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Miguel Ruiz
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October 8 - October 26, 2025
While it does embrace spirit, it is most accurately described as a way of life, distinguished by the ready accessibility of happiness and love.
he didn’t completely agree with everything he was learning. In his heart, he felt there must be something more.
“Everything is made of light,” he said, “and the space in-between isn’t empty.” And he knew that everything that exists is one living being, and that light is the messenger of life, because it is alive and contains all information.
what created the harmony and space between the two is Life or Intent.
Is Intent a synonym for Life? Without a comma, it is difficult to know.
Life is the force of the absolute, the supreme, the Creator who creates everything.
If Life => Intent, Life is not a realized plan but a plan that can change due to ujnforeseen circumstances
human perception is merely light perceiving light.
everything is a mirror that reflects light and creates images of that light — and the world of illusion, the Dream, is just like smoke which doesn’t allow us to see what we really are.
Plato's cave
Life mixed the tonal and the nagual in different ways to create billions of manifestations of Life.
Diverges from Plato
He saw himself in everyone, but nobody saw him as themselves. And he realized that everyone was dreaming, but without awareness, without knowing what they really are. They couldn’t see him as themselves because there was a wall of fog or smoke between the mirrors. And that wall of fog was made by the interpretation of images of light — the Dream of humans.
Is hierarchy built into faith? buiklt into intent, the human capability to plan onto the inexistence future, the path untraveled?
matter is a mirror and the smoke in-between is what keeps us from knowing what we are.
misunderstanding all you see....
We live with our eyes closed. what happens when they are open?
You are dreaming with the brain awake.
Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.
By using our attention we learned a whole reality, a whole dream. We learned how to behave in society: what to believe and what not to believe; what is acceptable and what is not acceptable; what is good and what is bad; what is beautiful and what is ugly; what is right and what is wrong.
Culture, traditions, class/caste system
Language is the code for understanding and communication between humans.
Language is the vehicle of culture
the word page is an agreement that we understand.
We never had the opportunity to choose what to believe or what not to believe. We never chose even the smallest of these agreements.
The only way to store information is by agreement.
if we don’t agree, we don’t store that information.
As soon as we agree, we believe it, and this is called faith. To have faith is to...
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surrender to the beliefs with our agreement. I call this process the domestication of humans.
With that fear of being punished and that fear of not getting the reward, we start pretending to be what we are not, just to please others, just to be good enough for someone else.
Foucault's Discipline and Punish
The fear of being rejected becomes the fear of not being good enough.
We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator.
Foucault
Even if the Book of Law is wrong, it makes you feel safe.
It is a compass that tells us where we stand; otherwise, we are not sure where we and others stand
we need a great deal of courage to challenge our own beliefs.
our belief system is the Book of Laws that rules our personal dream.
The rest of the animals pay once for every mistake they make.
Implies humans are one of the many species on earth . Reminds me of Sapiens by Harari Also, animals have no memory?!?
we punish ourselves.
Every time we remember the mistake, we blame them again and send them all the emotional poison we feel at the injustice, and then we make them pay again for the same mistake.
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.
If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.
fear is controlling the outside dream.
Others can put us into a deeper hell, true. But only if we allow this to happen.
We trust what we believe, and our beliefs set us up for suffering.
We live in a fog that is not even real.
Your whole mind is a fog which the Toltec called a mitote (pronounced MIH-TOE´-TAY). Your mind is a dream where a thousand people talk at the same time, and nobody understands each other.
In India they call the mitote maya, which means illusion.
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. We have learned to live our lives trying to satisfy other people’s demands. 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.
Trying to be good enough for them, we create an image of perfection, but we don’t fit this image.
We try to hide ourselves, and we pretend to be what we are not. The result is that we feel unauthentic and wear social masks to keep others from noticing this.
as soon as we are alone, the Judge becomes so strong, the guilt is so strong, and we feel so stupid, or so bad, or so unworthy.
In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else.
The agreements that come from fear require us to expend a lot of energy, but the agreements that come from love help us to conserve energy and even gain extra energy.
He activated people’s fear with the word, and like a big explosion, there was killing and war all around the world.
By hooking our attention, the word can enter our mind and change a whole belief for better or for worse.
When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions, but you do not judge or blame yourself.
Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself.
She believed she must repress her emotions in order to be accepted and loved.
Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.
