"I believe that everything in the world has a story to tell. Even the sunshine and the wind, I think you can hear their stories." "Tokue" from Sweet Bean
Browsing category: Belief
"A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought, and you have the ability - if you try even a little bit - to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story, to achieve a different vibration, to change your point of attraction." Abraham-Hicks
"Don't believe everything you think." Byron Katie
"Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist." Audrey Hepburn
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." William Arthur Ward
For most of us, we need to believe that we are good people, following sound thinking processes and purposefully using our bodies and minds as we move through our lives planning, deciding and acting with intentions that are good. We like to think we are making good choices because we are good people. It takes a particularly unique individual to approach life with an unadulterated belief that they are bad and must advance through life making poor decisions and consistently performing bad deeds. However, on any given day, from our
“Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.”
Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom
Yesterday, in the city, I encountered a couple of individuals who were ‘out of their minds’. One was a middle-aged woman who had shorn off all her hair and had harnessed across her belly a plastic, life-like doll that she coddled as if her very own living child. She cooed and clucked and stroked its bald head with maternal love, meandering through the city streets quite in love with her doll. She also carried with her a heavy load of sadness, loneliness and loss, her pampering of the doll speaking of a lost child or
"It's very important to take risks. In the end you have to work from your instinct and feeling and take those risks and be fearless."
Anna Wintour
“What does it matter what we believe, as long as we treat others the way we want to be treated?” Jeffrey A. White