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Beliefs
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People are made by
their beliefs.
As they believe, so they are.
the Bhagavad Gita
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Do
continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you
are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in
yourself this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from
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Rainer Maria Rilke |
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One of the
hardest expressions of self-assertiveness
is challenging your limiting beliefs.
Nathaniel Branden
Self-Esteem Every Day |
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Whenever
you are confused about why you did something, look for a belief.
Beliefs compel you to do what you might otherwise think is stupid.
The belief
isn't stupid. It's just a belief. Change the belief and you
change the behavior. Most people will have no clue that their behavior comes from
their own
beliefs. They will want to blame others--the president, the economy,
their
family, friends, childhood, and so on. Blame is easy. It
avoids responsibility.
Recognizing that all behavior is caused by a belief will help you select
better beliefs for yourself. It will also help you understand
others.
Joe Vitale
Life's Missing Instruction Manual |
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Your basic energy
signature is the sum of all your thoughts and beliefs. You
define your personality, physical attributes, and behavior. You are
the only
one who can create or change your thoughts and your beliefs. And your beliefs create what you experience as life.
Bruce I. Doyle III
Think
Your Way to the Life You Want |
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People may be heretics to the truth if they believe things
only
because their pastor says so, or the assembly so determines,
without knowing other reason; though their beliefs be true,
yet the very truth they hold become their heresies.
John Milton |
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Our beliefs about
what we are and what we can
be, precisely determine what we will be.
Anthony Robbins
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Limiting beliefs are like a cage locked tight with no
opening in
sight.
But when you realize that you are
the one who holds
the key in
releasing these beliefs, only
then can you find
freedom. Freedom
comes from
within. It comes from getting
to know who you really
are, releasing all limiting beliefs. And
as you release
your limiting
beliefs and stand in your truth,
your
example shines a light for the
whole world to see. Freedom
will be yours when you give yourself
permission
to live
authentically.
Terri Amos
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She
realized how many of her beliefs were either unrealistic or belonged to
her deceased parents and her ex-husband. She also realized that her
expectations
for herself and others were sometimes too rigid. She was trying to
live up to
what everyone else said was best for her, which made her depressed and
hard
to be around at times. Once she changed her beliefs about herself
and others,
she began to smile more and enjoy life.
Salle Merrill Redfield
Creating a Life of Joy
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Be sure to choose what you believe and why you
believe it, because
if you don’t choose your beliefs, you may be
certain that
some belief, and probably not a very credible one,
will choose you.
Robertson Davies |
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Belief
in God is not always beneficial to human life. Falsely
used, it
may become an escape from reality or a justification for a dogmatic
arrogance that destroys the very fibre of the human community.
Edward LeRoy Long, Jr.
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An
extremely important part of our work toward emotional growth and change
will come from examining our belief systems regarding all areas of
life. To
gain the courage to be yourself, you need to address the beliefs that are
keeping you stuck where you are. What beliefs, assumptions, and
attitudes
are you holding onto even though they no longer enhance your life?
It is possible
to free yourself from worn-out beliefs and acquire ones that bring
happiness,
strength, and self-esteem. What we believe we may become.
Sue Patton Thoele
The Courage to Be Yourself
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One of my patients who
survived three major surgeries in five
weeks
described himself as "born again." When I asked him
about this, he
told me that his experience had challenged all
of his ideas about life.
Everything he had thought true had turned
out to be merely belief and
had not withstood the terrible events
of recent weeks. He was stripped
of all he knew and left only with
the unshakable conviction that life
itself was holy. This insight in
its singularity and simplicity had
sustained him better than the
multiple, complex system of beliefs and
values that had been the
foundation of his life up until this time. It
upheld him like stone
and upholds him still because it has been tested
by fire. At the
depths of the most unimaginable vulnerability he has
discovered
that we live not by choice but by grace.
And that life itself is a
blessing.
Rachel Naomi Remen
My Grandfather's Blessings
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Become aware of your beliefs and automatic default settings.
Bring them into
the light of your present, adult knowledge.
Gently acknowledge that they
are what they are. Then accept
that they constitute what you've believed until
now, and that you
can transform them into beliefs that allow you to fully express
who you really are. Without judgment, patiently begin
working to change
subconscious and limiting beliefs into true
expressions of your authentic self.
Sue Patton Thoele
The Courage to Be Yourself |
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking
and find out what I really believed.
Walter Lippman
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Beliefs
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One
thing is certain. That is that the power of belief, the
power of thought, will move reality in the direction of what
we believe and conceive of it. If you really believe you
can
do something, you can. That is a fact.
Daisaku Ikeda
Buddhism
Day by Day
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You
become what you believe--not what you wish or want,
but what you truly believe.
Oprah
Winfrey |
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Believe nothing, O
monks, merely because you have been told it. . .
or because it is traditional, or because you yourself have imagined it.
Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect
for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis,
you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all
beings--that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
The Buddha
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What we call rational
grounds for our beliefs are often
extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Thomas Henry Huxley |
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They
were so strong in their beliefs that there came
a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those
beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
Louise Erdrich
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All belief that does not make us
more happy,
more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is,
I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.
John K. Lavater |
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Some
things have to be believed to be seen.
Ralph Hodgson |
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Most
philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system.
By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else,
especially some vital realizations. Periodically
revising our philosophy
of life as we live it is, therefore, a critically valuable exercise.
Charles Bates |
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People
in general are quick to believe that which they desire to be true.
Julius Caesar |
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In 2006, Doctors Travis Proulx and Steven Heine reviewed research across various disciplines to describe exactly what happens when a belief is
threatened. What they concluded was that when this occurs, humans turn to other beliefs and increase their intensity.
As they put it, “When committed beliefs are violated, people experience an arousal state that prompts them to affirm other beliefs to which they are committed.”
The authors reported that study after study had the same finding.
When the reality of one pattern is challenged, subjects would increase their belief in some other pattern to compensate.
That is, when the belief in the safety and security of the self was challenged, another form of self-identity increases.
Chris Niebauer
No Self, No Problem |
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Our beliefs inevitably solidify to be the only truth and reality that
we know, which puts a greater distance between us and anyone
whose beliefs are different. This distance not only
segregates us, it feeds our pride.
Timber Hawkeye
Buddhist Boot Camp |
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To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a
God, not a dead one,
or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force
urges us towards more loving.
Vincent van Gogh |
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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of
fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti |
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You can change your beliefs so they empower your
dreams and
desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what
you want.
Marcia Wieder |
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I realized
a long time ago that a belief which does not spring
from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.
Evelyn Scott |
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Is there any truth in theories, in ideals, in beliefs?
Why do you have beliefs?
Obviously, because beliefs give you security, comfort, safety, a guide.
In
yourself you are frightened, you want to be protected, you want to lean on
somebody, and therefore, you create the ideal, which prevents you from
understanding that which is. Therefore, an ideal
becomes a hindrance to action.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Book of Life: Daily Meditations |
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On your life’s journey you have faced and overcome many limiting
beliefs. Yet there is one fundamental principle that can change your
entire life when you understand and master it. You may still be
burdened by the belief that your life must be difficult and you must
struggle for your good. You might even believe, “If it’s not hard I
must not be doing it right. I must be cheating or missing something.”
Such debilitating ideas are so deeply ingrained in so many people
that hardly anyone questions them and only a handful
have chosen a lighter path instead.
Alan Cohen
The Tao Made
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