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| If You Believe Yourself to Be An Artist
“If you believe yourself to be an artist, then everything becomes possible again. Words are your paintbrush and your life is the canvas.” - The Fifth Agreement
The Five Agreements
Be Impeccable With Your Word Don’t Take Anything Personally Don’t Make Assumptions Always Do Your Best Be Skeptical But Learn To Listen We are all constantly creating in our mind, words and symbols that manifest a kind of virtual reality. Each of our personal realities is different. The question is, are we going to create this reality with our without awareness? If you have awareness, you will enjoy your creation. You can create a beautiful belief system and a beautiful life story by using the word correctly. This takes a lot of practice and another skill listening. The First Agreement is: Be Impeccable With Your Word. The Fifth Agreement is Be Skeptical, But Learn to Listen. Question everything, especially your own truth what you believe in. It can be a real truth or a virtual truth that is distorted in some way. A virtual truth can be easily swayed by emotion or prejudice. According to Ruiz, a real truth is life’s creation, and it’s It is a life-long challenge to free our words from gossip, falsehoods, anger, and demeaning ideas of our self and others. Ruiz points out that “Be impeccable with your word” actually means that words have magic, magic to manifest physical reality. If we use this magic incorrectly by claiming for example “we are not good enough,” we use the words or the magic of the words against ourselves. We are telling ourselves lies that make us suffer in our virtual reality. If you have the courage, you can question these lies and use the sword of discrimination to sever these ties to you. The Ruiz authors say if you use the word impeccably, you will use your words in the direction of truth and love for yourself. The force behind your word is your intent. And, if your intent is purity, love and faith, you will create a beautiful life. Namasté, |
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