Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.
DON MIGUEL RUIZThe same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.
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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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The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.
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Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.
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Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read ‘The Four Agreements’, you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.
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Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
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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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I don’t know what I am. And it’s not important.
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For 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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Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn’t have to.
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Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
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Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.
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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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Listen to other people tell their story, but don’t believe them. You know that it’s just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.
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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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Humans believe so many lies because we aren’t aware. We ignore the truth or we just don’t see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn’t allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.
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