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.
MIGUEL ANGEL RUIZWe learn to be right and to make everyone else wrong. The need to be right is the result of trying to protects the image we want to project to the outside. We have to impose our way of thinking, not just onto other humans, but even upon ourselves.
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Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don’t even think about the opinions of others.
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Life brings you exactly what you need.
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What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss.
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The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don’t take it personally you are immune.
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The voice in your head is like a wild horse taking you wherever it wants to go…When the voice in your head finally stops talking, you experience inner peace.
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Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
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The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions.
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To have faith is to believe unconditionally.
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Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.
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We are masters because we have the power to create and to rule our own lives.
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Imagine living your life without being afraid to take a risk and to explore life.
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Say only what you mean.
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Life doesn’t need to be justified or judged.
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If you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.
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We don’t need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.
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God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself.
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I change the world by changing myself. I am changing the world by loving myself, by enjoying life, by making my personal world a dream of heaven. I change myself, and just like magic, other people start to change.
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Perhaps you’re not finished with your story, and who knows if you’ll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it’s not that important.
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Happiness begins with impeccability of the word. The way to measure the impeccability of my word is to ask, “Am I happy or am I suffering?” If I’m suffering, then I’m not being impeccable with my word.
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You are immortal; you exist for billions of years in different manifestations, because you are Life, and Life cannot die. You are in the trees, the butterflies, the fish, the air, the moon, the sun. Wherever you go, you are there, waiting for yourself.
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Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies.
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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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Humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear.
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Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
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If you are not afriad, thereis no way you will get mad at me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will hate me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will be jealous or sad.
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When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy to be alive!
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