"Daily Dose of Discernment: Quote 5 A Day" 2007

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

2007-12-31

What are you relating to right now: is it images of life and so the unreal?

What are you relating to right now: is it images of others and so the unreal?

What are you relating to right now: is it images of yourself and so the unreal?

What are you relating to right now: is it thoughts of yourself and so the unreal?

What are you relating to right now: is it thoughts of others and life and so the unreal?

2007-12-30

The diagram of an airplane cannot make you a pilot.

The blueprint cannot give you the skill to build the building.

The graph of your investments cannot tell you how to invest.

The schematic of the bicycle cannot teach you how to ride the bicycle.

The chart of your organization cannot teach you how to manage your organization.

2007-12-29

Nothing lasts but salvation.

No accomplishment but salvation.

In the end nothing matters but whether you were saved or not.

The only immortal work of man is his own salvation as even all his art will be forgotten.

There is only one goal, one priority, one task, one meaning, one focus, one value, one result: your own salvation.

2007-12-28

False self is identification with habits.

False self is identification with beliefs.

False self is identification with feelings.

False self is identification with memories.

False self is identification with experiences.

2007-12-27

The only way to know another's evil is to be it.

The only way to know another's evil is to imagine you are them.

The only way to know another's evil is to judge it as if you were it.

The only way to know another's evil is to walk a mile in their shoes.

The only way to know another's evil is to think and feel what they think and feel.

2007-12-26

No matter the pain, hurt, abuse, distress, suffering: instead of relating to it in the now, I will focus on my right relationship to Spirit.

No matter the struggle, challenge, obstacle, roadblock: instead of relating to it in the now, I will focus on my right relationship to Spirit.

No matter the stress, frustration, discomfort, hardship, strain: instead of relating to it in the now, I will focus on my right relationship to Spirit.

No matter the unfairness, injustice, meanness, inequity, wrong: instead of relating to it in the now, I will focus on my right relationship to Spirit.

No matter the conflict, politics, gossip, misinformation, lies, hostility: instead of relating to it in the now, I will focus on my right relationship to Spirit.

2007-12-25

You only have the opportunity to be a Christian by practicing faith, hope, and charity when: you have challenges, trials, tests, and tribulations.

You only have the opportunity to be a Christian by practicing faith, hope, and charity when: people are mean, unfair, cruel, abusive, gossiping.

You only have the opportunity to be a Christian by practicing faith, hope, and charity when: life is unfair, unjust, unbalanced, undeserved, unwarranted.

You only have the opportunity to be a Christian by practicing faith, hope, and charity when: things go wrong and stress piles up at home, work, school, and in social settings.

You only have the opportunity to be a Christian by practicing faith, hope, and charity when the world: tries to talk you out of, tries to trick you out of, makes subtle reasonable sounding reasons for you to stop, challenges you, threatens you, tortures you, persecutes you, murders you for believing in Jesus the only Christ.

2007-12-24

No, not even in Heaven will you do, however, you can host God's doing even here.

No, not even in Heaven will you be, however, you can host God's being even here.

No, not even in Heaven will you know, however, you can host God's knowing even here.

No, not even in Heaven will you be a source, however, you can host God as the source even here.

No, not even in Heaven will you understand, however, you can host God's understanding even here.

2007-12-23

You have experiences that are distorted by your conditioning, beliefs, hurts, pleasures, values, allegiances, etc.

You have only partial experiences as you never can perceive the all of anything due to the limitations of your senses, perspective, and time.

You identify with your memories of your experiences and so defend and protect them as your life.

Yet, you attack other's beliefs in their experiences and expect them to surrender them for yours when that is death to them.

Learn to detach from your own memories and let others stay attached to their distorted and partial memories as they want.

2007-12-22

The body identifies with and attaches to its experiences, and this cannot be stopped.

You identify with and attach to your experiences, but this is a choice that you can stop.

Your ego is your attachment to experience, hence, your high self-esteem is merely attachment to positive experiences.

You can detach from your experiences and learn to live without ego, without self as what self experiences.

You can even detach from the pain or pleasure your body is identifying with, and so be driven by ideals instead of lusts.

2007-12-21

I want to find someone or something to fix me.

I want to fix someone or something so I will be fixed.

It has never occurred to me to fix myself so I will be fixed.

It has never occurred to me that I cannot help fix anyone or anything else till I first focus on myself.

It has never occurred to me that I really can only fix myself and no one or nothing else can ever fix me.

2007-12-20

Fact and truth over feeling.

Do the right thing over feeling.

Honor and courage over feeling.

Faith, hope, and charity over feeling.

Obedience, duty, and obligation over feeling.

2007-12-19

Self-esteem is a parasite.

Self-images are vampires.

Self-concepts feed on your life force.

Self-esteem is the leech of your soul.

Self-constructs are ornate bloodsuckers.

2007-12-18

Self-esteem/ego is taxidermy of self.

Self-esteem/ego is the life of the dead.

Self-esteem/ego is the creation of zombies.

Self-esteem/ego is putting real self in a tomb.

Self-esteem/ego is the mummification of real self.

2007-12-17

Right blame: blame your thinking not your being.

Right demanding: demand you follow God's teachings but not others.

Right damning: damn wrong thinking, feeling, and behaving but never wrong people.

Right worry: worry about your relationship with God not your relationship with people or the world.

Right attachment: attach to self as empty container and never to self as any of the contents of that container.

2007-12-16

Being better requires being worse and vice versa.

Your striving to be better is also striving for others to be worse: sadism.

Your striving to be worse is also striving for others to be better: masochism.

Since we are all equal in the eyes of God, all your thoughts and plots of self as better or worse are illusions.

All your measurements of better and worse are never measurements of human beings, so all your comparisons of people are delusions.

2007-12-15

You are never responsible for causing or creating evil.

You are never responsible for causing or creating good.

You are never responsible for causing or creating good or evil because you can only host them.

You are never responsible for causing or creating good or evil because you have no such powers or abilities.

You are never responsible for causing or creating evil, and your guilt and shame for doing so are only subtle forms of pride.

2007-12-14

Sadism: trying to get others be good.

Sadism: trying to get others to do good.

Sadism: trying to get others to teach good.

Sadism: trying to get others to know good.

Sadism: trying to get others to create good.

2007-12-13

Masochism: trying to be good.

Masochism: trying to do good.

Masochism: trying to teach good.

Masochism: trying to know good.

Masochism: trying to create good.

2007-12-12

You never stop thinking, you only stop your attention.

You never control thinking, you only control your attention.

You never change thinking, you only switch your attention.

You never manufacture thinking, you only receive thinking.

You never manage thinking, you only manage your attention.

2007-12-11

Your highest potential: doing nothing.

Your highest potential: being nothing.

Your highest potential: trying nothing.

Your highest potential: claiming nothing.

Your highest potential: knowing nothing.

2007-12-10

The highest you can be is zero.

If you try to be more than zero, then you become less than zero.

If you think you are less than zero, then you are serving destruction.

If you think you are more than zero, then you are serving destruction.

There is only one God, one source of good, one source of power, one who deserves glory, and you can serve Him only as zero.

2007-12-09

Your true self is silent: it is a delusion that you speak.

Your true self is still: it is a delusion that you are active.

Your true self is secure: it is a delusion that you insecure.

Your true self is single: it is a delusion that you are many.

Your true self is simple: it is a delusion that you are complicated.

2007-12-08

It's not me, it's not my body, it's spirit that does.

It's not me, it's not my talent, it's spirit that does.

It's not me, it's not my memory, it's spirit that does.

It's not me, it's not my knowledge, it's spirit that does.

It's not me, it's not my experience, it's spirit that does.

2007-12-07

Neither I nor thought do but only Spirit.

Neither I nor thought are but only Spirit.

Neither I nor thought know but only Spirit.

Neither I nor thought are capable but only Spirit.

Neither I nor thought are self-sustaining but only Spirit.

2007-12-06

Let's ruin right now for how it should be better.

Let's not accept and enjoy what we have now because it could be better.

Let's ruin the time we have now with someone for their not making time for us sooner.

Let's not love the people we are with now until they overcome their failings and foibles.

Let's ruin the time we have now with someone for their not being better to us at some other time.

2007-12-05

Are you miserable enough yet to give up doing it your way for God's way?

Are you worried and stressed enough yet to give up your control for God's control?

Are you frustrated and discouraged enough yet to give up being the boss for God to be your boss?

Are you running in circles and stuck often enough yet to give up being in charge of your life for God being in charge?

Are so you sick and tired of being sick and tired that you are willing to get out of the driver's seat and move into the passenger's seat?

2007-12-04

Can you catch the wind; and if you do is it still the wind?

Can stop time in order to know what something is at one moment?

Can you stop the flow of water under a bridge long enough to name and capture it as something?

Can you capture the self with labels, tests, opinions, images, concepts, constructs, habits, appearances, or identifications?

Is it possible to identify with a sense of self as non-static, as living, as being, as unknowable, as undefinable, as uncatchable, as just the living vessel that it is?

2007-12-03

Conflict causes self-consciousness.

Attachment causes self-consciousness.

Identification with experience causes self-consciousness.

On the one hand, we seek self-consciousness as positive-ego and accept conflict and death as worth it.

On the other hand, we avoid self-consciousness as negative-ego and escape and distract ourselves from it with compulsion, becoming, and false seeking.

2007-12-02

Despair of despair is sickness.

Despair of self for the world is sin.

Despair of self for God is righteousness.

Right despair is the solution not the problem.

Right despair is despair of self and the world for God.

2007-12-01

You don't eat rotten food, so don't eat and so do rotten behaviors.

You don't eat hurtful food, so don't eat and so do hurtful behaviors.

You don't eat painful food, so don't eat and so do painful behaviors.

You don't eat harmful food, so don't eat and so do harmful behaviors.

You don't eat poisoned food, so don't eat and so do poisoned behaviors.

2007-11-30

My cure is worse than my illness when: I want to feed me poisoned attitudes and beliefs to strengthen me.

My cure is worse than my illness when: I want me to understand poisoned opinions of myself by eating them.

My cure is worse than my illness when: I want to whine and demand that others not give me any more poisoned opinions to eat.

My cure is worse than my illness when: I want to blame and damn others for supposedly making me eat poisoned opinions of myself.

My cure is worse than my illness when: I worry about how to avoid, escape, hide, or pretend myself away from poisoned opinions of myself.

2007-11-29

Your cure is worse than my illness when: you want me to eat your poisoned opinions of me.

Your cure is worse than my illness when: you want me to eat your poisoned feelings as facts.

Your cure is worse than my illness when: you want to feed me poisoned attitudes and beliefs.

Your cure is worse than my illness when: you want me to take responsibility for your poisoned feelings.

Your cure is worse than my illness when: you want me to control and be responsible for the poison you are feeding yourself and me.

2007-11-28

Despair is coming face to face with the futility of ego.

Insecurity is coming face to face with the instability of ego.

Depersonalization is coming face to face with the unreality of ego as a self.

Existential crises are about coming face to face with the emptiness and meaninglessness of ego.

Depression is coming face to face with the helplessness and hopelessness of ego ever becoming the good.

2007-11-27

If you would only eat my poison thoughts, then I could be well.

If you would only eat my poison thoughts, then you could be well.

If you would only eat my poison thoughts, then I could be free of them.

If you would only eat my poison thoughts, then our marriage could be well.

If you would only eat my poison thoughts, then it would help you not be them.

2007-11-26

To be right is to be poison.

To be right is to poison self.

To do right is to do poison.

To do right is to poison others.

To know right is to know poison.

2007-11-25

You cannot give what you cannot receive.

You cannot serve what you cannot receive.

You cannot host what you do not want for everyone.

You cannot serve what you do not want for everyone.

If you are not giving faith, hope, and charity, then you are not receiving faith, hope, and charity.

2007-11-24

Right self-talk: God's life not self.

Right self-talk: God's doing not self.

Right self-talk: God's being not self.

Right self-talk: God's knowing not self.

Right self-talk: God's potential not self.

2007-11-23

He is and I am not.

He does and I do not.

He knows and I do not.

He is being and I can only reflect being.

He is life and love and I can only host life and love.

2007-11-22

Thankful for the gift of life to spend on God.

Thankful for the gift of one opportunity to go to Heaven.

Thankful for the gift of life that allows me one chance to go to Heaven.

Thankful for the one chance to die for God that I might live glorifying God forever.

Thankful for the one chance to serve God whatever the circumstances or conditions of life in this world.

2007-11-21

Nothing survives but salvation.

Nothing of life lasts but salvation.

Nothing in life eternal but salvation.

All will be forgotten but the Word of God.

No immortal music or art, only immortal salvation.

