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 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.
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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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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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Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
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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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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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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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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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People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
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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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Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn’t have to.
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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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Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
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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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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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I don’t know what I am. And it’s not important.
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