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.
DON MIGUEL RUIZRespect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
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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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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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Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.
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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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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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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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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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Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.
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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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When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.
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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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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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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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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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I am here and I’m alive. That’s enough.
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