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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.

Don Miguel Ruiz

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
Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.
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Believe Learning Thinking Yourself
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
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
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
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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Complication Development Live Structure Truth
Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.
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Learning Listening One Liner
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
Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
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Best Change Circumstance Difficult Judgement Moments Regret Yourself
Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
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Artist Creation Human Ourselves Story
I don’t know what I am. And it’s not important.
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Discover Important Myself
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
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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Communication Listening People Story Wonderful Yourself
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
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
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.
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Alive Big Death Expression Fear Risk
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
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Evil Goodness Lying People Reality Truth
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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Lying People Yourself
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
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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Aware Believe Education Human Knowledge Lying Philosophy See Truth
Be impeccable with your word.
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Trust Word Yourself
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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Expression Force Life Manifestation See Word Yourself
Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
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Expression Greatness Love Respect
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
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
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Art Artist Beautiful Dreams Human
When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.
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Community Harmony Peace Respect

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