People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
Miguel Angel RuizWhat you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss.
Miguel Angel RuizWe were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.
Miguel Angel RuizWe have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are.
Miguel Angel Ruiz