Bill Duke Quotes

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

You create your own reality.

We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality.

I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.

Your belief system saturates the space around you.

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

We only have problems we really want to have.

It's all in the mind, you know.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Wherever there is a conscious mind, there is a point of view.

The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.

I think perception is important.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Perception is reality.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

Every time you think the problem is 'out there,' that very thought is the problem.