A Quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti

As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Belief Held Long Mind Prison

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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Indian - Philosopher
May 12, 1895 - February 17, 1986

You can be locked away in prison and be free if your mind is not a prison. Or you can be walking around with lots of credit cards and be in a prison, the prison of your own mind, the prison of your illusions.

Frederick Lenz

Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go.

Alan Watts

In the back of my mind, always, is the firmly held belief that public policies must serve the long-term interests and well-being of the community at large.

Carrie Lam

Remember that a wish held fervently turns into belief, and a belief held diligently becomes reality.

Jim Stovall

Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.

Joseph Fort Newton

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

Gautama Buddha

It was my long-held belief that police brutality would increase under the Trump administration.

Shaun King

Thoughts are an important part of your inner wisdom and they are very powerful. A thought held long enough and repeated often enough becomes a belief. A belief then becomes your biology.

Christiane Northrup

As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without a trial or a hearing.

Fred Korematsu

I've long held the belief that as a leader, I can't ask of you something that I can't do myself, and I can't impose on you values that I don't live out.

Jesse Robredo

Here is a myth for you if myths are your pleasure: "There is no more opportunity in this world." Most people held this false belief fifty years ago, the majority agreed with it five years ago, and practically everyone clings to it today. Clearly, this myth will also be the screaming rage in the future. Hang on to this myth, and you are destined to miss great opportunities for the rest of your life.

Ernie J Zelinski

With my own stuff, I've always held to the belief that it should take as long as it takes until it feels right.

St. Lucia

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

C. S. Lewis

When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?

Michael Crichton

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free. But it is only in freedom that you can find out what is true, what is God, not through any belief; because your belief projects what you think God ought to be, what you think ought to be true. If you believe God is love, God is good, God is this or that, your very belief prevents you from understanding what is God, what is true.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti