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The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book

In this text, Don Miguel Ruiz explains the Toltec perspective on love. In answer to the question of what love really is, he highlights the misplaced expectations that permeate most relationships.

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“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. It doesn’t matter what others did to…”

— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com

Tagged: forgiveness

“Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com

Tagged: selfishness

“If you are aware that no one else can make you happy, and that happiness is the result of love coming out of you, this becomes the greatest mastery of the Toltecs, the Mastery of Love.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Choose Yourself

“It doesn’t matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, realtionships, Move On, Dating

“The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com

Tagged: Why People Get Upset, Anger

“When you truly understand, you are likely to see what is true about others, and not just what you want to see.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com

Tagged: Honesty, Authenticity

“The real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com

Tagged: Life Purpose, Meaning, Life

“And what is the right woman, the right man? Someone who wants to go in the same direction as you do, someone who is compatible with your views and your values — emotionally, physically, economically, spiritually.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com

Tagged: Partners, Dating, What To Look For In The Love Of Your Life

“You don’t need to justify your love, you don’t need to explain your love; you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, practice

“We don’t have the right to change anyone else, and no one else has the right to change us. If we are going to change, it is because we want to change, because we don’t want to suffer any longer.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com

Tagged: Change, Human Relationships

“Happiness never comes from outside of us. He was happy because of the love coming out of him; she was happy because of the love coming out of her. But as soon as he made her responsible for his happiness, she broke the star because she could not be responsible for his happiness.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com

Tagged: Being Happy

“Life brings to you exactly what you need. There is perfect justice in hell. There is nothing to blame. We can even say that our suffering is a gift. If you just open your eyes and see what is around you, it’s exactly what you need to clean your poison, to heal your wounds, to accept yourself, and to…”

— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com

Tagged: life advice, Life, Self-Love