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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.

Don Miguel Ruiz

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
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
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
I am here and I’m alive. That’s enough.
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Acceptance Alive Enough Gratitude
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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Agreement Integrity Life Spirit Story Voice Yourself
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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Avoid Direction Integrity Love Power Trust Truth Word Yourself
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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Assumption Believe Lying See Truth
Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn’t have to.
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Hurt Love Open Unknown
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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Born Human Ourselves Society Story Teaching
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
Be impeccable with your word.
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Trust Word Yourself
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
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Art Artist Beautiful Dreams Human
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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Best Change Health Moments Sick
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
Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
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Expression Greatness Love Respect
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

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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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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