The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
MIGUEL ANGEL 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.
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When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy, and envy will disappear, and even your sadness will simply disappear if you don’t take things personally.
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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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…What you are is a force–a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream…You are life
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Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
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The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does.
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The best way to say, “I love you, God,” is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, “Thank you, God,” is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now.
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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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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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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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Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
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Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.
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Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies.
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I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love.
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Say only what you mean.
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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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You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life.
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Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
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Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.
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Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies.
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Awareness is something that is very important. And you say that it looks impossible to become what we really are, to be authentic, to be ourselves again. But I will tell you that it is much more difficult to try to be what we are not.
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For me personally, I don’t pray using words – it is just with my intent. Why do I need to pray with “words,” to something external, when I know what I want?
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Forgiveness is the only way to heal
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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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Let’s stop believing that our differences make us superior or inferior to one another. Let’s not be afraid that our different colors make us different people. Who cares? It’s just a lie, and we don’t have to believe all the lies and superstitions that control our lives.
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How are you going to change the world? The answer is easy. By changing the world that exists in your head.
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Your word is the power that you have to create
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