“The study of the past can help us clarify many of our problems, but healing does not occur in the past. It occurs in the present. There is a current mania for blaming childhood events for our present despair. What the ego doesn’t want us to see is that our pain doesn’t come from the […]
“But don’t follow rules imposed from the outside. No imposed rule can ever be right, because rules are created by people who want to control you! Yes, sometimes great enlightened ones appear in the world — like Buddha, Jesus, Krishna, Mohammed. They did not give rules to the world; they gave their love. But sooner […]
“…I realized that I needed to help a man feel more like a man, rather than wasting my time worrying about whether he IS enough of a man. Part of our work on ourselves, in order to prepare for a deep relationship, is learning how to support another person in manifesting their very best self.” […]
by Don Miguel Ruiz, “The Four Agreements” – The Fourth Agreement “Under any circumstance, always do your best, no more and no less. But keep in mind that your best is never going to be the same from one moment to the next. Everything is alive and changing all the time, so your best will […]
by Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements – The Third Agreement: “We have the tendency to make assumptions about everything. The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. We could swear they are real. We make assumptions about what others are doing or thinking — we take it personally — […]
by Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements, The Second Agreement: “Don’t take anything personally because by taking things personally you set yourself up to suffer for nothing. 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. […]
Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements – The First Agreement “The first agreement is: Be impeccable with your word. It sounds very simple, but it is extremely powerful. Why your word? Your word is the power that you have to create. Your word is the gift that comes directly from God. The Gospel of John, […]
“There are millions of ways to express your happiness, but there is only one way to really be happy, and that is to love. There is no other way. You cannot be happy if you don’t love yourself. That is a fact. If you don’t love yourself, you don’t have any opportunity to be happy. […]
“If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is a clear conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth. Not the ultimate truth of who […]
“For a warrior, there is no such thing as an impossible love. He is not intimidated by silence, by indifference, or by rejection. He knows that behind the mask of ice that people wear, there is a heart of fire. This is why the warrior takes more risks than others. He unceasingly seeks the love […]
“No one needs your help. I know, I know… this is one of the difficult things. But it’s true. However, this doesn’t mean that no one wants your help, or that no one can use your help. It simply means that the thought that another Aspect of the Divine is helpless without you is not […]
“Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled […]
