be.
I will use thought to remind not to replace.
I will use thought to express not to experience.
2004-07-31
Death psychologically is life.
The wise suffer many deaths.
Death of the ego is only the beginning.
Death is feared by the dead not the living.
Death of the self for Christ's self is the ultimate answer.
2004-07-30
Goal for it!
Goal for time for today and tomorrow.
Goals are guides not rules or demands.
Align your goals with each other and reality.
Goals lead to plans that lead to actions that lead to progress that leads to motivation that leads to goals.
2004-07-29
You are not your experience of you.
You are not other's experience of you.
Others are not your experience of them.
Things are not your experienced of them.
Life is not your experience of life.
2004-07-28
If you think it and believe it, then it's important.
If you think it but don't believe it, then it's unimportant.
If you believe it and eat it, then you care deeply.
If you believe it but don't eat it, then you care.
If you don't believe it and don't eat it, then you don't care.
2004-07-27
Worry implies that you are a god who is controlling.
Resentment implies that you are a god who lost control.
Anger implies that you are a god who must be in control.
Whining implies that you are a god who is seeking control.
Expectations imply that you are a god who should be in control.
2004-07-26
Culture is another name for habit.
Personality is another name for habit.
Conditioning is another name for habit.
Difficulty changing is another name for habit.
Resistance in counseling is another name for habit.
2004-07-25
To claim to be good is death.
To seek to be good is evil itself.
To claim to know good is destruction.
Trying to become good is the problem.
You will never have even one characteristic of God.
2004-07-24
Making them better won't make you better.
Making your life better won't make you better.
Making your job better won't make you better.
Making the world better won't make you better.
Making your knowledge better won't make you better.
2004-07-23
To begin end.
To end begin.
In the end is the beginning.
In the beginning is the end.
The ends are the means and the means the ends.
2004-07-22
Whatever fault you see in others, see deeper in yourself.
Whatever fault you see in others, forgive so it will be forgiven in you.
Whatever fault you see in others, pray they turn from it to God's will.
Whatever fault you see in others, understand that is your nature without God.
Whatever fault you see in others, face, detach, and release in yourself.
2004-07-21
Adversity says let's see if you know how to surrender.
Adversity says let's see if you are mature and humble.
Adversity says let's see if you practice what you preach.
Adversity says let's see if you know how to problem-solve and-or cope.
Adversity says let's see if you are beyond whining, blaming, and damning.
2004-07-20
Whine out--dine in.
Dine on whine die on pine.
Let self whine but don't make it whine.
Let self whine without causing the whine.
Respond to the whine when it is a bodily need or a reasonable discomfort, else just hear it out.
2004-07-19
Ignore until there is no more.
Say you will consider it to put an end to it.
Get them to chase to get them off your case.
Insult yourself worse and the joke is on them.
Apologize simply and then change the subject.
2004-07-18
Experience conditions thought.
Thought conditions feeling.
Feeling conditions response.
Response conditions memory.
Memory conditions experience.
2004-07-17
No, they are not arguing for drama.
No, they are not arguing for power.
No, they are not arguing for contact.
No, they are not arguing for attention.
No, they are trying to make it come out different this time.
2004-07-16
Drama Queens: Look before you leap or reap the whirlwind.
Drama Queens: There is more to life than an emotional workout.
Drama Queens: While drama and excitement are stimulating in the present, they are dulling in the long run.
Drama Queens: While drama and excitement can trigger your internal drugs (endorphins), there are healthier ways to do that (meditation, exercise, extreme sports, play, fun, laughter).
Drama Queens: While the payoffs of endorphins, getting what you want, power of manipulation, stimulation, and time structuring are real—there are nicer ways of achieving higher goals.
2004-07-15
Whatever they say about me is not me because:
they do not really know me as only God can.
Whatever they say about me is not me because:
their idea of me is not me as I am not a mental idea.
Whatever they say about me is not me because:
their image of me is not me as I am not a mental image.
Whatever they say about me is not me because:
their image or concept of me is not a human being and I am a human being.
Whatever they say about me is not me because:
it cannot be anything more than what they say and I am a lot more than what can be said.
2004-07-14
Be out of the body and in the soul.
You are either in the spiritual vessel or the physical vessel.
Lose awareness of your outer body for awareness of your inner body.
Awareness of self as the physical negates awareness of self as the spiritual.
You can't be in two places at once, choose to be in the inner vessel not the outer vessel.
2004-07-13
All the same, all different.
Always the same, always different.
Repetition is the same but different.
Variation and variability are valuable.
Nothing happens again as nothing repeats.
2004-07-12
Nothing can hurt the image of God, hence, nothing can hurt me.
Nothing can harm the image of God, hence, nothing can harm me.
Nothing can get to the image of God, hence, nothing can get to me.
Nothing can raise the image of God, hence, nothing can raise me.
Nothing can lower the image of God, hence, nothing can lower me.
2004-07-11
You want to control life, but you don't even control your own heart.
You want to control the world, but you don't even control your own soul.
You want to control your country, but you don't even control your own mind.
You want to control your community, but you don't even control your own identity.
You want to control your employer, but you don't even control your own attention.
2004-07-10
Law cannot do.
Law cannot be.
Law cannot know.
Law cannot judge.
Law cannot run life.
2004-07-09
Encouragement is shoulds with praise.
Discouragement is shoulds with damning.
It is helpful to should things but not beings.
For peace of mind keep should-bes for can-bes.
Shoulds are useful directions but hurtful demands.
2004-07-08
Our only inner doing is identifying with a signal.
Our only inner doing is keeping one signal stuck in mind.
Our only inner doing is the delusion that our inner noise is doing.
Our only inner doing is a cosmic joke as we are only listening to it.
Our only inner doing is keeping in mind the "what is" against the "what should be".
2004-07-07: First Anniversary
New York City is not the collection of all of the maps of New York City in the world.
New York City is not the collection of all of the stories of New York City in the world.
New York City is not the collection of all of the movies of New York City in the world.
New York City is not the collection of all of the pictures of New York City in the world.
New York City is not the collection of all of the opinions of New York City in the world.
2004-07-06
Hardly horrible.
Tolerate intolerance.
Absolutely less absolutes.
Preferably not necessarily.
Shouldn't should too much.
2004-07-05
Changing your career does not change you.
Changing your partner does not change you.
Changing your attitude does not change you.
Changing your memory does not change you.
Changing your perspective does not change you.
2004-07-04
I am a human being not a human hurt.
I am a human being not a human doing.
I am a human being not a human feeling.
I am a human being not a human thinking.
I am a human being not a human pleasure.
2004-07-03
How is your negative attitude supposed to help you feel better?
How is your negative attitude supposed to help us want to help you?
How is your negative attitude supposed to help solve your problems?
How is your negative attitude supposed to help you get along with others?
How is your negative attitude supposed to help them not have a negative attitude?
2004-07-02
Damn anything and everything but your thinking.
Blame anything and everything for how your feel but your thinking.
Demand anything and everything changes but your thinking.
Try anything and everything to improve your thinking but switching thinking.
Try anything and everything to feel better but switching your thinking.
2004-07-01
Do you have charity for others?
Do you seek the good in others?
Do you bring out the good in others?
Do you believe in the good in others?
Do you give others the benefit of the doubt?
2004-06-30
Self-talk is conditioning.
We are responsible for much of your early conditioning.
You are responsible for your on-going conditioning.
Your self-talk affects you more than my self-talk.
Your self-talk is your responsibility to your self.
2004-06-29
If they mean it, I have to eat it.
If they know me, I have to eat it.
If they are family, I have to eat it.
If they are my boss, I have to eat it.
If they are rich or famous, I have to eat it.
2004-06-28
Whine is aniline.
Whine is asinine.
Whine is serpentine.
Whine is monkeyshine undermine.
Whine is neither a shrine nor a gold mine.
2004-06-27
The worst sin is to objectify God.
The second worst sin is to objectify people.
The third worst sin is to objectify life.
Objectification is murder whether idolizing or demonizing.
Objectification is treating being and living as things, as objects.
2004-06-26
The problem: Too much stress NOT enough coping.
The solution: Learn more coping skills.
The problem: Why me? If only …!
The solution: Why NOT me? Now I will do.
General solution: It's NOT about me. It's never about me.
2004-06-25
God is the unity in all things.
Love is the unity in all things.
Power is the unity in all things.
The mind of God is the unity in all things.
No thing knows, has, does, or is the unity.
2004-06-24
Verbal is alive or you.
Verbal is your life or you.
Verbal is in control or you.
Verbal is your mind or you.
Verbal is your priority or you.
2004-06-23
Life is NOT about you.
Life is NOT about family.
Life is NOT about career.
Life is NOT about human history.
Life is about God.
2004-06-22
Adversity proves your humility.
Adversity proves your character.
Adversity proves your pride peevish.
Adversity proves your attitude helpful or hurtful.
Adversity proves your ability to problem-solve or cope.
2004-06-21
Don't think the skill--sense the skill.
Don't think the music--sense the music.
Don't think the reminder--sense the reminder.
Don't think the movement--sense the movement.
Don't think what's happening--sense what's happening.
2004-06-20
Arguing with their garbage convinces them that you respect their garbage.
Arguing with them proves you are going to dance with and relate to their garbage.
Arguing with them shows your lack of understanding of the power-dynamics of arguing.
Arguing with them ignores the fact that their purpose is to gain power and control NOT truth.
Arguing with them gives credence both to their position and arguing/violence as problem-solving.
2004-06-19
Hate is faked rating.
Hate is brain on wait.
Hate inflates the facts.
Hate overrates its tiny point of view.
Hate requires you to be deaf, dumb, and blind to most of the evidence.
2004-06-18
The only thing that is the sum of your experiences is the sum of your experiences; and that sum will never be made.
Just as the camera is NOT the sum of its pictures, so too you are NOT the sum of your memories.
Just as the TV is NOT the sum of the shows or movies it shares, so too you are NOT the sum of the thoughts or feelings you share.
Just as the fax machine is NOT the same as the faxes it sends or receives, so too you are NOT the same as the thoughts you send or receive.
Just as the cell phone is NOT the same as the calls it makes or receives, so too you are NOT the same as your behaviors or experiences.
2004-06-17
Naming isn't being or experiencing.
Being isn't experiencing and experiencing isn't being.
Being, experiencing, and naming are the way of life.
Being is existing, the transparent self, the naked experiencer, the host.
Experiencing is what happens to and in the being.
Naming is what the experiencing does to have it.
2004-06-16
The verbal is no sense.
The verbal has no sense.
The verbal makes no sense.
The verbal causes no sense.
The verbal only points to sense.
2004-06-15
Anger won't solve anger.
Worry won't solve worry.
Shame won't solve shame.
Drinking won't solve drinking.
Gambling won't solve gambling.
2004-06-14
How do I switch my mood channels?
Am I a victim of my mood channels?
Can I scan all mood channels and choose one?
Do I need an addiction to either switch my mood or to get me on an exciting channel?
Do mood channels happen by accident, by how others treat me, or do I always have choice?
2004-06-13
I will NOT measure myself by my gaining or keeping fame.
I will NOT measure myself by my gaining or keeping favor.
I will NOT measure myself by my gaining or keeping fortune.
I will NOT measure myself by my gaining or keeping fondness.
I will NOT measure myself by my gaining or keeping friendship.
2004-06-12
Need for success causes failure.
Need for esteem causes insecurity.
Need for approval causes rejection.
Need for satisfaction causes suffering.
Need for security causes loss of control.
2004-06-11
The realizing is NOT the realized.
The inventing is NOT the invented.
The motivating is NOT the motivation.
The comprehending is NOT the comprehended.
The conceptualizing is NOT the conceptualized.
2004-06-10
Worry is negative scripting.
Worry is preemptive whining.
