I don’t take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people’s stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me.
MIGUEL ANGEL RUIZWe 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.
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We only see what we want to see, and hear what we want to hear
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You don’t need knowledge or great philosophical concepts. You don’t need the acceptance of others. You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.
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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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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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Every prayer is an agreement with yourself.
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If you always do your best there is no way you can judge yourself.
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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.
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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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Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
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When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure.
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You deliver a message every time you speak. Do you deliver the truth, or do you deliver lies? When the message you deliver comes from truth and love, you are happier.
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Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.
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Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don’t respect you. They consider that you’re not a good artist who can write your own story, even though you were born to write your own story.
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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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Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
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To have faith is to believe unconditionally.
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I am the love of my life, the marriage between my mind and my body.
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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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Humans create their own boundaries, their own limitations. We say what is humanly possible, and what is not possible. Then just because we believe it, it becomes truth for us.
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…Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don’t take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner
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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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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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The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
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I can say, ‘Well, I’m a male. I’m a male human. I’m a medical doctor. I’m an author…’ If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, ‘I am a soul. I am a spirit.’ If I go into science, I will say, ‘I am energy. I am light.’ But the truth is I have no idea what I am.
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Let’s enjoy this world. Let’s enjoy one another. We are meant to love one another, not to hate one another.
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The voice in your head is like a wild horse taking you wherever it wants to go…When the voice in your head finally stops talking, you experience inner peace.
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