Beyond Fear Quotes

“Whatever
we recall, if we respond to it with love, we can transform even those memories we think of as injustices. With love we go into forgiveness. We forgive what happened and we forgive ourselves. The result is that our agreement changes and we recover a little more of the totality of ourselves.”
― Mary Carroll Nelson, Beyond Fear: A Toltec Guide to Freedom and Joy, The Teachings of Don Miguel Ruiz

“In every contemporary culture, there is an emphasis on suffering. A belief in suffering begets suffering. The Christian heritage teaches that it is necessary to suffer in order to copy Jesus. Miguel says this is a false dream or an illusion. Jesus himself preached that love was the answer to life. Placing a high value on suffering is just one example of beliefs that permeate our minds and our collective dream. In such phrases as "no pain, no
gain," we reveal how deeply we have accepted the idea that we have no right to the joys of painlessness.”
― Mary Carroll Nelson, Beyond Fear: A Toltec Guide to Freedom and Joy, The Teachings of Don Miguel Ruiz

“Cleansing our emotional poison is a simple process. All it takes is the thought of love and our breath. We hold the wound in our mind briefly. Then we breathe deliberately while thinking of the word "love." We can apply this cleansing routine to old wounds and new
ones. When we clean a wound, it heals itself. We cannot clean a wound by sharing the poison with someone else. Such an action increases the poison.”
― Mary Carroll Nelson, Beyond Fear: A Toltec Guide to Freedom and Joy, The Teachings of Don Miguel Ruiz

“Toltec system teaches that we are no longer little babies, or helpless. We are strong enough to change everything. No matter what conditions you find yourself in, you have the power to change them. Even those who have been raped can
change their reality. The effects of your wounds are lessened if you realize you are dreaming. You can change your inner movie because you are the director, writer and actor, and you have all the power to change the story you are living.”
― Mary Carroll Nelson, Beyond Fear: A Toltec Guide to Freedom and Joy, The Teachings of Don Miguel Ruiz

“Individuality is a false concept. We are not individuals. We are just a little piece of the chain that is life. Your human body is made by billions of cells. Every little cell is a living being that can exist outside of your body. It can even reproduce outside of your body. You are that cell also. The cell itself has many inner elements and each of them is alive. The cell is part of a chain. With billions of cells we make a human body. You can say, "I am the body." Meanwhile, each cell can say, "I am a cell." The cell lacks awareness that many cells together make an organ. The liver, the heart, the intestines, the brain, the eyes-all the organs together form a human body, which is a unity.
Each of us is a human being. Yet, just like a cell, we think we are separate and we are not. All humans on the planet create another organ for a larger living being, which is the earth. Planet Earth is a living being. We are the Planet Earth. A single cell is human. A single person is the planet. All humans form only one of earth's organs. There are many others. The trees, the atmosphere, the ocean, rocks and animals are all organs of the earth.
The earth has etheric energy just like humans do. It has a soul. It has a mind. It is alive. It is a living being. It has a metabolism through which it receives energy from the outside. It transforms energy that it takes in and sends out its own form of energy.
Planets receive energy from the sun and transform it. On earth, animals eat plants and transform the energy they receive.
Humans eat plants and animals and transform the energy they receive from them.”
― Mary Carroll Nelson, Beyond Fear: A Toltec Guide to Freedom and Joy, The Teachings of Don Miguel Ruiz

“Individuality is a false concept. We are not individuals. We are just a little piece of the chain that is life. Your human body is made by billions of cells. Every little cell is a living being that can exist outside of your body. It can even reproduce outside of your body. You are that cell also. The cell itself has many inner elements and each of them is alive. The cell is part of a chain. With billions of cells we make a human body. You can say, "I am the body." Meanwhile, each cell can say, "I am a cell." The cell lacks awareness that many cells together make an organ. The liver, the heart, the intestines, the brain, the eyes-all the organs together form a human body, which is a unity.”
― Mary Carroll Nelson, Beyond Fear: A Toltec Guide to Freedom and Joy, The Teachings of Don Miguel Ruiz