Worry is negative conditioning.
Worry is negative visualization.
Worry is whining to yourself ahead of time.
2004-06-09
Acting angry about being angry will NOT make you less angry.
Acting angry about their anger will NOT make them less angry.
Acting angry about your problems will get you more problems.
Acting angry about your problems will make your problems worse.
Acting angry is neither problem-solving nor coping, hence, acting angry is the enemy of your productive responses.
2004-06-08
To lie is to claim the verbal is the visual.
To sort the verbal as the visual is "the" problem.
You can't honestly compare the verbal to the visual.
The verbal and the visual are permanently disparate.
The verbal can point to the visual, but the verbal can't replace the visual.
2004-06-07
I do NOT control experience, I control my perception of experience.
I do NOT control experience, I control my attitude about experience.
I do NOT control reality, I control my feeling experience of experience.
I do NOT control experience, I control my motivation regarding experience.
I do NOT control experience, I control my mental experience of experience.
2004-06-06
Thinking I'm superior is a pleasing payoff for my ego that ignores the way it encourages me to exploit others.
Thinking I'm superior is a pleasing payoff for my ego that ignores the way it leads me to objectify and demonize others.
Thinking I'm superior is a pleasing payoff for my ego that ignores the self-disturbance and unacceptance it causes me.
Thinking I'm superior is a pleasing payoff for my ego that ignores the divisions and conflicts in my relationships that it causes.
Thinking I'm superior is a pleasing payoff for my ego that ignores the way it encourages me to think I am above the law and ethics.
2004-06-05
Negate hate.
Deflate hate.
Hate ate the bait.
Hate is its own fate.
Hate rate it and ate it.
2004-06-04
Keep your light bright.
Keep your focus right on the light.
You bring to the party what you bring to your mind.
The pure is always there for you to bring to and so help your situation.
At any moment, you choose to pay attention to and increase the clean or the unclean.
2004-06-03
You want to control other's desires but you don't yet control your own desires.
You want to control other's feelings but you don't yet control your own feelings.
You want to control other's thinking but you don't yet control your own thinking.
You want to control other's attitudes but you don't yet control your own attitude.
You want to control other's behaviors but you don't yet control your own behaviors.
2004-06-02
The TV is NOT the show.
The phone is NOT the call.
The radio is NOT the music.
The camera is NOT the picture.
The computer is NOT the graphics.
2004-06-01
There is a reason we don't beat the damaged to make them better.
There is a reason we don't punish the injured to make them do better.
There is a reason we don't scold the wounded to make them get well.
There is a reason we don't abuse the abused to make them feel better.
There is a reason we don't nag the unhealthy to make them get healthy.
2004-05-31
My need for security causes my anxiety and compulsivity.
My need for self-esteem causes my shame and depression.
My need for self-esteem causes my pride and exploitation of others.
My need for comfort causes my low frustration tolerance and discomfort.
2004-05-30
How little you seek to please God and how much you seek to please people.
How little you listen to God's advice and how much you listen to people's advice.
How little you worry about what God thinks and how much your worry about what people think.
How little you fear consequences from God and how much you fear consequences from people.
How little you honor your contracts with God and how much you honor your contracts with people.
2004-05-29
Ego is a poem of fools for fools.
Ego is a song sung by a fool to a fool.
Ego is a play about nothing as everything.
Ego is a tragedy that should have been a comedy.
Ego is a novel about empty promises based on nothing.
2004-05-28
It is more important to be present in your mind than in your body.
Live in the now of your mind NOT the now of your body or environment.
Being in the time outward should be sacrificed to being in the time inward.
Be present in your present state of mind NOT in your present circumstances.
Be here now in the inner time-space continuum NOT the outer time-space continuum.
2004-05-27
Still to do.
Silent to speak.
Share to receive.
Single to be true.
Simple to be wise.
2004-05-26
Don't be surprised when you give people garbage they give you more garbage back.
Don't be surprised when your mind is filled with garbage you feel and act like garbage.
Don't be surprised when you spread garbage that garbage comes back to you.
Don't be surprised when you offer garbage NOT all are takers.
Don't be surprised when you spend more time on garbage than good you have more garbage than good.
2004-05-25
The only thing that can be reduced to opinion is opinion--NOT people.
The only thing that can be reduced to behavior is behavior--NOT a being.
The only thing that can be reduced to description is description--NOT an individual.
The only thing that can be reduced to thought is thought--NOT a human being.
The only thing that can be reduced to a label, name, or term is a label, name, or term--NOT a person.
2004-05-24
If you or they think negative, then you or they need positive from you just as sickness requires health.
If you or they feel negative, then you or they need positive from you just as illness requires medicine.
If you or they act negative, then you or they need positive from you just as disease needs drugs.
The negative signals the need for the positive, just as hunger signals the need for food.
If you see or hear something negative, then bring something positive to help it.
2004-05-23
Weakness cannot be denied.
Weakness cannot be satisfied.
Weakness cannot be changed.
Weakness cannot be controlled.
Weakness must turn back and rely on strength.
2004-05-22
Seeking truth you run from it.
Seeking something is seeking death.
Seeking as something you're dead already.
Seeking as begging and praying is right seeking.
Seeking as waiting humbly is hopeful and helpful.
2004-05-21
As hunger signals you to eat, so too have weakness signal you to rely on God.
As thirst signals you to drink, so too have laziness signal you to work and action.
As exhaustion signals you to sleep, so too have negativity signal you to cope and pray.
As hunger signals you to eat, so too have fasting signal you to eat God's word.
Use the negative to signal the positive and never allow the negative to signal more negative.
2004-05-20
How is your negative attitude supposed to help motivate you or me?
How is your negative attitude supposed to help you win friends and influence people?
How is your negative attitude supposed to either help or correct my negative attitude?
How is your negative attitude supposed to help me appreciate your problems and concerns?
How is your negative attitude supposed to help you problem-solve or cope with what's happening?
2004-05-19
You cannot be an idea because you are a human being.
