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 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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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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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 best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.
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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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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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Be impeccable with your word.
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When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.
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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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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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People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
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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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Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
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Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.
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Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
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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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