When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it’s no longer truth–it’s our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn’t mean it’s true for anyone else.
MIGUEL ANGEL RUIZAll around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it’s true that there’s a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.
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Happiness begins with impeccability of the word. The way to measure the impeccability of my word is to ask, “Am I happy or am I suffering?” If I’m suffering, then I’m not being impeccable with my word.
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Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.
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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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In the track of fear we have so many conditions, expectations, and obligations that we create a lot of rules just to protect ourselves… when the truth is that there shouldn’t be any rules. These rules affect the quality of the channels of communication between us.
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Society teaches us conditional love; i.e., “I love you if you are the way I want you to be.”
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For many years, I used to pray as an act of power, but that was before I had 100% faith in myself.
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Our minds have the need to know. When we dont know we make assumptions – they make us feel safer than not knowing. And we are pretty much always making assumptions.
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YOU ARE AN ARTIST OF THE SPIRIT Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.
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The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives we will see that most of the time we do things just to please others … The worst part is that most of us are not even aware that we are not free.
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You can only be you when you do your best. When you don’t do your best you are denying yourself the right to be you. That’s a seed that you should really nurture in your mind.
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Be Impeccable with Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean.
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We are the same, you and I. We are images of light.
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You are what you believe you are.
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Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally… Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.
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Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
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