Society teaches us conditional love; i.e., "I love you if you are the way I want you to be."
Miguel Angel RuizWe don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.
Miguel Angel RuizYou don't have to live with anger, or sadness, or jealousy. You don't have to judge yourself, make yourself guilty, and punish yourself.
Miguel Angel RuizWhen we respect ourselves, our lives change because the conflict in our mind ends. Then the relationship with our beloved also changes, and there will be peace in our family, in our friendships, in our community, and so on. Just imagine what kind of planet this would be if everybody respected themselves and everybody else?
Miguel Angel Ruiz