2007-11-20

You can serve because you are still.

You can host because you are silent.

You can receive because you are empty.

You can serve God because you are nobody.

You can serve because you are simply not in the way.

2007-11-19

Life is not void, you are void.

Life is not empty, you are empty.

Life is not random, you are random.

Life is not meaningless, you are meaningless.

Life is not without purpose, you are without purpose.

2007-11-18

Only God is somebody.

There is one being: God.

There is no respect of persons with God as no one is anybody.

You were no one as a child and sought to be somebody so lost your value.

Get back to being no one, only now appreciate it for being your highest state.

2007-11-17

You don't eat rotten food, so don't eat rotten feelings.

You don't eat hurtful food, so don't eat hurtful feelings.

You don't eat painful food, so don't eat painful feelings.

You don't eat harmful food, so don't eat harmful feelings.

You don't eat poisoned food, so don't eat poisoned feelings.

2007-11-16

The only way out is through because: if you deny it, it grows.

The only way out is through because: if you run it chases you.

The only way out is through because: if you try to change it, it multiplies.

The only way out is through because: if you try to stop it, it gets stronger.

The only way out is through because: if you try to transform it, it hides under your lies.

2007-11-15

God does for me as I cannot do.

God knows for me as I cannot know.

God is self for me as He is the only self.

God wins for me as I cannot win for myself.

God chooses for me as I cannot choose for myself.

2007-11-14

If you refuse to buy and read books you don't like, then why do you buy and read thoughts you don't like?

If you refuse to buy and read magazines you don't like, then why do you buy and read thoughts you don't like?

If you refuse to buy and listen to music you don't like, then why do you buy and listen to thoughts you don't like?

If you refuse to buy and watch to movies you don't like, then why do you buy and watch to thoughts you don't like?

If you refuse to buy and play computer games you don't like, then why do you buy and play thoughts you don't like?

2007-11-13

Being right is poison.

Being right is serving poison.

Being right is being poisoned.

Being right is poisoning others.

Being right is putting poison first.

2007-11-12

Being right is being stupid.

To know right is not to be right.

To host right you cannot be right.

Right makes the might of arrogance.

To serve the right you must be wrong.

2007-11-11

If you do not want people to pigeonhole you with labels, then do not pigeonhole others with labels.

If you do not want people to damn you for your mistakes, then do not damn others for their mistakes.

If you do not want people to judge you as something bad, then do not judge others as something bad.

If you do not want people to blame your character or self for your failings, then do blame the character or self of others for their failings.

If you want people to give you the benefit of the doubt that you at least had good intentions when things went wrong, then give others the benefit of the doubt that they had good intentions in spite of their errors.

2007-11-10

There is nothing more foolish than being right.

When you are right, you are foolish about all else.

In order to be right, you strain after the gnat and swallow the camel.

In order to be right, you give up sensing, reality testing, empathy, perspective taking, understanding, compassion, humility.

In order to be right, you are closed-minded, extremist, absolutistic, looping, self-verifying, self-proving, recursive, prideful, and reify your thinking.

2007-11-09

Does your whining and worrying help you to problem-solve or cope?

Does your attaching and personalizing help you to find freedom and joy?

Does your demanding and controlling help you to find acceptance and peace?

Does your doubting and damning yourself help you to feel motivated and encouraged?

Does your blaming and grudge holding help you to build friendships and relationships?

2007-11-08

Does your holding poison in your heart for others hurt them or you?

Does your eating poison in your heart help you to feel and do better or worse?

Does your keeping poison in your heart help you to fulfill your dreams and talents?

Does your keeping poison in your heart help you to serve God, family, friends, society, or career?

Does your keeping poison in your heart help you to find acceptance and love for yourself and others?

2007-11-07

The self you talk about inside you cannot find because it does not exist.

The self you talk about inside you cannot ever just be because it does not exist.

The self you talk about inside you cannot show to yourself or others because it does not exist.

The self you talk about inside you cannot do anything more than talk about because it does not exist.

The self you talk about inside you will never finish searching for, developing, or becoming because it does not exist.

2007-11-06

The self you imagine for you is not possible as you do not have the power to create it: you are no god.

The self you imagine for you is not possible as you do not have the abilities you project onto it: you are no god.

The self you imagine for you is not possible as you do not have the capabilities you claim for it: you are no god.

The self you imagine for you is not possible as you do not have the center-stage of life you imagine it on: you are no god.

The self you imagine for you is not possible as the claims you make for it and desires you have for it can exist only in fantasy: you are no god.

2007-11-05

Your self-talk is about no one.

Your self-talk is about fantasy.

Your self-talk is about nothing.

Your self-talk is about someone who is never there.

Your self-talk is about an imaginary self that has no basis in reality.

2007-11-04

The reason the person you speak of as self inside has never been seen by you is because they do not exist.

The reason the person you speak of as self inside has never been heard by you is because they do not exist.

The reason the person you speak of as self inside has never been known by you is because they do not exist.

The reason the person you speak of as self inside has never been touched by you is because they do not exist.

The reason the person you speak of as self inside has never been realized by you is because they do not exist.

2007-11-03

Husbands complain mostly about their wives' complaining making husbands less understanding.

Wives complain mostly about the apathy of their husbands making husbands withdrawal more.

Children complain mostly about wanting to waste their time their way making parents certain children have no judgment.

Husbands let your wives know you appreciate them and want to soothe their pain, and they will nag less and encourage more.

Wives let your husbands know you believe in them and support their dreams, and they will do more for you and the home.

Children give your parents respect, honor, and credit, and they will trust you with more freedom.

2007-11-02

God must hold you in the good.

God must hide you in the good.

God must keep you in the good.

God must contain you in the good.

God must surround you in the good.

2007-11-01

You cannot learn your way to the good.

You cannot think your way to the good.

You cannot study your way to the good.

You cannot know your way to the good.

You cannot practice your way to the good.

2007-10-31

What you call self is only your Frankenstein monster created of the dead habits of others.

What you call self is only your Frankenstein monster created of the dead feelings of others.

What you call self is only your Frankenstein monster created of the dead thoughts of others.

What you call self is only your Frankenstein monster created of the dead attitudes of others.

What you call self is only your Frankenstein monster created of the dead memories of others.

2007-10-30

You cannot do the good, you can only follow the good.

You cannot fulfill the good, you can only follow the good.

You cannot perform the good, you can only follow the good.

You cannot execute the good, you can only follow the good.

You cannot accomplish the good, you can only follow the good.

2007-10-29

You cannot find the good on your own, you must first be drawn to the good.

You cannot seek the good on your own, you must first be drawn to the good.

You cannot value the good on your own, you must first be drawn to the good.

You cannot prefer the good on your own, you must first be drawn to the good.

You cannot desire the good on your own, you must first be drawn to the good.

2007-10-28

Whining has no place in the life of the mature.

Worrying has no place in the life of the spiritual.

Blaming has no place in the life of the responsible.

Attaching has no place in the life of the free.

Demanding has no place in the life of the peaceful.

Damning has not place in the life of the religious.

2007-10-27

Insecurity is covered by anger, pride, and image.

Insecurity is by its very nature narcissistic and irrational.

Insecurity is the basis of mental disorders and problems.

Insecurity is the belief in a future self attached to negative images, concepts, and constructs.

Insecurity is self-doubt that leads to: self-worrying, self-whining, self-blaming, self-demanding, self-damning.

2007-10-26

Won't you do better when we agree to believe in you?

Won't you do better when we agree to encourage you?

Wouldn't we do better if you agreed to believe in us?

Wouldn't we do better if you agreed to encourage us?

If you take the risk to be the first to start thinking well of the other person, then you  can be part of the solution instead of the problem.

2007-10-25

You don't eat rotten food, so don't eat rotten thought.

You don't eat hurtful food, so don't eat hurtful thought.

You don't eat painful food, so don't eat painful thought.

You don't eat harmful food, so don't eat harmful thought.

You don't eat poisoned food, so don't eat poisoned thought.

2007-10-24

You try to feel with thought and blame your thinking for failing not your method.

You try to sense with feeling and blame your feeling for failing not your method.

You try to think with sensing and blame your sensing for failing not your method.

You are backwards and unaware of it: using thinking for feeling, feeling for sensing, and sensing for thinking.

Right order works: sensing then feeling then thinking, and each dependent on the one that went before.

2007-10-23

There is no cause of sin other than your nature: Peer and group pressure do not cause you to be evil they only give you the chance.

There is no cause of sin other than your nature: Poor economic conditions or opportunities do not cause you to be evil they only give you the option.

There is no cause of sin other than your nature: Learning, parenting, and family dynamics do not cause you to be evil they only give you the occasion.

There is no cause of sin other than your nature: Cultural, ethnic, and religious conditioning do not cause you to be evil they only give you the opportunity.

There is no cause of sin other than your nature: Social injustice, abuse, and victimization do not cause you to be evil they only give you the circumstances.

2007-10-22

Are you part of the solution or part of the problem: Do you focus on spreading the good or gossip?

Are you part of the solution or part of the problem: Do you focus on encouraging or discouraging others?

Are you part of the solution or part of the problem: Do you focus on brining out the best in others or the worst?

Are you part of the solution or part of the problem: Do you focus on believing and talking about the good or the evil in others?

Are you part of the solution or part of the problem: Do you focus on leading people to the good or blaming and damning them for running to the bad?

2007-10-21

What are you willing to give up for God?

What are you willing to give up for your addiction?

What are you willing to give up for your family or friends?

What are you willing to give up for your career, fame, or fortune?

What are you willing to give up for your favorite pastime or hobby?

Any of these: work, career, education, time, sleep, health, pain, money, fortune, drugs, alcohol, sex, food, gambling, spending, some addiction, some habit, some compulsion, freedom, fun, leisure, sports, hobbies, pastimes, TV, music, family, friends, being popular, social acceptance, appearance, fame, goals, dreams, God, beliefs, values, morals, ethics, ideals, integrity, responsibility, spirituality, honesty, faith, hope, charity, motivation, drive, comfort, convenience, whining, worrying, blaming, attaching, demanding, damning, pride, ego, knowing, being right, being in control, looking good, identity, self?

2007-10-20

Right confidence: God can do it.

Wrong confidence: I can do it.

Right self-esteem: I am a great transceiver.

Wrong self-esteem: I am a good source.

Right motivation: make God look good.

Wrong motivation: make me look good.

2007-10-19

When I eat garbage thoughts, I feel like garbage; so there must be something wrong with me: so I will eat more garbage thoughts to punish myself into being better.

When I eat garbage thoughts, I feel like garbage; so there must be something wrong with me: so I will eat garbage thoughts longer and harder until I learn not feel like garbage.

When I eat garbage thoughts, I feel like garbage; so there must be something wrong with me: so I give up trying not to feel like garbage and accept my fate as feeling like garbage.

When I eat garbage thoughts, I feel like garbage; so there must be something wrong with me: so I will eat more garbage thoughts until I become strong enough not to feel like garbage.

When I eat garbage thoughts, I feel like garbage; so there must be something wrong with me: so I accept I will be garbage and try to make the most of it by blaming and damning others for it.

2007-10-18

Looking for thought in the brain is like looking for music in radio circuits.

Looking for thought in the brain is like looking for broadcasts in satellite circuits.

Looking for thought in the brain is like looking for conversations in telephone circuits.

Looking for thought in the brain is like looking for television shows in television circuits.

Looking for thought in the brain is like looking for transmissions in computer modem circuits.

2007-10-17

Weakness is hurtful or helpful: weakness for man is hurtful and weakness for God is helpful.

Strength is hurtful or helpful: strength from self is hurtful and strength from God is helpful.

Strength for self is pride, separation from God, and proceeds a fall so is hurtful.

Strength from God is service and dependence on God so is helpful.

Weakness for self or others leads to depression, anxiety, and abuse so is hurtful.

Weakness for God leads to humility and relationship with God so is helpful.

2007-10-16

Either-or thinking is perfect when there are only two variables.

Either-or thinking is primitive when there are more than two variables.

Both-and-more thinking is very useful when there are more than two variables but inappropriate when there are only two variables.

Human nature is not either the good humanists say it is or the bad some religious say it is.

Human nature is both good and bad and more: good in that it is made in the image of God; bad that it is made of not-God so desires not-God; more in that it has the potential to be made of God and so to prefer God.

2007-10-15

A radio has no use if it does not share, if it does not give what it receives.

A satellite has no use if it does not share, if it does not give what it receives.

A television has no use if it does not share, if it does not give what it receives.

A telephone has no use if it does not share, if it does not give what it receives.

A computer modem has no use if it does not share, if it does not give what it receives.

