Quotes About Belief

As you consider your next move, practice this definition of trust: the willingness to take steps while simultaneously waiting for "instructions.

The notion of the perfect time is more than myth. It's the ultimate self-delusion.

Trust what feels true even if that truth requires you to ignore what you know.

Our lives follow the stories we tell ourselves.

Taking risks to create the life you want is an act of trust. It means believing in your ability to create a new reality while you are in the process of creating it.

To believe that we can have what we want is an act of trust – not only of others but also, ourselves.

If you can run six, you can run 10," he said, noshing on an energy bar. "Run 10 and you can run 13. That's how it works. You have three to four more miles in you than you think.

Practice trust in small matters for huge returns in the large ones.

Opportunity to suspend disbelief is often why we watch movies. The stories and images touch us and shift perspectives in ways we may not allow in our daily lives. As readily as you check your "this isn't real" attitude at the ticket counter – when transformers are defending earth against aliens and 21st century vampires frolic by daylight – on the big screen of your heart and mind train for, run and celebrate finishing your first marathon.

Because travel was an area of my life where I felt most vital, I wanted to continue to invest in that, too. I had quit a full time job, drained my retirement account to invest in a long-held dream, and used the realization of that dream to enter a void with no guarantees. I didn't want financial struggle to be the sole outgrowth of the risks I had taken. More than money, I had put my belief systems on the line.

If you are unkind, insecure, defensive, or cold in relationship because of some belief, that inner climate is bound to sabotage your chance for a healthy relationship. Who you are likely to end up with is someone who is willing to be with someone who is unloving, insecure, defensive, or cold because he needs to be with someone—anyone—rather than because he loves you. This can't be a satisfying relationship for long, and your belief becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It's only when we are identified with the mind ("I think it, therefore it's true") that differences become a problem, because then we believe what comes next: the mind's assertion of what needs to be done about that problem.

So why would you believe such thoughts? The only reason you do is that you were programmed to believe what seem to be "your" thoughts. But they are not your thoughts. Believing that they are is the foundational lie that makes the illusory reality possible.

We need to understand that the suffering people cause themselves and others comes from this primitive aspect of human nature and isn't a reflection of their true nature or value as a human being. The only thing that allows us to hurt or go to war with others is the belief that they are evil rather than that they, like us, are driven by a primitive aspect of themselves that perpetrates evil.

If you believe that life is scary, untrustworthy, cruel, harsh, and unfair, instead of feeling angry and aggressive, you may feel defeated, powerless, and afraid to face life. Many who find themselves in the grip of addictions feel just this way.

If you are not aware of what you believe and not aware that you have a choice about what you believe, then your life will be shaped by those mistaken and limiting beliefs, and you will be a passive recipient of the results of those beliefs rather than a conscious co-creator of your life. In these pages, we will explore ways of moving beyond any distorted perceptions of reality that may have developed as a result of your beliefs to a truer, clearer, perception of reality.

It's funny to think of that voice in our head as our own, and that we tend to believe it and value what it says, when so often it's contradictory, unhelpful, and unkind...We are so much kinder and more courageous than this voice, which is often fearful and upset with life.

Thoughts are conditioning, so when you believe your thoughts, you become the conditioned self and lose touch with your real self. As a result of the distance from thoughts developed by meditation, the real self comes back into the picture. The real you is what is aware of thoughts and of everything else. The ego can't be aware of thoughts because the ego is, in essence, itself a thought. The ego belongs to the conditioned self and has no awareness of its own.

If we believe our thoughts, then they define us and determine our experience of life, how we feel, and what we do. We are, in many respects, a puppet to our conditioning, to our thoughts and feelings—when we believe them. When we are identified with them and believe them, we are at the mercy of them. They run the show.

why the G-d of the Hebrews

When I came to my senses, I realized that we cry for ourselves because we are ignorant of what is true. We are ignorant of the goodness of God. Too often we are prone to believe the Hell that is preached in the Bible, when we should believe the love the Father has for each of his children.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

Antiguo oficio humano, este de querer apagar la luz. ¿Te acordás de la última vez que creímos poder iluminar la noche?.

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.