"Daily Dose of Discernment: Quote 5 A Day" 2006

by Kevin E. FitzMaurice, M.S., LPC

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?

Is your relationship more about both than you?

Is your relationship mainly about both as one?

2006-12-12

Retreat is victory.

Retreat into victory.

Retreat is the way of victory.

Retreat till God has the victory.

Retreat till you are out of the way of victory.

2006-12-11

You say you hate them, then why are you relating to them as your judging is relation!?

You say you hate them, then why are you relating to them as your emotion is relation!?

You say you hate them, then why are you relating to them as your reaction is relation!?

You say you hate them, then why are you relating to them as your blaming is relation!?

You say you hate them, then why are you relating to them as your damning is relation!?

2006-12-10

Does it work to make it worse?

Does it work to feel it is worse?

Does it work to treat them worse?

Does it work to act like it is worse?

Does it work to believe it is worse?

2006-12-09

If it is hard, then retreat.

If it is hard, then stop trying.

If it is hard, then you are not in flow.

If it is hard, then face what you are hiding.

If it is hard, then surrender and give up pride.

2006-12-08

"Why" is avoidance.

"Why" is distraction from what is.

"Why" is defense against facing what is.

"Why" is the way of being out of the way.

"Why" is how to remain blank, dull, deaf, and dead.

2006-12-07

Hate makes them inside of you.

What they think and feel you think and feel because you hate them.

In order to hate them, you make them out of you in your mind so become them.

Keep hating them for being mean so you can be them being mean to you in your mind.

You spend lots of time in your mind with those you hate so perhaps you really want to be with them.

2006-12-06

Happiness is when your principles and practices agree.

Happiness is when your beliefs and behaviors are befitting.

Happiness is when your ideals and actions are harmonious.

Happiness is when your conscience and conduct correspond.

Happiness is when your values and responses are congruent.

2006-12-05

A stone is still, be a stone inside.

A stone is silent, be a stone inside.

A stone is single, be a stone inside.

A stone is simple, be a stone inside.

A stone is secure, be a stone inside.

2006-12-04

It not only does not matter, it does not exist.

It does not matter for it is thought not matter.

Face it, it is only in your head so it is not matter.

If it mattered, then it would be reality not fantasy.

The power of it is the power of fantasy, so it matters only if you say it matters.

2006-12-03

You are your true self when you experience self as relating to your feelings.

You are your true self when you experience self as relating to your thoughts.

You are your true self when you experience self as relating to your sensations.

You are your true self when you experience self as relating to your experiences.

You are your true self when you experience self as relating to your life force or living.

2006-12-02

You can't be wrong, but your attitude can be wrong.

You can't be wrong, but your feeling can be wrong.

You can't be wrong, but your thinking can be wrong.

You can't be wrong, but your behaving can be wrong.

You can't be wrong, but your motivating can be wrong.

2006-12-01

5Rs: Recognize my thinking about the problem is worse than the problem.

5Rs: Regard the problem without reacting to it in any way.

5Rs: Redirect the energy of the problem into a better channel.

5Rs: Remove the problem by making it not an option.

5Rs: Replace the problem by preferring its opposite or some useful substitute.

2006-11-30

How is that attitude working for me?

How is that thinking working for me?

How is that feeling working for me?

How is that reacting working for me?

How is that motivating working for me?

2006-11-29

Excuses mean you refuse to stop.

Excuses mean you want more of the same.

Excuses mean you aren't willing to quit yet.

Excuses mean lying because they deny responsibility.

Excuses are mean to both you and those you give them to because they are blaming and damning false causes.

2006-11-28

Trust your own experience first.

All you have is your experience.

Without experience you are dead.

Lose your experience lose your self.

Deny your experience deny your soul.

2006-11-27

Face and replace.

Wait it out in the light.

Stare it down and out.

Go through it till the bitter end.

Trust the light to handle it and let it run its course.

2006-11-26

Failure is trying to do with thought thinking thought can be.

Failure is trying to do with thought thinking thought can know.

Failure is trying to do with thought thinking thought is energy.

Failure is trying to do with thought thinking thought is experience.

Failure is trying to do with thought thinking thought is knowledge.

2006-11-25

Only God is right.

Only God can be right.

Trying to be right is trying to die.

God is always right and you are always wrong.

Your right is wrong as it is pride and a false claim.

2006-11-24

With effort, more is less and less is more.

With trying, more is less and less is more.

With resisting, more is less and less is more.

With becoming, more is less and less is more.

With controlling, more is less and less is more.

2006-11-23

You are no more your behavior than an iPod is the music it plays.

You are no more your behavior than a TV is the shows it displays.

You are no more your behavior than a radio is the music it transmits.

You are no more your behavior than a camera is the pictures it displays.

You are no more your behavior than a cell phone is the conversations it transmits.

2006-11-22

Get out of your head and into your heart.

Get out of your thoughts and into your feelings.

Get out of your labels and into your sensations.

Get out of your comparing and into your sensing.

Get out of your distinctions and into your perceptions.

2006-11-21

There two kinds of people in the world: those who focus on criticizing you and those who focus on encouraging you.

There two kinds of people in the world: those who focus on what you shouldn't be doing and those who focus on what you can do.

There two kinds of people in the world: those who blame you for their problems with you and those who take responsibility for their problems with you.

There two kinds of people in the world: those who condemn you as your bad behavior and those who accept you and only condemn your bad behavior.

There two kinds of people in the world: those who focus on nagging you to get you to do what they want and those who focus on motivating you to get you to do what they want.

2006-11-20

The trying mindset can never become the wining mindset.

The victim mindset can never become the coping mindset.

The problem mindset can never become the solution mindset.

The whining mindset can never become the forgiving mindset.

The blaming mindset can never become the problem-solving mindset.

2006-11-19

Counseling is simply helping you to prefer different channels.

Counseling is simply helping you to tune into different channels.

Counseling is simply helping you to realize you choose the channels you are on.

Counseling is simply helping you to realize you choose the negative channels you are on for the pride of playing court.

Counseling is simply helping you to realize you cannot change or control channels but you can easily switch channels.

2006-11-18

You can't make people happy or sad as you can't make people.

You can't make people happy or sad as you can't control people.

You can't make people happy or sad as you can't run people's minds.

You can't make people happy or sad as you can't run people's hearts.

You can't make people happy or sad as you can't make choices for other people.

2006-11-17

To the depersonalized: the feeling that you have no feelings is a real depressed feeling.

To the depersonalized: the experience of your experience not being real is still an experience.

To the depersonalized: the experience of your experience not being real is not a real experience.

To the depersonalized: the experience of your self not being real takes a real self.

To the depersonalized: the experience of your self not existing takes an existing self.

2006-11-16

My attitude is dependent on my environment and the people in it.

My attitude is dependent mainly on my environment and only a little on my interpretations of my environment.

My attitude is equally dependent on my environment and my perceptions of my environment.

My attitude is dependent mainly on how I react to my environment and only somewhat on my environment.

My attitude is dependent on what I choose to think, feel, and do independent of any environmental factors.

2006-11-15

If they would only stop that, then I could be happy and nice.

If they would only stop most of that and I some of that, then I could be happy and nice.

If both of us would only stop most of that, then I could be happy and nice.

If I would stop most of that and they would stop some of that, then I could be happy and nice.

If I would only stop that, then I would be happy and nice.

2006-11-14

You can't find it: it is a gift.

You can't learn it: it is a gift.

You can't know it: it is a gift.

You can't discover it: it is a gift.

You can't understand it: it is a gift.

2006-11-13

Failure is trying to do something as trying is both a copout and an expectation of failure.

Failure is trying to become something as nothing can become anything else—instead switch.

Failure is trying to not something as not-ing what is, is impossible—instead switch.

Failure is trying to change something as changing what is, is impossible—instead switch.

Failure is trying to control something as controlling what is, is impossible—instead switch.

2006-11-12

The fool takes credit.

The wise defers credit.

To be wise know nothing.

To be a fool know many things.

A wise man is wise because he knows he is a fool, and a fool is a fool because he thinks he is wise.

2006-11-11

If you see a problem, then fix it or you are just part of the problem.

If you see a problem, then it means it is your job to fix that problem.

If you see a problem, then help yourself and others to either problem-solve or cope with it.

If you see a problem, then it means you have been given a gift: an opportunity to be helpful.

If you see a problem, then do not whine, blame, or damn about it as that makes everything worse.

2006-11-10

Men see cute as sexy or a come-on.

Women see cute as romantic or pretty.

Men see cute as the means to attract sex.

Women see cute as the means to possess.

Men understand the function of cute as sex and women as compliment.

2006-11-09

You prefer to play judge, jury, and executioner instead of serving peace: pride before good.

You prefer to whine, blame, and damn instead of being happy: pride before good.

You prefer to play judge, jury, and executioner instead of having a successful career: pride before good.

You prefer to whine, blame, and damn instead of having successful relationships: pride before good.

You prefer to play judge, jury, and executioner instead of problem-solving and coping: pride before good.

2006-11-08

Abuse is an excuse for self-abuse only for damn addicts.

Abuse is an excuse for self-abuse only for blame addicts.

Abuse is an excuse for self-abuse only for sympathy addicts.

Abuse is an excuse for self-abuse only for victimhood addicts.

Abuse is an excuse for self-abuse only for irresponsible addicts.

2006-11-07

If you don't know, then you can be open.

If you don't know, then you can be taught.

If you don't know, then you can be flexible.

If you don't know, then you can be humble.

If you don't know, then you can be under God.

2006-11-06

The way not to be a target is to target yourself first.

The way to stop being a target is to make yourself the target.

The way not to be a target is to make yourself too big of a target.

The way to stop being a target is to make yourself too easy of a target.

The way not to be a target is to make yourself too silly of a target.

2006-11-05

You can be right or you can be peaceful.

You can be right or you can serve higher values.

You can be right or you can have good relationships.

You can be right or you can focus on what really matters.

You can be right or you can be agreeable and willing to compromise.

2006-11-04

Nothing is about you: you must choose to make it about you.

Nothing makes you dwell on it: you must choose to dwell on it.

Nothing forces you to hold on to it: you must choose to attach or detach to it.

Nothing makes your self at risk: you must choose to consider your self at risk.

Nothing causes you stress: you must choose to consider something stressful.

2006-11-03

Nothing worries you: you must worry it.

Nothing builds up in you: you must feed it.

Nothing gets to you: you must take it to heart.

Nothing makes you anything: you must identify with it.

Nothing makes itself important: you must make it important.

2006-11-02

Weakness and neediness before God = spirituality.

Weakness and neediness before money = greed or idolatry.

Weakness and neediness before self = compulsion or depression.

Weakness and neediness before authority = loss of integrity and-or identity.

Weakness and neediness before relationships = victimhood or codependence.

2006-11-01

He who prefers inner entertainment is content.