You cannot be an idea because you are NOT just mentation.
You cannot be an idea because you are the one having ideas.
You cannot be an idea because you are the one experiencing ideas.
You cannot be an idea because you remain yet your ideas come and go.
2004-05-18
Changing your thinking does NOT change you.
Changing your feeling does NOT change you.
Changing your behaving does NOT change you.
Changing your environment does NOT change you.
Changing your identity does NOT change you.
2004-05-17
Arguing with them lowers your position and raises theirs.
Arguing with them demonstrates you are going to dance their dance.
Arguing with them puts you on the defensive and them on the offensive.
Arguing with them ignores the fact that they are NOT struggling to understand but only to undermine.
Arguing with them gives them equal power and voice, which if they don't really have will cause resentments later.
2004-05-16
Stress is positive when you focus on progress.
Stress is negative when you focus on what should NOT be.
Stress is negative when you focus on trying NOT to do something.
Stress is negative when you focus on NOT accepting things as they are.
Stress is negative when you focus on trying to control what you cannot control.
2004-05-15
Who is in your head?
How do you know who is in your head?
Who is in control in your head?
How do you know who is in control in your head?
Do you have any evidence or just thoughts about who is in control in your head?
2004-05-14
The way is invisible.
The way is nonverbal.
The way is imperceptible.
The way is felt NOT known.
They way is followed NOT captured.
2004-05-13
Do you control your mind or does your mind control you?
Do you control your body or does your body control you?
Do you control your habits or do your habits control you?
Do you control your desires or do your desires control you?
Do you control your emotions or do your emotions control you?
2004-05-12
I am responsible for what I focus on.
I am responsible for what I take to heart.
I am responsible for the pain my mind causes me.
I am responsible for my experience of my experiences.
I am responsible for my attitude and doing the right thing anyway.
2004-05-11
Have the work you love or love the work you have.
Have the home you love or love the home you have.
Have the climate you love or love the climate you have.
Have the spouse you love or love the spouse you have.
Have the children you love or love the children you have.
2004-05-10
Procrastination is the avoidance of pain.
Procrastination is the fear of the criticism of the work avoided.
Procrastination is the avoidance of the pain of the process to pleasure.
Procrastination is the avoidance of the frustration of negative expression.
Procrastination is the fear of work expressing self as pain, as the uncompleted.
2004-05-09
Yield to it so light won't.
Drop it and let it fall anyway.
Get over it so it will get over you.
Surrender to it so awareness won't.
Submit to it so consciousness won't.
2004-05-08
Stop waiting start now.
Stop dreaming start doing.
Stop trying start achieving.
Stop rehearsing start living.
Stop pretending start being.
2004-05-07
Nothing said is me.
Nothing judged is me.
Nothing named is me.
Nothing labeled is me.
Nothing thought is me.
2004-05-06
Why do you put your faith and hope in garbage?
Why do you give garbage and expect gold in return?
How is giving us garbage going to teach us to give you gold?
What if we also have your philosophy of giving garbage to get gold?
Why do you think that adding garbage to garbage will get you less garbage?
2004-05-05
Fight for your right to think right.
Fight for your right to feel right.
Fight for your right to do right.
You can practice right or wrong, but you must practice.
Since you must practice right or wrong thinking--why not make it right?
2004-05-04
Thinking is the only illusion.
Thinking as reality is illusion.
Whatever you think it is, is an illusion.
Whoever you think you or they are is an illusion.
Life is NOT an illusion, but your thinking "life" is an illusion.
2004-05-03
To get ahead stay behind.
The master leaves no mark.
Soft water overcomes hard rock.
The path is so simple everyone despises it.
Rigid breaks straightaway. Flexible bends straight.
2004-05-02
My need for success causes my fears of failure.
My need for esteem causes my fears of insecurity.
My need for approval causes my fears of rejection.
My need for satisfaction causes my fears of suffering.
My need for security causes my fears of loss of control.
2004-05-01
Meaning is NOT words.
Words are NOT meaning.
Words are shadows of the real.
The more words the less meaning.
Better done well than spoken well.
2004-04-30
If it is wide, it is NOT the way.
If it is easy, it is NOT the way.
If it is difficult, it is NOT the way.
If it is known, it is NOT the way.
If it is unknown, it is NOT the way.
2004-04-29
Attitude is a synergy of thought and emotion.
Attitudes drive choices and habits.
Attitudes that are negative cause calamity.
Attitudes that are neutral cause objectivity.
Attitudes that are positive cause productivity.
2004-04-28
Choice is the lack of attitude.
Choice is a conflict in attitudes.
Choice exists when attitude is uncertain.
Choice is resolved by a dominant attitude.
Choice does NOT exist when attitude is certain.
2004-04-27
You can't change your past hurts, but you can decide NOT to have them as present hurts.
You can't change your past hurts, but you can decide to no longer take them to heart now.
You can't change the past, but you can change how you think about it so it doesn't have to hurt anymore.
You can't change your past influences, but you can decide to pursue better influences now.
You can't change your past mistakes, but you can decide to make up for them now.
2004-04-26
Are you a whine-a-holic?
Are you addicted to anger?
Are you addicted to arguing?
Are you addicted to being right?
What and who do you sacrifice to your addiction?
2004-04-25
Sad isn't bad.
Sad teaches surrender.
Sad can't make you bad.
Sad prepares you for glad.
Sad is the parent of humility.
2004-04-24
Rely on it don't try it.
Drown in it don't do it.
Depend on it don't try it.
Follow it don't try and do it.
Be guided by it don't try and do it.
2004-04-23
Don't do it--be under it.
Doing is its own knowing.
If nothing is done, all is done.
Is it possible to do nothing? If so, how would you do it?
The tree blowing in the breeze can claim to be doing the shaking, but it is not.
2004-04-22
Losing self is finding self.
Looking for self is losing self.
Analyzing self is destroying self.
Becoming something is despising self.
Finding self as something is denying self.
2004-04-21
Be a fool NOT to be a fool.
