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Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

We [people] love ourselves with conditions. We need opinions, we need approval, we create an image of ourselves that is not what we are. This how we lose our authenticity and create masks – how we become “domesticated.”
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Approval Needs People
humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.
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Believe Growing Human Lying Up
I don’t take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people’s stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me.
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Character People Stories
The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives we will see that most of the time we do things just to please others … The worst part is that most of us are not even aware that we are not free.
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Looking Looks Love Worst
When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do.
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Four Agreement Hurt People
You don’t need knowledge or great philosophical concepts. You don’t need the acceptance of others. You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.
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Acceptance Concept Divinity Philosophical
I can say, ‘Well, I’m a male. I’m a male human. I’m a medical doctor. I’m an author…’ If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, ‘I am a soul. I am a spirit.’ If I go into science, I will say, ‘I am energy. I am light.’ But the truth is I have no idea what I am.
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Doctors Light Religious
Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.
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Choices Destiny Suffering
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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Believe Human Lying Wall
Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.
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Agreement Belief Believe
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make.
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Judging Motivational Thinking
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
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Karma Life Love
You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself.
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Believe Self Way
Today, imagine all the love flowing from your heart to all the people who need your love.
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Heart Imagine Needs People
Humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear.
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Disease Fear Sick
The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does.
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Change Life Spiritual

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