humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.
Miguel Angel RuizThe whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
Miguel Angel RuizRelationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one.
Miguel Angel RuizWe learn to be right and to make everyone else wrong. The need to be right is the result of trying to protects the image we want to project to the outside. We have to impose our way of thinking, not just onto other humans, but even upon ourselves.
Miguel Angel RuizNothing 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.
Miguel Angel Ruiz