Gregory Bateson Quotes

My methods produce lasting behavioral change without unpleasant consequences, because the change does not come from an effort of will. It comes from examining your deep-rooted beliefs of who you are and how the world functions. As you examine these beliefs and make changes in them, you literally become a different person.

It's a struggle for anybody to take their paradigms and set of beliefs and understandings and completely flip the script.

What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.

The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive... and begin to act accordingly.

I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong.

There is nothing more powerful than a changed mind.

I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.

It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.

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

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

I have found there are four steps to change. 1. You must want it. 2. You must believe it. 3. You must live it. 4. You will become it.

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.

I wasn't raised Christian. I certainly had to seek Him out and find Him, and it's changed my life. I'm so glad I did.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds

We cannot embrace the New Mind by just sitting around and talking about it. It demands that we alter not just our thinking, but our way of living down to the smallest details.

The world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude.

If you will transform your mind, God will transform your life.

I've changed. You can't help it. Your mind starts working in a different way. You feel really scrutinised by people.

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

You cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. First you must change the mind.

If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.

I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.