Quotes About Belief

The fabric is rent. Whatever stories at whatever degree of belief these people use to shield themselves from reality have just been structurally destabilized. The stories may survive for weeks or months or years, but their demise is now assured and the time will come when each of these people gets what they came here for; a direct confrontation with reality.

A common example of Spiritual Dissonance would be; If God loves us, why does He allow so much suffering? The certainty of God's love is the internal belief. The obviousness of human suffering is the external reality. Is God unable to end suffering? No, we must answer, because He can do whatever He wants. Therefore, He must allow or even cause suffering. But how can that be if He loves us? Something somewhere has to give or, preferably, we avoid asking the question in the first place.

If there is conflict between idea and actual, then the idea is in error.

The truth is that no belief is true, and to say that any belief is true is to open the floodgates and say that all beliefs are true.

Allegiance to any spiritual teaching or teacher—any outside authority—is the most treacherous beast in the jungle.

The various forms of spirituality and religion are not the path to truth, but the antidote to it.

No one can push you, pull you, or go with you. All thoughts, ideas, feelings, concepts, and systems of knowledge and belief boil down to this one unequivocal distinction; sewer or sunshine, dungeon or daylight, ego or surrender, obstruction or flow, segregation or integration, vertical entrenchment or horizontal progress.

Everything is exactly as it should be, including your belief that it is not

To surrender is to relinquish the illusion of control, which initiates the death part of the death/rebirth process, which is the transition from the bondage of the womb-like Segregated State to the freedom of the ever-expanding Integrated State. No faith or belief is required to accomplish this act of surrender, only clear-seeing. When one begins to understand ego and fear for what they really are, then this process becomes as easy and natural as dropping a heavy weight.

Ultimately, everything you think you know is really just something you believe.

The belief that something is wrong is the fire under the ass of humanity

I am the deepest of unbelievers. Every neurosis is a religion to its owner and religions is the universal neurosis of mankind. This is much beyond doubt: the characteristics we attribute to God reflect the fears and wishes we first feel as infants and as small children. Anyone who does not see that much cannot have understood the first thing about human psychology, If it is religion you are looking for, do not follow me.

Her nevroz, kiÅŸi için bir dindir ve din, insanoÄŸlunun evrensel nevrozudur. Åžu hiç ÅŸüphesiz doÄŸru: Tanr?'ya atfettiÄŸimiz özellikler ve güçler, önce bebekken ve sonra da küçük çocukken ta??d???m?z korkular? ve dileklerimizi yans?t?yor.

Focus on what you believe and what you want to create, regardless of the blowback.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

Well that's like, your opinion, man.

Generations are fictions.

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.

I love to be directed. They can trust me and go.

One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different.

Never trust anything that a man will not set his reputation and name upon.

Have you noticed it's always unhappy people who attack the things happy people believe in?