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01Undated

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 / quote

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02Undated

The voice that says, “That’s the way I am,” is the voice of knowledge. It’s the voice of the liar living in the Tree of Knowledge in your head. The Toltec consider it a mental disease that is highly contagious because it’s transmitted from human to human through knowledge. The symptoms of the disease are fear, anger, hatred, sadness, jealousy, conflict, and separation between humans. Again, these lies are controlling the dream of our life. I think this is obvious.

Miguel Ruiz / quote

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03Undated

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.

Miguel Ruiz / quote

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04Undated

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.

Miguel Ruiz / quote

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05Undated

Let everything we do and say be an expression of the beauty in our heart, always based on love.

Miguel Ruiz / quote

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06Undated

Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you commit

Miguel Ruiz / quote

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07Undated

For every moment that is past, the angel of death keeps taking the part that is dead and we keeping living in the present. The parasite wants us to carry the past with us and that makes it so heavy to be alive.

Miguel Ruiz / quote

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08Undated

Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance.

Miguel Ruiz / quote

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09Undated

Being impeccable is not going against yourself. When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions but you do not judge or blame yourself.

Miguel Ruiz / quote

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10Undated

The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!

Miguel Ruiz / quote

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11Undated

Life is the force of the absolute, the supreme, the Creator who creates everything.

Miguel Ruiz / quote

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12Undated

Everything in existence is a manifestation of the one living being we call God. Everything is God.

Miguel Ruiz / quote

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13Undated

Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believethey should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.

Miguel Ruiz / quote

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14Undated

We judge others according to our image ofperfection as well, and naturally they fall short of our expectations.

Miguel Ruiz / quote

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15Undated

When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure.

Miguel Ruiz / quote

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16Undated

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 / quote

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17Undated

Wherever I go, whomever I meet, I see myself in their eyes, because I am a part of everything, because I love.

Miguel Ruiz / quote

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