We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
MIGUEL ANGEL RUIZI 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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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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Through our faith, we gain the courage to take action. And through action, we move one step closer toward the manifestation of our desires.
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It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control.
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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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I don’t know what I am. And it’s not important.
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Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself.
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I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love.
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There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don’t like who we are.
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My greatest joy is just to be alive!
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If you always do your best there is no way you can judge yourself.
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We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.
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Society teaches us conditional love; i.e., “I love you if you are the way I want you to be.”
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The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices.
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Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.
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Let’s stop believing that our differences make us superior or inferior to one another. Let’s not be afraid that our different colors make us different people. Who cares? It’s just a lie, and we don’t have to believe all the lies and superstitions that control our lives.
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Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don’t respect you. They consider that you’re not a good artist who can write your own story, even though you were born to write your own story.
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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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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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It is always better to ask then to make an assumption.
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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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Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
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You deliver a message every time you speak. Do you deliver the truth, or do you deliver lies? When the message you deliver comes from truth and love, you are happier.
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Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.
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If you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.
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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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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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