Truth does NOT cover untruth.
Straight does NOT cover crooked.
The highest knowing is NOT knowing.
You cannot realize truth, truth must realize you.
2004-04-20
There is no fire like desire.
There is no prison like pride.
There is no ambush like attachment.
There is no self-deception like shame.
There is no deliverance like detachment.
2004-04-19
Let it settle itself.
Let it follow itself.
Let it pass as it will.
Let it be as it wants.
Let it go its own way.
2004-04-18
Nothing must be but what is.
Nothing will be what it should be.
Everything was what it should be.
Everything happens as it happens.
Everything happened as it happened.
2004-04-17
Stop creating self as something.
Stop analyzing self as something.
Stop projecting self as something.
Stop thinking of self as something.
Stop remembering self as something.
2004-04-16
Know without knowing.
Do without doing.
Be without being.
Think without thinking.
Feel without feeling.
2004-04-15
The external life gained is life lost.
The external life pales against the internal life.
Tend to the internal and the external will follow.
A wise man's possessions are internal NOT external.
Externally, the way is lost; internally, the way is secure.
2004-04-14
The more you deny it, the more you own it.
The more you suppress it, the more it owns you.
The more you express it, the more it runs you.
The more you observe it, the more it flees you.
The more you let it complete, the more it is done.
2004-04-13
Substance is lost for knowing it.
Substance is NOT label, name, or term.
Substance is forgotten for the name of form.
Substance is beyond the illusion of description.
Substance is neither attained nor realized by shadow.
2004-04-12
Do the absolute right thing anyway.
Do the regally right thing regardless.
Do the supreme right thing in spite of.
Do the noblest right thing nonetheless.
Do the highest right thing notwithstanding.
2004-04-11
Perception is more important than reality.
Being current is more important than truth.
Who you know is more important than ability.
Appearance is more important than substance.
How much money you have is more important than justice.
2004-04-10
Disdain gain.
Gain is ego growth.
Restrain ego from gain.
Refrain from gain and refrain from ruin.
Abstain from gain or have the pain of death.
2004-04-09
You can act rightly only when you stop acting.
You can see clearly only when you stop seeing.
You can understand only when you stop knowing.
You can be yourself only when you stop being anything.
You can help only when you stop being anyone and start being everyone.
2004-04-08
See the invisible.
Hear the soundless.
Touch the formless.
Taste the flavorless.
Smell the odorless.
2004-04-07
What does my thinking that way promote?
What does my thinking that way pressure?
What does my thinking that way produce?
What does my thinking that way predict?
What does my thinking that way protect?
2004-04-06
You best rest.
Rest to digest.
To harvest--rest.
Honest, rest is blest.
All but rest is immodest.
2004-04-05
I am a process NOT a collection.
Praise your behavior NOT your self.
Self is the space between two thoughts.
Only things can be things and I am no thing.
Nothing that happens to me can become me.
2004-04-04
Trying is whining.
Trying harder is failing harder.
The effort to be free is its own prison.
Trying can only lead to lying that you did it.
Instead of trying: study, search, rehearse, prepare, practice, plan, learn, train.
2004-04-03
Thinking is NOT proof.
Thinking is NOT wisdom.
Thinking is NOT witnessing.
Thinking is NOT intelligence.
Thinking is NOT understanding.
2004-04-02
I need my pain to justify my whine.
I need my pain to justify my revenge.
I need my pain to justify my laziness.
I need my pain to justify being rescued.
I need my pain to justify getting sympathy.
2004-04-01
Am I addicted to my problems?
Would I be anybody without my problems?
Can I structure my life without my problems?
What payoffs keep me from letting my problems go?
With so much identity invested in my problems--I cannot give them up.
2004-03-31
Trying is NOT winning.
Trying already gave up.
Trying is NOT persisting.
Trying is the refuge of losers.
Trying can be done forever without success.
2004-03-30
Seeing is NOT what is seen.
Hearing is NOT what is heard.
Seeing is NOT the image seen.
Hearing is NOT the sound heard.
Seeing and hearing are NOT the memory.
2004-03-29
Passivity is necessary for receptivity.
The effort to be passive is aggressive.
Without passive attention there is no listening.
Without listening there is no communication.
Without communication there is no love or life.
2004-03-28
Understanding cannot be forced.
Understanding is prevented by effort.
Understanding is postponed by trying.
Understanding is a gift for the quiet mind.
Understanding can come only without effort.
2004-03-27
Searching is seeking distraction.
Searching is seeking substitution.
Searching is seeking ego security.
Searching is seeking escape from self.
Searching is seeking superior satisfaction.
2004-03-26
You can grow and develop your ego NOT your self.
You can change your thinking and habits NOT your self.
Trying to become is a denial of the time and space of being.
Chasing self is running from self: stop chasing running and be.
There is no such thing as self-improvement only ego-improvement.
2004-03-25
Hate your life and love His.
Have joy in the Lord NOT flesh.
Have pleasure in God NOT self.
Feel good about God NOT self.
Have satisfaction in God NOT self.
2004-03-24
Nothing I can do can make me into anything!
Nothing can make me more or less of a person.
Nothing people say or do can make me into anything.
Nothing I say or do can prove that I am or will be anything.
Nothing can increase or decrease my personhood in any way.
2004-03-23
To name is to end knowing.
To name is to end experiencing.
To name is to store in memory.
To name is to leave the visual for the verbal.
To name is to acquire knowledge NOT wisdom.
2004-03-22
In quietude wisdom comes.
Wisdom claimed is wisdom lost.
Nondoing makes space in your place.
Simplicity is the best part of humility.
Singleness is required for seeing truth.
2004-03-21
Thinking is NOT seeing.
Thinking is NOT knowing.
Thinking is NOT evidence.
Thinking is NOT awareness.
Thinking is NOT experience.
2004-03-20
I am the victim of my own ego.
I am the victim of my own thinking.
I can talk myself into feeling any way I want.
If I feel rejected it is because of self-rejection.
