We learn to be right and to make everyone else wrong. The need to be right is the result of trying to protects the image we want to project to the outside. We have to impose our way of thinking, not just onto other humans, but even upon ourselves.
MIGUEL ANGEL RUIZWe were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.
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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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If you always do your best there is no way you can judge yourself.
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You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself.
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We [people] love ourselves with conditions. We need opinions, we need approval, we create an image of ourselves that is not what we are. This how we lose our authenticity and create masks – how we become “domesticated.”
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Every prayer is an agreement with yourself. The mind is asking the real you, which is life, to guide your decisions for every single choice that you make.
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Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you’ve created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.
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Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.
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Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren’t enjoying the dream.
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We are addicted to being the way we are
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Life brings you exactly what you need.
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When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy to be alive!
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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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It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control.
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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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What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss.
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