{"id":20173,"date":"2021-09-20T00:02:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T21:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lecturesbureau.gr\/1\/?p=20173&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-09-19T23:57:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T20:57:56","slug":"everyone-is-a-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lecturesbureau.gr\/1\/everyone-is-a-mirror\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Everyone is a mirror (DON MIGUEL RUIZ)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three thousand years ago, there was a human just like you<br \/>\nand me who lived near a city surrounded by mountains. The human was<br \/>\nstudying to become a medicine man, to learn the knowledge of his ancestors,<br \/>\nbut he didn\u2019t completely agree with everything he was learning. In his heart, he<br \/>\nfelt there must be something more.<br \/>\nOne day, as he slept in a cave, he dreamed that he saw his own body<br \/>\nsleeping. He came out of the cave on the night of a new moon. The sky was<br \/>\nclear, and he could see millions of stars. Then something happened inside of<br \/>\nhim that transformed his life forever. He looked at his hands, he felt his body,<br \/>\nand he heard his own voice say, \u201cI am made of light; I am made of stars.\u201d<br \/>\nHe looked at the stars again, and he realized that it\u2019s not the stars that create<br \/>\nlight, but rather light that creates the stars. \u201cEverything is made of light,\u201d he<br \/>\nsaid, \u201cand the space in-between isn\u2019t empty.\u201d And he knew that everything that<br \/>\nexists is one living being, and that light is the messenger of life, because it is<br \/>\nalive and contains all information.<br \/>\nThen he realized that although he was made of stars, he was not those stars.<br \/>\n\u201cI am in-between the stars,\u201d he thought. So he called the stars the tonal and the<br \/>\nlight between the stars the nagual, and he knew that what created the harmony<br \/>\nand space between the two is Life or Intent. Without Life, the tonal and the<br \/>\nnagual could not exist. Life is the force of the absolute, the supreme, the Creator<br \/>\nwho creates everything.<br \/>\nThis is what he discovered: Everything in existence is a manifestation of the<br \/>\none living being we call God. Everything is God. And he came to the<br \/>\nconclusion that human perception is merely light perceiving light. He also saw<br \/>\nthat matter is a mirror \u2014 everything is a mirror that reflects light and creates<br \/>\nimages of that light \u2014 and the world of illusion, the Dream, is just like smoke<br \/>\nwhich doesn\u2019t allow us to see what we really are. \u201cThe real us is pure love,<br \/>\npure light,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThis realization changed his life. Once he knew what he really was, he<br \/>\nlooked around at other humans and the rest of nature, and he was amazed at<br \/>\nwhat he saw. He saw himself in everything \u2014 in every human, in every animal,<br \/>\nin every tree, in the water, in the rain, in the clouds, in the earth. And he saw<br \/>\nthat Life mixed the tonal and the nagual in different ways to create billions of<br \/>\nmanifestations of Life.<br \/>\nIn those few moments he comprehended everything. He was very excited,<br \/>\nand his heart was filled with peace. He could hardly wait to tell his people<br \/>\nwhat he had discovered. But there were no words to explain it. He tried to tell<br \/>\nthe others, but they could not understand. They could see that he had changed,<br \/>\nthat something beautiful was radiating from his eyes and his voice. They<br \/>\nnoticed that he no longer had judgment about anything or anyone. He was no<br \/>\nlonger like anyone else.<br \/>\nHe could understand everyone very well, but no one could understand him.<br \/>\nThey believed that he was an incarnation of God, and he smiled when he heard<br \/>\nthis and he said, \u201cIt is true. I am God. But you are also God. We are the same,<br \/>\nyou and I. We are images of light. We are God.\u201d But still the people didn\u2019t<br \/>\nunderstand him.<br \/>\nHe had discovered that he was a mirror for the rest of the people, a mirror in<br \/>\nwhich he could see himself. \u201cEveryone is a mirror,\u201d he said. He saw himself in<br \/>\neveryone, but nobody saw him as themselves. And he realized that everyone<br \/>\nwas dreaming, but without awareness, without knowing what they really are.<br \/>\nThey couldn\u2019t see him as themselves because there was a wall of fog or smoke<br \/>\nbetween the mirrors. And that wall of fog was made by the interpretation of<br \/>\nimages of light \u2014 the Dream of humans.<br \/>\nThen he knew that he would soon forget all that he had learned. He wanted to<br \/>\nremember all the visions he had had, so he decided to call himself the Smokey<br \/>\nMirror so that he would always know that matter is a mirror and the smoke inbetween<br \/>\nis what keeps us from knowing what we are. He said, \u201cI am the<br \/>\nSmokey Mirror, because I am looking at myself in all of you, but we don\u2019t<br \/>\nrecognize each other because of the smoke in-between us. That smoke is the<br \/>\nDream, and the mirror is you, the dreamer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Four Agreements<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Don Miguel Ruiz<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Image:https:\/\/www.aliexpress.com\/w\/wholesale-mirrors-people.html<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three thousand years ago, there was a human just like you and me who lived near a city surrounded by mountains. 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