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True freedom has to do with the human spirit it is the freedom to be who we really are. Chapter Six
If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn’t walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don’t need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices. Don Miguel Ruiz
There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally. Chapter Three
Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally. Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. Don Miguel Ruiz
Who stops us from being free? We blame the government, we blame the weather, we blame our parents, we blame religion, we blame God. Who really stops us from being free? We stop ourselves. Chapter Six
If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don’t tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don’t understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don’t have the courage to ask questions. Miguel Ruiz
It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control. Chapter Six
I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love. Miguel Ruiz
The mind can also talk and listen to itself. Chapter Three
God is life. God is life in action. The best way to say, I love you, God, is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, Thank you, God, is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now. Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment. Letting go of the past means you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now. Don Miguel Ruiz
All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. Chapter Three
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. Don Miguel Ruiz
There is an old expression that says, Misery likes company, and people who are suffering in hell don’t want to be all alone. Chapter Two
There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally. Don Miguel Ruiz
That is why humans resist life. To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. Chapter One
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. Miguel Ruiz
Dreaming is the main function of the mind, and the mind dreams twenty four hours a day. It dreams when the brain is awake, and it also dreams when the brain is asleep. Chapter One
If you live in a past dream, you don’t enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears. Don Miguel Ruiz
Forgiveness is the only way to heal. We can choose to forgive because we feel compassion for ourselves. Chapter Six
But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. You are hurting yourself. There is no way I can take this personally. 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. Chapter Six
You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward. Don Miguel Ruiz
Everything in existence is a manifestation of the one living being we call God. Everything is God. Introduction
Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you. Don Miguel Ruiz
Only by making an inventory of our agreements will we uncover all of the conflicts in the mind and eventually make order out of the chaos of the mitote. Chapter Three
Be impeccable with your word. Don’t take anything personally. Don’t make assumptions. Always do your best. Don Miguel Ruiz
We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. Chapter One
Also, go inside and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth. Don Miguel Ruiz
No human can condemn another to hell because we are already there. Others can put us into a deeper hell, true. But only if we allow this to happen. Chapter One
It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control. Don Miguel Ruiz
Whenever we feel the emotions of anger, jealousy, envy, or hate, we experience a fire burning within us. We are living in a dream of hell. Chapter One
Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system. Miguel Ruiz
We train our children whom we love so much the same way that we train any domesticated animal: with a system of punishment and reward. Chapter One
The big diffrence between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains. Don Miguel Ruiz
In human domestication, the information from the outside dream is conveyed to the inside dream, creating our whole belief system. Chapter One
What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss. Don Miguel Ruiz
Once you forgive God, you can finally forgive yourself. Chapter Six
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to gossip about others. Use your power of your word in the direction of truth and love. Don Miguel Ruiz
All the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in making assumptions and taking things personally. Chapter Four
Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it. Miguel Ruiz
If we can see our state of mind as a disease, we find there is a cure. Chapter Six
Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well. Miguel Ruiz
When you don’t do your best, you are denying yourself the right to be you. Chapter Five
You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others. Don Miguel Ruiz
Every human mind is fertile, but only for those kinds of seeds it is prepared for. Chapter Two
Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny. Don Miguel Ruiz
Have the courage to ask questions until you are clear as you can be, and even then do not assume you know all there is to know about a given situation. Chapter Four
In any kind of relationship we can make the assumption that others know what we think, and we don’t have to say what we want. They are going to do what we want because they know us so well. If they don’t do what we want, what we assume they should do, we feel hurt and think, How could you do that? You should know. Again, we make the assumption that the other person knows what we want. A whole drama is created because we make this assumption and then put more assumptions on top of it. Miguel Ruiz
Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them. Chapter Four
We judge others according to our image of perfection as well, and naturally they fall short of our expectations. Miguel Ruiz
It is always better to ask questions than to make an assumption, because assumptions set us up for suffering. Chapter Four
