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.
DON MIGUEL RUIZIn 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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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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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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Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
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Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.
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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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Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
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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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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.
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Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.
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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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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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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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Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn’t have to.
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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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