2007-10-14

In some situations: you can shut up or make it worse.

In some situations: you can ignore it or make it worse.

In some situations: you can switch your focus or make it worse.

In some situations: you can distract self and others from it or make it worse.

In some situations: you can see the humor in it or you can take it serious and make it worse.

2007-10-13

Guilt is helpful or hurtful: guilt for behavior helps and guilt for being hurts.

Shame is helpful or hurtful: shame for social acts helps and shame for self hurts.

Stubbornness is helpful or hurtful: stubbornness for virtue helps and stubbornness for pride hurts.

Perfectionism is helpful or hurtful: perfectionism with realistic expectations helps and perfectionism with unrealistic expectations hurts.

Selfishness is helpful or hurtful: selfishness is helpful when you first take care of your physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual needs so that you are then able to help others; selfishness is hurtful when you are not caring for self so that you might help others, but, instead, are caring for self as the goal and expect the same from others.

2007-10-12

Don't know it live it.

Don't know it feel it.

Don't know it sense it.

Don't know it perceive it.

Don't know it experience it.

2007-10-11

You know what to do, but repeating that is not doing it.

You know what to do, but repeating that is avoiding doing it.

You know what to do, but repeating that is putting off doing it.

You know what to do, but repeating that is excusing not doing it.

You know what to do, but repeating that is not magically going to someday make you do it.

2007-10-10

There is no secret or special way that you can find to save you, because only God can save you.

There is no secret or special path that you can find to save you, because only God can save you.

There is no secret or special method that you can find to save you, because only God can save you.

There is no secret or special practice that you can find to save you, because only God can save you.

There is no secret or special knowledge that you can find to save you, because only God can save you.

2007-10-09

Trying is hard, but not it.

Learning is hard, but not it.

Changing it is hard, but not it.

Not doing it is hard, but not it.

Controlling it is hard, but not it.

2007-10-08

Beating the hardware to fix the software is foolish.

Punishing the hardware for software mistakes is stupid.

Despising and downing the hardware for software mistakes is absurd.

Making the hardware guilty and ashamed for the software is thoughtless.

You are the hardware, get over the fact that you have learned to run bad software and buy some new software.

2007-10-07

The battle is not yours but God's.

The burden is not yours but God's.

The struggle is not yours but God's.

The victory is not yours but God's.

The salvation is not yours but God's.

2007-10-06

Internal disturbance affects you more than external disturbance.

Why add internal disturbance if you really don't like external disturbance?

Internal disturbance is your choice, but external disturbance is a fact of life.

You can always make things worse by adding internal disturbance to any external disturbance.

Adding internal disturbance to external disturbance magnifies external disturbance out of proportion.

2007-10-05

You must choose self over appearance.

Self before appearance not appearance before self.

Appearance before self makes you double-minded and phony.

Once you have put self first, you are free to put appearance second.

Believing appearance is unimportant is as foolish as believing appearance is most important.

2007-10-04

Most misery is based on nothing.

Most news, gossip, and worry is much ado about nothing.

Most news, gossip, and worry is just sound and fury signifying nothing.

People divorce, die, fight, struggle, stress, and go to war over nothing on a regular basis.

It is impossible to claim that more than a handful of things in life have any meaning or importance, and even less will be remembered.

2007-10-03

Thought cannot make you see.

Thought cannot make you hear.

Thought cannot make you taste.

Thought cannot make you touch.

Thought cannot make you smell.

2007-10-02

Nothing is hard: just ask any talented person if what they do is hard.

Average is available to all in all things, but above average comes only as a gift.

Hard is a myth as either you are doing it and it is easy, or you are not doing it and it is hard.

When you are learning you say it is hard, but what is hard is your not doing it because you want to be doing it.

It is hard because you are: not doing it, do not want to do it, afraid to do it, trying to do it, trying to control it, trying to change it, trying to do something else as it.

2007-10-01

The more you do, the less you do.

The more you are, the less you are.

The more you follow, the less you do.

The more you know, the less you know.

The more you get it, the more you don't.

2007-09-30

When you fight with fools, you become a fool.

When you dispute with jerks, you act like a jerk.

When you debate with children, you are childish.

When you argue with morons, you sound like a moron.

When you disagree with idiots, you behave like an idiot.

2007-09-29

You are a phony when you try to appear rather than be.

You are hiding from you when you hide behind appearances.

Present the real you well, do not present well so you appear well.

When people accept your appearance, it is not you they are accepting.

Trying to appear makes you double-minded as the appearance-self and the acting-self.

2007-09-28

Since you have feelings, by definition there is one having that is not what they have.

Since you have thoughts, by definition there is one having that is not what they have.

Since you have behaviors, by definition there is one having that is not what they have.

Since you have sensations, by definition there is one having that is not what they have.

Since you have experiences, by definition there is one having that is not what they have.

2007-09-27

A TV is not the experience of the good or bad shows that it hosts.

A radio is not the experience of the good or bad music that it transmits.

A telephone is not the experience of the good or bad phone calls that it enables.

A computer modem is not the experience of the good or bad transmissions it converts.

You are not the experience of the good or bad events of your life that you: host, witness, transmit, contain, share, record, remember, respond to, compare, judge, label, resist, deny, misrepresent, misinterpret, try to change, try to control, fear, loop on.

2007-09-26

I will teach them to be nice by being mean.

I will prove to them that they are mean to me so that they will be nice to me.

I will be so mean to them that they will be afraid to ever be mean to me again.

I will punish them so often and hard that they will learn to be nice and loving to me.

I can't let them get away with that, so I will be a worse jerk to them to show them they can't be a jerk to me.

2007-09-25

So you let people get to you by letting them in through your nose or ears?

So you let people get to you by letting them program you like a computer?

So you let people get to you by letting them pull your strings because you are a puppet?

So you let people get to you by letting them run your remote control because you are a robot?

So you let people get to you through that secret trap door in the back of your head, because once inside they can take over the controls of your heart, soul, mind, attention, and identity?

2007-09-24

Do not superstitiously say people get to you, you have your own heart and you make your own choices for it.

Do not superstitiously say you let people bother you, you have your own mind and you make your own choices for it.

Do not superstitiously say you let people distract you, you have your own attention and you make your own choices for it.

Do not superstitiously say you let people make you feel something; you have your own heart, mind, and identity, and you make your own choices for them.

Do not superstitiously say you let people make you lose your train of thought, you have your own attention and mind and you make your own choices for them.

2007-09-23

Do not superstitiously say art makes you feel anything, as art has no ESP powers to make you feel.

Do not superstitiously say music makes you feel anything, as music has no magical powers to make you feel.

Do not superstitiously say movies make you feel anything, as movies have no supernatural powers to make you feel.

Do not superstitiously say ambiance makes you feel anything, as ambiance has no voodoo powers to make you feel.

Do not superstitiously say the weather makes you feel anything, as the weather has no witchcraft powers to make you feel.

2007-09-22

You are uniquely human but no unique human exists.

There is nothing true about you that is not also true about everyone.

There is nothing special about you that is not also special about everyone.

There is nothing different about you that is not also different about everyone.

Yes, you have different and special gifts, talents, abilities, capabilities, potentials, etc.; however, none of them are from you or are you so that you cannot claim to be different or special because of what you have been given.

2007-09-21

You receive, host, follow, and share thinking, but are not the source of any thinking for what follows does not lead.

You do not think because you cannot think, and your claims to think are like a TV claiming it creates TV shows.

You claim you create the noise in your head, but that is only pride and no more real than a radio claiming it creates music.

You claim the noise in your head is yours, but that is only pride and no more real than a cell phone claiming it is the calls it receives and sends.

Be the right place for right thinking by steadfastly following-out virtue, faith, hope, and charity with your heart, soul, and mind.

2007-09-20

Minimize self maximize God.

Minimize pride maximize praise.

Minimize trying maximize trusting.

Minimize blame maximize responsibility.

Minimize self-claims maximize God-credit.

2007-09-19

Instead of telling me how others need to change, tell me how you need to change.

Instead of telling me what they should or should not be doing, tell me what you should or should not be doing.

Instead of telling me how it would be if others would only do or not do something, tell me what you are going to do right regardless.

Instead of telling me how impossible others make it for you to do the right thing, tell me how you are going to do the right thing anyway.

Instead of telling me how you are getting tired of doing the right thing because they are not in return, tell me how you will do the right thing forever no matter what they do or don't do because you choose to serve the right.

2007-09-18

All that you have is a gift, therefore, you are not entitled to anything.

You can contribute nothing to God, therefore, you are entitled to nothing.

Your complaints are groundless as you have no basis for any claims, rights, or privileges.

You are the source of nothing so are entitled to only nothing, as all good comes from God alone.

You can do nothing better than anyone else of yourself, therefore, you are no different or better than anyone else.

2007-09-17

Non-doing: you are aware that you are not doing and God is doing for you.

Non-knowing: you are aware that you are incapable of knowing and can only host God's knowing.

Non-being: you are aware that you are not a self-sustaining being and that there is only One real Being, God.

Non-trying: you are aware that you must wait on God for all your trying is claiming you can do, and, therefore, is pride and sin.

Non-credit: you are aware of the fact that all good comes from and is done by God alone, so you refuse any and all self-credit.

2007-09-16

Do you get it that you cannot get it?

Do you get it that you will never get it?

Do you get it that trying to get it is sin, is pride?

Do you get it that when you get it, it is not you getting it?

Do you get it that there is only One capable of getting it?

2007-09-15

Logically limit logic.

Rationally prove irrationality.

Analyze analysis as aimless.

Dialectically disprove dialectics.

Reason your way out of reason.

2007-09-14

Your self is useful only when empty, but this neither means that emptiness is the source nor that emptiness is all.

Your self is useful only when one, but this neither means that oneness is the source nor that oneness is all.

Your self is useful only when void, but this neither means that the void is the source nor that the void is all.

Your self is useful only when still, but this neither means that stillness is the source nor that stillness is all.

Your self is useful only when silent, but this neither means that silence is the source nor that silence is all.

2007-09-13

The only thing words can define is words.

The only thing words can convey is words.

For words to be more than words, you must add the more.

For words to be about more than words, you must add the more be it emotion, experience, or sensation.

No matter how well you surround truth with words, you cannot convey truth with words because truth is not words.

2007-09-12

If they are a stranger or just joking, then I can not care what they think of me.

If they know me, then I must own their opinions as me and feel good or bad as I imagine them.

If they really mean it, then I must own their opinions of me even though I cannot be an opinion.

If they are family, friends, or lovers, then I must own their opinions as me even though opinions are not human beings.

If it is something really important or new, then I must worry about my fantasies of what others opinions of my actions will make me.

2007-09-11

You have been looking for the right things to think and do, but the right thing for you to think is not to think and the right thing for you to do is not to do.

Still because your self-doing interferes with and blocks real doing.

Silent because your self-talk interferes with and blocks real thinking.

In order for you to do, you must be non-doing.

In order for you to think, you must be non-thinking.

All your false ways of doing and thinking accomplish nothing but: interference, distraction, false stress, false pain, the illusion of thinking, the illusion of doing.

2007-09-10

Everybody in the world wants to give garbage back, however, you can be part of the solution only by giving good for garbage.

Everybody in the world has enough pain and garbage to carry already, and they are sure to get more; therefore, you do not need to add any.

Everybody in the world is fighting a struggle inside that they often lose, have compassion on even the mean who lose and suffer more than most.

Everybody in the world wants to give garbage back to teach others not to give garbage; not only is this hypocritical, it simply makes for more garbage.

Everybody in the world is increasing garbage by returning garbage, but you can be part of the solution only by giving good even when you get garbage.

2007-09-09

Make virtue your doing not self.

Make virtue your source not self.

Make virtue your knowing not self.

Surrender to and depend on virtue not self.

Living under virtue is joy, hence, it is said that virtue is its own reward.

2007-09-08

Two of the reasons you have trouble finding your self are: (1) there is so little to it; (2) it is incredibly simple.

Do you really want to find that your self is only useful when simple and still?

Do you really want to find that your self is capable of nothing but reflecting and hosting?

Do you really want to find that your self is only worth something when it is doing nothing?

Do you really want to find that your self is pathetic when compared to the one true being, God?

2007-09-07

You can be helpful or hurtful.

You can be grateful or stressful.

You can be forgiving or punishing.

You can be uplifting or demeaning.

You can be accepting or demanding.

2007-09-06

Right anger: hate evil but not persons.

Right despair: despair of self as source or way.

Right pride: be assured that God is good and man is evil.

Right greed: be zealous for knowledge and praise of God.

Right anxiety: work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

2007-09-05

Are you in good spirits?

How is your team or school spirit?

