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The Four Agreements
Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about “me.”
from The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
Grisha Samus added 6mo ago
Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.
from The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
Grisha Samus added 6mo ago
If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn’t walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don’t need to trust
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Grisha Samus added 6mo ago
It is very interesting how the human mind works. We have the need to justify everything, to explain and understand everything, in order to feel safe. We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us f
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Grisha Samus added 6mo ago
Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.
from The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
Grisha Samus added 6mo ago
call this process the domestication of humans. And through this domestication we learn how to live and how to dream. In human domestication, the information from the outside dream is conveyed to the inside dream, creating our whole belief system.
from The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
Zach Kirshner added 7mo ago
The first agreement is to be impeccable with your word.
from The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
Mike Benchimol added 8mo ago
They only take action when they expect a reward, and they don’t enjoy the action. And that’s the reason why they don’t do their best.
from The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
Grisha Samus added 6mo ago
This chain of training from human to human, from generation to generation, is perfectly normal in human society. You don’t need to blame your parents for teaching you to be like them. What else could they teach you but what they know? They did the best they could, and if they abused you, it was due to their own domestication, their own fears, their
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Grisha Samus added 6mo ago