New Agreements for Living: Interview with Don Miguel Ruiz Sr
When we create the story of our life, we also create the main character of the story, the one we believe we are: ‘our identity’. And we know for sure that we are what we believe we are. So if I use knowledge to justify who I am, I will say “I am a male, I am a human being, I am a Medical Doctor, I am an author, and I will say everything that I think I am. But is that really truth?
The biggest fear that knowledge has is the fear for the unknown. Like the fear for death. We don’t know what happens after we die. Even when we believe things that are not true, it still makes us feel safe, especially our own identity. But when we start realizing this isn’t the truth, our world starts shaking and then the whole story of your life is not so important anymore. It is just a story, but you are still alive, you won’t die. Everything that you have believed so far falls apart but you are alive. And that is the moment when you have the awareness that everything that you know is there because you created it.
Now we become our own judge, the most serious judge that has ever existed because we know exactly what we believe and don’t believe. With judging comes punishing for not being the way we should be and this is the biggest tragedy in every human being; not being the way you are supposed to be. And all this awareness that we are discussing right now is our path to freedom. You will now find out that you are born alone, you grow up alone and you will die alone and you will live in your own story. It is important to realize that you can be authentic just the way you are and to be free. A flower is wild, a bird is wild, but humans are the ones who are not wild, we are domesticated.
