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.
MIGUEL ANGEL RUIZImagine living your life without being afraid to take a risk and to explore life.
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We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we pretend to be, or that we want to be, and we cannot hide that from ourselves. We know that we are pretending to be what we are not in the name of perfection.
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Humans believe so many lies because we aren’t aware. We ignore the truth or we just don’t see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn’t allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.
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To say a prayer doesn’t take more than a minute, but you need the discipline to do it.
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The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough… is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.
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I change the world by changing myself. I am changing the world by loving myself, by enjoying life, by making my personal world a dream of heaven. I change myself, and just like magic, other people start to change.
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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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You can live in heaven right now. Heaven or hell is here and now; you don’t need to wait to die. If you take responsibility for your own life, for your own actions, then your future is in your hands, and you can live in heaven while your body is alive.
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When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth.
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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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Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.
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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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The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
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Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
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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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My greatest joy is just to be alive!
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Be Impeccable with Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean.
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There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don’t like who we are.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The truth is silent. The truth doesn’t come with words. It’s something that I just know; it’s something that I can feel without words, and it’s called silent knowledge.
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There is nothing to do except to be just who you are. You have the right to feel beautiful and enjoy it.
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