“If you vent anger with the object of spreading your toxic feelings, the result will have nothing to do with healing. Your anger is your weapon. On the other hand, if you release anger the way you'd expel a rock from your shoe, your intention clearly has healing behind it. Once the anger starts flowing, both of these alternatives might feel the same. Anger is anger. But if you have a healing intention, two things will happen: you will feel more peaceful after your anger has been released, and you will feel like an old, fixed belief in enemies and injustice has started to move.” IfsWayFeelsHas BeensTwoFeelingsHandsMightHappensMovingBeliefResultsHealingBehindsEnemyRocksObjectsWeaponsAngerIntentionInjusticeShoesPeacefulReleaseAlternativesFixedTwo ThingsToxic Author:Deepak Chopra
“If you think a certain thought long enough and hard enough, it becomes a fixed belief and you will find yourself behaving on the outside in a manner consistent with it.” IfsThinkingLongHardEnoughCertainBeliefFixedConsistentFinding Yourself Author:Brian Tracy
“The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.” BeliefReligiousAtheismConflictMethodFixedMinimumAllegianceReligious Conflict Book:James and Dewey on Belief and Experience Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience
“Believing in an idea is dangerous! Because belief is absolute, and absolute, is unconditional, it is supreme, its ultimate and therefore fixed, which by definition will never be acceptable to change.” BelieveIdeasBeliefDangerousUltimateAbsolutesDefinitionsSupremeFixedAcceptableUnconditional Author:Joshua Fernandez
“orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.” MenMindBeliefHabitMen And WomenAverageFixedConformityHugOrthodoxyOutrageSpitAverage ManVenomHabits Of Mind Book:Black Oxen Source: Black Oxen
“I think the misconceptions, there are certain people that are fixed in those with those beliefs, and been in those for twenty-five years, you're not going to change them.... What you've got to do is basically talk to the future about what you want to with the country.” PeopleThinkingWantYearsCountryCertainBeliefChangeFiveTwentiesWhat You WantFixedFive YearsMisconceptionTwenty Five Author:William M. Daley
“My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me.” FeelsMayWarMatterBeliefReligiousTeachReadyBattleBedSafeConcernFixedCivil WarReligious Belief Author:Stonewall Jackson