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"Daily Dose of Discernment: Quote 5 A Day" 2006
by Kevin E. FitzMaurice, M.S., LPC
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2006-12-31
Right does not make might.
Right does not make magic.
Right does not make reason.
Right does not make happiness.
Right does not make justification.
2006-12-30
Study peace as way.
Study peace as priority.
Study peace as solution.
Study peace as psychology.
Study peace as relationship.
2006-12-29
Stop when: you are doing it for you and not them also.
Stop when: there is nothing you can do but make it worse.
Stop when: you do not have the power or authority to make it better.
Stop when: it is not the right time or place for the person to hear or use it.
Stop when: you are not sure of your facts and have not yet sought counsel.
2006-12-28
You need relationship therapy with your self.
Your problem is you have a bad relationship with your self.
Unfortunately, you relate to your self based on how others did and do relate to you.
To relate well to your self, first accept your self independently of accepting your behaviors.
If you have a good relationship with your self, then you can have a good relationship with others.
2006-12-27
Your interpretations of experience are not experience but only imagined experience.
Imagined experiences appear and feel real but do not thereby become real.
Your heart will regard your imagined experiences as real, but that cannot make them real.
Experience is one thing and interpretation another no matter how personal or private that interpretation is.
Do not lose your experience for your interpretations, rather, let each stand on their own and complete independently.
2006-12-26
You are nothing but a reflection.
You offer nothing but a reflection.
You know nothing not even what you reflect.
You have nothing but memories of reflecting.
You do nothing but find pleasure or pain in reflecting.
2006-12-25
God is just as you will get what you serve in the end.
God is good just as you are not as He is the only source.
God is intelligent just as you are not as He is the only source.
God is one just as you are one but have a heart, soul, and mind.
God is our savior as only by giving up your self for His Son's self can you enter.
2006-12-24
Yes, they taught you bad habits--now you teach yourself good habits.
Yes, the world serves up a lot of garbage, but only you decide what is worth eating.
Yes, there is meanness and bitterness in the world, but you can choose to focus on the goodness and optimism.
Yes, those who should love and protect you can do the worst to you, but you can choose to love and protect yourself.
Garbage-in-garbage-out (GIGO) is an acceptable excuse for computers, but not for people since people can reprogram themselves.
2006-12-23
Are you an occasion for good or evil?
Are you a temptation for good or evil?
Are you an opportunity for good or evil?
Are you an inducement for good or evil?
Are you a stumbling block for evil or a springboard for good?
2006-12-22
If you hold others responsible for your social problems, then they must rescue you: a surer way is to rescue yourself.
If you hold others responsible for your mental problems, then they must rescue you: a surer way is to rescue yourself.
If you hold others responsible for your spiritual problems, then they must rescue you: a surer way is to rescue yourself.
If you hold others responsible for your physical problems, then they must rescue you: a surer way is to rescue yourself.
If you hold others responsible for your emotional problems, then they must rescue you: a surer way is to rescue yourself.
2006-12-21
Failure and frustration: trying to control the experience of the heart with the experience of the mind.
Failure and frustration: trying to control the experience of the mind with the experience of the heart.
Failure and frustration: trying to control the experience of the soul with the experience of the mind.
Failure and frustration: trying to control the experience of the soul with the experience of the heart.
Failure and frustration: trying to control the experience of the mind or heart with the experience of the soul.
2006-12-20
Before the world you can have pride, but before God only humility.
Before the world you can claim ability, but before God only lack of ability.
Before the world you can claim creativity, but before God only lack of creativity.
Before the world you can claim intelligence, but before God only lack of intelligence.
Before the world you can claim responsibility, but before God only lack of responsibility.
2006-12-19
Judgment is not the problem, rather, judging the experiences of heart, soul, and mind against each other is.
Contrasting is not the problem, rather, contrasting the experiences of heart, soul, and mind against each other is.
Comparison is not the problem, rather, comparing the experiences of heart, soul, and mind against each other is.
Juxtaposing is not the problem, rather, juxtaposing the experiences of heart, soul, and mind against each other is.
Measurement is not the problem, rather, measuring the experiences of heart, soul, and mind against each other is.
2006-12-18
You get the behavior you fight.
You get the behavior you resist.
You get the behavior you accept.
You get the behavior you put up with.
You get the behavior you pay attention to.
2006-12-17
You can serve pride or God.
You can follow pride or God.
You can please pride or God.
You can focus on pride or God.
You can believe in pride or God.
2006-12-16
What evidence do you have that you grow?
Is there not only evidence that you grow your ego?
What evidence do you have that you change?
Is there not only evidence that you change habits?
Is there not only evidence that change your ego and never your self?
2006-12-15
What evidence do you have that you control?
Is there not only evidence that you influence?
What evidence do you have that you create?
Is there not only evidence that you copy and repeat?
Is there not only evidence that you receive not create?
2006-12-14
Relationship stages: it is about being two as one.
Relationship stages: it is about not losing being one for being two.
Relationship stages: it is about choosing to fix it, accept it broke, or to quit.
Relationship stages: it is about not losing being two for being one.
Relationship stages: it is about both two as one and each as one.
2006-12-13
Is your relationship mainly about you?
Is your relationship more about you than both?
Is your relationship equally about you and both?