If I don't like the way I am feeling, I can switch my thinking.
2004-03-19
I am an actor NOT actions.
I am a thinker NOT thoughts.
I am a chooser NOT choices.
I am a performer NOT a performance.
I am an experiencer NOT an experience.
2004-03-18
Nothing I do can become me.
Nothing I feel can become me.
Nothing I think can become me.
Nothing others say can become me.
Nothing I experience can become me.
2004-03-17
Guilt is self-blame for pain.
Anxiety is fear of self-blame for pain.
Depression is endless self-blame for pain.
Anger is other-blame for pain.
Pride is self-blame for pleasure.
2004-03-16
Guilt is accepting self as pain.
Anxiety is fear of self as pain.
Depression is hopeless and helpless acceptance of self as pain.
Anger is blaming others for self as pain.
Pride is self as pleasure and others as pain.
2004-03-15
Guilt is self-damning you blame yourself for.
Anxiety is self-damning you want to prevent.
Depression is self-damning you believe you will have forever.
Anger is self-damning you blame others for.
Pride is self-damning you turn onto others.
2004-03-14
No one has ever been angry.
There is no such thing as self.
Your possessions possess you.
No one has ever become anything.
Since the past is gone and you are NOT, you are NOT your past.
2004-03-13
I cannot hurt unless I am something.
I care to be courteous NOT something.
Opinions only affect me if I adopt them.
No one can get to me for no one is in me but me.
I care about what people think about my behavior NOT my being.
2004-03-12
The worst sin is to objectify God.
The second worst sin is to objectify people.
The third worst sin is to objectify life.
To objectify is to put form or matter over energy.
To objectify is to view as thought or thing NOT energy.
2004-03-11
Rest best zest.
Doing is unrest.
Rest in His works.
Pride protests rest.
Rest from your mental works.
2004-03-10
How do you bring out the best in others?
How do others bring out the best in you?
Who do you know that you bring out the best in?
Who do you know that brings out the best in you?
What hooks your and their best and worst?
2004-03-09
Language is NOT what it is about.
The formula is NOT the formulated.
There is no such thing as a good or bad day.
The word only has the meaning you bring to it.
The facts of the situation and the experience of the situation are NOT the same.
2004-03-08
A counselor should be more than a sycophant.
A counselor should be more than a paid friend.
A counselor should be more than a paid listener.
A counselor should be more than a paid comforter.
A counselor should be more than an attorney who blindly accepts and argues your side of the case.
2004-03-07
What is at the core--spirit or thought?
What is relied upon--spirit or thought?
What is at the center--spirit or thought?
What is the driving force--spirit or thought?
What is the guiding principle--spirit or thought?
2004-03-06
The speaking is NOT the sensing.
The speaking is NOT the thinking.
The speaking is NOT the feeling.
The speaking is NOT the doing.
The speaking is NOT the being.
2004-03-05
I am the place and space for the inside and outside.
I am neither the inside nor the outside for I am the host of both.
I control the door to the room self that the inside and outside appear in.
The inside reflects the outside, the outside the inside, and I mirror both.
The outside does NOT control the inside, the inside does NOT control the outside, but I control which and what I magnify of each.
2004-03-04
I feel about feelings therefore I am NOT feelings.
I perform behaviors therefore I am NOT behaviors.
I think about thoughts therefore I am NOT thoughts.
I have experiences therefore I am NOT experiences.
I have pleasure and pain therefore I am NOT pleasure or pain.
2004-03-03
I may have to live with it, but I never have to eat it.
I may have to live with it, but I never have to live in it.
I may have to live with it, but I never have to live as it.
I may have to live with it, but I never have to take it personally.
I may have to live with it, but I never have to center my life on it.
2004-03-02
The less I am--the more I am.
The less I am experiences, characteristics, and abilities--the more I am my true self.
See and hear everything without interfering while returning your identity from the contents back to the container.
Recall yourself as a living, sensing being that is unknowable and undefinable because it is never thoughts or things.
Watch, listen to, and switch your thoughts with your heart; and never try to or pretend to do anything with your thoughts.
2004-03-01
Nothing can be said that is acting.
Nothing can be said that is creating.
Nothing can be said that is thinking.
Nothing can be said that is what is said.
Nothing can be said that is what it is about.
2004-02-29
Labels are iatrogenic.
Labels limit perception.
Label behaviors NOT beings.
Labels lead to war and genocide.
Labels apply to things NOT beings.
2004-02-28
Question conditioning.
De-condition until you can't.
Your old conditioning chooses your new conditioning.
What you call thinking or speaking is just the expression of your current conditioning.
Who has an original thought that is NOT just an expression of school or social conditioning!?
2004-02-27
Guilt for behavior is good.
Guilt for self is bad.
Guilt for behavior is responsible and corrective.
Guilt for self is irresponsible and destructive.
Guilt and the focus of guilt are conditioned choices.
2004-02-26
What you attach to you become.
What you become you do.
When you try to change or control what you are, you strengthen it.
When you resist doing what you are, you do it all the more unless you resist unto the death.
There are only two good choices: (1) detach self from it; (2) suffer its death.
2004-02-25
Belong to nothing.
Resist something with something and lose.
Resist something with nothing and win.
Not being something--no thing to defend or die for.
I will NOT fear anything for nothing can make me anything.
2004-02-24
There is no life as any thing.
No one has ever been any thing.
Attach to anything and be dead as everything.
The self has everything to lose and nothing to gain.
I cannot control my self as anything because it is NOT something.
2004-02-23
You are attracted to trash.
You seek to fix your trash with trash.
You seek to cover your trash with pleasure.
Trash develops into a hunger that you satisfy by doing trash.
The more trash you are feeling, the more likely you will accept and-or seek more.
2004-02-22
My worth is NOT equal to my worthy experiences.
My worth is NOT equal to my or your worthy opinions of me.
My worth is NOT equal to my worthy thoughts or beliefs.
My worth is NOT equal to my worthy feelings or sentiments.
My worth is NOT equal to my worthy manners or deeds.
