You are what you believe you are.
MIGUEL ANGEL RUIZWhen 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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What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.
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Let’s stop believing that our differences make us superior or inferior to one another. Let’s not be afraid that our different colors make us different people. Who cares? It’s just a lie, and we don’t have to believe all the lies and superstitions that control our lives.
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When you look in the mirror and hate what you see, you need addictions to survive.
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When you do your best you learn to accept yourself
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The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions.
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If you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.
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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.
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We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that’s always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.
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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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We are the same, you and I. We are images of light.
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The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices.
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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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Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies.
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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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Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives.
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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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It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control.
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You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself.
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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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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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To have faith is to believe unconditionally.
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I am made of light; I am made of stars.
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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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To say a prayer doesn’t take more than a minute, but you need the discipline to do it.
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Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.
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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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