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.
DON MIGUEL RUIZWhen 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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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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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.
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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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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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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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When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.
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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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Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
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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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Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
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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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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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Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.
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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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