- When you objectify yourself and others, you please your ego, not truth or virtue.
- When you claim you are, know, or do good, you please your ego, not truth or virtue.
- When you try to be good, you please your ego, not truth or virtue.
- When you think you are becoming good, you please your ego, not truth or virtue.
- When you focus on appearing good, you please your ego, not truth or virtue.
- When you compare, categorize, and measure yourself and others, you please your ego, not truth or virtue.
3D: Daily Dose of Discernment
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Sunday, April 6, 2025
Stop Pleasing Your Ego: 04-06-2025
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Take the Hard Road: 04-05-2025
- Taking the hard road is what fear calls it; however, it is the right road.
- Taking the hard road is what apathy calls it; however, it is the right road.
- Taking the hard road is what laziness calls it; however, it is the right road.
- Taking the hard road is what weakness calls it; however, it is the right road.
- Taking the hard road is what insecurity calls it; however, it is the right road.
- Taking the hard road is what cowardice calls it; however, it is the right road.
Friday, April 4, 2025
Choose Your New Path Now: 04-04-2025
- If you are not happy with your current path, great—you have the opportunity to choose a path with deep meaning.
- If you are not happy with your current path, instead of blaming something or someone, consider the fact that you keep choosing it.
- If you are not happy with your current path, instead of blaming something or someone, seek help and information to get on a better and brighter path.
- If you are not happy with your current path, instead of blaming something or someone, explore what other paths remain open and choose a better one.
- If you are not happy with your current path, it might be true that you were led to take a bad path; however, now, you can choose a better and brighter one.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Start Right to End Right: 04-03-2025
- Before you judge, do your research.
- Before you die, learn to live for God.
- Before you quit, find help and better information.
- Before you speak, check the source of your words.
- Before you claim to believe in God, spend time with God.
Peace Is a Choice: 04-02-2025
- Peace does not come because problems go away, but from solving problems.
- Peace does not come because everyone agrees, but because people choose to disagree peacefully.
- Peace does not come because war stops, but from choosing peaceful practices and solutions during war.
- Peace does not come because psychological conflict ends, but from accepting it or choosing to resolve it.
- Peace does not come because a better system is imposed on people, but because people choose to share common goals.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Words Are Not Results: 04-01-2025
- If you only care about the words, then you can be tricked into believing evil is good.
- If you only care about the words, then you can be tricked into doing evil that is beautified.
- If you only care about the words, then you can be tricked into doing evil that is supposed to result in good.
- The semantic reality of words is not the same as the results of following those words to perform deeds in the world.
- You must look at the words people propose to encourage, excuse, or force an action; however, you must look closer into the results of those actions because they will not mirror or be equal to the words.
Monday, March 31, 2025
Switch Your Focus from People to God: 03-31-2025
- Matter to God, not people.
- Seek God’s attention, not people’s.
- Seek God’s company, not people’s.
- Worry about what God thinks, not people.
- Pay attention to God’s opinions, not people’s.
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