For a long time, I believed that what I believed was important – and I struggled to optimize my belief system to believe as many ‘positive’ and ’empowering’ beliefs as possible. I’ve since become disillusioned – thank goodness!
“You have to believe in yourself!”
“If you believe in yourself, you can do it.”
You hear phrases like this all the time. And people pay huge sums of money for training courses that are all about finally believing in yourself. And to adopt the right belief system. I was one of them.
To pick up on the sentence from above: In truth, you have no idea in advance whether you can achieve something. Only when you have done it do you definitely know that you can do it. If you believe you can do something, that doesn’t mean you can do it. Equally, you can do something even if you don’t believe you can do it.
IN SHORT: BELIEF HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REALITY.
Belief is just a placeholder for not knowing. Belief is irrelevant in terms of what is possible or not. And it certainly does not say who we are. Who we are cannot be conceptually defined in any way. This also means that no set of beliefs, no matter how bad and limiting, can describe who you are. You have beliefs but you are not them. You are a living being. And life and creation only take place in reality, you can be a living part of it or chase ghosts in a parallel world of beliefs.
My vote: reality – experience the unconditional miracle of life in all its facets.
