Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.
MIGUEL ANGEL RUIZFor thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they’re lies, you’re free.
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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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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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There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don’t like who we are.
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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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Do not let great ambitions overshadow small success.
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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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When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it’s no longer truth–it’s our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn’t mean it’s true for anyone else.
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How many times do we pay for one mistake? The answer is a thousand times for the same mistake. The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for ONE mistake. The rest of the animals pay once for every mistake.
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Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.
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In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.
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Your reactions are the key to having a wonderful life.
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You aren’t staying in heaven because you still need to purify the mind. Your faith is powerful, but it is invested in what you believe you are, and most of what you believe about yourself is a lie.
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Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies.
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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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You don’t need to justify your love, you don’t need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.
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