Are you in the season or holiday spirit?

What can you do to lift or improve your spirits?

As we all know and say, thoughts are spirits that you are not the source of but only the host for--choose wisely.

2007-09-04

Pride is putting ego before God.

Greed is putting gain before God.

Anger is putting hurt before charity.

Laziness is putting discomfort before achievement.

Despair is putting pessimism and discouragement before faith and hope.

2007-09-03

Humility is putting God before ego.

Courage is putting value before risk.

Patience is putting peace before anger.

Purity is putting singleness before pride.

Diligence is putting goal before discomfort.

2007-09-02

No one has ever judged you, because no one has ever known you but only ideas of you.

No one has ever felt about you, because no one has ever known you but only opinions of you.

No one has ever talked about you, because no one has ever known you but only fantasies of you.

No one has ever thought about you, because no one has ever known you but only impressions of you.

No one has ever had an opinion about you, because no one has ever known you but only projections of themselves as you.

2007-09-01

Spiritual practice: be aware of self as non-credit.

Spiritual practice: be aware of self as non-doing.

Spiritual practice: be aware of self as non-claiming.

Spiritual practice: be aware of self as non-knowing.

Spiritual practice: be aware of self as non-being without the One Being to amplify.

2007-08-31

Despair of thought: you will never know better and so do better by relying on thought.

Despair of thought: you will never know better and so not do wrong by relying on thought.

Despair of thought: you will never even be able to remember anything by relying on thought.

Despair of thought: you will never be able to choose, change, control, or motivate by relying on thought.

Despair of human thought: only Spirit has any capability.

2007-08-30

Despair of self: you will never learn the way.

Despair of self: you will never follow the way.

Despair of self: you will never practice the way.

Despair of self: you will never understand the way.

Despair of self: God must draw you to the way and keep you on the way.

2007-08-29

Be broken and hopeless, but not for self as that only reinforces ego and false despair.

Be broken and hopeless, but not for life as that only reinforces ego and false despair.

Be broken and hopeless, but not for others as that only reinforces ego and false despair.

Be broken and hopeless, but not for the world as that only reinforces ego and false despair.

Be broken and hopeless, but only for God as that reinforces humility, right despair, and dependence on God.

2007-08-28

All spiritual paths do not have the same destination: the Muslim end of having a harem is the end offered by devils in other spiritual paths.

All spiritual paths do not have the same destination: the Hindu end of becoming one with or one of the gods is spiritual pride and spiritual ego according to other spiritual paths.

All spiritual paths do not have the same destination: the New Age end of co-creating the universe is blasphemy in Christianity where there is only one power, one source of power, one God.

All spiritual paths do not have the same destination: the end of becoming good is blasphemy in Christianity where only God is good and all receive good from and through the One Source only.

All spiritual paths do not have the same destination: the end of becoming one with God is blasphemy in Christianity where only one was or ever will be begotten of Him: Jesus the Son of God.

2007-08-27

Self as still is open, self as busy is closed.

Self as void is useful, self as full is worthless.

Self as single is precious, self as double is trash.

Self as non-doing is capable, self as doing is incapable.

Self as silent is available, self as speaking is unavailable.

2007-08-26

Ego-other strategies: please, comply, and serve so they will think you are good (codependent).

Ego-other strategies: escape, rebel, act-out to prove them wrong and you right (antisocial, personality disorder).

Ego-other strategies: control how they think and act so it supports your ego-self view (control freak, demanding).

Ego-other strategies: avoid exposure and cover with acceptable images (phony, always smile, appear nice but do evil in background).

Ego-other strategies: see them as only supporting characters whose job it is to make you look good and make them feel guilty when they fail (narcissistic).

2007-08-25

Who constitutes the ego-other for you? Those who you think know you.

Only those who constitute your ego-other can hurt you; the rest you do not care what they think so do not compare ego-self with your assumptions of their images of you.

How does someone enter your ego-other? Mostly accidentally and unconsciously as you assume your family, friends, and lovers know you and affect who you are.

No one can affect who your real self is not even you, but since you base your ego-self on both self-ego-view and other-ego-view, it is a life or death struggle for you to have ego-other think of you the way ego-self wants.

How do you get someone out of your ego-other complex? It takes a lot of deconstruction, but usually you just attempt to hate them out, which not only fails but strengthens their occupation of ego-self.

2007-08-24

Ego dialectic: self says I am this and other says I am not that, and I identify with both impossibly trying to make self-view consume other-view.

Ego dialectic: self says I was not that and other says I was that, and I identify with both impossibly trying to make self-view perfume other-view.

Ego dialectic: self says I will be this and other says I will not be that, and I identify with both impossibly trying to make self-view broom other-view.

Ego dialectic: self says I should be this and other says I cannot be that, and I identify with both impossibly trying to make self-view subsume other-view.

Ego dialectic: self says I should not have been that and other says I will always be that, and I identify with both impossibly trying to make self-view costume other-view.

2007-08-23

Ego is self as idea: wasted life and death.

Ego is self as image: wasted time and energy.

Ego is self as thought: wasted effort and motive.

Ego is self as concept: wasted intention and goal.

Ego is self as construct: wasted pain and suffering.

2007-08-22

Only God is good.

Only God serves the good.

Only God desires the good.

Only God is the source of good.

Only God chooses the good by nature.

2007-08-21

You have no good of your own.

You have no good inclination of your own.

Any and all good impulses in you come from God.

If you choose the good, then it is only because the good first chose you.

You always choose to serve death and destruction when left to your own wishes, wants, drives, desires, devices.

2007-08-20

A cup has value because it is not a source but only a host.

A mirror has value because it is not a source but only a reflector.

A radio has value because it is not a source but only a transceiver.

A television has value because it is not a source but only a receiver/sender.

A human has value because they are not a source but only an amplifier.

2007-08-19

If you do not take care of your primary obligation, your own spiritual and physical health, you will not be worth anything to anyone.

Boundaries and limits: do good for evil but not if it deprives you of your capacity to do good.

Boundaries and limits: do every good work but not if any deprives you of your capacity to do good.

Boundaries and limits: do every good work but not if any (exceptions noted below) deprives you of your sanity, health, life, or means to do good.

The times to sacrifice your health or capabilities are rare and reserved for the highest calling and noblest service: dying to save another or dying rather than denying God.

2007-08-18

The self that is no self.

The being that is not being.

The doing that is not doing.

The knowing that is not knowing.

The effortless receiving, tasting, responding to the taste, sending.

2007-08-17

Choosing to host the clean.

Choosing to magnify the right.

Choosing to amplify the sweet.

Choosing to entertain what brings to light.

Choosing to test what to reflect by its fruits.

2007-08-16

Still self.

Singly aware.

Selfless service.

Silently receiving.

Simply transmitting.

2007-08-15

Integrity is the holding together of true self.

Integrity is lost when you have pride as you are broken into three: past doing, present doing, future doing.

Integrity is lost when you claim as you have no ability to create or be the source now or ever.

Integrity is lost when you follow the flow just because it is the flow as the flow may be wrong.

Integrity requires: single, simple, sensitive, serious, selfless, stillness.

2007-08-14

Magic: the only magic is more right habits than wrong.

Magic: the only magic is practicing more right than wrong.

Magic: the only magic is discovering and practicing what is right.

Magic: the only magic is practicing the right until it replaces the habit of the wrong.

Magic: the only magic is a change of heart that causes you to practice the right even when the wrong is already a strong habit.

2007-08-13

To be loved just for being is right because that is all you can do, the rest is ego delusions.

To be loved just for being is right because that is all you can be, the rest is ego delusions.

To be loved just for being is right because that is all you can have, the rest is ego delusions.

To be loved just for being is right because that is all you can know, the rest is ego delusions.

To be loved just for being is right because that is all you can control, the rest is ego delusions.

2007-08-12

Single-eye: You are aware of self as just one being.

Single-mind: You are aware of self as just the vessel.

Single-eye: You are identified with only one self, your self as the container not the contents.

Single-mind: You are identified with only one self, self as transceiver not knower, doer, or creator.

Single-eye: You are identified with one being, self that chooses and experiences the signals that it receives and sends but never creates, knows, is self-sustaining, or is a source.

2007-08-11

Double-minded: you think of who you are and who you should be causing unproductive stress.

Double-minded: you think of who you are and who you could have been keeping yourself stuck.

Double-minded: you think of who you are and who you would have been, which only reinforces your ego.

Double-minded: you think of who you are and who you should have been, which only wastes your time and energy.

Double-minded: you think of who you are and who you should not have been, should not be, could be, will be, won't be, which wears you out mentally and emotionally.

2007-08-10

Self-centered yet unaware of self.

Self-confident yet unaware of self.

Self-righteous yet unaware of self.

Self-indulgent yet unaware of self.

Self-absorbed yet unaware of self.

2007-08-09

Looping is wrong repetition.

Looping is inaction in action.

Looping avoids work and action.

Looping avoids choices and decisions.

Looping is based on a magical belief in looping.

2007-08-08

Looping does not change habits.

Looping does not produce insight.

Looping does not overcome problems.

Looping does not solve relationship problems.

Looping does not overcome negative emotions.

2007-08-07

Looping causes stress.

Looping keeps me stuck.

Looping feeds and protects my ego.

Looping wastes my time and energy.

Looping wears me out mentally and emotionally.

2007-08-06

Looping does not think.

Looping does not cope.

Looping does not solve.

Looping does not create.

Looping does not understand.

2007-08-05

Ego cannot.

Ego cannot end ego.

Ego cannot understand ego.

Ego cannot be aware of ego.

Ego cannot: set you free, help you become enlightened, make you happy, solve your problems, help you cope, reduce stress, learn, become less ego.

2007-08-04

Your feeling bad does not mean that you must convict me of doing bad to you.

Your feeling bad does mean that you must convict yourself of doing bad to you.

Only you have the power and authority to believe and take to heart that you are somehow inferior.

Yes, we will tempt, prod, and push you to believe you are inferior, but we cannot make that choice for you.

The truth is that there is only one human nature and it is identical and therefore equal in all humans: you cannot be inferior.

2007-08-03

The thing is not the value of it.

The thing is not the affect of it.

The thing is not the worth of it.

The thing is not the impact of it.

The thing is not the significance of it.

2007-08-02

The thing is not the use of it.

The thing is not the function of it.

The thing is not the purpose of it.

The thing is not the meaning of it.

The thing is not the operation of it.

2007-08-01

Commune with yourself not with images of self.

Dialogue with yourself not with thoughts of self.

Associate with yourself not with opinions of self.

Reconnect with yourself not with concepts of self.

Stay in touch with yourself not with constructs of self.

2007-07-31

Text yourself.

Email yourself.

Talk to yourself.

Contact yourself.

Message yourself.

2007-07-30

What you feed in your mind stays in your mind.

What you feed in your heart stays in your heart.

What you feed in others you get from others.

What you feed in your life stays in your life.

What you feed is what you will be fed.

2007-07-29

The pursuit of peace is war.

Only the practice of peace is peace.

Peace is not the end of conflict but rest in the face of conflict.

Peace is not brought about by warring with the self or others.

Peace is too simple and profound to be found through action or thought.

2007-07-28

What is the purpose of life? That Jesus Christ can have life within himself as does the Father because of the Father's love of His only begotten Son.

What is the purpose of people? The praise of Jesus Christ as the new life in and of Christ forever in the New Jerusalem.

Why was life made of the void, of the opposite of God? That Christ's new life could be made of Christ and not the Father and thus be Christ's own that Christ might know that joy as does the Father.

Why does evil exist? Because people are made of the void not God in order to be converted into Christ through Christ's death and resurrection.

When will the world end? When human nature has been fully delineated before and after its conversion into Christ as it is the nature of truth to reveal all things.

2007-07-27

The worse they are, the more they need love.

Hate or evil is overcome with love not more hate or evil.

Love the person right or wrong, and hate only the wrong behavior.

Love and be part of the solution, or hate and be part of the problem.

Just a sick person needs more care not less, so too does the bad person need more love not less.

2007-07-26

Choose what you host, but do not try to correct what you host.

Choose what you feed, but do not try to convert what you feed.

Choose what you serve, but do not try to control what you serve.

Choose what you amplify, but do not try to create what you amplify.

Choose what you magnify, but do not try to change what you magnify.

2007-07-25

Space is doing.

Waiting is doing.

Receiving is doing.

Emptiness is doing.

Non-doing is doing.

2007-07-24

Analysis of analysis is endless and without experience.

Words about words are endless and without experience.

Thinking about thinking is endless and without experience.

Categorizing and labeling are endless and without experience.

Knowledge about knowledge is endless and without experience.

2007-07-23

Does the lecture hall make the lecture?