2004-02-21
Negate hate.
Hate inflates your ego.
Hate does NOT educate.
You are what you hate it as in order to hate it as that.
Hate objectifies people and anything that objectifies people is the problem.
2004-02-20
Self-disturbing stress comes from: "I must but I can't."
Self-defeating stress comes from: "I must but I won't."
Mild stress comes from: "I wish, prefer, would like it if I, they, or life would do it."
Neutral stress comes from: "I, they, or life don't have to do it."
Self-fulfilling stress comes from: "I must, I can, and I will."
2004-02-19
I handle stress by first problem-solving and then coping with the unsolved.
I refuse to try to control what I cannot because that just makes for negative stress.
I refuse to try to change people and life because that just makes for negative stress.
I process away stress with my mind rather than push it off on my body to process as sickness, illness, and disease.
I seek positive stress as positive stress is about progress and negative is about the lack of progress.
2004-02-18
The sense is NOT the sensation.
The perception is NOT the perceived.
The business plan is NOT the business.
The concept is NOT the conceptualized.
The understanding is NOT the understood.
2004-02-17
Does the parent name-caller forget the purpose of poison?
People associate the hate of the name-caller with the name-caller and NOT the hated behavior.
If you wouldn't sexually abuse your child, then stop calling them names as studies show that is harder to recover from.
If the purpose of your name-calling is to have the person fight against it, then aren't you condemning them to the opposite ego prison?
Name-calling is disempowering, demotivating, destructive, and often causes or increases the very thing it's supposedly against.
2004-02-16
Method is NOT way.
Morals are NOT morality.
The principles are NOT the practice.
The assembly instructions are NOT the assembly.
The counseling theory is NOT the counseling practice.
2004-02-15
I am the chooser NOT the choices.
I am the amplifier NOT the amplified.
I am the receiver NOT the receptions.
I am the experiencer NOT the experiences.
I am the performer NOT the performances.
2004-02-14
To correct first accept.
Correct the behavior NOT the being.
Correct the choices NOT the chooser.
I cannot correct what I cannot accept.
Correction is condemnation only for ego.
2004-02-13
Adversity forces you to health.
Adversity forces you to humility.
Adversity forces you to gratitude.
Adversity forces you to do the right thing.
Adversity forces you to right dependence.
2004-02-12
A judge is just an attorney in robes.
A judge strives to be a pinhead to avoid the problem of justice by serving procedure.
A judge hides the single, simple point of law that they are blinded by in order to appear superior in the end.
A judge is a blind guide that strains at a gnat and swallows a camel.
A judge is one who cares for the details of law but omits the weightier matters of law: judgment, mercy, faith.
2004-02-11
Feelings are NOT facts.
Thoughts are NOT facts.
Behaviors are NOT facts.
Memories are NOT facts.
Only the sensings of direct perception are facts.
2004-02-10
Fast from the contents.
Fast from correcting the contents.
Fast from converting the contents.
Fast from controlling the contents.
Simply watch and switch the contents.
2004-02-09
Nothing can mentally disturb me but my ego.
The degree of my emotional response is equal to the degree of my thoughts.
I decide how I respond to events and how I respond to events decides how I feel.
I choose to make things a big deal by interpreting them either as a personal threat or reward.
Emotional upset starts with identifying your self as something negative based on your negative experience.
2004-02-08
I remain undone.
I am never begun.
I am the unbegun.
I was begun and done at once.
After your beginning, the begun is your done.
2004-02-07
Be the vessel--NOT the fluids in the vessel.
Be the mirror--NOT the reflections on the mirror.
Be the container--NOT the things in the container.
Be the TV--NOT the TV shows displayed by the TV.
Be the camera--NOT the pictures taken by the camera.
2004-02-06
Identify with the container--resist identifying with the contents.
Reidentify with the container--resist reidentifying with the contents.
Control identity--resist trying to control contents.
Flee with identity before giving identity to any contents.
Flee with identity whenever you cannot see what you are identifying with.
2004-02-05
Slow thoughts.
Shrink thoughts.
Follow thoughts.
Reduce thoughts.
Complete thoughts.
2004-02-04
If you hate Hitler, you become Hitler.
You are what you hate NOT what you ate.
You are what you hate because you ate it.
The enemy is anything that objectifies people.
Perpetrators need to objectify their victims, hence, to objectify perpetrators is to become one.
2004-02-03
I can make what happened either better or worse by the way I think about it.
I can dwell on the negative and make myself sick and unsane.
I can dwell on the positive and motivate and inspire myself.
I can take to heart every insult and feel hurt, angry, and resentful.
I can accept every insult as a possible gift to improve my behavior but never my being.
2004-02-02
I am the one who feels, therefore, I cannot be what I feel.
I am the one who receives, therefore, I cannot be what I receive.
I am the one who perceives, therefore, I cannot be what I perceive.
I am the one who is aware, therefore, I cannot be what I am aware of.
I am the one who remembers, therefore, I cannot be what I remember.
2004-02-01
I am my mind NOT the movies in mind.
I am the experiencer NOT the experienced.
I am the seer of my mental movies NOT the movies.
I am the one who HAS experience NOT the one who is experience.
I am the one who HOSTS experience NOT the one who is experience.
2004-01-31
Sweet is a false criterion for truth as sweet can cover sour.
Memory is a false criterion for truth as ego distorts memory at will.
Beauty is a false criterion for truth as lies and evil can appear beautiful.
Experience is a false criterion for truth as experience is incomplete and subject to interpretation.
Agreement is a false criterion for truth as even if the whole world thinks the world is flat it doesn't make it right.
2004-01-30
You can't milk trash.
You can't get fruit from filth.
You can't get gold from garbage.
You can't turn wrong right by reviewing.
You can't harvest happiness from depression.
2004-01-29
The role is never who you are.
The opinion is never who you are.
The behavior is never who you are.
The experience is never who you are.
People are never right about who you are.
2004-01-28
It was just a joke (yeah, a joke on you, you fool).