He who prefers outer entertainment is discontent.

He who enjoys inner entertainment is bored by outer entertainment.

He who enjoys outer entertainment is always in need of greater excess.

He who prefers outer entertainment is unaware of the depth and quality of the inner life.

2006-10-31

He who has company inside is never alone.

He who has company outside is often still alone.

He who has company inside has the best company.

He who has company outside must make concessions.

He who prefers inner company finds it easier to remain true to themselves.

2006-10-30

Detach by getting perspective.

Detach by getting space and time.

Detach by making it not about you.

Detach by exploring other points of view.

Detach by making it only mildly important.

2006-10-29

Confusion is when two networks of thought will not relate.

Confusion is when two chains of thought cannot find common ground.

Confusion comes from putting thoughts together that do not go together.

Confusion is when two categorical chains are forced unsuccessfully to relate.

Confusion results from expecting two nodes of thought to connect when they have no basis for connection.

2006-10-28

Repeat self receiving.

Repeat self repeating.

Repeat self as receiving.

Repeat self as repeating.

Repeat self as receiving and repeating.

2006-10-27

A mind focused on garbage gets you garbage thoughts.

A soul focused on garbage gets you garbage experiences.

A heart focused on garbage gets you garbage feelings.

A career focused on garbage gets you garbage relationships.

A life focused on garbage gets you the garbage dump for your grave.

2006-10-26

Whining about their issues makes you one with their issues and so part of the problem.

Blaming your issues on their issues makes you the slave of them and their issues.

Damning them for your issues makes you one with the cause of all issues.

Accept and pray for their problems then focus on your problems.

Accept and pray for their issues then focus on your issues.

2006-10-25

Find your self as only receiving.

Find your self as only repeating.

Find your self as only a transceiver.

Find your self as that which repeats not creates signals.

Find your self as that which receives not causes signals.

2006-10-24

Adversity is opportunity for God.

Adversity is opportunity for humility.

Adversity is opportunity for learning.

Adversity is opportunity for surrender.

Adversity is opportunity for acceptance.

2006-10-23

Don't play their game--distract them from it.

Don't play their game--apologize and end it.

Don't play their game--pray for their game to end.

Don't play their game--make it humorous and defuse it.

Don't play their game--ignore it until they switch to something else.

2006-10-22

There is no you or them to accept or reject.

Do not engage in the acceptance-rejection drama games.

The rejection of anyone is the rejection of your ego for them.

The acceptance of anyone is the acceptance of your ego for them.

Acceptance or rejection of people is acceptance or rejection of fantasy.

2006-10-21

You cannot think your way into self.

You cannot think your way into being.

You cannot think your way into living.

You cannot think your way into existing.

You cannot think your way into personhood.

2006-10-20

Find nurture within.

Strength is internal not external.

The best support is inner support.

Fish for compliments in your own pond.

Encouragement from inside does more than encouragement from outside.

2006-10-19

You can have the pain of work or the pain of sloth.

You can have the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

You can have the pain of morality or the pain of immorality.

You can have the pain of effort or the pain of procrastination.

You can have the pain of self-control or the pain of other-control.

2006-10-18

Because you repeat it, it does not follow that you have it.

Because you repeat it, it does not follow that you know it.

Because you repeat it, it does not follow that you learned it.

Because you repeat it, it does not follow that you understand it.

Because you repeat it, it does not follow that you are the source of it.

2006-10-17

Perfect control cannot bring about the good.

Perfect method cannot bring about the good.

Perfect practice cannot bring about the good.

Perfect technique cannot bring about the good.

Perfect knowledge cannot bring about the good.

2006-10-16

Perfect rules cannot bring about the good.

Perfect structure cannot bring about the good.

Perfect discipline cannot bring about the good.

Perfect procedure cannot bring about the good.

Perfect instruction cannot bring about the good.

2006-10-15

Focus on the goal for the good and the pain for the bad.

You need the stick to stop the bad and the carrot to continue the good.

Simply be negative regarding negative and positive regarding positive.

Say "yes" to the positive for the prize and "no" to the negative for the penalty.

Focus on the consequences to stop the bad and the rewards to encourage the good.

2006-10-14

If you think you have it, then you missed it.

You cannot know or hold the truth but only float along in it.

Truth is so simple and obvious that it is passed over and its depth lost.

Truth is easily understood verbally and endlessly explorable emotionally.

You say "Yes I know that" with disdain because it is simple, however, you have no clue or you would be living it.

2006-10-13

One wish: to repeat Thee.

One wish: to enjoy only Thee.

One wish: perfect attachment to Thee.

One wish: to receive and resend Thee.

One wish: to be me before Thee forever.

2006-10-12

Living space.

Living silence.

Living stillness.

Living simplicity.

Living singleness.

2006-10-11

What you see in others you first saw in your self.

People talk about themselves when talking about you.

It is impossible to talk about people without talking about your self.

What people say is not about you but projections of their own issues.

Your experience of your self is the only basis you have to use to talk about others, hence, whatever you say about others is really about you.

2006-10-10

You start here to go there.

You start now to go when.

The fastest way there is to start here.

You must be here before you can go there.

You start with what you have to get what you don't have.

2006-10-09

Mindless inner-chatter exists to maintain ego.

Mindless inner-chatter creates the delusion of being.

Mindless inner-chatter creates the delusion of doing.

Mindless inner-chatter creates the delusion of knowing.

Mindless inner-chatter creates the delusion of controlling.

2006-10-08

Amplifying is living.

Amplifying is being.

Amplifying is doing.

Amplifying is knowing.

Amplifying is experiencing.

2006-10-07

Receiving is living.

Receiving is being.

Receiving is doing.

Receiving is knowing.

Receiving is experiencing.

2006-10-06

Complicated means you are trying.

Complicated means you have no feel for it.

Complicated means you do not understand.

Complicated means you have no sense of it.

Complicated indicates one of two things: learning or lying.

2006-10-05

When you say "It is too hard," "It is overwhelming," "It is too much for me," what you mean is the thought in your mind is physically too big to process.

Shrink your thoughts down to manageable sizes and they will not cause you stress or distress.

Shrink your thoughts by focusing on parts, pieces, chunks, steps, or bits of them at a time.

Shrink your thoughts by bringing them into perspective and your thoughts will not overwhelm you.

Thinking big is having big goals not physically big thoughts as the means to big goals is physically small thoughts completed one at a time.

2006-10-04

You are responsible for what you take in.

You are responsible for what you send out.

You are responsible for what you do with what you take in.

You are not responsible for what is available to take in.

You are not responsible for what others do with what you send out.

2006-10-03

Wisdom cannot be taught.

Wisdom cannot be learned.

Wisdom cannot be followed.

Wisdom cannot be understood.

Wisdom must be felt and lived.

2006-10-02

News is narrow-minded by format and need.

News is distortion to gain attention through conflict.

News is entertainment as it exaggerates and dramatizes for effect.

News is selling minimalist information that can only form uninformed opinions.

News is when the least amount of information and facts produces the most amount of prejudiced opinion.

2006-10-01

Knowledge is not life.

Knowledge is not living.

Knowledge is not being.

Knowledge is not sensation.

Knowledge is not experience.

2006-09-30

I have to be so mean to you that you will be nice to me.

I have to act like a devil until you see I am really an angel.

I have to control you so you will control me the way I want.

I have to make you feel bad enough so you will be good enough.

I have to punish you by sending you to live with devils so you will learn to be an angel.

2006-09-29

People invariably first try to fix the problem with the problem for instance: they try not to try.

People invariably first try to fix the problem with the problem for instance: they abuse abusers.

People invariably first try to fix the problem with the problem for instance: they return meanness for meanness.

People invariably first try to fix the problem with the problem for instance: they become anxious about being anxious.

People invariably first try to fix the problem with the problem for instance: they gamble to cover their gambling losses.

2006-09-28

People don't cope because they don't detach.

People don't detach because they serve pride.

People serve pride because they surrendered self for ego.

People surrender self for ego because they care for the opinion of the world over God's opinion of them.

People care for the opinion of the world over God's opinion of them because they are born of flesh not spirit.

2006-09-27

You are not your feelings, you are where they are occurring.

You are not your thoughts, you are where they are occurring.

You are not your memories, you are where they are occurring.

You are not your sensations, you are where they are occurring.

You are not your experiences, you are where they are occurring.

2006-09-26

Focus on God not worry.

Focus on faith not worry.

Focus on hope not worry.

Focus on belief not worry.

Focus on prayer not worry.

2006-09-25

Trust in God not worry.

Trust in faith not worry.

Trust in hope not worry.

Trust in belief not worry.

Trust in prayer not worry.

2006-09-24

Your commitment to God must be greater than your commitment to self.

Your commitment to God must be greater than your commitment to country.

Your commitment to God must be greater than your commitment to family or friends.

Your commitment to God must be greater than your commitment to ideals, values, or beliefs.

Your commitment to God must be greater than your commitment to groups, memberships, or organizations.

2006-09-23

Your comparing cannot do.

Your comparing cannot correct.

Your comparing cannot control.

Your comparing cannot change.

Your comparing cannot convert.

2006-09-22

Being right is not an excuse for being evil.

Doing right does not require receiving right.

Doing right does not require others doing right.

Doing right is its own reward because it is the only way into Heaven.

There is a man who is wrong because he is right and right because he is wrong.

2006-09-21

You won't find it in a book--only within.

You won't find it in a belief--only within.

You won't find it in a church--only within.

You won't find it in a religion--only within.

You won't find it in a another--only within.

2006-09-20

Detachment is regaining self.

Detachment is the way of peace.

Detachment is the way to end ego.

Detachment is removing identity from anything other than self.

Detachment is the enemy of enslavement, nationalism, materialism, fanaticism, and all false ways.

2006-09-19

Attachment is identity at risk.

Attachment is the basis for war.

Attachment is encouraged as the way to enslave.

Attachment is identifying with something other than self.

Attachment is the problem and detachment the solution.

2006-09-18

Mind is a magnet: it attracts what it dwells on.

Mind is a magnet: it supports what it dwells on.

Mind is a magnet: it prays for what it dwells on.

Mind is a magnet: it reinforces what it dwells on.

Mind is a magnet: it encourages what it dwells on.

2006-09-17

I can't do, but God can in and through me.

I can't think, but God can in and through me.

I can't know, but God can in and through me.

I can't control, but God can in and through me.

I can't change, but God can in and through me.

2006-09-16

Ask them how they can cope--don't tell them how to cope.

Ask them how they can think about it--don't tell them how to think about it.

Ask them how they can problem-solve--don't tell them how to problem-solve.

Ask them what their conscience tells them--don't tell them what they should think.

Ask them what they see as their options and solutions and then explore those with them--don't tell them their options and solutions.

2006-09-15

You get to you, nothing gets to you by itself.

