"If I love myself I will express that love in my interactions with you, and then I am being impeccable with the word, because that action will produce a like reaction. If I love you, then you will love me. If I insult you, you will insult me. If I have gratitude for you , you will have gratitude for me. If I'm selfish with you, you will be selfish with me."
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"By practicing the Five Agreements, what you are really doing is respecting everything in creation. You are respecting your dream; you are respecting everybody else's dream. If you use these tools, your effort is really for everyone, because your joy, your happiness, your peace, and your heaven are contagious. When you are happy, the people around you are happy too, and it inspires them to change their own world."
"Be Skeptical, but learn to listen."
"Humans create their own boundaries, their own limitations. We say what is humanly possible, and what is not possible. Then just because we believe it, it becomes truth for us."
"Life is not the body; it is not the mind; it is not the soul. It is a force."
"Awareness is always the first step."
"Just by being happier, everyone benefits because your happiness is contagious."
"Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives."
"We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the disease are all the emotions that make humans suffer: anger, hate, sadness, envy, and betrayal. When the fear is too great, the reasoning mind begins to fail, and we call this mental illness."
"When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure."
"All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind."
"You find that the injustice that created a wound is no longer true, right now, in this moment."
"Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves."
"Your reactions are the key to having a wonderful life."
"I love and respect all religions and philosophies. I see how they get formed, how they grow up, and how powerful they are. But for me to believe in a specific god - no. Because what I believe is that the infinite, the absolute, is a living being and the only one living being that really exists."
"Every prayer is an agreement with yourself."
"It doesn't matter whether you believe in Christ, Moses, Allah, Brahma, Buddha, or any other being or master. Each one of us has our own beliefs, our own point of view. There are billions of different points of view, but it's the same force of life behind each one of us."
"You see everything is about belief, whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life."
"When you look in the mirror and hate what you see, you need addictions to survive."
"Perhaps you're not finished with your story, and who knows if you'll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it's not that important."