We wear a social mask because it’s too painful to see ourselves or to let others see us as we really are.

Don Miguel is a nagual from the Eagle Knight lineage, and is dedicated to sharing his knowledge of the teachings of the ancient Toltecs. I agree that Western thought is often too focused on having, taking and receiving, rather than giving as a source of joy and happiness - and I agree that something needs to change, that happiness shouldn't be about having and taking. You can see this dynamic so clearly because usually in every relationship there is one who loves the most and the other who doesn’t love, who only takes advantage of the one who gives his or her heart. When you inhibit your partner’s freedom, you inhibit your own because you have to be there to see what your partner is doing or not doing. Once you find that out, not with 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.Todaylet something extraordinary happen that will change our life forever:Let everything we do and say be an expression of the beauty in ourheart, always based on love. That is why we need to accept the differences that exist between two dreamers; we need to respect each other’s dream. Let us see you in every cell of our body, inevery emotion of our mind, in every dream, in every flower, in everyperson we meet. This one made me think for a very long time – is that how we determine what abuse we’ll take…how bad we think we are?

You have a limit to the amount of abuse you will accept, but no one in the whole world abuses you more than you abuse yourself. No one can offer us more happiness or love…we already have all we need, and we can share with everyone else…forever! We create all these little demons in our mind because we have learned to dream hell in our own life. If you take your happiness and put it in someone’s hands, sooner or later, she is going to break it. Me gusta el mensaje que quiere transmitir pero quizá no estoy de acuerdo en las palabras que usa para afirmar ciertas cosas.Today, Creator of the Universe, we ask that you open our heart and openour eyes so we can enjoy all of your creations and live in eternal lovewith you. Having said that, I think I will be pondering this book for quite some time, I think it is that kind of book. The way religion describes the compassion shows that the list-to-follow is too long, which contradicts their acclaim that Heaven is so near. This book certainly contains some good and well needed advice, for example it frequently stresses the importance of self acceptance and self love, a concept which I think many of us struggle with.

this will be going on the wall, to remind myself every day, that my shoulders cannot take the weight of everyone else's actions, and nor do they have to. OK now that we've established our reality amounts to one big fantasy of our own creation let's move on to the 2nd concept.because i really do appreciate a lot of the wisdom from the book, it was an easy and fast read (yes it took me months but it's because i completely stopped reading for a while LOL) for someone who is not the best or most experienced reader, and i do feel happier and more centered after reading it. Currently studying animal welfare, I am often confronted with human actions that make finding a place of 'love' in my heart for the people who inflict these heinous actions, utterly impossible. You need to be completely honest with yourself -- to say what you want, and see if you are willing to dance or not. Isn't the same person, who is inviting us to the journey of perfection, trying to convince us of its impossibility? Perhaps I am just too full of the "fear and emotional poison" that my society has drilled into me, to be able to fully grasp the concepts of unconditional love in this book.