Don Miguel Ruiz on evil
Don Miguel Ruiz30 quotes“People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.”
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I am here and I’m alive. That’s enough.
Don Miguel RuizDon Miguel Ruiz 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 RuizDon Miguel Ruiz 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.
Don Miguel RuizDon Miguel Ruiz Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
Don Miguel RuizDon Miguel Ruiz Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
Don Miguel RuizDon Miguel Ruiz 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 RuizDon Miguel Ruiz 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.
Don Miguel RuizDon Miguel Ruiz Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
Don Miguel RuizDon Miguel Ruiz Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.
Don Miguel RuizDon Miguel Ruiz 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.
Don Miguel RuizDon Miguel Ruiz Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.
Don Miguel RuizDon Miguel Ruiz When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.
Don Miguel RuizDon Miguel Ruiz Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.
Don Miguel RuizDon Miguel Ruiz Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
Don Miguel RuizDon Miguel Ruiz 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.
Don Miguel RuizDon Miguel Ruiz 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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Shelby EnsignShelby Ensign Sadness that is caused by the absence of love is deadly for the heart.
Laura ChouetteLaura Chouette Always find a reason to love.
H. DcostaH. Dcosta You are healing yourself with poetry what could be more beautiful than that?
Aurora RaineAurora Raine Not everyone takes every opportunity that comes their way because it takes a lot of work.
Edgar DoucetEdgar Doucet I could never love her, the fear of losing would be too strong.
AtticusAtticus The lack of influence or power is more dangerous than worrying about things being reduced to nothingness.
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Rand PaulRand Paul Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.
John CalvinJohn Calvin Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
LivyLivy Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?
Upton SinclairUpton Sinclair In the beginning there were two primal spirits,Twins spontaneously active,These are the Good and the Evil, in thought, and in word, and in deed.
ZoroasterZoroaster In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no ‘two evils’ exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.
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