You collect it, nothing collects itself by itself.

You build it up, nothing builds up itself by itself.

You let it release, nothing releases itself by itself.

You wear you down, nothing wears you down by itself.

2006-09-14

The problem is double thinking, is thinking that is trying to be other thinking.

The problem is double thinking, is thinking that is trying to do other thinking.

The problem is double thinking, is thinking that is trying to know other thinking.

The problem is double-mindedness, is thinking that is control or change other thinking.

The solution is to allow one thought to complete without another thought working on it in any way.

2006-09-13

The ventilation of anger is practicing anger as if that could bring clarity: if you want clarity practice clarity.

The ventilation of anger is practicing anger as if that could bring sanity: if you want sanity practice sanity.

The ventilation of anger is practicing anger as if that could bring peace: if you want peace practice peace.

The ventilation of anger is practicing anger as if that could bring freedom: if you want freedom practice freedom.

The ventilation of anger is practicing anger as if that could bring calmness: if you want calmness practice calmness.

2006-09-12

Modern science betrays science by treating belief as experimental fact.

Modern science betrays science by treating theory as experimental fact.

Modern science betrays science by treating thinking as experimental fact.

Modern science betrays science by treating conjecture as experimental fact.

Modern science betrays science by treating hypothesis as experimental fact.

2006-09-11

Thinking is not life.

Thinking is not self.

Thinking is not present.

Thinking is not existing.

Thinking is not evidence.

2006-09-10

No thought can fix another thought.

No thought can think another thought.

No thought can deny another thought.

No thought can convince another thought.

No thought can understand another thought.

2006-09-09

No thought can do another thought.

No thought can be another thought.

No thought can know another thought.

No thought can control another thought.

No thought can change another thought.

2006-09-08

Life mirrors mind.

Mind is what you live.

Mind is what you experience.

Mind is what you love and hate.

Manage your mind manage your life.

2006-09-07

Is your self worth your time or do you regularly put it off?

Is your self worth comforting or do you regularly suppress it?

Is your self worth attending to or do you regularly ignore your self?

Is your self worth listening to or do you regularly interrupt your self?

Is your self worth spending time with or are you too busy for your self?

2006-09-06

Who you are is not you.

What you do is not you.

Where you are is not you.

When you are is not you.

Why you are is not you.

2006-09-05

Look and you will find your mental state reflected in your physical state.

Look and you will find your mental world reflected in your physical world.

Look and you will find your mental condition reflected in your living condition.

Look and you will find your mental situation reflected in your relationship situation.

Look and you will find your mental circumstances reflected in your financial circumstances.

2006-09-04

How well do you relate to your self?

How intimate are you with your self?

How well do you communicate with your self?

Have a good relationship with your self first.

How can you have a good relationship with others when you have a bad relationship with your self!?

2006-09-03

It is life to demand safety from physical pain, however, it is death to demand safety from psychological pain.

It is life to demand others end your physical pain, however, it is death to demand others end your psychological pain.

It is life to demand you escape and avoid physical pain, however, it is death to demand you escape and avoid psychological pain.

It is life to demand others not interfere your physical needs, however, it is death to demand others not interfere your psychological needs.

It is life to demand few frustrations of your physical pleasures, however, it is death to demand few frustrations of your psychological pleasures.

2006-09-02

You have nothing to give God: in your natural state you prefer the negative so are less than worthless.

You have nothing to give God: in your reborn state you are owned by God so cannot give Him what He already has.

You have nothing to give God: anything of value that you have is a gift from God so can only be returned not given as new.

You have nothing to give God: God is the source of all good so by definition is incapable of receiving anything that is not His already.

You have nothing to give God: by definition God is beyond need and cannot be added to so already has everything worth giving or getting.

2006-09-01

Science is the cause of the pollution of the air, water, and land as it is the technology created by science that poisons the earth.

Science is the cause of the horror and inhumanity of war as it is the technology created by science that enables modern warfare.

Science is the cause of the collapse of society as it is the technology created by science that leads people into living disconnected lives.

Science is the cause of the breakdown of morality as it is the technology created by science that enables and encourages anonymity, irresponsibility, and blaming.

Science is the cause of the disintegration of the family as it is the technology created by science that encourages and enables family members to lead fragmented lives.

2006-08-31

Bad counseling: Poor victim you having it so hard now and then.

Bad counseling: Poor victim you having to focus on controlling them.

Bad counseling: Poor victim you having to deal with people, past, present, and future.

Bad counseling: Poor victim you having such identity, awareness, focus, and mental problems.

Bad counseling: Poor victim you having such feeling, motivation, attitude, and reaction problems.

2006-08-30

Good counseling: Let me help you help yourself.

Good counseling: Let me help you control yourself.

Good counseling: Let me help you focus on yourself.

Good counseling: Let me help you control your identity, awareness, focus, and mind.

Good counseling: Let me help you control your feelings, motivations, attitudes, and reactions.

2006-08-29

Argument message: You must fix me by stopping that.

Argument message: I would be nice if only you were nice.

Argument message: I will have a good attitude when you do.

Argument message: I must teach you to be nice by being mean.

Argument message: I must prove you wrong so you will be right.

2006-08-28

How does this thinking make me feel better?

How does this thinking help me cope better?

How does this thinking make the problem better?

How does this thinking make my motivation better?

How does this thinking help me problem-solve better?

2006-08-27

What does this thinking do to me?

What does this thinking do to my coping?

What does this thinking do to my attitude?

What does this thinking do to the problem?

What does this thinking do to my problem-solving?

2006-08-26

Seek nothing get nothing.

Serve nothing get nothing.

Escape everything find nothing.

Avoid everything arrive at nothing.

Nothing is where the lukewarm end.

2006-08-25

No matter the fantasy it does not matter.

The matter is fantasy so it does not matter.

The fantasy does not matter no matter what.

What matters is not your fantasy of what matters.

You are an alchemist as you seek to turn fantasy into matter.

2006-08-24

Effort is pride.

More effort is less success.

Less effort looks like more effort.

Effort is like trying: it is opposite the truth.

Effort is not the way but the excuse for failing.

2006-08-23

Other-assurance is dependence.

Other-assurance leads to sacrificing integrity.

Other-assurance is inconsistent, impermanent, and capricious.

Self-assurance is internal and other-assurance external.

If you have self-assurance, then you don't need other-assurance.

2006-08-22

You can release the pain or release the thinking that will repeat it later.

You can release the stress or release the thinking that will repeat it later.

You can release the feeling or release the thinking that will repeat it later.

You can release the looping or release the thinking that will repeat it later.

You can release the frustration or release the thinking that will repeat it later.

2006-08-21

Christianity is the practice of the unconditional: love your enemies.

Christianity is the practice of the unconditional: love thy neighbor as thyself.

Christianity is the practice of the unconditional: judge not that ye be not judged.

Christianity is the practice of the unconditional: do good unto them that despitefully use you.

Christianity is the practice of the unconditional: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

2006-08-20

You are not your conflicts.

You are not your struggles.

You are not your problems.

You are not your hardships.

You are not your symptoms.

2006-08-19

Your doing right cannot be conditional on its results or it is not real.

Your doing right cannot be conditional on receiving right or it is not real.

Your doing right cannot be conditional on others doing right or it is not real.

Your doing right cannot be conditional on any reward or benefit or it is not real.

Your doing right cannot be conditional on how it will make you appear or it is not real.

2006-08-18

You cannot even do nothing.

You cannot even know nothing.

You cannot even make nothing.

You cannot even create nothing.

You cannot even be the source for nothing.

2006-08-17

Your life is about what you give not what you get.

Your life is about how you love not how you are loved.

Your life is about how you help not how you are helped.

Your life is about how you forgive not how you are forgiven.

Your life is about what you are responsible for not what others are responsible for.

2006-08-16

Your life is about what you do to others not about what they do to you.

Your life is about what you do for others not about what they do for you.

Your life is about how you think of others not about how they think of you.

Your life is about how you motivate others not about how they motivate you.

Your life is about how you feel about others not about how they feel about you.

2006-08-15

Mind it but it still cannot matter.

Heart it but it still cannot matter.

It minds, it hearts, but not matters.

Mind and heart it long and hard and it still doesn't matter.

Drop it and you lose thought and feeling but it never mattered.

2006-08-14

Backwards: You focus on controlling others instead of self.

Backwards: You focus on others controlling how you feel instead of self.

Backwards: You focus on thinking for others instead of helping them think for themselves.

Backwards: You focus on manipulating others by making them feel bad instead of inspiring them to feel good.

Backwards: You focus on manipulating others with negative demotivation instead of uplifting them with positive motivation.

2006-08-13

Surf classical music with your heart.

Follow baroque music with your feelings.

Ride instrumental music with your emotions.

Feel along do not think along as you listen to Beethoven.

You have enough cognitive mediums, keep music as a way to develop, expand, explore, and appreciate your emotions.

2006-08-12

You can't be a failure, but your thinking, feeling, and behaving can all fail.

You can't be stupid, but your thinking, feeling, and behaving can all be stupid.

You can't be inferior, but your thinking feeling, and behaving can all be inferior.

You can't be defective, but your thinking feeling, and behaving can all be defective.

You can't be worthless, but your thinking, feeling, and behaving can all be worthless.

2006-08-11

Fair is mediocre.

Fair is lukewarm.

Fair is dull and boring.

Fair is an impossibility by definition: only nothing is ever equal.

Most people say that want things to be fair, however, few people actually want what they deserve.

2006-08-10

Anger is anxiety about others making you bad.

Pride is anxiety about how to keep looking good.

Guilt is anxiety about how you appear to your self.

Shame is anxiety about how you appear to others.

Depression is anxiety about always appearing bad.

2006-08-09

Human insanity: We will convince you of the justification of our cause if we can just kill enough of you.

Human insanity: We will convince you of the justification of our cause if we can just hate you enough.

Human insanity: We will convince you of the justification of our cause if we can just punish you enough.

Human insanity: We will convince you of the justification of our cause if we can just get you to feel bad enough.

Human insanity: We will convince you of the justification of our cause if we can just say enough mean things about you.

2006-08-08

Were you ever here or were you just there?

You are here now so be here now or nowhere.

You will never be here again but were you ever?

You do not have to be anywhere but where you are: here now.

You are lost in the past and future missing the here and now for the there and then.

2006-08-07

If doing bad for bad gets you more bad, then try the Christian psychology of doing good for evil.

If giving bad for bad gets you more bad, then try the Christian psychology of giving good for evil.

If returning bad for bad gets you more bad, then try the Christian psychology of returning good for evil.

If speaking bad for bad gets you more bad, then try the Christian psychology of speaking good for evil.

If punishing with bad for bad gets you more bad, then try the Christian psychology of punishing with good for evil.

2006-08-06

Human stupidity: Treating them bad will make them good.

