And this is all based on a belief system that we never chose to believe. These beliefs are so strong, that even years later when we are exposed to new concepts and try to make our own decisions, we find that these beliefs still control our lives.

values cannot be changed through reason, only through experience.

Nothing is true unless it is true in your own experience. This is your protection against being duped or misled.

we can only believe in what we have already known, preconceived, and imagined. But this is beyond any imagination.

There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly.

Was Du erlebst, kann keine Macht der Welt Dir rauben. (What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.) Not only our experiences, but all we have done, whatever great thoughts we may have had and all we have suffered, all this is not lost, though it is past; we have brought it into being. Having been is a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

it must always be our inner convictions and strength of beliefs that dictate our actions. External forces, temptations and counsels will always be dinned into us, but those among us who can stand up to what we innately believe to be good and right will finally be at peace with ourselves.

This show is our own personal beliefs.

What is real we cannot change, and it doesn’t matter what we believe.

The only thoughts we have control over are our own.

But the reality of consciousness appears irreducible. Only consciousness can know itself — and directly, through first-person experience.

I believe that even our most abstract and philosophical views spring from an intensely personal base.

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.