We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make.
MIGUEL ANGEL RUIZAwareness 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 always better to ask then to make an assumption.
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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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All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to impose our story on others or to defend what we believe. Instead we see all of us as artists with the right to create our own art.
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The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
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When you look in the mirror and hate what you see, you need addictions to survive.
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We are the same, you and I. We are images of light.
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We are addicted to being the way we are
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To have faith is to believe unconditionally.
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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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Don’t make assumptions.
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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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All 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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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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For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they’re lies, you’re free.
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What we know and believe is just a program; it is nothing but words, opinions, and ideas we learn from others and from our own life experience.
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