beliefs

We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.

Humanity does not suffer from the disease of wrong beliefs but humanity suffers from the contagious nature of the lack of belief. If you have no magic with you it is not because magic does not exist but it is because you do not believe in it. Even if the sun shines brightly upon your skin every day, if you do not believe in the sunlight, the sunlight for you does not exist.

Negative beliefs and complexes are obstacles to success and achievement and fulfilling goals

When YOU choose to change, your reality must change accordingly. It simply has no other choice.

If you want to succeed then let go your beliefs and perceptions which are holding your success, the connection of success & failure is linked to the balance between your heart & mind, the mind might give-up on all the logical solutions, but heart will tell you to try one more time - may be differently, success is just round the corner provided the mind follows the heart__ call.

A belief is simply a thought that seems true to YOU.

Things do not happen TO you. They happen THROUGH you.You are the co-creator of everything in your reality.

Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today.

In Uganda, I wrote a questionaire that I had my research assistants give; on it, I asked about the embalasassa, a speckled lizard said to be poisonous and to have been sent by Prime minsister Milton Obote to kill Baganda in the late 1960s. It is not poisonous and was no more common in the 1960s than it had been in previous decades, as Makerere University science professors announced on the radio and stated in print_ I wrote the question, What is the difference between basimamoto and embalasassa? Anyone who knows anything about the Bantu language__yself included__ould know the answer was contained in the question: humans and reptiles are different living things and belong to different noun classes_ A few of my informants corrected my ignorance_ but many, many more ignored the translation in my question and moved beyond it to address the history of the constructs of firemen and poisonous lizards without the slightest hesitation. They disregarded language to engage in a discussion of events_ My point is not about the truth of the embalasassa story_ but rather that the labeling of one thing as __rue_ and the other as __ictive_ or __etaphorical___ll the usual polite academic terms for false__ay eclipse all the intricate ways in which people use social truths to talk about the past. Moreover, chronological contradictions may foreground the fuzziness of certain ideas and policies, and that fuzziness may be more accurate than any exact historical reconstruction_ Whether the story of the poisionous embalasassa was real was hardly the issue; there was a real, harmless lizard and there was a real time when people in and around Kampala feared the embalasassa. They feared it in part because of beliefs about lizards, but mainly what frightened people was their fear of their government and the lengths to which it would go to harm them. The confusions and the misunderstandings show what is important; knowledge about the actual lizard would not.

There is nothing more powerful than gaining knowledge through our beliefs via personal experiences because when we turn belief into knowledge this way, we know what we know at the very core of our being, at a visceral level.

The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.

If you live with the limited beliefs of your mind, you cannot see life, beyond the physical existence, while in reality, the life happens at a much deeper level.

A person who falsely believes he or she is knowledgeable will not seek out clarification of his or her beliefs, but rather rely on his or her ignorant position.

Believers must step out of the four walls of the church and take the gospel of the kingdom into every sphere of life.

Make sure you are standing for something you believe in.

The philosophy of a person speaks of what dictates or governs how and what someone believes.

Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.