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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.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
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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.
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Society teaches us conditional love i.e., I love you if you are the way I want you to be.
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We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct just the answer itself makes us feel safe.
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Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.
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Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies.
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If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.
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Life is not the body it is not the mind it is not the soul. It is a force.
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...What you are is a force--a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream...You are life
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Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.
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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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Suffering and drama begin when you lie to yourself, even if you don't realize you are lying.
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Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
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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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...Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner
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You are alive, so take your life and enjoy it. You were born with the right to be happy, to love, and to share your love. Just to be-to take a risk and enjoy your life-is all that matters.
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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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Life is like dancing...changing all the time.
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Love coming out of you makes you happy. The whole world can love you, but that love will not make you happy. What will make you happy is to share all the love you have inside you. That is the love that will make a difference.
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Love for yourself is the key to loving other. Love begins with you
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Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else.
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