Half of everything: half smile, half attentive, half creating, half-work… I really appreciated the way you put forward the most important ideas of this book. Good note for Miguel Ruiz`s book. I also pulled some nuggets from it on getnugget .co. Nuggets as notes on the edge of a page, but with images. You can find them interesting! Explore your book, then jump straight to the point where you stopped with Page Flip. We have to break many old arrangements and change a lot of domesticated beliefs to really keep a space for someone who hurts us or who is angry without judging to withdraw, defend, accuse, intellectualize, share their dream. Thank you for sharing your point of view, Coleen. I always recommend all books written by members of the Ruiz family.
Miguel Ruiz`s latest book (The Toltec Art of Life and Death) is a little different. He continues to teach some of the same lessons presented in his previous books, but in the context of a somewhat fictionalized report on his experience, when he was about to die after his heart attack. He looks back at events as he grew up, which gives more insight into his thinking. I`m also looking forward to Miguel Ruiz Jr`s next book, The Mastery of Self: A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom. What this means is that this agreement is intended to avoid gossip, lies, empty promises and other ways to create problems with our words. Just say what you mean, and realize that you can cause damage if you are not careful with what you say. I have neither read nor planned this book. I saw these four chords on the wall in a yoga teacher house and laughed. These tenants are what Saniel Bonder, the founder of Waking Down In Mutality, would call hyper-masculine ideas to improve us. They could improve our lives for a while, but like all self-improvement projects, they imply that ultimately we need more self-insurance.
Although there is an important place for the action component in life (the male strength), it is necessary to reconcile it with the softer outfit and to accept the maternity qualities of the deep feminine. Truly loving us for and with all our human weaknesses is the key to the non-judgment of ourselves and others, and a surprising impudence. This can pave the way for a deeper understanding that involves knowing us as an unlimited presence of Devine. Here is a spontaneous list of my 4 chords: (1) Give yourself a break – points over and over again to be aware: This is good advice to help you become less responsive, defensive and retaliatory, but keep it in balance. While everyone has their own prejudices and there is no real objectivity, you can, by never taking anything personally, your ability to see your own negative patterns and biased ideas, really limit and work towards the development of healthier models and lucid thoughts. As Scott Peck says in The Road Less Traveled: “The problem of distinguishing between who we are and what we are not responsible for in this life is one of the greatest problems of human existence.” You could say that these beliefs “distort” your side of this conversation, because that`s what convictions do — and why Toltec`s path is about studying beliefs and determining whether they really serve us to be happy. It`s a simple thing to be happy. Happy means to me the absence of the suffering and emotional roller coaster I was experiencing when I personally took things and distorted the beauty of others. Do the teachings really indicate that there is no right or wrong, we do everything that makes us happy? They said, “I met someone who had read this book… I`m not going to do that.
Apparently, they didn`t get any of that, and that`s why they ran you over.