Does the music hall make the music?

Does the river bed make the river?

Does the museum make the art?

Does the hill make the forest?

2007-07-22

Meditation is the practice of bringing all to the light while retreating for the purpose of emptiness.

Introspection is the practice of watching your reactions to gain self-awareness and self-knowledge.

Contemplation is the practice of focusing on one virtue and how you can better apply that to your life with your heart.

Analysis is the practice of interpreting your responses as indicating your: conflicts, drives, payoffs, motivations, coping strategies for your conflicts, problem-solving strategies for your conflicts.

Mental-chatter is the practice of avoiding and escaping from meditation, introspection, contemplation, and analysis so as to protect ego.

2007-07-21

Mental-chatter has never solved anything.

Mental-chatter has never helped anything.

Mental-chatter has never created anything.

Mental-chatter has never accepted anything.

Mental-chatter has never understood anything.

2007-07-20

Who is using your mental-chatter to fill your life?

Who is using your mental-chatter to avoid self-awareness?

Who is using your mental-chatter to feed ego and keep it alive?

Who is using your mental-chatter to keep you self-absorbed, self-centered, and separate from God?

Who is hearing your mental-chatter about what you would have been, could have been, should have been, should not have been, should be, should not be, could be, will be, won't be, etc.?

2007-07-19

Who is making your mental-chatter?

What is your mental-chatter about?

Where is your mental-chatter in relation to self?

When is your mental-chatter not about ego?

Why and how is your mental-chatter only about ego?

2007-07-18

Who is your mental-chatter taking place in?

What is your mental-chatter taking place in?

Where is your mental-chatter taking place?

When is your mental-chatter taking place?

Why and how is your mental-chatter taking place?

2007-07-17

To be nothing, to be something again.

To do nothing, to be something again.

To know nothing, to be something again.

To live as nothing, to be something again.

To experience nothing, to be something again.

2007-07-16

Perfect teaching can only point you in the direction to look and see for yourself.

You cannot find the way in another or with another, because for you it is found only in you.

Reality, truth, God all exist deep within and no amount of physical or mental pursuit can ever arrive there.

You cannot find the way through the words of any teacher, philosopher, or religion--because you must experience truth firsthand.

No method, technique, procedure, practice, or ritual can reveal the truth as they are activities and as such prevent empty experience.

2007-07-15

Thinking cannot understand for you.

Thinking cannot discover for you.

Thinking cannot know for you.

Thinking cannot do for you.

Thinking cannot be for you.

2007-07-14

Thinking cannot see for you.

Thinking cannot hear for you.

Thinking cannot sense for you.

Thinking cannot perceive for you.

Thinking cannot experience for you.

2007-07-13

Choice is a misnomer for a conflict of beliefs.

Choice does not exist when one belief-network is dominant.

There are no options, no choices when you are clear about something.

Choice does not exist, what is called choice is the forced resolution of conflict.

You are aware of making a choice when a coalition of beliefs overpowers competing belief systems.

2007-07-12

Should you choose based on worry, anxiety, or fear?

Should you choose based on analysis, thinking, research?

Should you choose based on pride, shame, guilt, hurt, anger, depression?

If you feel it, intuit it, sense it, then there is no choice and the right path is taken.

If you have deep reason, purpose, motivation, then there is no choice and the way is clear.

2007-07-11

Right deconstruction is right negation.

Right negation is the ending of an option.

Deconstruction for argumentation is manipulation.

If the mutual goal is negation, then the deconstruction can be shared constructively.

The three main types of deconstruction are: (1) is it factual or true; (2) is it logical or sensible; (3) is it practical or helpful.

2007-07-10

You attach to your family's opinions of you, because you are attached to your family.

You do not attach to strangers' opinions of you, because you are not attached to strangers.

People you are identified with do hurt you with ugly images of you, but only because you are attached to them.

People you are not identified with cannot hurt you with ugly images of you, because you are not attached to them.

Detach from all but your true nature and no one hurts you anymore: not even the worst and real culprit--you.

2007-07-09

It would be better if your family treated you like a stranger: they do not pick on or pry into strangers to make them better.

It would be better if your family treated you like a new arrival: they do not belittle or mock new arrivals to make them better.

It would be better if your family treated you like an unknown: they do not think sarcasm or ridicule helps an unknown to be better.

It would be better if your family treated you like a new acquaintance: they do not beat down new acquaintances to make them better.

It would be better if your family treated you like a newcomer: they do not remind newcomers of all their faults and failings to make them better.

2007-07-08

You cannot think your way to right virtue.

You cannot think your way to right identity.

You cannot think your way to right relating.

You cannot think your way to right meditation.

You cannot think your way to right attachment.

2007-07-07

Today is the 5th anniversary of these quotations.

You cannot think your way to being whole.

You cannot think your way to being conscious.

You cannot think your way to being under God.

You cannot think your way to being in the spirit.

You cannot think your way to being on the path.

2007-07-06

Without silence there is no music.

Music is praise of silence.

Music reveals the depth of silence.

Music is the dance of sound and silence.

Music is about endless and unknowable silence.

2007-07-05

Touch reveals the not.

Sight brings silence to light.

Sound brings stillness to awareness.

Sensation brings the void to mindfulness.

Things bring emptiness to consciousness.

2007-07-04

Democracy is freedom to be a capitalist pig.

Democratic forms of government have never practiced the democratic treatment of all.

Democratic forms of government exist to protect the rights of those who worship mammon.

The freedom democracy supplies is the freedom to be exploited by the many instead of the few.

History shows whenever it was convenient to take away the rights of others that democratic governments have done so as swiftly and freely as any other form of government.

2007-07-03

Children have more feelings and deeper feelings because they are not attached.

Adults have less and less feelings and more and more shallow feelings as they become more and more attached.

Attachment violently denies some feelings and forcefully tries to maintain other feelings.

Detachment neither seeks nor denies any feeling but treats all feelings equally as just more experience.

Detachment allows you to experience your feelings freely like you can your environment when you do not identify with it.

2007-07-02

You lose feeling from attachment, and you gain feeling from detachment.

Detachment frees you to deeply experience any feeling any time.

Attachment forces you to be defensive, protective, and closed about how you really feel about your attachments and self.

With attachment, feelings are a risk as they might expose something negative about what you are attached to and so you.

Attachment means you must avoid having what you are attached to look bad, therefore, you must avoid having honest, open, deep, free, or negative feelings.

2007-07-01

I should not should.

I rigidly refuse to be rigid.

I will inflexibly be flexible.

I am closed to not being open.

I absolutely will not practice absolutism.

2007-06-30

The problem is self-focus instead of God-focus.

The problem is self-reliance instead of God-reliance.

The problem is self-confidence instead of God-confidence.

The problem is self-centeredness instead of God-centeredness.

The problem is you are full of thoughts of yourself instead of thoughts of God.

2007-06-29

The problem is damning who you think you are and not who you are.

The problem is blaming who you thought you were and not who you are.

The problem is whining about who you think you are and not who you are.

The problem is worrying about who you think you should be and not who you are.

The problem is demanding you be someone other than who you think you are and not who you actually are.

2007-06-28

Does a flower strive to be itself?

Doing nothing is humility, peace, rest.

Doing nothing keeps you empty and so useful.

Doing nothing is being still, empty, simple, quiet.

There is nothing for you to do and you refuse to do it.

2007-06-27

The problem is always either your thinking or your identifying.

The problem is always either your distorting it or your owning it.

The problem is always either your interpreting or your personalizing.

The problem is always either your version or your making it about you.

The problem is always either your perspective or your taking it to heart.

2007-06-26

Being who you are is never being what.

Being who you are is never being what you do.

Being who you are is never being what you are.

Being who you are is never being what you think you are.

Being who you are is never being what people think you are.

2007-06-25

Let it go because it is not you.

Let it be because it is not you.

Let it pass because it is not you.

Let it unfold because it is not you.

Let it run out because it is not you.

2007-06-24

Hide until you can stop identifying with it.

All problems arise from false identification.

Through identification you create false conflicts.

Through identification you create false problems.

Your self is so simple you miss the one true identification.

2007-06-23

Pullout until I am not identified with it.

Retreat until I am not identified with it.

Back up until I am not identified with it.

Step back until I am not identified with it.

Withdrawal until I am not identified with it.

2007-06-22

Do the right thing according to your conscience and don't expect any reward.

Do the right thing according to your conscience and let that be its own reward.

Do the right thing according to your conscience and don't expect anyone else to.

Do the right thing according to your conscience and don't expect that to fix things.

Do the right thing according to your conscience and be willing to suffer the consequences.

2007-06-21

Let the light handle all of it.

Bring it fully to light and your job is done.

Ventilation in the light does not reinforce, it frees.

Insight will not set you free unless it is your intention to be free.

Just talking about it can strengthen it because you are feeding it not freeing it.

2007-06-20

Pullout until I can hear it out.

Back up until there is space again.

Retreat until I can just watch again.

Step back until I am detached again.

Withdrawal until I stop personalizing it.

2007-06-19

You cannot know through memory.

You cannot control through memory.

You cannot perceive through memory.

You cannot experience through memory.

You cannot understand through memory.

2007-06-18

Knowledge is not art.

Knowledge is not action.

Knowledge is not know-how.

Knowledge is not experience.

Knowledge is not intelligence.

2007-06-17

There is no win only loss.

There is no more only less.

There is no advance only retreat.

There is no victory only surrender.

There is no progress only returning.

2007-06-16

You cannot hear or play music with knowledge.

You cannot teach music because music is not knowledge.

Knowledge kills skill and art, and there is no skill or art without knowledge.

You cannot appreciate the higher forms of music without knowledge, and you cannot appreciate the higher forms of music with knowledge.

You can't play Beethoven if you don't know Beethoven, and you can't play Beethoven if you do know Beethoven.

2007-06-15

A water glass filled with sand is not useful as a water glass.

The water glass is not bad for being filled with sand.

The water glass has not lost its intrinsic value by being filled with sand.

The value of the water glass is its emptiness, its space, its capacity to be filled and emptied.

The sand is the problem not the water glass, so remove the sand and the water glass is as good as new.

2007-06-14

If you make yourself a target, then you have a need to be hit.

If you make yourself a target, then accept your role as martyr.

If you make yourself a target, then why are you surprised that people strike you?

If you make yourself a target, then don't blame us for using you for target practice.

If you make yourself a target, then bear it and focus on your objectives not your being hit.

2007-06-13

Since there is no change inside, there is no movement inside, just the illusion of motion from repeating.

Since there is nothing to do inside, there is no movement inside, just the illusion of motion from looping.

Since there is no work or effort inside, there is no movement inside, just the illusion of motion from circling.

Since there is no place to go inside, there is no movement inside, just the illusion of motion from flickering.

Since there is nothing to be inside, there is no movement inside, just the illusion of motion from the snake eating its own tail or the dog chasing its own tail.

2007-06-12

Perfectionism is right when viewed as aspiration.

Perfectionism is right when viewed as approximation.

Perfectionism is right when viewed as goal not result.

Perfectionism is right when viewed as where to aim not where to hit.

Perfectionism is right when viewed as quality motivation not demand.

2007-06-11

Beyond formulation find it in feel.

Beyond label find it in sensations.

Beyond name find it in experience.

Beyond description find it in awareness.

Beyond identification find it in perception.

2007-06-10

Question your feelings not your self.

Question your thinking not your self.

Question your behavior not your self.

Question your intention not your self.

Question your motivation not your self.

2007-06-09

So let me get this straight: you want to run my life so I run your life better!?

So let me get this straight: you want to run my mind so I run your mind better!?

So let me get this straight: you want to run my choices so I run your choices better!?

So let me get this straight: you want to run my feelings so I run your feelings better!?

So let me get this straight: you want to run how I appear so I run how you appear better!?

2007-06-08

Pride is self as a god.

Pride is self-righteousness.

Pride is the purpose of ego.

Pride is the end of relationship.

Pride is death as thought pleasure.

2007-06-07

Worry appears to be an activity, however, it is only looping that is a drain on mental and emotional energy.

Mental torture appears to be an activity, however, it is only looping that is a drain on mental and emotional energy.

Mental tension appears to be an activity, however, it is only looping that is a drain on mental and emotional energy.

Mental hurrying appears to be an activity, however, it is only looping that is a drain on mental and emotional energy.

Mental stressing appears to be an activity, however, it is only looping that is a drain on mental and emotional energy.

2007-06-06

A flower is not an idea.

Experience is not a concept.

Your perception of a sunset is not that sunset.

Your liking or not liking apples has no effect on apples.

Your opinion of a banana does not change the banana.

2007-06-05

Guilt is when the cure is worse than the problem.

