“Once you accept yourself just the way you are, you no longer have any judgments about yourself. Once you accept everybody else just the way they are, you no longer have any judgments about them. Then something incredible happens in your world: You find peace. You are not in conflict with yourself, and you are not in conflict with anyone else. All of the conflict that exists in humanity is because there is no respect. Every war is because we didn’t respect the others’ way of life. Instead of respecting their rights, we start imposing what we believe on others. Instead of peace, there is war.”
Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz, in “The Fifth Agreement”
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