> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.gilespcroft.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Opinions, beliefs and facts - URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/opinions-beliefs-and-facts/ - Published: 2024-12-01T07:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-01T21:17:56.000Z - Description: What is a belief? Can a belief ever be true? 🧐 - Author: Giles P Croft - Tags: Consciousness, Identity, Presence, Principles, Psychology, Quick insight, Sunday Spiritual, TRUE NATURE It’s a fairly well received notion that ‘opinions aren’t fact’. (I mean there’s that funny saying about them being like a certain part of your anatomy, isn’t there: everyone’s got one!) But what about beliefs? Aren't beliefs just opinions, by any other name? đŸ€” Beliefs aren’t facts. They can’t be. They’re just thoughts, and thought’s not fact. Even a memory is not fact. (Plenty of studies have been done demonstrating that [what we remember is the last time we remember](https://www.gilespcroft.com/the-fallibility-of-memory/), not an accurate facsimile of the actual event.) Memory’s just thought, as well Pfffft, it’s enough to make your head spin! What’s true? What’s fact? --- **What's fact is right Now.** Not what you think and feel *about* right now—that's opinion/belief too—but the spiritual principles that are bringing to life those beliefs & opinions. The very fact that you’re *having* an experience. Who you really are: Consciousness witnessing all of this being brought to life; all this activity. --- > *“What good is that?!”* 
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