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.
DON MIGUEL 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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The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life.
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Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
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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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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.
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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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Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.
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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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Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn’t have to.
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Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
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Be impeccable with your word.
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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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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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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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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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Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
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