We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same belief system we were given, and using the same system of punishment and reward. We punish ourselves when we don’t follow the rules according to our belief system; we reward ourselves when we are the good boy or good girl. Don Miguel Ruiz
The word is so powerful that one word can change a life or destroy the lives of millions of people. Chapter Two
It is very interesting how the human mind works. We have the need to justify everything, to explain and understand everything, in order to feel safe. 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. This is why we make assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don’t have the courage to ask questions. We have agreed that it is not safe to ask questions; we have agreed that if people love us, they should know what we want or how we feel. When we believe something, we assume we are right about it to the point that we will destroy relationships in order to defend our position. Don Miguel Ruiz
You can only be you when you do your best. Chapter Five
I will even feel guilty for not telling you how much I love you. The love that makes me happy is the love that I can share with you. Why do I need to deny that I love you? It is not important if you love me back. I may die tomorrow or you may die tomorrow. What makes me happy now is to let you know how much I love you. Miguel Ruiz
Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Chapter Five
Taking things personally makes you easy prey for these predators, the black magicians. They can hook you easily with one little opinion and feed you whatever poison they want, and because you take it personally, you eat it up. You eat all their emotional garbage, and now it becomes your garbage. But if you do not take it personally, you are immune in the middle of hell. Immunity to poison in the middle of hell is the gift of this agreement. Miguel Ruiz
Your word is the power that you have to create. Your word is the gift that comes directly from God. Chapter Two
Imagine living your life without judging others. You can easily forgive others and let go of any judgments that you have. You don’t have the need to be right, and you don’t need to make anyone else wrong. You respect yourself and everyone else, and they respect you in return. Miguel Ruiz
Whatever you feel and do is just a projection of your own personal dream, a reflection of your own agreements. Chapter Three
You will find that you don’t need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices. Miguel Ruiz
When you don’t do your best. you are denying yourself the right to be you. Chapter Five
Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. Miguel Ruiz
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self judgment, self abuse and regret. Chapter Five
Just do your best in any circumstance in your life. It doesn’t matter if you are sick or tired, if you always do your best there is no way you can judge yourself. And if you don’t judge yourself there is no way you are going to suffer from guilt, blame, and self punishment. By always doing your best, you will break a big spell that you have been under. Miguel Ruiz
If you want to live a life of joy and fulfillment, you have to find the courage to break those agreements that are fear based and claim your personal power. Chapter One
We must forgive those we feel have wronged us, not because they deserve to be forgiven but because we love ourselves so much we don’t want to keep paying for the injustice when someone can touch a wound and it no longer hurts you then you know you have truly forgiven. Miguel Ruiz
Use your energy in the direction of truth and love. Chapter Two
Ninety five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies. Miguel Ruiz
There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears. Chapter Five
Humans are storytellers. It is our nature to make up stories, to interpret everything we perceive. Without awareness, we give our personal power to the story and the story writes itself. With awareness, we recover the control of our story. We see we are the authors and if we don’t like our story, we change it. Miguel Ruiz
Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. Chapter Three
You may even tell me, Miguel, what you are saying is hurting me. But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. Miguel Ruiz
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. Chapter Seven
You can measure the impeccability of your word by your level of self love. How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word. When you are impeccable with your word, you feel good; you feel happy and at peace. Miguel Ruiz
Life can be very easy when love is your way of life. Chapter Seven
If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. Miguel Ruiz
In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. Chapter One
We have learned to live by other people’s points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else. Miguel Ruiz
We judge others according to our image of perfection as well, and naturally they fall short of our expectations. Chapter One
We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the disease are all the emotions that make humans suffer anger, hate, sadness, envy, and betrayal. When the fear is too great, the reasoning mind begins to fail, and we call this mental illness. Don Miguel Ruiz
Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them. If we try to change them, this means we don’t really like them. Chapter Four
We don’t see the truth because we are blind. What blinds us are all those false beliefs we have in our mind. We have the need to be right and to make others wrong. We trust what we believe, and our beliefs set us up for suffering. Miguel Ruiz
Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don’t need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices. Chapter Three
If others say one thing, but do another, you are lying to yourself if you don’t listen to their actions. But if you are truthful with yourself, you will save yourself a lot of emotional pain. Telling yourself the truth about it may hurt, but you don’t need to be attached to the pain. Healing is on the way, and it’s just a matter of time before things will be better for you. Miguel Ruiz
You feel the heat and the light emanating from the flame in your heart. Prayers