Human stupidity: Treating them bad will teach them to do good.

Human stupidity: Treating them bad will motivate them to do good.

Human stupidity: Treating them bad will make them treat me good.

Human stupidity: Treating them bad will convince them of the good.

2006-08-05

The only way to be me is to be me; there is no trying as trying is not me.

The only way to be me is to be me; there is no changing as changing is not me.

The only way to be me is to be me; there is no controlling as controlling is not me.

The only way to be me is to be me; there is no developing as developing is not me.

The only way to be me is to be me; there is no demanding as demanding is not me.

2006-08-04

People hate themselves in others.

People teach what they need to learn.

People post sayings they do the opposite of.

People develop psychological theories based on their own issues.

People complain about changes others need to make that they have yet to make themselves.

2006-08-03

Anxiety has no power to solve problems.

Anxiety has no power to cause problems.

Anxiety has no power to prevent problems.

Anxiety becomes a problem (loops) when it is blamed for problems as anxiety cannot stop being anxiety.

Anxiety becomes a problem (loops) when it is misused to solve problems because anxiety is only an alarm.

Anxiety becomes a problem (loops) when it is misused to predict problems because anxiety can only sound the alarm whenever called upon.

2006-08-02

Control can increase pride but not right living.

Control can be surrendered for right control by Spirit.

Control can appear to work on the surface but not inwardly.

Control can hide the signal in darkness but does nothing to the source.

Control can lower the frequency, intensity, or duration of the signal but not the source.

2006-08-01

Who in you wants pleasure and stimulation and is that your core self?

Who in you wants pleasure and stimulation and what purpose or function does it serve?

Who in you wants pleasure and stimulation and is that worth your time, health, and life?

Who in you wants pleasure and stimulation and is that just to avoid or escape your self?

Who in you wants pleasure and stimulation and is that consistent with your values, dreams, and life goals?

2006-07-31

Passive: sort of, kind of, perhaps, maybe, will try, not sure, whatever, give in too quickly, agree too easily, please too often, phony, people pleasers, doormat, appear nice but are weak.

Passive-aggressive: pretend to agree but sabotage, apathy, smile and stab in the back, gossip, politicking, stir stuff up, whiners, constant smile, hide meanness behind niceness, hide behind masks, can appear nice but are mean.

Assertive: firm but polite, calm but strong, resolved but civil, assured but not demanding, strong but not mean, help you help yourself, maintain boundaries, have their yes and no, can appear mean but are nice.

Aggressive-passive: pretend to be a threat but run when the going gets tough, all bark and no bite, act tough but really fragile, pushover, all pretense, all bluff, mask wearers, appear mean but are weak.

Aggressive: you must, you have to, you got to, you should, you should have, you could have, blaming, damning, abusive, narcissistic, take advantage, what you see is what you get, appear mean and are mean.

2006-07-30

Don't you have lots of evidence that your body changes but no evidence that your basic self ever changes?

Don't you have lots of evidence that your personality changes and adapts but no evidence that your core nature changes?

Don't you have lots of evidence that your ego is constantly changing but no evidence that your real self has changed one iota?

Don't you have lots of evidence that you are still the same person years later but no evidence that you were ever another person?

Don't you have lots of evidence that your thoughts and opinions of self have changed but no evidence that your self has ever changed?

2006-07-29

Are you how things are going or are you independent of things?

Are you how you feel or are you independent of your passing feelings?

Are you what you think or are you independent of your transient thoughts?

Are you your fleeting experiences or are you independent of your experiences?

Are you what happens to you or are you independent of variable, impermanent events?

2006-07-28

The less rules the happier.

The less desires the happier.

The less demands the happier.

The less resentments the happier.

The less expectations the happier.

2006-07-27

When you get past drives all that is left is human frailty.

When you get past desires all that is left is human frailty.

When you get past payoffs all that is left is human frailty.

When you get past motivations all that is left is human frailty.

When you get past scripts/tapes/programs all that is left is human frailty.

2006-07-26

You make out thought to be more vital than thought can be.

You make out thought to be more potent than thought can be.

You make out thought to be more capable than thought can be.

You make out thought to be more powerful than thought can be.

You make out thought to be more significant than thought can be.

2006-07-25

You try to figure things out before you have anything to figure out.

You try to figure things out before you have any history to figure out.

You try to figure things out before you have any memory to figure out.

You try to figure things out before you have any sensations to figure out.

You try to figure things out before you have any experience to figure out.

2006-07-24

Stop thinking start living.

Stop thinking start feeling.

Stop thinking start sensing.

Stop thinking start enjoying.

Stop thinking start experiencing.

2006-07-23

All is nonexistent as all exists by Spirit not itself.

All is unreal as all rests in and on the real: Spirit.

All is empty in itself as all is dependent on Spirit.

All is formless as all comes out of formless Spirit.

All is illusion as nothing is a source for itself but Spirit.

2006-07-22

The self you talk to does not exist.

The self you find hurt inside does not exist.

The self you relate to in others does not exist.

The self you want to hurt in others does not exist.

The self you think you are married to does not exist.

2006-07-21

It is only a fantasy that your self can be hurt.

It is only a fantasy that anything is about you.

You have real feelings about your fantasy self.

Your fantasy self is your problem not people, places, or things.

It is only a fantasy that you have to take things seriously or people painfully.

2006-07-20

Trying is the attempt by thought to sense without sense.

Trying is the attempt by thought to sense without sensing.

Trying is the attempt by thought to know without experience.

Trying is the attempt by thought to hear or see without sensing.

Trying is the attempt by thought to point to sensing before sensing has occurred.

2006-07-19

Your reaction is about you not them/it.

Their reaction is about them not you/it.

What you react to (stimulus) is about them/it not you.

What they react to (stimulus) is about you/it not them.

You and they are responsible for your reaction not what you react to (stimulus).

2006-07-18

Be the unshaped clay.

Be the unhewn wood.

Be the uncarved block.

Be the undeveloped song.

Be the unformed character.

2006-07-17

Be the unbegun novel.

Be the unstarted poem.

Be the formless painting.

Be the blank photograph.

Be the shapeless sculpture.

2006-07-16

Not my lead but Yours.

Not my mind but Yours.

Not my desire but Yours.

Not my control but Yours.

Not my direction but Yours.

2006-07-15

Taking credit is sin as all glory belongs to God alone.

Claiming ability is sin as all ability belongs to and comes only from God.

Pride is sin as pride is claiming and only God can claim intelligence or ability.

Trying is sin as trying is belief in self and self has nothing that is not a gift from God.

Doubting is sin as doubting is claiming intelligence and superiority neither of which you ever have.

2006-07-14

To feel depressed and demotivated just focus on all your mistakes, failings, and troubles.

To feel depressed and demotivated just think how you should have done it faster, better, easier.

To feel depressed and demotivated just think how inferior you are to all the superior people in your life.

To feel bad just think that you would have, should have, could have done the right instead of the wrong.

To feel depressed and demotivated just exaggerate the negative till the negative is all you think or worry about.

2006-07-13

Use the good for good.

Trust the good for good.

Teach the good for good.

Model the good for good.

Believe in the good for good.

2006-07-12

You say do bad to stop bad, but the Bible says do good to stop bad.

You say do bad for bad and so get more bad, but the Bible says do good for bad to get more good.

You say do bad to teach them not to do bad, but the Bible says do good to teach them to do good and not bad.

You trust bad to bring about good by doing bad for bad, but the Bible says do good for bad to bring about good.

You believe in pointing out the bad in people to increase the good so increase the bad, but the Bible says believe in the good in people to bring out the good in people.

2006-07-11

Self is beyond good and evil as self just is; what is good and evil is your acting.

Self is beyond good and evil as self just is; what is good and evil is your feeling.

Self is beyond good and evil as self just is; what is good and evil is your identity.

Self is beyond good and evil as self just is; what is good and evil is your thinking.

Self is beyond good and evil as self just is; what is good and evil is your motivating.

2006-07-10

By what method is anyone going to experience your self and not just your physical appearance?

By what capability is anyone going to experience your self and not just your physical appearance?

By what mind control is anyone going to experience your self and not just your physical appearance?

By what voodoo power is anyone going to experience your self and not just your physical appearance?

By what extrasensory perception is anyone going to experience your self and not just your physical appearance?

2006-07-09

News is damning and damning is the problem not part of the solution.

Whining is damning and damning is the problem not part of the solution.

Bitching is damning and damning is the problem not part of the solution.

Gossiping is damning and damning is the problem not part of the solution.

Catastrophizing is damning and damning is the problem not part of the solution.

2006-07-08

Religion is corrupt by design as spirit cannot be theorized.

Religion is corrupt by design as spirit cannot be formulized.

Religion is corrupt by design as spirit cannot be theologized.

Religion is corrupt by design as spirit cannot be philosophized.

Religion is corrupt by design as spirit cannot be institutionalized.

2006-07-07

Be this: space.

Do this: stillness.

Collect this: emptiness.

Learn this: you cannot learn.

Know this: you cannot know.

2006-07-06

Thinking is memory.

Thinking is after, past, old, history.

Thinking of the future is an imagined memory.

Thinking is always after as thinking points to past experience.

Thinking of something new is really remembering something old.

2006-07-05

You make the best of your life or it makes the worst of  you.

You make the best of your training or it makes the worst of you.

You make the best of your situation or it makes the worst of you.

You make the best of your heritage or it makes the worst of you.

You make the best of your conditioning or it makes the worst of you.

2006-07-04

Do what is right and you have integrity.

Do what is right and you can't be wrong.

Do what is right and you don't have regrets.

Do what is right and your choices are clear.

Do what is right and you don't have to worry.

2006-07-03

It is what you find inside when talking that counts not the talking.

It is what you find inside when relating that counts not the relating.

It is what you find inside when reading that counts not the reading.

It is what you find inside when praying that counts not the praying.

It is what you find inside when meditating that counts not the meditating.

2006-07-02

Sadness suffices.

Sadness is curative.

Sadness is humility, health, life, love.

Sadness causes no harm, no residue.

Sadness keeps self in right relation: humble.

2006-07-01

Stupid is thinking you think.

Stupid is thinking you are smart.

Stupid is thinking you are stupid.

Stupid is thinking you never act stupid.

Stupid is thinking you never think stupid.

2006-06-30

You cannot fix your self with medicine.

You cannot fix your self by fixing others.

You cannot fix your self with health spas.

You cannot fix your self by fixing society.

You cannot fix your self with plastic surgery.

2006-06-29

Mind no matter.

Matter no mind.

Mind not the matter.

Matter not the mind.

No matter the mind.

2006-06-28

To get what you want, you must surrender not try.

To get what you want, you have to give it to another.

To get what you want, you have to take responsibility.

To get what you want, you have to have right intention.

To get what you want, you have to do what you don't want.

2006-06-27

You did not fail or you would not exist.

