We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that’s always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.
DON MIGUEL RUIZEvery human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
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Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.
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Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.
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In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.
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People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
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Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
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Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.
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Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
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We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.
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The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.
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Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
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When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!
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Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.
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I don’t know what I am. And it’s not important.
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When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.
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Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.
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