You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.
DON MIGUEL RUIZLife 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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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 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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I don’t know what I am. And it’s not important.
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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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For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they’re lies, you’re free.
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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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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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Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.
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Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.
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Be impeccable with your word.
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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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Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
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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 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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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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