Your thinking fails often but your self not once.

Your thinking causes your failures never your self.

It is superstitious to blame your self when the known cause is your thinking.

Take self out of the blame equation and focus on your scripts, habits, choices, decisions, attributions, and intentions.

2006-06-27

You cannot fix your self with medicine.

You cannot fix your self by fixing others.

You cannot fix your self by fixing society.

You cannot fix your self with health spas.

You cannot fix your self with plastic surgery.

2006-06-26

You can't torture yourself out of any bad.

You can't torture yourself out of any habit.

You can't torture yourself out of any failure.

You can't torture yourself out of any wrong.

You can't torture yourself out of any mistake.

2006-06-25

Your release is really gathering.

You release but hold so really reinforce.

You will release it when you stop feeding it.

You can talk about it to release or reinforce.

You can release the energy through distraction, redirection, and reframing--or--you can release the pride payoffs and be done.

2006-06-24

The spirit cannot be tracked.

The spirit cannot be mapped.

The spirit cannot be organized.

The spirit cannot be formalized.

The spirit cannot be systematized.

2006-06-23

You are who speaks not what is spoken.

You are who listens not what is listened to.

You are not the source that you listen to inside.

You are not the source that you speak from inside.

You are who hears and repeats and not the heard, not the spoken, not the repeated.

2006-06-22

Spend your life with those who think well of you.

Those who bring out the best in you are your true friends.

Find and keep those who believe in you and your intentions.

Thinking well of another encourages them to follow the good.

Give as little time as possible to those who think the worst of you or your intentions.

2006-06-21

Damning cannot know it.

Damning cannot repeat it.

Damning cannot describe it.

Damning cannot be about it.

Damning cannot represent it.

2006-06-20

If it went wrong, then others say you over-thought it meaning: you put thought first.

If it went wrong, then others say you were closed-minded meaning: you trusted in thought.

If it went wrong, then others say you were thinking too hard meaning: thought cannot think.

If it went wrong, then others say it was death by committee meaning: the group relied on thought.

If it went wrong, then others say you over-analyzed it meaning: you mistook thought for what you were talking about.

2006-06-19

Human thinking is so perfectly wrong that you can do the opposite of it and be right 100% of the time if the thinking does not point to feeling.

Human thinking is so perfectly wrong that you can do the opposite of it and be right 100% of the time if the thinking does not indicate intuition.

Human thinking is so perfectly wrong that you can do the opposite of it and be right 100% of the time if the thinking does not direct to sensing.

Human thinking is so perfectly wrong that you can do the opposite of it and be right 100% of the time if the thinking does not refer to sensations.

Human thinking is so perfectly wrong that you can do the opposite of it and be right 100% of the time if the thinking does not take a back seat to experiencing.

2006-06-18

It is missed by damning.

It is misjudged by damning.

It is misinterpreted by damning.

It is misunderstood by damning.

It is misrepresented by damning.

2006-06-17

I deny damning the chance to influence how I interpret it.

I deny damning the chance to influence how I feel about it.

I deny damning the chance to influence how I respond to it.

I deny damning the chance to influence how I think about it.

I deny damning the chance to influence how I take  it to heart.

2006-06-16

Fundamental error: feeling determining self.

Fundamental error: opinion determining self.

Fundamental error: thinking determining self.

Fundamental error: behavior determining self.

Fundamental error: experience determining self.

2006-06-15

You are bad for making me bad: blame game.

I must make you bad for making me bad: blame game.

I must make you look bad so I don't look bad: blame game.

Making you look bad makes me good by comparison: blame game.

As long as I am making you look bad I don't have to look bad: blame game.

2006-06-14

You say often and do rarely.

You say but do the opposite.

You say easily and do hardly.

You say but follow not with your heart.

You say but are not there with your words.

2006-06-13

Don't judge the self, judge the show.

Don't judge the sinner, judge the sin.

Don't judge the soul, judge the solutions.

Don't judge the being, judge the behavior.

Don't judge the performer, judge the performance.

2006-06-12

The only failure is suicide.

You cannot fail except to live.

Failure provides the strictest schooling.

Failure is often another word for ego dissatisfaction.

You can never be a failure, but your thinking, feeling, and behaving can fail often.

2006-06-11

The only way to be me is to be me; there is no method as method is not me.

The only way to be me is to be me; there is no progress as progress is not me.

The only way to be me is to be me; there is no analyzing as analyzing is not me.

The only way to be me is to be me; there is no becoming as becoming is not me.

The only way to be me is to be me; there is no remembering as remembering is not me.

2006-06-10

Right does not equal must.

Right does not equal might.

Right does not equal reality.

Right does not equal control.

Right does not equal outcome.

2006-06-09

Thoughts cannot cause feelings.

Sensations or experiences cannot cause feelings.

If you do not take sensations to heart, then you do not have feelings about them.

Feelings are always sensations that result from your heart choosing to contact other sensations.

Thoughts only point to current sensations, memories of past sensations, or projected future sensations, which you can use or not to have feelings.

2006-06-08

Damning and demonizing make new problems.

Damning and demonizing make problems worse.

Damning and demonizing serve pride not solutions.

Damning and demonizing are often the very cause of the problem they are whining about.

Damning and demonizing are hypocritical when they point the finger at others for damning and demonizing.

2006-06-07

There is a man who is wrong because he is right.

There is a man who is right because he is wrong.

There is a man who seeks to be right so he can be wrong.

There is a man who seeks to be wrong so he can be right.

Beware the man who seeks wrong to be right or right to be wrong.

2006-06-06

Those who do for you in the name of love don't because they are keeping you weak and dependent.

Those who rescue you in the name of love don't because they are keeping you weak and dependent.

Those who think for you in the name of love don't because they are keeping you weak and dependent.

Those who answer for you in the name of love don't because they are keeping you weak and dependent.

Those who overprotect you in the name of love don't because they are keeping you weak and dependent.

2006-06-05

Reality is not known by human thought.

Reality is not created by human thought.

Reality is not composed of human thought.

Reality is not influenced by human thought.

Reality is not discovered by human thought.

2006-06-04

Trying is tricky pride.

Trying is the pride of thinking you can.

Trying is used to pretend you are not claiming to do.

Trying is more prideful than claiming as trying has faith in you.

Trying is its own reward because you get the pride of thinking you can even when you fail.

2006-06-03

Now not memory.

Sensing not thinking.

Contact not projection.

Experience not image.

Substance not symbol.

2006-06-02

Anger has no magical ability to right wrongs.

Anger has no magical ability to change others.

Anger has no magical ability to get you what you want.

Anger has no magical ability to stop what you don't like.

Anger has no magical ability to make people treat you better.

2006-06-01

Your response is about you never them.

Their response is about them never you.

Your stimulus for them is about you never them.

Their stimulus for you is about them never you.

You are responsible for the stimuli you send not the stimuli you receive.

2006-05-31

Excuses are lies to cover future plans.

Excuses are lies to cover evil intentions.

Excuses are lies to cover negative patterns.

Excuses are lies to distract you and others from the real problem.

Excuses are lies because they promote dependence, victimhood, weakness, and irresponsibility.

2006-05-30

Less about self allows more self.

When you want to be less you leave self less.

When you want to be more you leave self more.

More and more you become less and less until you find the simple real.

Becoming, evolving, striving are all about the more and so the less real.

2006-05-29

Humans are technologically advanced and emotionally retarded.

Retarded means not learning from experience and humans often perform the same self-defeating behaviors for a lifetime.

Has the human race learned yet to use encouragement over discouragement?

Has the human race learned yet that being mean to others does not teach them to be nice to you?

Has the human race learned yet that whining, blaming, and damning make things worse not better?

2006-05-28

Step one: find the path.

Step two: get on the path.

Step three: stay on the path.

Step four: live the path.

Step five: share the path.

2006-05-27

Differentiate and detach self from body.

Differentiate and detach self from behavior.

Differentiate and detach self from nature of being.

Differentiate and detach self from doing.

Differentiate and detach self from knowing.

2006-05-26

Visualization is a form of prayer.

Visualization: name it, see it, feel it.

Visualization works not because of magic but because the mind is a magnet.

Visualization does not work if you do not move your mind to the visualized experience.

Visualization is not you, your mind, your body, or your life, but only a technique to channel energy.

2006-05-25

If you have ego you have problems and vice versa.

Eastern psychology is good as it removes secular ego.

Eastern psychology is bad as it promotes spiritual ego.

Western psychology is good as it promotes analysis and differentiation.

Western psychology is bad as it promotes secular ego.

2006-05-24

Others do not have to share your reality.

Others do not have to agree with your reality.

Others do not have to understand your reality.

Others do not have to be aware of your reality.

Others can keep their own reality right or wrong.

2006-05-23

Thought is not reality.

Thought is not sensation.

Thought is not awareness.

Thought is not experience.

Thought is not understanding.

2006-05-22

Always anxious is false drama.

Always anxious is a control game.

Always anxious is pride in your thinking.

Always anxious is not anxious by comparison.

Always anxious defeats the purpose of anxious.

2006-05-21

You have fear of being made into garbage.

You have anger about being made into garbage.

You believe you are an idiot so you are passive.

You believe you are a victim so are aggressive.

Instead, realize nothing can make you anything and handle conflicts and challenges with assertiveness.

2006-05-20

Since you cannot be anything but only amplify being with your mind, you are only responsible for the amplifying not the actual being.

Since you cannot do anything but only amplify doing with your mind, you are only responsible for the amplifying not the actual doing.

Since you cannot know anything but only amplify knowing with your mind, you are only responsible for the amplifying not the actual knowing.

Since you cannot stop anything (negative doing) but only amplify stopping with your mind, you are only responsible for the amplifying not the actual stopping.

Since you cannot understand anything but only amplify understanding with your mind, you are only responsible for the amplifying not the actual understanding.

2006-05-19

The great work of peace is to simply share peaceful beliefs.

The great work of peace is to simply share peaceful actions.

The great work of peace is to simply share peaceful feelings.

The great work of peace is to simply share peaceful attitudes.

The great work of peace is to simply share peaceful motivations.

2006-05-18

Guilt cannot make you a better person as guilt can only point out that you failed to live up to your values.

Guilt cannot make you follow your values as guilt can only point out that you failed to live up to your values.

Guilt cannot make you have better values as guilt can only point out that you failed to live up to your values.

Guilt cannot make you a more moral person as guilt can only point out that you failed to live up to your values.

Guilt has one valuable function--informing you that you betrayed one of your values--and no other function or capability of any kind.

2006-05-17

No thinking response should be based on external stimuli.

Thinking needs to be based on internal stimuli not external.

Responses need to be inner-directed not outer-directed.

Responses need to be based on thinking about thinking not thinking about external stimuli.

Responses need to be chosen based on internal controls, values, morals, ideals, and not external pressures or irritants.

