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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.

Don Miguel Ruiz

I don’t know what I am. And it’s not important.
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Discover Important Myself
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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Belief Easy Ideas Life Simplicity Understand
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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Belief Believe Mirror See System
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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Belief Knowledge Memories Ourselves Stop
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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Complication Development Live Structure Truth
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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Freedom Lying Yourself
Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
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Best Change Circumstance Difficult Judgement Moments Regret Yourself
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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Character Priority Story Yourself
Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.
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Learning Listening One Liner
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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Communication Listening People Story Wonderful Yourself
Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.
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Believe Learning Thinking Yourself
I am here and I’m alive. That’s enough.
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Acceptance Alive Enough Gratitude
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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Alive Big Death Expression Fear Risk
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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Change Dance Floor Life People Time
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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Aware Believe Education Human Knowledge Lying Philosophy See Truth
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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Lying People Yourself

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