We hold onto our flaws because they are insurance for our failures. Every fear serves a purpose. When we cling to unhelpful beliefs and old fears, we can blame failure on them. Growth requires the courage to give our best effort and not blame our flaws as the cause of failure.

Have a humble heart & an open-mind and you’ll soon be given glimpses beyond the veil of your beliefs and understandings… growing wiser, and believing deeper.

Don’t believe everything you repeat in your mind!

It is a belief of the mediocre that extreme effort kills.

Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can’t see it.

Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of “their own people,” to the exclusion of other human beings.

Awakening is the ultimate of religion. Religion is, not really, in believing something outside of your being. It is not in believing or following some authoritative figure, the church, temple, organization or any ideological system of belief. Religion is trusting in what is eternal within you.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I do not believe that, on the balance, religious belief has been a force for good. Although I am prepared to admit that in certain times and places it has had some good effects,...

The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to think that scientific humanism and learning will dispel religious belief. Men would rather believe than know… A kind of Darwinistic survival of the fittest has occurred with religions… The ecological principle called Gause’s...

Once the people have been deluded into believing that speeches and voting are the only acceptable tools by which to affect change in their nation, those who are in control no longer need to worry about any significant challenge to their power.

You must refuse to entertain or shelter in your mind, any thought or belief that goes against your happiness and success in life.

Any thought or belief that doesn’t suggest the realities of success and happiness in your life, should never be granted the access to dwell in your mind.

Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it…and then it’s gone.But to...

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible, and those who believe that “belief” must be discarded and replaced by “the scientific method.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

I had a standing agreement with god. I’d agree to believe in him, barely, so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.

Beliefs will nourish or poison depending on their compatibility with reality.

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

* No belief or idea is sacred, unless it treats all people as sacred

We all ought to understand we’re on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn’t do kids any harm for a few years but it isn’t smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.

We are not victims of our genes, but masters of our fates, able to create lives overflowing with peace, happiness, and love.

If we were to excavate the deepest recesses of our consciousness, we would discover many beliefs about ourselves that are simply not true and that may never have been true. Yet we live from these beliefs as if they were true because we have never identified them clearly enough to question them, to challenge them.

Moment by moment the Holy Spirit will work with your beliefs, taking you step by step as you unwind your mind from the many false concepts that you believe keep you safe and make you happy. Only the release from these false beliefs can bring you true happiness and lasting peace.

Rise to the challenge and become the captain of your own thoughts, beliefs, decisions and actions. Have faith in God. Walk with courage and keep your positive mental imagination alive. Whenever you fall, waste no time in getting back up. It is only a matter of time until something miraculous happens in your life.

Whoever follows the cornerstone becomes the cornerstone. You’re nailed to beliefs. You’re crucified by ideals.

They programmed you with the best of intentions but unfortunately their best was mediocrity.

In the South American rainforest, there is a tribe called the Desana, who see the world as a fixed quantity of energy that flows between all creatures. Every birth must therefore engender a death, and every death brings forth another birth. This way, the energy of the world remains complete.When they hunt for food, the...

Beliefs are conclusions reached by men who are lazy to think for themselves.

By way of watching your mind, you will see life beyond a mere set of habits, emotions and beliefs.

21st Century Managers must change their thinking because they are now in the business of managing Mindsets & thinking, which impacts actions and behaviors.

There is no end to the things you don’t understand. The mind will search for a lie to give it an answer you can understand, but one song at the right time will challenge what you accept.

If you can begin to believe in your own beauty, you can then begin to believe in the beauty of others.

Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death.

People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.

If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought...

Never believe the beautiful. Trust me on this.

A strong positive mind is an unbreakable shield against all negative forces and experiences. It never bargains for anything that goes against its true destiny in life. It sees life as an inevitable journey of happiness and success in abundance. Therefore, you should make it your daily ritual to introduce your subconscious mind to some...

Are your thoughts and beliefs elevating you to greater heights or blocking you from embracing your blessings?

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, ‘fertility cults,’ we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will...

Beliefs are not some special category of idea sitting at a higher station of truth than our ordinary, everyday mortal thoughts. Beliefs are not neccesarily “the truth” at all. (Remember, there was a time everyone believed the earth was flat)

If you think something’s too hard, it will be. If you think it’s just not possible or not possible for you, then you’ll probably be right. If you think it can’t be done then you’re not the person to do it. Because you’ll fail.

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

Nobody has ever been and most certainly, never would be able to cut the wings of beliefs! Instead, they are nurtured for the needed flight that they give to our otherwise inert lives…

We cannot trust our own minds, traditions and beliefs.

I touched the small sacred images. I shook my head and bit my lip, as if to say, How awful that he should have stolen these! But I also found it very funny. And further proof that God had no power over me.

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. It is clear also that thought is not free if all the arguments on one side of a controversy are perpetually presented as attractively as possible, while the arguments on the other side can...

The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a ‘what’ created the universe; the theist believes a ‘who’ created the universe.

Religion is a subject which, if the believers used the same “reasoning” to address problems at work as they use to defend their beliefs, they’d soon find themselves unemployed. And if they found their child applying that kind of “reasoning” on a homework assignment they’d wonder what the hell was the wrong with their child.