2006-05-16

You say you "let it" get to you, but there is no magical "it" that can get to you.

You say you "let them" get to you, but you cannot let anyone in your mind or heart through any secret door.

You say you "gave them too much power," but you cannot transfer power to another except in fantasy.

You say "they made" you mad, but there is no person who can control your heart, soul, mind, or feelings to make them anything.

You say they "get on" your nerves, but there is no way anyone can physically stand on or somehow directly control your nerves.

2006-05-15

Who controls who you are? You? No.

Who controls who you are? Other people? No.

What controls who you are? Experiences? No.

What controls who you are? Conditioning? No.

Only your maker controls who you are.

2006-05-14

You have no ability to change who you are, but only your ego.

You have no power to change who you are, but only your ego.

You have no reason to change who you are, but only your ego.

You have no potential to change who you are, but only your ego.

You have no authority to change who you are, but only your ego.

2006-05-13

Focus on doing well not being well.

Focus on feeling well not being well.

Focus on thinking well not being well.

Focus on choosing well not being well.

Focus on motivating well not being well.

2006-05-12

Anger is your reaction to your hurt ego.

Anger is your reaction to exposure of self as death.

Anger occurs when the activity that excuses death as life stops.

Anger is your reaction to a loss of darkness for your inner ugliness.

Anger occurs when you lose your pretty images to hide your self as death.

2006-05-11

You have no magical ability to transmit a feeling into another human being.

You have no shamanistic or voodoo powers to put feelings into another person.

You have no witch or warlock powers to cast a feeling onto another human being.

You have no extrasensory abilities or powers to cause or control the feelings of others.

You live in an unsane world where you cause other people's feelings and they cause your feelings, however, I live in a sane world where I cause my feelings and you cause your feelings.

2006-05-10

Excuses lead to relapse.

Excuses are weakness justified.

Excuses are reasons for the wrong.

Excuses are escape from responsibility.

Excuses are self-fulfilling prophecies for more of the same.

2006-05-09

Excuses enable the wrong.

Excuses defend the wrong.

Excuses support the wrong.

Excuses continue the wrong.

Excuses encourage the wrong.

2006-05-08

Expecting anxiety to turn into coping is unsane: anxiety can only be anxiety.

Expecting anxiety to turn into security is unsane: anxiety can only be anxiety.

Expecting anxiety to turn into knowing is unsane: anxiety can only be anxiety.

Expecting anxiety to turn into calmness is unsane: anxiety can only be anxiety.

Expecting anxiety to turn into problem-solving is unsane: anxiety can only be anxiety.

2006-05-07

Thought is not memory.

Thought is not sensation.

Thought is not perception.

Thought is not experience.

The experience of thought is not the same as the experience of life or reality.

2006-05-06

Disintegration is conflict over identity.

Disintegration is trying to change or control self.

The act of seeking to become is the act of disintegration.

Disintegration is self in the flux of "who you should be" versus "who you are."

Wholeness is self as the container not the contents.

2006-05-05

The name of the real is not the real.

The image of the real is not the real.

The feeling of the real is not the real.

The thought of the real is not the real.

The memory of the real is not the real.

2006-05-04

Are you experiencing or remembering thought as experience?

Do you know the difference between thought and experience?

Are you experiencing or worrying about thought as experience?

Do you have experience or do you have thought as experience?

Are you sensing or remembering thought as experience in the hopes of changing it and distorting it so it suits your ego?

2006-05-03

Memory that is an end in itself is perverted.

Memory that points to looking is right memory.

Memory that acts as looking is wrong memory.

Memory that directs to experience is right memory.

Memory that directs to itself is wrong memory.

2006-05-02

You follow words instead of what the words point to.

You live on words instead of what the words indicate.

You rely on words instead of what the words refer to.

You experience words instead of what the words direct to.

You understand words instead of what the words are about.

2006-05-01

Don't follow words.

Don't live on words.

Don't rely on words.

Don't experience words.

Don't understand words.

2006-04-30

Lose damning lose nothing.

All the promises of damning are nothing.

Damning has nothing to offer but damning.

Damning does nothing but eat up time, energy, and attitude.

Damning is just negative labeling that accomplishes nothing positive.

2006-04-29

Damning serves ego not sanity.

Damning serves pride not reason.

Damning serves conflict not peace.

Damning serves hate not compassion.

Damning serves prejudice not balance.

2006-04-28

Stop battling your work--first win the battle with your mind.

Stop battling your family--first win the battle with your mind.

Stop battling your friends--first win the battle with your mind.

Stop battling your society--first win the battle with your mind.

Stop battling your government--first win the battle with your mind.

2006-04-27

It is not about being here now, it is about feeling instead of thinking.

It is not about being here now, it is about sensing instead of thinking.

It is not about being here now, it is about resting in energy instead of thought.

It is not about being here now, it is about receiving instead of trying, doubting, or claiming.

It is not about being here now, it is about praising, trusting, thanking, waiting on energy instead of thought.

2006-04-26

You cannot be it you can only experience it.

You cannot do it you can only experience it.

You cannot find it you can only experience it.

You cannot know it you can only experience it.

You cannot figure it you can only experience it.

2006-04-25

A messy mind is a messy life.

A childish mind is a childish life.

A distorted mind is a distorted life.

A disturbed mind is a disturbed life.

An undisciplined mind is an undisciplined life.

2006-04-24

If only they would have helped me--No--if only you would help yourself now.

If only they would have helped me--No--if only you would have helped yourself then.

If only they would have not abused me--No--if only you would not abuse yourself now.

If only they would have not abused me--No--if only you would have not abused yourself then.

"If only they" is disempowering, disabling, and discouraging--instead--take responsibility for your thoughts, feelings, and actions and so make a difference now.

2006-04-23

Trusting in damning to be it will only distort it.

Trusting in damning to know it will only make it a lie.

Trusting in damning to make you smart will make you dumb.

Trusting in damning to do it will only make sure it is not done.

2006-04-22

Nothing is damning but damning.

Damning knows nothing.

Damning feels nothing.

Damning does nothing.

Damning is nothing.

2006-04-21

The one constant is self: feelings pass.

The one constant is self: thoughts pass.

The one constant is self: self-images pass.

The one constant is self: experiences pass.

The one constant is self: self-concepts pass.

2006-04-20

Anxiety is an alarm and can't be anything but sounding alarm.

Anxiety is an alarm and can't do anything but to sound an alarm.

Anxiety is an alarm and can't know anything but sounding an alarm.

Anxiety is an alarm and can't remember anything but to sound an alarm.

Anxiety is an alarm and can't plan anything but can only sound an alarm.

2006-04-19

People take pride in being the positive.

People take pride in giving the positive.

People take pride in being the negative.

People take pride in giving the negative.

People take pride in anything by imagining themselves to be one-up so superior.

2006-04-18

Flesh naturally seeks death: identifying the body as the sensations of taste.

Flesh naturally seeks death: identifying the body as the sensations of sight.

Flesh naturally seeks death: identifying the body as the sensations of smell.

Flesh naturally seeks death: identifying the body as the sensations of touch.

Flesh naturally seeks death: identifying the body as the sensations of sound.

2006-04-17

Fundamental error: experience as static.

Fundamental error: experience as if caused by others.

Fundamental error: experience as cause of your emotions.

Fundamental error: experience as purpose or meaning of life.

Fundamental error: experience as cause of your life problems.

2006-04-16

Fundamental error: self as experience.

Fundamental error: thought as experience.

Fundamental error: not following out experience.

Fundamental error: denying or distorting experience.

Fundamental error: accepting your partial experience as total experience.

2006-04-15

Don't eat it don't be it.

Don't eat it don't feel it.

Don't eat it don't mind it.

Don't eat it don't stress it.

Don't eat it don't react to it.

2006-04-14

Who controls who you are? Others? No.

Who controls who you are? Your identity? No.

Who controls who you are? Your mind or heart? No.

Who controls who you are? You? No, you only control who your ego is not you.

Who controls who you are? God? Yes, only your Maker has the power to control who you are.

2006-04-13

You fear intimate relationships because you fear losing self.

You fear intimate relationships because you fear abandonment.

You fear intimate relationships because you fear being exposed.

You fear intimate relationships because you fear being trapped and stuck.

You fear intimate relationships because you fear being vulnerable and hurt.

2006-04-12

Make a commitment to be aware of everything you think and feel.

Make a commitment to be aware of all that you can see and hear inside.

Make a commitment to follow to the bitter end all that is in you.

Repeatedly become aware that you distort your memories in order to look good.

Repeatedly become aware that you distort your memories in order to avoid looking bad.

2006-04-11

If the method and intention are good, then the behavior is good.

If the method is bad and the intention is bad, then the behavior is bad.

If the method is good and the intention is bad, then the behavior is bad.

If the method is bad and the intention is good, then the behavior is bad.

Test both your method and your intention in order to do the right thing.

2006-04-10

Blaming others will not lead to recovery.

Blaming others will not lead to happiness.

Blaming others will not lead to mental health.

Blaming others will not lead to empowerment.

Blaming others will not lead to peace of mind.

2006-04-09

You are alive now not in the past so be here now.

You are alive now not in the future so be here now.

You are alive now not in your dreams so be here now.

You are alive now not in your fantasies so be here now.

You are alive now not in your ambitions so be here now.

2006-04-08

Other-focus teaches others to focus on controlling others.

Self-focus teaches others to focus on controlling themselves.

Self-focus is real as you can only control your self, and, conversely, other-focus is false as you cannot control others.

Self-focus influences others to practice self-focus, and, conversely, other-focus influences others to practice other-focus.

Self-focus provides a good example for others to practice self-focus, and, conversely, other-focus provides a bad example for others to practice other-focus.

2006-04-07

I have only nothing to do.

I want to do anything but nothing.

I have nothing to do anything with.

I want to do everything but nothing.

I am cable of nothing but unlikely to do it.

2006-04-06

Don't whine about their whining.

Don't be angry about their anger.

Don't gossip about their gossiping.

Don't be petty about their pettiness.

Don't be mean about their meanness.

2006-04-05

The inner-life is life.

May you live in boring times.

External meaning is a delusion.

The outer-life is not worth living.

Boring outside does not mean boring inside.

2006-04-04

Change your attitude and change your life.

Change your life-script and change your life.

Change your philosophy and change your life.

Change your decision mechanisms and change your life.

Change your evaluation mechanisms and change your life.

2006-04-03

Counseling is killed by focusing on methods.

Counseling is killed by focusing on strategies.

Counseling is killed by focusing on techniques.

Counseling is an art that cannot be taught or studied.

Counseling will never be a paint-by-the-numbers practice.

2006-04-02

Counseling theories cannot work.

Counseling treatment-plans cannot work.

Counseling formats, procedures, protocols, and systems all fail.

Good counseling happens when the counselor deals with what the client brings to the session.

