I am here and I’m alive. That’s enough.
DON MIGUEL RUIZEvery human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
More Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes
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I don’t know what I am. And it’s not important.
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Humans believe so many lies because we aren’t aware. We ignore the truth or we just don’t see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn’t allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.
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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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Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read ‘The Four Agreements’, you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.
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Listen to other people tell their story, but don’t believe them. You know that it’s just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.
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Be impeccable with your word.
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Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn’t have to.
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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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Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.
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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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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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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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Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
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Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
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