New Agreements for Living: Interview with Don Miguel Ruiz Sr
I can assure you without a doubt, that on the whole planet earth, there is no one like you, there never was anyone like you, and there will never be anyone like you. You are unique. Then, to whom will you compare in order to see if you are perfect or not? You cannot be anybody else, you can only be you. If you don’t accept yourself, you will have a big tragedy. We see millions of humans who don’t accept themselves. They don’t even like themselves, they even hate themselves up to a point that they even kill themselves, because they don’t reach that level of perfection that they have in their mind.
SS: Part of your life story is that a near-fatal car accident caused you to reevaluate your life and make far reaching changes. It seems that sometimes we need suffering in order to see the world through different eyes. Do you agree with that?
DMR: No, we don’t need suffering at all! Something that I will tell you that is important is that the real teacher is life itself and life is teaching life. Life is all those billions of events that are happening all the time. We perceive life through our physical body and we interact. We perceive the images of the object but we don’t perceive objects, it is a virtual reality which we call the mind. This is how we create knowledge and our story, but it doesn’t mean this is real. It is all corrupted by life which is completely normal. There are moments that the body is so close to break, close to die. During those moments we often have a fast review of the story that we created and you will then find out how irrelevant this story actually is, and this of course will change everything. It is all a wonderful game, but it happens in the brain, in the mind and it is not real. It is not true. The truth is even better than that, much better. I know that, I have been there. So when Oprah asked me what happens after we die, I said “nothing, nothing happens.” Now, only the truth will exist, the truth cannot be destroyed and is always in front of you. And don’t try to explain the truth, because as soon as you try to explain the truth, it is no longer the truth.
To listen to an interview of Don Miguel Ruiz Sr. by Angela Levesque on her radio show “Health & Healing” on 30 November 2012 discussing welcoming in the new world, click: Angela Levesque – Health & Healing with Don Miguel Ruiz
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