Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.
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.
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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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I don’t know what I am. And it’s not important.
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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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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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People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
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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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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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Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
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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. 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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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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Be impeccable with your word.
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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 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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Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn’t have to.
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