Author: Kevin Evertt FitzMaurice, M.S.

•1 Reflecting is not changing or correcting.•2 Reflecting is not conforming or constraining.•3 Reflecting is not controlling, converting, or convincing.•4 Reflecting is not comparing, condemning, or criticizing.•5 Reflecting is not causing, composing, …

•1 Your ego is your personal and unshared idol that you serve and worship mainly on the altar of your heart.•2 Your egos of your experiences are idols that you serve and worship mainly on the altar of your soul.•3 Your egos of countries, ethnicities, p…

•1 Ego espouses peace but delivers disguises.•2 Pride promises the world but delivers delusions.•3 Better to be alive as nothing than dead as something.•4 The joy of being a living host and nothing more will be neither appreciated nor understood by dev…

•1 Faith and hope in God require retreating.•2 Trust in and reliance upon God require retreating.•3 Dependence upon and surrender to God require retreating.•4 Being under, resting in, and waiting upon God require retreating.•5 Retreating is the practic…

•1 People are often told that they are “thick-headed” from overthinking, because their mind is like a thick forest of thoughts with no opening for Spirit.•2 People are often told that they are “dull-witted” for constantly thinking, because their mind i…

•1 First, we try to know an emotional or mental disturbance by thinking about it: thought cannot know anything.•2 Second, we try to fix that emotional or mental disturbance by thinking about it: thought cannot do anything.•3 Third, we try to know by th…

•1 I might be feeling sad, but I am never being sad.•2 I might be thinking hateful thoughts, but I am never being hate.•3 I might be doing something stupid, but I am never being stupid.•4 I might have failed at something, but I am never being a failure…

•1 I might be knowing wrong, but I am never being wrong.•2 I might be feeling wrong, but I am never being wrong.•3 I might be thinking wrong, but I am never being wrong.•4 I might be choosing wrong, but I am never being wrong.•5 I might be doing wrong,…

•1 Failing teaches you to quit struggling and to surrender to Spirit, not to quit exploring and studying.•2 Failing teaches you to quit trying and instead to submit to Spirit, not to quit exercising, experimenting, and practicing.•3 Failing teaches you…

•1 You don’t have to stop letting things get to you, because things can only get to your ego, not you; instead, switch from all self-esteem thinking because it is conditional.•2 You don’t have to turn anything over to God, because you never have anythi…