"We are born in truth, but we grow up believing lies... One of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection."
We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we pretend to be, or that we want to be, and we cannot hide that from ourselves. We know that we are pretending to be what we are not in the name of perfection.
Every human is an artist.
The dream of your life
is to make beautiful art.
The dream of your life
is to make beautiful art.
Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
Be aware that even if you meant your words as honey, other people can turn what you said into poison.
The infinite, the absolute, is a living being and the only one living being that really exists. And we all are part of that living being. And from that point of view, the way I see the universe, the way I see God is as perfection, like only perfection exists and it's not difficult to understand at all.
You can measure the impeccability of your word by your level of self-love. How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word. When you are impeccable with your word, you feel good; you feel happy and at peace. You can transcend the dream of hell just by making the agreement to be impeccable with your word. Right now I am planting that seed in your mind. Whether or not the seed grows depends upon how fertile your mind is for the seeds of love. It is up to you to make this agreement with yourself: I am impeccable with my word. Nurture this seed, and as it grows in your mind, it will generate more seeds of love to replace the seeds of fear. This first agreement will change the kind of seeds your mind is fertile for.
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My newest addition to the philosophies I have for life comes with the help of Don Miguel Ruiz. While reading and studying his book, "The Voice of Knowledge", he presents the idea of our perfection rather than imperfection. Ever since we were young we can all remember people telling us "You're not perfect. No one's perfect except God. We are only human." or some other variation of us "humans" not being perfect. Well, who was the first to state this and who were the first people to allow themselves to be brainwashed by this fallacy? Humans are masterpieces, our lives (or what we do with them) is pure art. God is as much inside us as outside of us. God is life and life is all around us. We have the potential to be perfect if we only believe in our perfection and stop putting a limitation on ourselves by saying, "I am only human. That is why I am like this or can only do that and cannot manage to act any differently than this." When we live our lives in love and honesty, and with love and honesty for other people as well, we are living perfectly.
"Accept your own divinity. Everything is a manifestation of God. When you know that, the power that is LIFE is inside you, you accept your own divinity, and yet you are humble, because you see the same divinity in everyone else."
I like this change that is progressing throughout my whole entire being. It came from a collection of things; my trip to Thailand, my mingling Ruiz's philosophy into my own, my own growing up and out, and just from allowing life to happen. I find my thoughts have been much calmer and less obsessive and more productive in the past couple weeks. I have come to accept people and events and life much easier. The key is to not look for injustices everywhere or how much you wish you could change everything; but rather to roll with life as it comes and make it easier and better for yourself and for those you can the best you can.
