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Belief Quotes
"Being able to unlock your subconscious mind depends on knowing what you want before you can achieve it."
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"Faith fertilizes dreams."
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"To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell."
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"Belief can convert the mundane into the miraculous."
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"And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing in pans all over, pouring water of pillows, making clocks chime at all hours, mortal will accept almost any "natural explanation" offered, no matter how absurd, rather than the obvious supernatural one, for what is going on."
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"The Lord states, 'What can one do to go to moksha? He can go if he attains the right belief of the Self; or if he attains the grace of the Gnani Purush'."
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"When we make the unfamiliar familiar,make the unknown known,make the uncomfortable comfortable,and believe the unbelievable, we can then expect the unexpected."
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"Everything is energy, and energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed or mutated from one form to another."
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"Many of us are literally prone to believing the most blatantly nonsensical untruths. There are some opinions and some beliefs so incredibly moronic, you actually feel stupid for not believing them; and it's probably because in giving the benefit of the doubt you self-doubt, you convince yourself into lame passivity and blind acceptance, you tell yourself, 'Maybe I'm just missing something here."
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"Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist."
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"There is that gnawing feeling that we are far more than what we believe ourselves to be. Maybe it's time to believe the gnawing."
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"I liked making people laugh, and I decided I was an atheist early on. My Dad was all right with that. We argued about it all the time, but it was good-natured. He was the most open-minded human being I've ever known."
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"They tell you the story of Job so often to remind you when you lose it all, stay calm. I've always refused it. I hated the story. It made no sense, and then I developed the belief that religion's only purpose is to keep the poor from murdering the rich. And then I found the most dangerous folks are those who have nothing to lose, and I put it all together."
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"Believe," said the rumbling voice. "If you are to survive, you must believe.""Believe what?" asked Shadow. "What should I believe?"He stared at Shadow, the buffalo man, and he drew himself up huge, and his eyes filled with fire. He opened his spit-flecked buffalo mouth and it was red inside with the flames that burned inside him, under the earth."Everything," roared the buffalo man."
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"If God made gay people, then did God not intend them to be gay? Did the Potter's hand slip?"
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"If you believe that God is good and that He loves you without regard to whom you are or what you do, you will worship Him wholeheartedly. You will praise him with thanksgiving. If you believe He is angry against you, you will come to him with fear and trying to appease his anger. And you don't know when His anger will be over. Such a god keeps you in a perpetual psychological anguish. That is the typical kind of god we usually worship. That is the typical god approved by authority."
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"Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols."
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"Each of the sapiens brains generates its own perception of God in uniquely different ways. Ergo, it imposes different qualities of meaning and value on God. You see God the way your brain wants you to see it. There is no right and wrong, or fact and fiction on this matter. It is all personal."
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"Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so."
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"Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world."
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"Unlocking the power of your subconscious mind is a simple process, requiring only your willingness and effort."
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"I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job."
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"One can win only if he believes himself to be a winner."
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"But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that one disbelieved in prayer; one never lost all one's belief in magic. It was that she preferred to plan, it was fairer, it wasn't loading the dice."
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"How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?"
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"If you feel irritated or threatened by others' beliefs,it's a sign that you're experiencing crisis of confidence."
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"When others in doubt, your strong belief steers."
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"The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't."
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