Pride is when the cure is worse than the problem.

Anger is when the cure is worse than the problem.

Worry is when the cure is worse than the problem.

Shame is when the cure is worse than the problem.

2007-06-04

How do you know when you have taken too many steps or not enough?

You should quit when you cannot get any power, authority, or control to change it.

How do you know when you should persist or when you should quit?

You should persist when there is still hope for progress.

You should persist when it is for the highest values no matter what.

2007-06-03

I must not let them think that way because that will make me it.

I must not let them think that way because that will make it true.

I must not let them think that way because that will make what I think untrue.

I must not let them think that way because that will mean I will have to eventually also.

I must not let them think that way because that will make what I think and me appear foolish.

2007-06-02

You waste the most time punishing yourself for wasting time.

You have the most guilt from being guilty about being guilty.

You have the most anxiety from being anxious about your anxiety.

You experience the most shame shaming yourself for experiencing shame.

You experience the greatest failure punishing yourself for failure so you won't fail.

2007-06-01

Shame is pride in failing.

Shame is negative pride.

Shame is failing to have pride.

Shame is regretting lost pride opportunities.

Shame is failing at trying to be good so still prideful.

2007-05-31

Art level one: trying to get it.

Art level two: living in the knowledge.

Art level two: living in the techniques.

Art level three: living in the principles.

Art level five: living in the spirit.

2007-05-30

Mental chatter is a false god.

Mental chatter is ego feeding.

Mental chatter is death simulating life.

Mental chatter is no more than static on the radio.

Mental chatter does nothing but only creates the delusion of doing.

2007-05-29

There is no way to be quiet as no way is quiet.

There is no strategy to be still as no strategy is still.

There is no method to be empty as no method is empty.

There is no technique to be silent as no technique is silent.

There is no procedure to be at rest as no procedure is at rest.

2007-05-28

You cannot teach poetry but you must: method is important but the art is not found in mind.

You cannot teach dance but you must: form is important but the art is not found in mental chatter.

You cannot teach music but you must: arrangement is important but the art is not found in words.

You cannot teach painting but you must: technique is important but the art is not found in thought.

You cannot teach singing but you must: directions are important but the art is not found in cognitions.

2007-05-27

Terrorism: do bad to make good.

Terrorism: belief in the power of bad.

Terrorism: hurt them to make them good.

Terrorism: they must be good first not me.

Terrorism: force them to be good so I can be good.

2007-05-26

When did you do seeing? Never, you have to be still inside to see.

When did you do hearing? Never, you have to be quiet inside to hear.

When did you do touching? Never, you have to be silent inside to feel.

When did you do anything? Never, you have to stop doing inside to do.

When did you know? Never, you have to not know to receive knowing inside.

2007-05-25

There is no hiding the pettiness of human preference.

There is no cover for the ugliness of human cravings.

There is no excuse for the darkness of human desire.

There is no avoiding the wrongness of human wants.

There is no justifying the foolishness of human inclination.

2007-05-24

Focus on your right feelings not mine.

Focus on your right thinking not mine.

Focus on your right motivation not mine.

Focus on controlling your mind not mine.

Focus on your doing the right thing not me.

2007-05-23

Make a good parent not them a good child.

Make a good coach not them a good player.

Make a good boss not them a good employee.

Make a good teacher not them a good student.

Make a good spouse not them a good spouse.

2007-05-22

Anything you do alone is wrong.

Anything you are alone is wrong.

Anything you think alone is wrong.

Anything you want alone is wrong.

Anything you choose alone is wrong.

2007-05-21

You will never do it alone.

You will never get it alone.

You will never want it alone.

You will never have it alone.

You will never choose it alone.

2007-05-20

You need space inside, but dull is not space.

You need space inside, but dead is not space.

You need space inside, but blank is not space.

You need space inside, but frozen is not space.

You need space inside, but hypnotized is not space.

2007-05-19

It does not help to damn yourself but only your thoughts.

It does not help to judge yourself but only your thoughts.

It does not help to blame yourself but only your thoughts.

It does not help to correct yourself but only your thoughts.

It does not help to get mad at yourself but only your thoughts.

2007-05-18

Self cannot be done.

Self cannot be known.

Self cannot be thought.

Self cannot be thought of.

Self cannot be remembered.

2007-05-17

Visit yourself.

Sit with yourself.

Be with yourself.

Catch up to yourself.

Keep company with yourself.

2007-05-16

If life was fair, then you would always get what you deserved (you do not want that).

If life was fair, then you would lose any and all advantages and privileges (you do not want that).

If life was fair, then you would be indistinguishable from every other person (you do not want that).

If life was fair, then there would be no point in competition, sports, games, or contests of any kind (you do not want that).

If life was fair, then there would be no rewards, bonuses, extras, recognition, appreciation, tributes, thanks, respect, merit, credit, acknowledgement, advancement, status, prizes, gifts, incentives, mercy, forgiveness, special anything (you do not want that).

2007-05-15

Beware self-proclaimed peacemakers who bring war.

Beware those with pasted on smiles who are master backstabbers.

Beware the friendly inquiries designed to gain information to take what you have.

Beware those who are lowly in person but proud spreaders of poison behind your back.

Beware those who stir you up to fight but do not lift a finger to help when the fight begins.

2007-05-14

You are right about your being wrong.

You are smart about your being dumb.

You are proud about knowing you are bad.

You are self-righteous about your being unrighteous.

You are knowledgeable and certain about your lack of knowledge and certainty.

2007-05-13

Knowing right is doing wrong.

Being right is being wrong.

Being wrong is being right.

Doing right is knowing wrong.

Doing wrong is knowing right.

2007-05-12

You continue to engage in behavior that you know is self-defeating because: you are trying not to do it.

You continue to engage in behavior that you know is self-defeating because: you are trying to control and change it.

You continue to engage in behavior that you know is self-defeating because: you are focused on momentary shame avoidance.

You continue to engage in behavior that you know is self-defeating because: you have state-dependent learning/triggers/situational cues.

You continue to engage in behavior that you know is self-defeating because: your associations and interpretations do not allow another perspective.

2007-05-11

You continue to engage in behavior that you know is self-defeating because: it is a habit.

You continue to engage in behavior that you know is self-defeating because: you have secret pride payoffs/rewards/secondary gains.

You continue to engage in behavior that you know is self-defeating because: you are reenacting primary relationships hoping they change.

You continue to engage in behavior that you know is self-defeating because: you have a strong human tendency to disintegration/weakness/frailty/breaking.

You continue to engage in behavior that you know is self-defeating because: you are strongly conditioned/pressured/pushed/encouraged/trained/educated/brainwashed to do so.

2007-05-10

You say you are religious, but you believe in the power of whining not gratitude.

You say you are religious, but you believe in the power of blaming not forgiveness.

You say you are religious, but you believe in the power of damning not kindness.

You say you are religious, but you believe in the power of worrying not prayer.

You say you are religious, but you believe in the power of demanding not acceptance.

2007-05-09

If you want to keep getting the same negative, then keep doing the same whining.

If you want to keep getting the same negative, then keep doing the same blaming.

If you want to keep getting the same negative, then keep doing the same damning.

If you want to keep getting the same negative, then keep doing the same worrying.

If you want to keep getting the same negative, then keep doing the same demanding.

2007-05-08

Give the feeling get the reaction.

Give the reaction get the response.

Give the response get the reward.

Give the reward get the behavior.

Give the thought get the attraction.

2007-05-07

Church politics are the dirtiest politics.

Simple prayer can work even in a church.

Only the pure of heart can find God in a church.

Unhappy is he who knows the inner workings of church politics.

For a complete loss of innocence, become involved in church politics.

2007-05-06

Individual counseling is learning to focus on controlling self instead of others.

Marital counseling is learning to focus on controlling self instead of spouse.

Family counseling is learning to focus on controlling self instead of family members.

Group counseling is learning to focus on controlling self instead of life and environment.

This is reasonable as the only one you can control is yourself and self-control has the both the greatest impact on and benefit for your life.

2007-05-05

I forgive snakes for biting me, but I do not have to sleep with snakes.

I forgive people for taking advantage of me, but I do not have to let them continue.

I forgive people for abusing me, but I do not have to let myself be their victim anymore.

I forgive people for being a bad influence, but I do not have to remain friends with them.

I forgive people for bringing out the worst in me, but I can keep my time and energy for those who bring out the best in me.

2007-05-04

Parents are not to control but to teach self-control.

Parents are not to direct but to teach self-directing.

Parents are not to support but to teach self-support.

Parents are not to soothe but to teach self-soothing.

Parents are not to motivate but to teach self-motivation.

2007-05-03

You fear your predictions of how others will think of you.

You fear your predictions of how you will think of you based on how others will think of you.

You fear your predictions of how you will be understood, interpreted, identified, recognized, analyzed, diagnosed, construed.

You fear your predictions of how you will be judged, rated, compared, measured, valued, appraised, evaluated, criticized, accused, prosecuted, mocked.

You fear your predictions of how you will be labeled, categorized, described, branded, stigmatized, pigeonholed, classified, ranked, represented, pictured.

2007-05-02

You superstitiously predict the worst and make yourself guilty about it.

You superstitiously predict the worst and make yourself angry about it.

You superstitiously predict the worst and make yourself anxious about it.

You superstitiously predict the worst and make yourself ashamed about it.

You superstitiously predict the worst and make yourself depressed about it.

2007-05-01

Nothing like failure to teach you.

Nothing like failure to teach you humility.

Nothing like failure to teach you patience.

Nothing like failure to teach you endurance.

2007-04-10

The material cannot disarm the spiritual.

The material cannot disable the spiritual.

The material cannot dispute the spiritual.

The material cannot discount the spiritual.

The material cannot disprove the spiritual.

2007-04-09

Asking "why" is a great way to avoid life.

Asking "why" is a great way to avoid coping.

Asking "why" is a great way to avoid facing your self.

Asking "why" is a great way to avoid problem-solving.

Asking "why" is a great way to avoid taking responsibility.

2007-04-08

A new way emerges when you look in a new way.

If you want a different way, then look in a different way.

If you look at enough things in a different way, then there is a different way.

If you want new options, then choose different options on how to view things.

If you are stuck seeing things one way, then free up how you view things as in view from new perspectives.

2007-04-07

Accept criticism about your thinking and reject criticism about your self.

Accept criticism about your behavior and reject criticism about your being.

Accept criticism about your habits and reject criticism about your personhood or core.

Accept criticism about your feelings and reject criticism about your essence or aliveness.

Accept criticism about your choices and reject criticism about your intrinsic value or worth.

2007-04-06

When you try to prove with thought, you cannot and so become an atheist.

When you try to disprove with thought, you cannot and so become an agnostic.

Whey you try to know with thought, you cannot and so become anxious and paranoid.

When you try to do with thought, you cannot and so become discouraged and depressed.

When you try and be with thought, you cannot and so become insecure and defensive.

2007-04-05

Lasting change requires cognitive, emotional, and behavioral insight.

Cognitive insight means the new way makes better sense.

Emotional insight means the new way feels better.

Behavioral insight means the new way works better.

You can start with cognitive, emotional, or behavioral insight just as long as you wind up with all three.

2007-04-04

Detachment is making it not about you.

Detachment is the opposite of personalizing.

Detachment is taking your ego out of the equation.

Detachment is the realization that since you are not composed of opinions, opinions are not to be feared.

Detachment allows deeper feelings and connection because detachment means you do not have to defend or protect your ego.

2007-04-03

Is your mind allowed to run free or does your ego prevent that?

Is your experience allowed to run free or does your ego prevent that?

If you fear what your thinking will make you, then you will be a tyrant with your own mind.

If you fear what your experience will make you, then you will be a tyrant with your own experience.

The freedom to think and experience anything are the true indicators of mental health.

2007-04-02

If you focus on garbage, then garbage will increase.

If you carry garbage everywhere you go, then your life will stink.

If you worry about garbage a lot, then your life will be about garbage a lot.

If you share garbage everywhere you go, then your garbage will increase.

If you think of garbage most of the time, then your life will be garbage most of the time.

2007-04-01

Communism is an aspect of Christian living.

Communism is an aspect of Christian philosophy.

Communism is a way to understand how the first Christians lived.

Communism is something that only Christianity has ever managed to do right.

Communism is one of the Christian ideals that can only come about with the Christian spirit. Acts 2:44-45

2007-03-31

No person, place, or thing can decide what you take to heart because you are a sentient being not a puppet or toy.

No person, place, or thing can decide what you take to heart because you are a sentient being not a machine or tool.

No person, place, or thing can decide what you take to heart because you are a sentient being not a robot or android.

