Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.
DON MIGUEL RUIZEverything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.
DON MIGUEL RUIZI am here and I’m alive. That’s enough.
DON MIGUEL RUIZBe impeccable with your word.
DON MIGUEL RUIZWe 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.
DON MIGUEL RUIZUnder any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
DON MIGUEL RUIZLove is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn’t have to.
DON MIGUEL RUIZIn 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 RUIZBe Skeptical, but learn to listen.
DON MIGUEL RUIZHumans 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 RUIZWhatever 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.
DON MIGUEL RUIZLife is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.
DON MIGUEL RUIZWe 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.
DON MIGUEL RUIZWhen we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.
DON MIGUEL RUIZEvery human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
DON MIGUEL RUIZYou 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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