Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you’ve created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.
MIGUEL ANGEL RUIZHappiness 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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There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don’t like who we are.
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Life is not the body; it is not the mind; it is not the soul. It is a force.
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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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Your reactions are the key to having a wonderful life.
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To have faith is to believe unconditionally.
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All my book are my favorites.
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Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
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…What you are is a force–a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream…You are life
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It is always better to ask then to make an assumption.
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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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Life doesn’t need to be justified or judged.
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My greatest joy is just to be alive!
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You can live in heaven right now. Heaven or hell is here and now; you don’t need to wait to die. If you take responsibility for your own life, for your own actions, then your future is in your hands, and you can live in heaven while your body is alive.
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What has happened to the adult human?
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We only see what we want to see, and hear what we want to hear
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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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Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.
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Accept your own divinity. Everything is a manifestation of God. When you know that, the power that is LIFE is inside you, you accept your own divinity, and yet you are humble, because you see that see the same divinity in everyone else.
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If you hold a beautiful flower in your hand, you can write a whole book about it. However, you are still just you perceiving and experiencing it from your own point of view.
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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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Our minds have the need to know. When we dont know we make assumptions – they make us feel safer than not knowing. And we are pretty much always making assumptions.
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Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
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We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
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Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
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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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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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