The Mastery Of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz

The Wounded Mind:

“Humans live in continuous fear of being hurt, and this creates a big drama wherever we go. The way humans relate to each other is so emotionally painful that for no apparent reason we get angry, jealous, envious, sad. To even say “I love you” can be frightening. But even if its painful and fearful to have an emotional interaction, still we keep going, we enter into a relationship, we get married, and we have children. In order to protect our emotional wounds, and because of our fear of being hurt, humans create something very sophisticated in the mind: a big denial system. In that denial system we become the perfect liars. We lie so perfectly that we lie to ourselves and we even believe our own lies. We don’t notice we are lying, and sometimes even when we know, we are lying, we justify the lie and excuse the lie to protect ourselves from the pain of our wounds.”

“The real us is pure love; we are Life.”

“When we are children, we learn that everyone’s opinions are important, and we rule our lives according to those opinions…Opinions have a lot of power over the nonsense behavior of people. That is why we need to hear that we are good , that we are doing well, that we are beautiful.”

Seeing With Eyes Of Love:

“You can only perceive that beauty that lies outside you when you feel the beauty that lives inside you.”

“Our emotions act like a filter through which we see the rest of the world.”

Healing The Emotional Body:

“You must forgive those who hurt you, even if whatever they did to you is unforgivable in your mind. You will forgive them not because they deserve to be forgiven, but because you don’t want to suffer and hurt yourself every time you remember what they did to you…The only way to heal your wounds is through forgiveness.”

“Love coming out of you is the only way to be happy. Unconditional love for yourself. Complete surrender to that love for yourself. You no longer resist life. You no longer reject yourself. You no longer carry all that blame and guilt. You just accept who you are, and accept everyone else they way he or she is. You have the right to love, to smile, to be happy, to share your love, and to not be afraid to receive it also.”

“You are Life passing through your body, passing through your mind, passing through your soul. Once you find that out, not with the logic, not with the intellect, but because you can feel that Life – you find out that you are the force that makes the flowers open and close, that makes the hummingbird fly from flower to flower. You find out that you are in every tree, you are in every animal, vegetable, and rock. You are that force that moves the wind and breathes through your body. The whole universe is a living being that is moved by that force, and that is what you are. You are Life.”