No person, place, or thing can decide what you take to heart because you are a sentient being not a programmable computer or appliance.

No person, place, or thing can decide what you take to heart because you are a sentient being not just a figment of someone else's dreams or fantasies.

2007-03-30

Trying to correct thought with thought is failing.

Trying to control thought with thought is failing.

Trying to change thought with thought is failing.

Trying to develop thought with thought is failing.

Trying to transform thought with thought is failing.

2007-03-29

If my thinking is helpful or curious, then I will keep it--else discard.

If my thinking is planning or working, then I will keep it--else discard.

If my thinking is productive or peaceful, then I will keep it--else discard .

If my thinking is encouraging or nurturing, then I will keep it--else discard.

If my thinking is problem-solving or coping, then I will keep it--else discard.

2007-03-28

You cannot do anything.

You have never done anything.

Your claiming to do is just lying.

You can host doing but not do of yourself.

Your trying to do is just so much mental noise.

2007-03-27

The seen is not seeing.

The tasted is not tasting.

The heard is not hearing.

The smelt is not smelling.

The touched is not touching.

2007-03-26

No thing can attack you as no thing can ever get to you to attack you, but things can attack your body or behaviors.

No place can attack you as no place can ever get to you to attack you, but places can attack your body or behaviors.

No person can attack you as no person can ever get to you to attack you, but people can attack your body or behaviors.

No opinion can attack you as no opinion can ever get to you to attack you, but opinions can attack your body or behaviors.

No experience can attack you as no experience can ever get to you to attack you, but experiences can attack your body or behaviors.

2007-03-25

No thing can make you dwell on anything, and your choosing what to dwell on affects you greatly.

No place can make you dwell on anything, and your choosing what to dwell on affects you greatly.

No person can make you dwell on anything, and your choosing what to dwell on affects you greatly.

No experience can make you dwell on anything, and your choosing what to dwell on affects you greatly.

No conditioning can make you dwell on anything, and your choosing what to dwell on affects you greatly.

2007-03-24

Hurt feelings are about ego not self.

Prideful feelings are about ego not self.

Insecure feelings are about ego not self.

Defensive feelings are about ego not self.

Depressed feelings are about ego not self.

2007-03-23

Your self cannot be at risk: no one and nothing in the world can know your self.

Your self cannot be at risk: no one and nothing in the world can create your self.

Your self cannot be at risk: no one and nothing in the world can control your self.

Your self cannot be at risk: no one and nothing in the world can change your self.

Your self cannot be at risk: no one and nothing in the world can transform your self.

2007-03-22

"It" does not build up in you, "it" has no power or control to build anything.

"It" does not build up in you, "it" has no power or control to run your mind or heart with.

"It" does not build up in you, "it" has no power or control to determine what you attach to or detach from.

"It" does not build up in you, "it" has no power or control to determine what you dwell on or take serious.

"It" does not build up in you, "it" has no power or control to decide if you will collect and add more negative to it or not.

2007-03-21

Scientific thinking is not data.

Scientific theory is not evidence.

Scientific opinion is opinion only.

Scientific speculation is still just that.

Scientific thinking based on anything but repeatable evidence is hypocritical and unscientific.

2007-03-20

Let your thinking be and control your choices instead.

Let your thinking go and control your choices instead.

Let your thinking flow and control your choices instead.

Let your thinking pass and control your choices instead.

Let your thinking run out and control your choices instead.

2007-03-19

The material cannot explain the spiritual.

The material cannot manifest the spiritual.

The material cannot measure the spiritual.

The material cannot understand the spiritual.

The material cannot demonstrate the spiritual.

2007-03-18

Thinking is not being.

Thinking is not doing.

Thinking is not feeling.

Thinking is not sensing.

Thinking is not relating.

2007-03-17

Bear it until you die and live.

It ends when you bear it till the end.

If you want it to end, then bear it till the end.

Until you hear the end of it there is no end of it.

The only way out is the end, and the end comes only from bearing it out.

2007-03-16

Bear the grim and grin again.

Bear out the bad to choose the good.

What you do not bear conquerors you.

Bear all things and be free of all things.

Bear out your thoughts and be free of your thoughts.

2007-03-15

The material cannot correct the spiritual.

The material cannot control the spiritual.

The material cannot change the spiritual.

The material cannot challenge the spiritual.

The material cannot contradict the spiritual.

2007-03-14

You cannot control mood as mood is a result so control the cause of mood: contact.

You cannot control feelings as feelings are a result so control the cause of feelings: contact.

You cannot control memories as memories are a result so control the cause of memories: contact.

You cannot control sensations as sensations are a result so control the cause of sensations: contact.

You cannot control experiences as experiences are a result so control the cause of experiences: contact.

2007-03-13

Damning is not one of the criteria of truth.

Being right is not one of the criteria of truth.

Being meaner is not one of the criteria of truth.

Believing you are right is not one of the criteria of truth.

Thinking they are stupid is not one of the criteria of truth.

2007-03-12

Your habits rule your life.

The loss of any habit causes grief.

You overcome bad habits with good habits.

Unlearning habits is harder than learning habits.

It is impossible not to make habits, so be careful what you practice.

2007-03-11

Disown and switch.

Distance and switch.

Disengage and switch.

Disconnect and switch.

Disentangle and switch.

2007-03-10

Intention rules.

Your life mirrors your intention.

Intention is the determining factor in all successes and failures.

Intention cannot be overcome by any person, place, thing, technique, strategy, exercise, or practice.

Intention cannot be overcome by circumstances, conditions, chance, challenges, culture, accident, environment, setting, disadvantage, handicap.

2007-03-09

Children dichotomize their parents into two opposite roles apiece, for example, a social-active type versus a stay-at-home type or a strict versus a loose type.

Children choose one of the two roles they see in their same sex parent first.

Children frequently choose one of the two roles they see in their opposite sex parent if they think the two roles in their same sex parent are already taken by other children.

Children not only choose a role for social interactions, they also choose a role from their parents for intimate interactions to the point of marrying someone like their father or mother.

Since monkey-see-monkey-do is the fundamental principle for understanding human behavior, then children choosing roles from those around them is natural, therefore, give them good examples.

2007-03-08

Self-change is impossible, but ego change is common.

Self-correction is impossible, but ego correction is common.

Self-destruction is impossible, but ego destruction is common.

Self-development is impossible, but ego development is common.

Self-condemnation is impossible, but ego condemnation is common.

2007-03-07

How are you going to overcome the consequences of your choices when you whine about your choices?

How are you going to overcome the consequences of your choices when you damn others for your choices?

How are you going to overcome the consequences of your choices when you blame others for your choices?

How are you going to overcome the consequences of your choices when you refuse responsibility for your choices?

How are you going to overcome the consequences of your choices when you demand others, life, or God fixes your choices?

2007-03-06

Western and spiritual psychology are diametrically opposed when it comes to ego: Western says pride is good and spiritual says pride is the cause of all sin.

Western and spiritual psychology are diametrically opposed when it comes to giving: Western says don't give too much and spiritual says you can't give enough.

Western and spiritual psychology are diametrically opposed when it comes to surrender: Western says  surrender is weakness and spiritual says surrender is strength.

Western and spiritual psychology are diametrically opposed when it comes to asserting yourself: Western says forwardness is good and spiritual says forwardness shows depravity.

Western and spiritual psychology are diametrically opposed when it comes to doing good: Western says keep it within boundaries and limits and spiritual says do not stop even when it hurts.

2007-03-05

You do not trust letting your thoughts run free, but you do trust suppressing your thoughts which has never worked.

You do not trust letting your thoughts run free, but you do trust trying to resist your thoughts which has never worked.

You do not trust letting your thoughts run free, but you do trust trying to control your thoughts which has never worked.

You do not trust letting your thoughts run free, but you do trust trying to change your thoughts which has never worked.

You do not trust letting your thoughts run free, but you do trust trying to convert your thoughts which has never worked.

2007-03-04

If you know where you are going, then you are already there.

If you know where you are going, then you are not being here now.

If you know where you are going, then you will see what you believe.

If you know where you are going, then you are not going anyplace new.

If you know where you are going, then you are not seeking, searching, or discovering.

2007-03-03

Parenting: not arguing, but directing.

Parenting: not controlling, but exploring.

Parenting: not smothering, but encouraging.

Parenting: not soothing, but teaching self-soothing.

Parenting: not telling what to think, but teaching how to think.

2007-03-02

Hearing cannot hurt only choosing.

Thinking cannot hurt only choosing.

Fear not your thoughts, fear your choices.

Hear out all thinking and choose at the end.

Let your thoughts run free and choose when they run out.

2007-03-01

Words have no sense.

Words have no thinking.

Words have no perception.

Words have no intelligence.

Words have no understanding.

2007-02-28

You have nothing to do with who you are.

Others have nothing to do with who you are.

Your upbringing has nothing to do with who you are.

Your conditioning, culture, and race have nothing to do with who you are.

Your experiences, memories, understanding, knowledge, skills, habits, scripts, talents, possessions, thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and choices all have nothing to do with who you are.

2007-02-27

Study what peace is.

Study how peace works.

Study how living peace is the solution.

Study how peace manifests itself inwardly.

Study how outward peace is a reflection of inward peace.

2007-02-26

Freedom cannot be found by discipline as discipline is control by definition.

Freedom cannot be found by seeking as seeking is dominating by definition.

Freedom cannot be found by knowledge as knowledge captures by definition.

Freedom cannot be found by ritual or practice as ritual and practice are restraining by definition.

Freedom cannot be found by method or technique as method and technique direct by definition.

2007-02-25

Wondering why I am stupid makes you stupid.

Wondering what's wrong with me makes you wrong.

Wondering why I have the problems I do makes you have more problems.

Wondering why I don't do what I should do makes you a hypocrite for not doing what you should do.

Wondering why I can't just do the right thing makes you a hypocrite when you don't just do the right thing.

2007-02-24

Telling us we are wrong only makes you wrong in our eyes.

First complimenting or finding agreement keeps us open to what you want to add or correct.

Saying "yes and" allows us to save face and you to get your point across unlike your saying "no".

Saying "no" to what we just said makes you the enemy: we are not robots and hear you saying "no" to us not just the facts.

Telling us we are wrong makes you the enemy because we hear that to mean we must die as we are foolishly identified with our thoughts and beliefs.

2007-02-23

Be better so you can be a snob.

Be better so you can be meaner.

Be better so you can be arrogant.

Be better so you can act superior.

Be better so you can feel better than others.

2007-02-22

You are dull because you are lost in thought.

You are dull because you identify with thought.

You are dull because you are sensing thought instead of life.

You are dull because you are experiencing thought instead of life.

You are dull because thought is dull and you are about thought not life.

2007-02-21

Be the best by being the least.

Take the least for the sake of the best.

Right relation: God is best and you are least.

The least is the best when the least is of the world.

What the world regards as the least God regards as the best and vice versa.

2007-02-20

Don't try--recognize.

Don't try--remove.

Don't try--replace.

Don't try--face it.

Don't try--intend to do.

2007-02-19

Learn first test second.

Not testing everything is foolish.

Testing everything before you learn what it is, is foolish.

Test everything but only after you know firsthand what it is.

The greatest test is the results test: does it lead to health, love, coping, problem-solving?

2007-02-18

There is only one one: God.

There is only one source: God.

There is only one oneness: God.

You are not the one: God is the only one.

There is only one intelligence, power, good: God.

2007-02-17

Better is the world's way.

Better is what people sell and buy.

Better is the problem not the solution.

Better is the cover and excuse for sin.

Better is trying, becoming, and the goal of pride.

2007-02-16

If you dwell on garbage, then you believe in garbage.

If you believe in garbage, then you eat garbage.

If you eat garbage, then you feel like garbage.

If you feel like garbage, then you act like garbage.

If you act like garbage, then you get more garbage.

2007-02-15

Buddhism: All compounded things are impermanent--Yes, only Spirit is one and self-sustaining.

Buddhism: All emotions are pain--Yes, feelings are based on comparisons of ego/identification so contain both negative and positive.

Buddhism: All emotions are pain--Yes, feelings are based in/on the duality of attachment/loss not presence in the Spirit.

Buddhism: All things have no inherent existence--Yes, all things are maintained by the grace of Spirit and have no independent existence of their own.

Buddhism: Nirvana is beyond concepts--Yes, God is invisible and unknowable as God is Spirit.

2007-02-14

You are so busy improving you never arrive.

You are so busy trying to be that you are not.

You are so busy rehearsing you never perform.

You are so busy becoming you are never being.

You are so busy collecting you never cross over.

2007-02-13

Instead of finding ways to please yourself or others, find ways to please God.

