The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions.
MIGUEL ANGEL RUIZDon’t Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
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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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How many times do we pay for one mistake? The answer is a thousand times for the same mistake. The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for ONE mistake. The rest of the animals pay once for every mistake.
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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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Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself.
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My personal prayer is simply my joy to be alive, and to live in gratitude and generosity.
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Your reactions are the key to having a wonderful life.
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The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don’t take it personally you are immune.
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If you always do your best there is no way you can judge yourself.
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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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When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do.
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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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Say only what you mean.
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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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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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Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies.
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