Great counseling happens when the counselor effectively deals with what is in the room.

2006-04-01

Adults are dolts.

Adults are bad actors.

Adults are dead as thought.

Adults seek what is unworthy.

Adults trust what is untrustworthy.

2006-03-31

Thought cannot create matter.

Thought cannot sustain matter.

Thought has no magical abilities.

Thought is only a thing not a being.

Thought is only a thing not a power or spirit.

2006-03-30

Get out of your blaming and into your life.

Get out of your whining and into your life.

Get out of your damning and into your life.

Get out of your worrying and into your life.

Get out of your demanding and into your life.

2006-03-29

Get out of your desires and into your life.

Get out of your thoughts and into your life.

Get out of your emotions and into your life.

Get out of your irritations and into your life.

Get out of your problems and into your life.

2006-03-28

Damning only creates more problems.

Damning is the cure that is worse than the illness.

Damning understands neither the right nor the wrong side.

Damning others for doing damnable things is worse than their damnable thinking.

Damning is often the cause of problems so to use it as a solution is to continue a cycle of problems.

2006-03-27

Negation works because it is the denial of doing not another form of doing.

Becoming does not work as it is just another form of doing.

Becoming does not work because it maintains that which it claims to want to change.

Becoming does not work because it tries to change one thought into another and that cannot be done.

Becoming does not work because it tries to damn one way to promote another which only creates a third false way: achieving, advancing, becoming, changing, controlling, correcting, developing, evolving, growing, improving, maturing, trying.

2006-03-26

Matter cannot sustain matter.

Nature cannot sustain matter.

Science cannot sustain matter.

There is no thing nature doing anything.

There is no thing science doing anything.

2006-03-25

Matter cannot create matter.

Nature cannot create matter.

Science cannot create matter.

There is no such thing as nature: nature is only a concept.

There is no such thing as science: there is only a history of scientific knowledge.

2006-03-24

Damning is doing and therefore whatever you damn you are doing.

Damning is hypocritical as damning does what it claims to want to stop.

Damning is based on your only real doing, magnifying, so what you damn you magnify.

Damning is also called: condemning, defaming, demonizing, deriding, despising, disconfirming, discounting, disparaging, downgrading, hate, self-castigation, self-denigration, self-downing, self-reproach.

Damning is an ingredient in: accusing, arguing, awfulizing, blaming, catastrophizing, complaining, demanding, demotivating, discrimination, genocide, gossip, guilt, intolerance, mockery, nagging, news, objectifying, persecuting, propaganda, racism, rage, ridicule, sarcasm, satire, scandal, self-abuse, shame, strife, war, whining, worrying.

2006-03-23

Focus on the pain and whine.

Focus on the pain and procrastinate.

Focus on the goal and achieve.

Focus on the goal and be motivated.

Focus on the goal and problem-solve.

2006-03-22

If you do not know then say "I do not know."

If you do not know what to say then say nothing.

If you do not know then don't guess but say nothing.

If you do not know what the result is then wait to judge it.

If you do not have anything constructive to say then say nothing.

2006-03-21

When you whine about whiners you prove you are one of them.

When you whine about people being petty you prove you are one of them.

When you damn mean people for being mean you prove you are one of them.

When you whine about people being controlling you prove you are one of them.

When you whine about people not minding their own business you prove you are one of them.

2006-03-20

If you want better results then act better.

If you want better results then feel better.

If you want better results then think better.

If you want better results then motivate better.

If you want better results then identify self better.

2006-03-19

You can live in a concentration camp and still have a free soul.

You can live in a concentration camp and still have a free mind.

You can live in a concentration camp and still have a free heart.

You can live in a concentration camp and still have a free attitude.

You can live in a concentration camp and still have a free inner-life.

2006-03-18

What you resist life brings to you.

What you resist becomes your focus.

What you resist becomes your drama.

What you resist becomes your life story.

What you resist is what your life is about.

2006-03-17

What you resist you serve.

What you resist becomes you.

What you resist imprisons you.

What you resist you find others to do for you.

What you resist in yourself you find in others.

2006-03-16

What you resist you increase.

What you resist you suppress.

What you resist persists longer.

What you resist you keep in darkness.

What you resist you do not understand.

2006-03-15

Observe that you fear self-observation.

Observe that you deny self-observation.

Observe that you avoid self-observation.

Observe that you escape self-observation.

Observe that you suppress self-observation.

2006-03-14

You rely on thought and you fail.

You rely on energy and you succeed.

You switch from thought to energy halfway through and it is difficult but you succeed.

You switch from thought to energy at the last moment and barely succeed.

You switch from energy to thought (claiming, trying, doubting) at any point and you fail.

2006-03-13

Fear and darkness are coconspirators.

You hide your fear in darkness.

Out of fear of exposure you hide your poor behaviors in darkness.

Out of fear of exposure you hide your poor experiences in darkness.

Out of fear you rationalize and reframe until your exposure is hidden in darkness.

2006-03-12

You live in fear of exposure as death.

You live in fear of exposure as not doing what you should.

You live in fear of exposure as doing what you should not.

You live in fear of exposure as not experiencing what you should.

You live in fear of exposure as experiencing what  you should not.

2006-03-11

Thinking-blaming not self-blaming.

Thinking-blaming not God-blaming.

Thinking-blaming not other-blaming.

Thinking-blaming not society-blaming.

Thinking-blaming not conditioning-blaming.

2006-03-10

Matter does not do--energy does.

Matter does not feel--energy does.

Matter does not think--energy does.

Matter does not create--energy does.

Matter does not matter--energy does.

2006-03-09

I have neither the means nor the ability to do.

Internally, I have nothing that I can use to control anything.

Inside, I can control only matter-based thought so can do nothing.

What I have is matter and matter does not matter when compared to energy.

All my internal doing is absurd at best as I never do anything but fantasize about doing.

2006-03-08

Expect little hope for much.

Expectations are setups for letdowns.

Low expectations lead to high satisfaction.

High expectations lead to high dissatisfaction.

Expectations clash with reality causing disappointment.

2006-03-07

The good cannot be organized.

The good cannot be formularized.

The good cannot be procedurized.

The good cannot be systematized.

The good cannot be institutionalized.

2006-03-06

You alone are responsible for your mental environment.

You alone are responsible for the mental environment you accept from others.

You alone are responsible for the mental environment you share and promote in others.

You alone are responsible for the mental environment you project onto and accept from life.

You alone are responsible for the mental environment you project onto and accept from places, events, conditions, adversities, things, trials, tribulations.

2006-03-05

How can making me wrong make you right?

How can my wrong justify your wrong to me?

How can your knowing right excuse your doing wrong?

Why is it more important for me to be wrong than it is for you to do right?

If you chose to do the right regardless, then how would my wrong even matter?

2006-03-04

You must remain true to your experience or lose your integrity.

You must remain true to your experience or lose touch with self.

You must remain true to your experience or lose your convictions.

You must remain true to your experience or lose your ability to tell right from wrong.

You must remain true to your experience, however, you do not have to deny their experience in order to keep yours.

2006-03-03

There is only one positive statement you can make about the self: the self is made in the image of The Self-sustaining One.

There is only one negative statement you can make about the self: the self is made of matter instead of spirit so self prefers darkness to light and flesh to spirit.

All your positive self-talk is illusion and delusion if it is not saying the one true positive statement about the self: the self is made in the image of the invisible God.

All your negative self-talk is illusion and delusion if it is not saying the one true negative statement about the self: the self prefers darkness and death to light and life.

All your self-talk that is not about one of the two true statements about the self exists merely to sustain ego: the self as matter, the self as thought, the self as shame or pride, the self as a collection of opinions and-or labels.

2006-03-02

You can win inside without even fighting outside.

Let them win the outer for the sake of peace, but always win the inner.

You must win the battle inside, but winning the battle outside is not necessary.

The inner struggle is as primary to the outer struggle as breathing is primary to leisure.

Even when you have power and authority such as when a parent, teacher, or boss, your battle is not other-control but self-control.

2006-03-01

As long as you are identified with a feeling you must repeat it.

As long as you are identified with a thought you must repeat it.

As long as you are identified with a memory you must repeat it.

As long as you are identified with a behavior you must repeat it.

As long as you are identified with an experience you must repeat it.

2006-02-28

As long as what you do wrong, is about you or your body, you will keep it.

Detach both self and body from the problem and see the problem as only thinking.

As long as you are blaming and damning your self or your body, you cannot solve the problem.

You are distracted from the problem when you blame and damn your self or body for the problem.

You will never see the problem for what it is as long as you think the self or body is involved with the problem.

2006-02-27

The hurts you do not feed pass.

The fears you do not feed pass.

The doubts you do not feed pass.

The angers you do not feed pass.

The memories you do not feed pass.

2006-02-26

You must continually separate feeling from self AND body or your body will carry your unwanted feelings.

You must continually separate thoughts from self AND body or your body will carry your unwanted thoughts.

You must continually separate memory from self AND body or your body will carry your unwanted memories.

You must continually separate behavior from self AND body or your body will carry your unwanted behaviors.

You must continually separate experience from self AND body or your body will carry your unwanted experiences.

2006-02-25

Sanity is the differentiation of self from feeling.

Sanity is the differentiation of self from thought.

Sanity is the differentiation of self from memory.

Sanity is the differentiation of self from behavior.

Sanity is the differentiation of self from experience.

2006-02-24

Self exists beyond the good and evil of your actions.

Self exists beyond the good and evil of your feelings.

Self exists beyond the good and evil of your thoughts.

Self exists beyond the good and evil of your identities.

Self exists beyond the good and evil of your experiences.

2006-02-23

Opportunity is there to be recognized.

Opportunity is made more than given.

Opportunity exists more in the mind than in the world.

Opportunity is the awareness that you can work to advantage.

Don't miss the opportunity now for a missed opportunity then.

2006-02-22

People will not give you the good; you must find the good within your self.

Religion will not give you the good; you must find the good within your self.

Philosophy will not give you the good; you must find the good within your self.

Study and knowledge will not give you the good; you must find the good within your self.

Practices such as meditation, yoga, or prayer will not give you the good; you must find the good within your self.

2006-02-21

The less whining the happier.

The less worrying the happier.

The less blaming the happier.

The less attaching the happier.

The less damning the happier.

The less demanding the happier.

2006-02-20

Stay still as self.

Stay silent as self.

Stay single as self.

Stay simple as self.

Stay sensitive as self.

2006-02-19

Addiction is escape from self into a mental state that occupies awareness and attention.

You can be addicted to the drugs your body makes as surely as you can be addicted to prescription or street drugs.

Drama addiction is adrenaline addiction: stimulation and power.

Anorexia, over-exercise, and other forms of physical abuse are addiction to endorphins: pleasure and relief.

Gambling addiction is difficult because it has both major forms: addiction to endorphins when winning and adrenalin when losing.

