Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.
DON MIGUEL RUIZEverything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.
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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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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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Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
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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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Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn’t have to.
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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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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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