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 RUIZThe way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions.
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Perhaps you’re not finished with your story, and who knows if you’ll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it’s not that important.
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Accept your own divinity. Everything is a manifestation of God. When you know that, the power that is LIFE is inside you, you accept your own divinity, and yet you are humble, because you see that see the same divinity in everyone else.
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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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You aren’t staying in heaven because you still need to purify the mind. Your faith is powerful, but it is invested in what you believe you are, and most of what you believe about yourself is a lie.
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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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The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
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Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.
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We are the same, you and I. We are images of light.
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We 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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Don’t make assumptions.
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If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.
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My greatest joy is just to be alive!
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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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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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Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
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