We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience.
Louise L. HayRead
I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.
Interpretation
We have the power to shape our own lives through our thoughts and beliefs.
This quote by Louise L. Hay emphasizes the idea that each individual is responsible for their own life experiences and outcomes. It suggests that our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs act as the tools with which we create our life's narrative, much like an artist uses a canvas and paintbrush to express their creativity. The metaphor of a canvas symbolizes the endless possibilities life offers, inviting us to consciously choose how we want to fill it.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about personal development.
We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience.
'Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.
No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for 'we' are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.
If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were just as frightened and scared as you are.
Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.
It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.
This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not let us shut our eyes to it.
I have spent a lot of my career working on normative political philosophy, developing the 'capabilities approach' to social justice. I have also spent a lot of my career working on the structure of the emotions, and their role in human life.
Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.
I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.
I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence.
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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