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Miguel Ruiz
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June 13 - June 17, 2021
He also saw that matter is a mirror — 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. “The real us is pure love, pure light,” he said.
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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.
The need for attention becomes very strong and continues into adulthood.
Every letter, every word in each language is an agreement.
We never had the opportunity to choose what to believe or what not to believe. We never chose even the smallest of these agreements. We didn’t even choose our own name.
To have faith is to believe unconditionally.
I call this process the domestication of humans. And through this domestication we learn how to live and how to dream.
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.
The fear of being rejected becomes the fear of not being good enough.
All our normal tendencies are lost in the process of domestication.
We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
These beliefs are so strong, that even years later when we are exposed to new concepts and try to make our own decisions, we find that these beliefs still control our lives.
Breaking the rules in the Book of Law opens your emotional wounds, and your reaction is to create emotional poison.
Even if the Book of Law is wrong, it makes you feel safe.
True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.
The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times 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.
The outside dream is not a pleasant dream; it is a dream of violence, a dream of fear, a dream of war, a dream of injustice. The personal dream of humans will vary, but globally it is mostly a nightmare.
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.
Others can put us into a deeper hell, true. But only if we allow this to happen.
All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty.
We are on an eternal search for the truth because we only believe in the lies we have stored in our mind.
Wherever we turn our heads, all we see is the truth, but with the agreements and beliefs we have stored in our mind, we have no eyes for this truth.
Your whole mind is a fog which the Toltec called a mitote (pronounced MIH-TOE´-TAY).
Everything you believe about yourself and the world, all the concepts and programming you have in your mind, are all the mitote. We cannot see who we truly are; we cannot see that we are not free.
our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive — the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
And the level of self-rejection depends upon how effective the adults were in breaking our integrity.
We are not good enough for ourselves because we don’t fit with our own image of perfection. We cannot forgive ourselves for not being what we wish to be, or rather what we believe we should be. We cannot forgive ourselves for not being perfect.
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. If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves; it is why we don’t accept ourselves the way we are, and why we don’t accept others the way they are.
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.
Our personal power is dissipated by all the agreements we have created, and the result is that we feel powerless. We have just enough power to survive each day, because most of it is used to keep the agreements that trap us in the dream of the planet.
Regardless of what language you speak, your intent manifests through the word. What you dream, what you feel, and what you really are, will all be manifested through the word.
One word is like a spell, and humans use the word like black magicians, thoughtlessly putting spells on each other.
A sin is anything that you do which goes against yourself.
Everything you feel or believe or say that goes against yourself is a sin. You go against yourself when you judge or blame yourself for anything. Being without sin is exactly the opposite. 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.
Sin begins with rejection of yourself.
Being impeccable with your word is not using the word against 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.
Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.
People who love us do black magic on us, but they don’t know what they do. That is why we must forgive them; they don’t know what they do.
You will only receive a negative idea if your mind is fertile ground for that idea.
Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about “me.”
Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.
When you take things personally, then you feel offended, and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflicts.
No, I don’t take it personally. Whatever you think, whatever you feel, I know is your problem and not my problem. It is the way you see the world. It is nothing personal, because you are dealing with yourself, not with me. Others are going to have their own opinion according to their belief system, so nothing they think about me is really about me, but it is about them.
Humans are addicted to suffering at different levels and to different degrees, and we support each other in maintaining these addictions. Humans agree to help each other suffer.
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.
