People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
DON MIGUEL RUIZLife is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.
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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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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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Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
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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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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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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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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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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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Be impeccable with your word.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t know what I am. And it’s not important.
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