I was just kidding (it sure felt good to step on you).
Can't you take a joke (cause I really enjoy giving it to you)?
I didn't mean anything by it (because you aren't strong or smart enough to know I did).
I was only trying to help (you are too stupid to even understand that I can do it better).
2004-01-27
I try. He does.
I can't. He did.
I won't. He did.
I didn't. He did.
I failed. He succeeded.
2004-01-26
Does your opinion motivate you to the positive?
Does your attitude motivate you to the positive?
Does your outlook motivate you to the positive?
Does your thinking motivate you to the positive?
Does your perspective motivate you to the positive?
2004-01-25
How does your opinion make you act?
How does your attitude make you act?
How does your outlook make you act?
How does your thinking make you act?
How does your perspective make you act?
2004-01-24
How does your opinion make you feel?
How does your attitude make you feel?
How does your outlook make you feel?
How does your thinking make you feel?
How does your perspective make you feel?
2004-01-23
You can't do but can only be.
You can't do your self--it is already done.
You can't do other people--even they can't.
You can't do life--there is no thing life to do.
You can't do things but can only manipulate things.
2004-01-22
You cannot fix the past so stop bringing it up.
You cannot relive the relationship to fix it so forgive it.
You cannot change the outcome of the past by whining.
You cannot change the outcome of the past by blaming.
You cannot change the outcome of the past by demanding or damning.
2004-01-21
Be nice NOT right.
Be nice for mean.
Give good for bad.
When it gets bad get better.
Respond with right to wrong.
2004-01-20
Become or be.
Become is the end.
Become something and so die.
Become a different ego NOT self.
Become what when you already exist?
2004-01-19
Trying to do self ruins self.
Trying to do others turns them against you.
Trying to do life keeps you out of the flow.
Trying is the opposite of humble surrender.
Trying is the way of pride, death, and destruction.
2004-01-18
Life is NOT what it is supposed to be.
Life does NOT do what it is supposed to do.
People are NOT who they are supposed to be.
People do NOT do what they are supposed to do.
What should be has little relation to what is.
2004-01-17
Pride is the sickness sold as cure.
Pride is the payoff for disturbance.
Pride is the number one drug addiction.
Pride is the undiagnosed cause of disorder.
Pride is the cure that is worse than the illness: shame.
2004-01-16
Shame's game is pain as cure.
Shame's a pain that blames you.
Shame's the opposite of pride: the self-esteem bipolar bounce game.
Shame's the name of the game of taking pride in knowing better than yourself.
Shame's hypocritical as it says it is against the negative while it serves the negative.
2004-01-15
Anger says live in the past.
Anger says hold fast to hurt.
Anger says make my pain their pain.
Anger claims its evil is justified by their evil.
Anger claims you are superior to those who wronged you.
2004-01-14
Beggars can't be choosers: but are anyway.
All things to all men: and nothing real to any.
All's well that end's well: because it started well.
Out of sight out of mind: when the mind forgets the good.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder: when the mind remembers the good.
2004-01-13
The secret of life is you get what you give.
The secret of life is you get what you serve.
The secret of life is only you control how you feel.
The secret of life is you can only influence NOT control.
The secret of life is you agree beforehand to everything that happens to you.
2004-01-12
The name of your self is NOT your self.
The traits of your self are NOT your self.
The description of your self is NOT your self.
The characteristics of your self are NOT your self.
The labels and titles for your self are NOT your self.
2004-01-11
Go easy on life and hard on your thinking.
Go easy on others and hard on their thinking.
Go easy on yourself and hard on your thoughts.
Go easy on your abilities and hard on your philosophy.
Go easy on yourself and hard on your choices and scripts.
2004-01-10
Not what you want but what you need.
What you want may hurt you but NOT what you need.
Focus on your few needs and forget your many wants.
Stop claiming your wants are needs and stop much distress.
What you want may turn out to be a curse: "Be careful for what you pray for."
2004-01-09
Yes, they influence you--but your self-talk influences you more.
Yes, they taught you to tell yourself bad things--but why did you learn to do it so well?
Yes, they give you negative--but only you can choose to either dwell on it or to take it to heart.
Yes, they told you negative things about yourself--but how many more thousands of times have you done it to yourself?
Yes, they have conditioned and trained you for the negative--but you can condition and train yourself for the positive.
2004-01-08
Reason poisons or heals passion.
Changing thinking can change feeling.
Thinking can turn to feeling in an instant.
Feeling drives thinking and thinking feeling.
Thinking can be felt or unfelt, emotional or unemotional.
2004-01-07
Let self whine to expose away the whine.
Let self whine without giving in or punishing.
Let self whine without giving self another reason to whine.
Let self whine without punishing or rewarding self for whining.
Let your inner nature whine for what it wants without either giving it what it wants or giving it grief for wanting it.
2004-01-06
No coat is warm.
No movie is funny.
No city is charming.
No person is friendly.
No book is interesting.
2004-01-05
The blueprint is NOT the building.
The diagram is NOT the diagramed.
The explanation is NOT the explained.
The product design is NOT the product.
The experience is NOT the experiencing.
2004-01-04
You can be smart about its being stupid.
You can be smart about their being stupid.
You can be smart about your being stupid.
Or, you can realize knowing better cannot make you better.
Now, you can be equal, humble, and wise.
2004-01-03
Can this be life or death for who I must be?
Nobody can control who you are--even you.
Everything people do is about them NOT you.
If only he, she, it didn't or wouldn't do that, then I could be who I am.
If they don't stop treating me that way, does it mean I can't be who I should be?
2004-01-02
I must hurt you so you know you hurt me.
I hurt more than you so you must be nice first.
You are worse than me so you must be nicer to me.
I must prove you are mean and nasty so you will love me.
The point is to prove you are meaner so I can say any mean thing.
2004-01-01
Both either/or and more.
Mostly rather than minor either/or.
Either/or doesn't mirror much more.
It's NOT either/or but both and more.
Counselors advise more than either/or.
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