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“All humans are artists, all of us. Every symbol, every word, is a little piece of art. From my point of view, and thanks to our programming, our greatest masterpiece of art is the use of a language to create an entire virtual reality within our mind.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“If you can believe in your limitations, then why not believe in the beauty and power of life that’s flowing through you?”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“If you’re always transforming — if your dream is always changing even if you don’t want it to change — why not master the transformation and create your personal heaven?”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“All your life you tried to be good enough for somebody else, and you left yourself last. You sacrificed your personal freedom to live according to somebody else’s point of view. You tried to be good enough for your mother, your father, your teachers, your beloved, your children, your religion, and society. After trying for so many years, you try to be good enough for yourself, and you find out that you’re not good enough for yourself.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“The adults can only teach us what they know; they cannot teach us what they don’t know. What they know is what they learned in their whole lives; it’s what they believed in their whole lives. You can be sure that your parents did the best they could for you at the time. If they didn’t do better, it’s because they didn’t know any better.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“The transformational tools of the Toltec path are directed toward one goal: freeing the apprentice’s mind from the lies and suffering created during his domestication.”
― Allan Hardman, The Everything Toltec Wisdom Book: A Complete Guide to the Ancient Wisdoms

“The angel of death is also the angel of life, because when you surrender to her, you are free to live your life to the fullest expression of who you are. She is your guide to life, in all of its abundance and wonder.”
― Allan Hardman, The Everything Toltec Wisdom Book: A Complete Guide to the Ancient Wisdoms

“The warrior who has released the old dream of his domestication—along with the rules and behaviors dictated by that programming—learns to listen to the instructions of his feelings. He is no longer a puppet of his emotional reactions. His recapitulation has revealed and rejected the lies from the past, and replaced them with the truth of self-acceptance and universal perfection. Without his emotional baggage, he is able to listen to the quieter truth that arises in him in every moment.”
― Allan Hardman, The Everything Toltec Wisdom Book: A Complete Guide to the Ancient Wisdoms

“We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“This, in a nutshell, is what “self-improvement” is really about: prioritizing better values, choosing better things to give a fuck about. Because when you give better fucks, you get better problems. And when you get better problems, you get a better life.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Nobody else is ever responsible for your situation but you. Many people may be to blame for your unhappiness, but nobody is ever responsible for your unhappiness but you.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“By holding onto past trauma, we deny ourselves healing. By feeling self-conscious, we deny our own self-worth. By finding fault in other people's actions, we deny ourselves compassion. By feeling hopeless, we deny ourselves faith. By collecting excuses, we deny ourselves our own power. By clinging to our losses, we miss out on the miracles happening now. By feeling skeptical, stressed, worried, paranoid, or anxious, we deny ourselves contentment and trust. By feeling envious of the others, we deny ourselves abundance. By waiting for the weekend to come, we deny ourselves presence and gratitude. By becoming offended or defensive, we deny ourselves peace. By holding a grudge, seeking revenge, or gossiping about other people, we deny ourselves security. By seeking attention and validation, we deny ourselves completeness. By operating on autopilot, we deny ourselves inspiration. By reacting to situations unconsciously, we deny ourselves discernment. By closing our hearts, we deny ourselves love.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“As time goes on, the free, happy, innocent child of bliss becomes buried deep underneath the layers of fear for so many years that even you forget your true identity. You’ve been wearing the protective layers for so long that you completely overlooked the fact that you could just take them all off at any point.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“There are only three simple steps to The Inner Work process that can be practiced throughout everyday moments: become aware of the trigger, connect them to a root program belief and theme of consciousness, then uproot and replace it with a new narrative of a higher perspective.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness