In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.
When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.
Always do your best.
Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.
Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.
The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.
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.
Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to.
Be impeccable with your word.
Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.
I don't know what I am. And it's not important.
We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.
For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.
You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.
I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am.
Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.
