Quotes About Authenticity

Imagine living your life without being afraid to take a risk and to explore life. You are not afraid to lose anything. You are not afraid to be alive in the world, and you are not afraid to die. Imagine that you love yourself just the way you are. You love your body just the way it is, and you love your emotions just the way they are. You know that you are perfect just as you are.

If you are impeccable with your word, if you don't take anything personally, if you don't make assumptions, if you always do your best, then you are going to have a beautiful life.

To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive — the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned to live our lives trying to satisfy other people's demands. We have learned to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.

We don't need to know or prove anything. Just to be, to take a risk and enjoy your life, is all that matters.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive — the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned to live our lives trying to satisfy other people's demands. We have learned to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.

Be impeccable with your word. This is the first agreement that you should make if you want to be free, if you want to be happy, if you want to transcend the level of existence that is hell.

Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself.

When you become impeccable with your word, your mind is no longer fertile ground for words that come from black magic. Instead, it is fertile for the words that come from love.

We pretend to be what we are not because we are afraid of being rejected. The fear of being rejected becomes the fear of not being good enough. Eventually we become someone that we are not. We become a copy of Mamma's beliefs, Daddy's beliefs, society's beliefs, and religion's beliefs.

La segunda regla es más difícil: No te creas a ti mismo. No te creas todas las mentiras que te dices:

La domesticación es tan poderosa que, en un determinado momento de nuestra vida, ya no necesitamos que nadie nos domestique.

There are thousands of agreements you have made with yourself, with other people, with your dream of life, with God, with society, with your parents, with your spouse, with your children. But the most important agreements are the ones you made with yourself.

Qué es el yo verdadero? ¿Por qué no tomas otro nombre? La rosa no dejaría de ser rosa, y de esparcir su aroma, aunque se llamase de otro modo. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Te amo sin que hayan razones ni justificaciones de por medio. Te amo tal como eres y eres libre de ser tú mismo. Si no me gusta tu forma de ser, entonces será mejor que busque a alguien que sea como a mí me guste. No tenemos el derecho de cambiar a nadie y nadie tiene el derecho de cambiarnos a nosotros. Si cambiamos será porque nosotros queremos cambiar, porque no queremos seguir sufriendo. La

You can measure the impeccability of your word by your level of self-love. How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word.

To be Toltec is a way of life. It is a way of life where there are no leaders and no followers, where you have your own truth and live your own truth.

Empezamos a actuar para intentar complacer a mamá y a papá, a los profesores y a la iglesia. Fingimos ser lo que no éramos porque nos daba miedo que nos rechazaran. El miedo a ser rechazados se convirtió en el miedo a no ser lo bastante buenos. Al final, acabamos siendo alguien que no éramos. Nos convertimos en una copia de las creencias de mamá, las creencias de papá, las creencias de la sociedad y las creencias de la religión.

We have learned to live our lives trying to satisfy other people's demands.

We pretend to be what we are not because we are afraid of being rejected. The fear of being rejected becomes the fear of not being good enough.

Nuestra imagen de perfección es la razón por la cual nos rechazamos; es el motivo por el cual no nos aceptamos a nosotros mismos tal como somos y no aceptamos a los demás tal como son.

And this is why we have a fear of being ourselves around others. Because we think everyone else will judge us, victimize us, abuse us, and blame us as we do ourselves. So even before others have a chance to reject us, we have already rejected ourselves.

We know we are not what we believe we are supposed to be and so we feel false, frustrated, and dishonest. We try to hide ourselves, and we pretend to be what we are not. The result is that we feel unauthentic and wear social masks to keep others from noticing this.

We pretend to be what we are not because we are afraid of being rejected.

How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word.