2006-02-18

Sanity is following one thing out.

Normal neurotics try to follow two things at once.

A complex is when you try to follow more than two things at once.

Duplicity is giving others one thing to follow while you secretly follow another.

Lying is trying to cover what you are following by following something else at the same time.

2006-02-17

Stop worry by facing your negative results from worry.

Stop worry by distracting your mind with absorbing activities and exercises.

Stop worry by switching to relaxation, contemplation, meditation, and prayer.

Stop worry by surrendering the pride payoffs of worry: knowing, judging, damning, blaming.

Stop worry by believing in accepting, coping, problem-solving, and compassionate thinking instead.

2006-02-16

The internal problem is solved internally.

The external problem is solved externally.

The inside is the inside and the outside the outside.

The cause is located in the same time and space as the effect: internal problems are internally caused.

Trying to solve the internal problem with the external creates both a new internal and external problem.

2006-02-15

Less effort more art.

Less effort more spirit.

Less effort more energy.

Less effort more strength.

Less effort more meaning.

2006-02-14

More effort less skill.

More effort less talent.

More effort less effect.

More effort less correct.

More effort less efficient.

2006-02-13

Do while still.

Be while silent.

Know while simple.

Seek while waiting.

Desire while resting.

2006-02-12

Do while not doing.

Be while not being.

Seek while not seeking.

Know while not knowing.

Desire while not desiring.

2006-02-11

Being mean to an unwanted habit will strengthen it.

Being mean to an unwanted desire will strengthen it.

Being mean to an unwanted feeling will strengthen it.

Being mean to an unwanted thought will strengthen it.

Being mean to an unwanted behavior will strengthen it.

2006-02-10

The only thing wrong with self is the desire to rely on self.

The only thing wrong with self is the desire to do by self.

The only thing wrong with self is the desire to be by self.

The only thing wrong with self is the desire to know by self.

The only thing wrong with self is the desire to follow thought instead of energy.

2006-02-09

Dependence on energy makes you sane.

Dependence on energy makes you rational.

Dependence on energy makes you creative.

Dependence on energy makes you peaceful.

Dependence on energy makes you intelligent.

2006-02-08

Dependence on thinking makes you loopy.

Dependence on thinking makes you stupid.

Dependence on thinking makes you irrational.

Dependence on thinking makes you paranoid.

Dependence on thinking makes you psychotic.

2006-02-07

You have no fight with anyone but you.

You have no conflict with anyone but you.

You have no struggle with anyone but you.

You have no problem with anyone but you.

You have no argument with anyone but you.

2006-02-06

Damning is adding problems to problems.

Damning is the solution that is worse than the problem.

Damning self for thinking damnable things is worse thinking than your damnable thinking.

Damning is a block to problem-solving as surely as acceptance is the door to problem-solving.

Damning is an additional problem that you need to remove in order to uncover the real problem.

2006-02-05

Who am I to try to do anything without God?

Who am I to prevent His doing with my unbelief?

Who am I to not let God do that skill through me?

Who am I to limit what God can do through me by my doubt?

Who am I to get in the way of God working through me by filling my thoughts with ego?

2006-02-04

You can be at peace or worry about who you were.

You can be at peace or worry about who you are.

You can be at peace or worry about who you will be.

You can be at peace or worry about who we think you were, are, or will be.

You can be at peace or worry about why you haven't, don't, or can't become what you want.

2006-02-03

The good cannot be captured.

The good cannot be contained.

The good cannot be legislated.

The good cannot be delineated.

The good cannot be proscribed.

2006-02-02

The less you are the more you are.

The less you are the more you receive.

The less you are the more space for God.

The less you are the more useful you are.

The less you are the more peace in your life through acceptance and detachment.

2006-02-01

Action through inaction.

Seeing through stillness.

Hearing through quietude.

Wisdom through simplicity.

Integrity through singleness.

2006-01-31

Silence is life and noise death for the self.

Stillness is life and activity death for the self.

Single is wholeness and duplicity is destruction for self.

Simple is clarity and complication confusion for the self.

Sensitive is aliveness and insensitivity is dullness for the self.

2006-01-30

Stay still not active as self.

Go under not over as self.

Go backward not forward as self.

By moving as thinking you are active and dead.

By relying on thinking you go over and so ruin the task.

By relying on thinking you go forward and so ruin self as ego.

2006-01-29

Too big a bite leads to procrastination.

Procrastination is taking such a big bite that you choke.

Procrastination is avoiding the impossible task of doing it all at once.

Inch by inch everything's a cinch but all at once everything's a pinch.

Looked at in steps, chunks, and parts no task brings to mind procrastination.

2006-01-28

Self-esteem is being a past not a being who is now.

Self-esteem is being a been not a being who does now.

Self-esteem is being a done not a being who does now.

Self-esteem is being a label not a being who is a process.

Self-esteem is being a rating not a being who is independent of its ever changing contents.

2006-01-27

"If only" you had productive thinking, not "if only" life was fair.

"If only" you had better habits, not "if only" you had a better childhood.

"If only" you had learned better skills, not "if only" they behaved better.

"If only" you had a positive attitude, not "if only" things weren't so hard.

"If only" you had better self-motivation, not "if only" life would give you a break.

2006-01-26

Happiness is equal to the amount of acceptance and detachment in your life.

Unhappiness is equal to the amount of demandingness and personalizing in your life.

Happiness is the freedom that comes with absolute dependence on God.

Unhappiness is the prison that comes with dependence on self and-or others.

Pride is false happiness and shame false unhappiness.

2006-01-25

What do you think about that?

What do you feel thinking that way?

What will feeling that way lead you to do?

What results will you get from acting that way?

What better results could you have if you thought better?

2006-01-24

I never do anything except through God.

I never am anything except through God.

I never know anything except through God.

I never create anything except through God.

I never control anything except through God.

2006-01-23

It is never about me because there is nothing I do.

It is never about me because there is nothing I am.

It is never about me because there is nothing I know.

It is never about me because there is nothing I create.

It is never about me because there is nothing I control.

2006-01-22

There is nothing to get.

There is no goal to get.

There is no prize to get.

There is no more to get.

There is nowhere to get.

2006-01-21

Have faith they are under God and so pray them under God.

Have hope they are under God and so pray them under God.

Have belief they are under God and so pray them under God.

Have charity they are under God and so pray them under God.

Have confidence they are under God and so pray them under God.

2006-01-20

Your angry reaction proves that you have chosen to own their garbage not that they are garbage.

Your angry reaction proves that you have chosen to believe some garbage not that all of it is garbage.

Your angry reaction proves that you have chosen to take to heart some garbage not that that garbage is real.

Your angry reaction proves that you have chosen to personalize some garbage not that that garbage is about you.

Your angry reaction proves that you have chosen to identify with some garbage not that the source of that garbage is only garbage.

2006-01-19

Codependency: I will fix you to fix me.

Codependency: I serve my conscience not you though I blame you for my service.

Codependency: I am angry at you for not allowing me to fix you because that breaks me.

Codependency: I need people who are fixer-uppers so that I can feel needed and superior.

Codependency: I claim to be a martyr but I am really only serving my own pride: trying to be better by fixing you.

2006-01-18

Paying no mind.

Asleep at the wheel.

Unaware awareness.

Just along for the ride.

Witness consciousness.

2006-01-17

The eye does not see.

The ear does not hear.

The hand does not feel.

The nose does not smell.

The mouth does not taste.

2006-01-16

De-act before you react.

Detach before you react.

Distance before you react.

Disconnect before you react.

Depersonalize before you react.

2006-01-15

Think negative but pray positive.

Think negative but dwell positive.

Think negative but hope positive.

Think negative but motivate positive.

Think negative but detach from negative.

2006-01-14

The less whining the happier.

The less blaming the happier.

The less worrying the happier.

The less damning the happier.

The less attaching the happier.

2006-01-13

Your life is as good as you run your soul.

Your life is as good as you run your heart.

Your life is as good as you run your mind.

Your life is as good as you run your attitude.

Your life is as good as you run your compassion.

2006-01-12

Get over a relationship: by refusing to live in the fantasy.

Get over a relationship: by forgiving them to let go of your baggage.

Get over a relationship: by realizing you were lucky to find out early or at a convenient time.

Get over a relationship: by moving on and focusing on work, self-care, self-control, and support systems.

Get over a relationship: by seeing it as an opportunity to overcome your own insecurities and relationship deficiencies.

2006-01-11

Hypocritical: Your mental disturbance about your physical disturbance is greater.

Hypocritical: You find some noise disturbing so have thoughts that are even more disturbing.

Hypocritical: You find some person annoying so have thoughts that are even more annoying.

Hypocritical: You find some life circumstances difficult so have thoughts that are even more difficult.

Hypocritical: You find some task overwhelming so have thoughts that are even more overwhelming.

2006-01-10

It is all about nothing: do not try.

It is all about nothing: do not see.

It is all about nothing: do not hear.

It is all about nothing: do not speak.

It is all about nothing: knowing nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

2006-01-09

Stop thinking about your self is: there is nothing to be.

Stop thinking about your self: there is nothing to think about.

Stop worrying about your self: there is nothing to worry about.

Stop thinking about knowing your self: there is nothing to know.

Stop thinking about what your self will become: there is nothing to become.

2006-01-08

Deny your self for God's self.

Be concerned with God not self.

You must stop so God can begin.

Make room for God by emptying self.

Say "no" to your self and "yes" to God.

2006-01-07

Be selfless for His fullness.

Be empty of you and full of Him.

Be weak for you and strong for Him.

Be silent about you and praising Him.

Be still about you and active about Him.

2006-01-06

I am smart because I do better: wrong.

I am smart because I hate right: wrong.

I am smart because I know better: wrong.

I am smart because you are dumb: wrong.

I am smart because I have right knowledge: wrong.

2006-01-05

You can be right or compassionate.

Being right is used for doing wrong.

Being right doesn't give you the right.

Just because it can be right doesn't mean it has to be right.

Just because you are right it doesn't mean you have the right.

2006-01-04

You cannot correct your self only your feeling.

You cannot correct your self only your dwelling.

You cannot correct your self only your behaving.

You cannot correct your self only your identifying.

You cannot correct your self only your motivating.

2006-01-03

There is nothing by you.

There is nothing for you.

There is nothing from you.

There is nothing about you.

There is nothing being you.

2006-01-02

Be still, you have nothing to do.

Be silent, you have nothing to say.

Be single, you have nothing to catch.

Be sensitive, you have nothing to hurt.

Be simple, you have nothing to become.

2006-01-01

You can't torture yourself into any virtue.

You can't torture yourself into any feeling.

You can't torture yourself into any thinking.

You can't torture yourself into any behavior.

You can't torture yourself into any spirituality.

Do you encourage people to run their own mind, or do you pressure them to let you run it?

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