Let me be bold as to say that our personal belief system (our belief about ourselves) determines how our life will unfold, the experiences we will experience, and who we will become. In short, our personal belief system determines our destiny.
What are beliefs?
Beliefs are nothing more than ideas and thoughts. It has two foundations, the past and the future. For most of us, it only has one: the past. For most of us, we allow our past to determine our future. But what is the past, really? isn't it nothing more than ideas and thoughts and memories? Isn't it true that the future is also nothing more than ideas and thoughts and concepts? If we build our belief system using our ideas and thoughts about the past, what's to stop us from reinforcing it by utilizing thoughts and ideas about the future? If we allow our past to build our identity, what's to stop us from building an identity using ideas and concepts from the future? The future is boundless, and we can choose who we want to become.
Also, there is no demarcation that separates the present from the past, and the present from the future, because all we really have is the present. The present is a continuous unfolding...
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