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"Daily Dose of Discernment: Quote 5 A Day" 2004
by Kevin E. FitzMaurice, M.S., LPC
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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.