We 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.
MIGUEL ANGEL RUIZThere are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don’t like who we are.
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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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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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The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don’t take it personally you are immune.
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We are the same, you and I. We are images of light.
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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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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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For me personally, I don’t pray using words – it is just with my intent. Why do I need to pray with “words,” to something external, when I know what I want?
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The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does.
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You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.
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Say only what you mean.
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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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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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Be Impeccable with Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean.
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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 we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!
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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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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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We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.
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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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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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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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When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do.
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If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.
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To say a prayer doesn’t take more than a minute, but you need the discipline to do it.
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Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.
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Don’t make assumptions.
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