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Tag Archives: Don Miguel Ruiz
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, November 15th, 2024 by Don Miguel Ruiz in THE FOUR AGREEMENTS
“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 … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, November 5th, 2024 by Don Miguel and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
“You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life. With that message you create mainly the story of you, and then a story about everything you … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024 by Don Miguel Ruiz in THE VOICE OF KNOWLEDGE
“How can we know what the truth is when almost everything we have learned is a lie? How can we recognize what is real in us? Well, it took some time for me to find out, but I found out. … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024 by Don Miguel and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
“The truth is that all knowledge 100 percent of it, is nothing more than symbolism or words that we invent for the need to understand and express what we perceive. Every word in our mind and on this page is … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, March 5th, 2024 by Don Miguel Ruiz in THE FOUR AGREEMENTS COMPANION BOOK
“Imagine how you would speak to someone whom you love and respect immensely. If you have a pet dog or cat that you love and adore, how do you speak to your animal friend? Now consider how you speak to … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, January 31st, 2024 by Don Miguel Ruiz in THE FOUR AGREEMENTS
“To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Just … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, July 28th, 2023 by Don Miguel Ruiz in THE FOUR AGREEMENTS COMPANION BOOK
“Many times there are things in our lives that we don’t like, that we want to change, but we make the same mistakes, the same choices, expecting that the result will be different. Well, it will not be different. The … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, May 30th, 2023 by Don Miguel and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
“Now it’s easy to understand why there is so much conflict between humans. The world is populated by billions of dreamers who aren’t aware that people are living in their own world, dreaming their own dream. From the point of … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, January 17th, 2023 by Don Miguel Ruiz in THE VOICE OF KNOWLEDGE
“Just imagine if you really have free will, which is the power to make your own choices. Do you really choose to sabotage your own happiness or your own love? Do you choose to judge yourself, to blame yourself, to … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022 by Don Miguel and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
“Humans have a need to explain and justify everything; we have a need for knowledge, and we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know. We don’t care whether the knowledge is true or not. Truth or fiction, we believe … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, May 20th, 2022 by Don Miguel Ruiz in THE VOICE OF KNOWLEDGE
“Why do people abuse us? Because we allow them to abuse us, because in our judgment we believe we deserve to be abused. But if we go a little deeper, we see that we abuse ourselves far more than anybody … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, April 26th, 2022 by Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
“Can you see all the judgments that you have about yourself? Every judgment is just an opinion – it’s just a point of view – and that point of view wasn’t there when you were born. Everything you think about … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Friday, February 25th, 2022 by Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
“You are here to enjoy life. You are not here to suffer over your drama or your personal importance. It’s not you, it doesn’t belong to your presence. You are here to be a dreamer, to be an artist, to … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Monday, December 20th, 2021 by Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz in THE FIFTH AGREEMENT
Be impeccable with your word really means never use the power of the word against yourself. When you’re impeccable with your word, you never betray yourself. You never use the word to gossip about yourself or to spread emotional poison … Continue reading
BEST of PONDER on THIS for Thursday, October 21st, 2021 by Don Miguel Ruiz in THE VOICE OF KNOWLEDGE
“There is nothing to fear anymore; we don’t have to be afraid to die. There is only one force that exists, and when we die, everybody is going back to the same place. Even if we don’t want to, even … Continue reading