Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
DON MIGUEL RUIZEvery human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
DON MIGUEL RUIZEvery human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
DON MIGUEL RUIZYou 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.
DON MIGUEL RUIZBe impeccable with your word.
DON MIGUEL RUIZWhen 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!
DON MIGUEL RUIZDeath 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 RUIZLife is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.
DON MIGUEL RUIZIn 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 RUIZWe 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.
DON MIGUEL RUIZPeople like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
DON MIGUEL RUIZFor thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they’re lies, you’re free.
DON MIGUEL RUIZListen 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.
DON MIGUEL RUIZThe 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 RUIZThe same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.
DON MIGUEL RUIZWe 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.
DON MIGUEL RUIZEverything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.
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