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We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
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Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Attention is the ability we have to discriminate
and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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Don't make assumptions.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
If we like what we do, if we always do our best,
then we are really enjoying life.
We are having fun, we don't get bored,
we don't have frustrations.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We are addicted to being the way we are
- don Miguel Ruiz
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.
-Don Miguel Ruiz
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
Your life is the manifestation of your dream;
it is an art.
You can change your life anytime if
you aren't enjoying the dream.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Be skeptical, but learn to listen.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Don't take anything personally.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Your own body is a manifestation of God,
and if you honor your body everything will change for you
- don Miguel Ruiz
You go against yourself when you
judge or blame yourself for anything
- don Miguel Ruiz
The real us is pure love, pure light
- don Miguel Ruiz
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
Everything is made of light
- don Miguel Ruiz
Everything is God
- don Miguel Ruiz
A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Don't believe me,
don't believe yourself,
and don't believe anyone else.
- don Miguel Ruiz
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
Be Impeccable With Your Word.
Speak with integrity.
Say only what you mean.
Avoid using your word to speak against yourself
or to gossip about others.
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Our brain is the factory of the emotions
- don Miguel Ruiz
I want to share with you the three rules
that I have in order to accept an apprentice.
Rule Number 1: Don't believe me.
I don't want you to believe me
but I want you to listen and make choices - your choices.
If what I say, doesn't work for you, leave it.
But if it works for you and that's what you want, then make it yours.
Rule Number 2: Don't believe yourself.
Why? Because most of your belief system is a lie - it's not true.
And by believing yourself, you create all the limitations
that don't allow you to be what you really are.
Don't believe yourself. Listen to what you say,
listen to what you think, listen to what you believe.
And when you listen, open your ears, open your mind,
open your intelligence and make choices.
Rule 3 is, don't believe anybody else.
Don't believe them at all.
Open your ears and your mind; listen and make choices.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Ram Dass
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
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