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.”
MIGUEL ANGEL RUIZhumans 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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When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure.
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There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don’t like who we are.
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How are you going to change the world? The answer is easy. By changing the world that exists in your head.
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To have faith is to believe unconditionally.
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In the track of fear we have so many conditions, expectations, and obligations that we create a lot of rules just to protect ourselves… when the truth is that there shouldn’t be any rules. These rules affect the quality of the channels of communication between us.
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You will free yourself from emotional drama by uncovering all the lies you believe in. It is a process of unlearning the lies. It is a period of cleansing, and it has nothing to do with the dream of society.
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When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy, and envy will disappear, and even your sadness will simply disappear if you don’t take things personally.
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Awareness is something that is very important. And you say that it looks impossible to become what we really are, to be authentic, to be ourselves again. But I will tell you that it is much more difficult to try to be what we are not.
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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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Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally… Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.
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My personal prayer is simply my joy to be alive, and to live in gratitude and generosity.
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We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we pretend to be, or that we want to be, and we cannot hide that from ourselves. We know that we are pretending to be what we are not in the name of perfection.
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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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What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.
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We only see what we want to see, and hear what we want to hear
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