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.
DON MIGUEL RUIZListen 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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Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
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I don’t know what I am. And it’s not important.
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Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.
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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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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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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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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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Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.
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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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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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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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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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Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
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