Instead of finding ways to promote yourself or others, find ways to promote God.

Instead of finding ways to make life about you or others, find ways to make life about God.

Instead of finding ways to think and feel about yourself or others, find ways to think and feel about God.

Instead of finding ways to worry about what people think of you, find ways to worry about what God thinks of you.

2007-02-12

Proving them wrong won't make you right.

Proving them wrong won't make them right.

Proving them wrong won't make them change.

Proving them wrong won't make them obey you.

Proving them wrong won't make for love and understanding.

2007-02-11

What you hate you mate.

What you hate you incarnate.

What you hate you ate as self.

What you hate you rate as self.

What you hate you designate as self.

2007-02-10

What you hate you inflate.

What you hate you reinstate.

What you hate you overstate.

What you hate you propagate.

What you hate you perpetuate.

2007-02-09

Communication: when you intend to control or fix you engender rebellion and sabotage.

Communication: when you intend to sympathize you promote resentment and distrust.

Communication: when you intend to prove you put people off unless they agree or are sycophants.

Communication: when you intend to understand you gain cooperation and appreciation.

Communication: when you intend to soothe and support you gain friendship and love.

2007-02-08

Change your mind change your world.

Change your outlook change your motivation.

Change your attitude change your relationships.

Change your interpretation change your perception.

Change your perspective change your understanding.

2007-02-07

Whining parents = whining children.

Whining leaders = whining followers.

Whining teachers = whining students.

Whining governments = whining citizens.

Whining employers = whining employees.

2007-02-06

You listen to thought saying you are correcting another thought, but this correcting never happens as you can only host thought not create or correct thought.

You listen to thought saying you are changing another thought, but this change never happens as you can only magnify thought not create or change thought.

You listen to thought saying you are controlling another thought, but this control never happens as you can only entertain thought not create or control thought.

You listen to thought saying you are converting another thought, but this converting never happens as you can only magnify thought not create or convert thought.

You listen to thought saying you are developing another thought, but this developing never happens as you can only reflect thought not create or develop thought.

2007-02-05

You know you are right so you can do wrong.

You know you are right so you can forget to do right.

You know you are right so you don't have to be right as long as we are wrong.

You know you are right and we are wrong so you can do wrong to make us right.

You know you are right so you have the godlike right to make us right when we are wrong.

2007-02-04

No trying--no problem.

No changing--no problem.

No attaching--no problem.

No becoming--no problem.

No controlling--no problem.

2007-02-03

Damn thinking not being.

Blame thinking not being.

Correct thinking not being.

Control thinking not being.

Change thinking not being.

2007-02-02

The first goal of counseling is to change your relationship to your problem from victim to boss.

The first goal of counseling is to change your relationship to your problem from resisting it to accepting it.

The first goal of counseling is to change your relationship to your problem from running scared to facing it.

The first goal of counseling is to change your relationship to your problem from it is caused by the environment to it is caused by your thinking.

The first goal of counseling is to change your relationship to your problem from using the problem on the problem to using positive methods to deal with the problem.

2007-02-01

Christianity is: when others get worse you get better.

Christianity is: when others get worse you still do the right thing.

Christianity is: when others get worse you love and pray for them.

Christianity is: when others get worse you kill them with kindness.

Christianity is: when others get worse you take it as an opportunity to do good.

2007-01-31

At the end of your life do you think you will care that you saved money on your child's birthday party?

At the end of your life do you think you will care about ever winning petty office politics or family conflicts?

At the end of your life do you think you will care about all the junk you collected or the time you missed with  your family?

At the end of your life do you think you will care that you got the last word in or let people know you were right even though it made for bad relationships?

At the end of your life do you think you will care that you wasted your time on sports, TV, shopping, decorating, entertainment, or other meaningless pursuits?

2007-01-30

How am I going to uplift my family today?

How am I going to encourage my family today?

How am I going to bring out the good in my family today?

How am I going to believe in the good in my family today?

How am I going to notice, motivate, reward, promote, compliment, and talk about the good in my family today?

2007-01-29

Just because my boss is irritable it does not mean my mind must be irritable.

Just because my body is irritable it does not mean my mind must be irritable.

Just because my family is irritable it does not mean my mind must be irritable.

Just because my society is irritable it does not mean my mind must be irritable.

Just because my environment is irritable it does not mean my mind must be irritable.

2007-01-28

Heal yourself first or what you say is only presumption.

Do what I say not what I do because I do not have faith or hope in what I say.

Actions speak louder than words because it is example you follow not empty lecture.

If you do not practice what you preach, then either you do not trust in it or your do not understand its benefits.

If you only talk the talk but do not walk the walk, then either you do not realize what you are talking about or your are a phony.

2007-01-27

Virtue is higher than reciprocity which is higher than self-centeredness.

Virtue for virtue's sake works because what you serve is what you get in the long run.

The fool flees virtue as a trap and burden so that they might be trapped and burdened by their faults, failings, and foibles.

Virtue is its own reward means that even if you suffer wrong for doing right, then you still have virtue inside for comfort, light, and joy.

Where virtue rules there is no oppression, no suppression, no condemnation, but, instead, simplicity, singleness, sensitivity, stillness, security, seriousness, space, silence.

2007-01-26

Society is anxiety.

Society controls and creates anxiety.

Society is anxious for itself more than you.

Society exists to end gambling, risk, anxiety.

For every anxiety society fixes it creates five.

2007-01-25

Self is beyond the good and evil of your feelings.

Self is beyond the good and evil of your thoughts.

Self is beyond the good and evil of your behaviors.

Self is beyond the good and evil of your conditioning, programming, scripting.

Self is beyond the good and evil of your attitudes, habits, attachments, choices, motivations.

2007-01-24

Overcome effort and overcome self.

Without the slightest effort you are overcome.

Being overcome means God is back in charge.

All effort to overcome the self strengthens the self.

With any effort on your part to overcome, you cannot be overcome.

2007-01-23

Your self-images and self-concepts do nothing.

Your self-images and self-concepts are nothing.

Your self-images and self-concepts know nothing.

Your self-images and self-concepts produce nothing.

Your self-images and self-concepts accomplish nothing.

2007-01-22

Your self-images and self-concepts cannot be you because your real self has them.

Your self-images and self-concepts cannot be you because your real self remembers them.

Your self-images and self-concepts cannot be you because your real self experiences them.

Your self-images and self-concepts cannot be you because your real self has feelings about them.

Your self-images and self-concepts cannot be you because your real self has thoughts about them.

2007-01-21

Knowledge is not the way.

Knowledge is not the power.

Knowledge is not the meaning.

Knowledge is not the solution or answer.

Knowledge is not the purpose, reason, or end.

2007-01-20

Use knowledge to be free knowledge.

Use knowledge to let go of knowledge.

Use knowledge to overcome knowledge.

Use knowledge to not rely on knowledge.

Use knowledge to seek beyond knowledge.

2007-01-19

Insight cannot create a new habit.

Insight cannot remove an old habit.

Insight is insufficient because practice makes habit not insight.

Even profound insight requires implementation or it has no lasting effect.

Insight about "why" you are lost in the woods is not as helpful as insight about "how" to get out of the woods.

2007-01-18

Maturity is looking at yourself as if you were someone else.

Maturity is when you laugh at your foibles, faults, and failures.

Maturity is listening to your inner whining and soothing it without giving in to it.

Maturity is when you own your life by taking responsibility for your thoughts, feeling, actions, and attitudes.

Maturity is when you put first things first and choose to do the right thing regardless of what others are doing or not doing.

2007-01-17

Instead of asking what should I feel, first find out what you do feel.

Instead of asking what should I want, first find out what you do want.

Instead of asking what should I think, first find out what you do think.

Instead of asking what should I dm, first find out what you want to do.

Instead of asking what should I say, first find out what you want to say.

2007-01-16

What does my thinking, feeling, acting that way fix?

What does my thinking, feeling, acting that way hinder or hurt?

What does my thinking, feeling, acting that way help me to accept?

What does my thinking, feeling, acting that way help me to resent or worry about?

What good does my thinking, feeling, acting that way help bring forth in my life?

2007-01-15

The cost of ownership of your life is: your surrender of the blame game.

The cost of ownership of your life is: your being your own effective parent.

The cost of ownership of your life is: your practicing emotional responsibility.

The cost of ownership of your life is: your keeping responsible for what you make of your life.

The cost of ownership of your life is: your dealing with the effects of your thoughts and choices on your feelings, behaviors, attitudes, and scripts.

2007-01-14

You may say you don't like their garbage, but your eating it tells them that you do.

You may say you don't like their garbage, but your owning it tells them that you do.

You may say you don't like their garbage, but your reacting to it tells them that you do.

You may say you don't like their garbage, but your worrying about it tells them that you do.

You may say you don't like their garbage, but your taking it seriously tells them that you do.

2007-01-13

Happiness: love the person you are with.

Happiness: accept life, self, and others as they are.

Happiness: want what you need and like what you have.

Happiness: do the work you love or love the work you do.

Happiness: be true to your thoughts, feelings, and values.

2007-01-12

To understand human psychology understand that: monkey-see-monkey-do is the basis of human behavior throughout life.

To understand human psychology understand that: people either copy or do the opposite of their understanding of their parent's relationships.

To understand human psychology understand that: habit is the drive of all behavior to the extent that bad habits are preferred over new good habits.

To understand human psychology understand that: adults are continually fantasizing about what their experiences make their life and themselves based on how they related to their parents.

To understand human psychology understand that: adults seek pride and avoid shame and sometimes seek shame for themselves or others so that they might have pride from knowing better.

2007-01-11

The stupider I am the smarter I can be.

Finding myself dumb makes me prideful.

Not understanding makes me stupid and smart for judging I don't get it.

I worship at the temple of pride and the easiest way to win is to judge myself as stupid.

Masochistic pride is perfect as it provides an endless supply of superior feelings to myself.

2007-01-10

Do triage for work flow and surgery for the work itself.

For working focus on the little picture and for planning the big picture.

For tasks focus on the specific and for organizing focus on the general.

Systems require attention to the whole and parts require attention to the particular.

Attend to the details of one job at a time and the general functions of related jobs for project planning.

2007-01-09

Meanness is sadism.

Meanness is proof of a weak ego.

Meanness is the fool's way of boosting their ego.

Meanness is taking ego pleasure in the pain of others.

Meanness is the fool's way of imagining their superiority.

2007-01-08

Flow thought.

Recycle thought.

Watch till thought disintegrates.

Let thought melt in the sun of listening.

In the light of consciousness thought is fading shadow.

2007-01-07

Adversity calls you to the good.

Adversity reveals the principles of the heart.

Adversity is used for instruction by the wise.

Adversity brings out the best in the best and the worst in the worst.

Adversity is not to be blamed but thanked as either it brings out the good in you or teaches you to seek the good more.

2007-01-06

What matters is not things but love.

What matters is not matter but spirit.

What matters is not forms but power.

What matters is not thought but energy.

What matters is not opinions but feeling.

2007-01-05

To worry about looking stupid is to achieve it.

To fear appearing stupid is effort in that direction.

To care if others view you as stupid is a good definition of stupid.

The more you insist on not looking stupid, the stupider you become.

If no one and no opinion can make you anything, then it is stupid to worry about being made stupid.

2007-01-04

Change wishing to do it to waiting to receive it done.

Change wanting to do it to waiting to receive it done.

Change working for it to be done to waiting to receive it done.

Change whining for it to be done to waiting to receive it done.

Change worrying for it to be done it to waiting to receive it done.

2007-01-03

When others let their ego-vulnerabilities take irrational charge you can: refuse to make it about you and stay detached from the drama.

When others let their ego-vulnerabilities take irrational charge you can: refuse to add your ego-vulnerabilities to the drama which would only escalate it.

When others let their ego-vulnerabilities take irrational charge you can: calmly and caringly help them identify, soothe, and cope with their weak feelings.

When others let their ego-vulnerabilities take irrational charge you can: minimize the importance for you to yourself while helping them to find comfort and acceptance.

When others let their ego-vulnerabilities take irrational charge you can: refrain from foolishly defending by hooking any of their other vulnerabilities which would only escalate them.

2007-01-02

Detail matters: detail defines.

Detail matters: detail makes unique.

Detail matters: life exists only in details not generalizations.

Detail matters: quality is in the minor details, but quality is not a minor detail.

Detail matters: overlooked details cause failure, accident, mistake, injury, disease, and death.

2007-01-01

What is new? Never you only your ego.

What is new? Nothing there is only recombination.

What is new? Never thinking for thought is of the past.

What is new? Never experience as experience is by definition past.

What is new? Nothing you recognize or know as you can only recognize or know the past.

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

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