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.
MIGUEL ANGEL RUIZThe only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
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The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
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All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to impose our story on others or to defend what we believe. Instead we see all of us as artists with the right to create our own art.
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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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The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
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Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
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Humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear.
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The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does.
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Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.
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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.”
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For many years, I used to pray as an act of power, but that was before I had 100% faith in myself.
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The real us is pure love, pure light
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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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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.
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When we get into a relationship of any kind, it is because we want to share, we want to enjoy, we want to have fun, we don’t want to be bored. If we look for a partner, it is because we want to play, we want to be happy and enjoy what we are.
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When you do your best you learn to accept yourself
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