Miguel Ruiz reminds us of a basic and straightforward fact in The Voice of Knowledge: Stopping believing lies, mostly about ourselves, is the only way to put an end to our emotional suffering and regain our joy in life. This ground-breaking book, which is based on ancient Toltec wisdom, teaches us how to regain our trust in reality and revert to our own common sense.
Ruiz modifies our perceptions of both ourselves and other individuals. Then he opens the door to a reality of truth, love, and pleasure that we used to see when we were just one and two years old.
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About the Author
Don Miguel Ruiz is the author of The Four Agreements (which has been a New York Times bestseller for more than ten years), The Four Agreements Companion Book, The Mastery of Love, The Voice of Knowledge, The Circle of Fire, and The Fifth Agreement.
Ruiz’s teachings are renowned for their ability to distil complex human issues into straightforward common sense, a skill that has garnered him millions of admirers and international recognition.
In addition to co-authoring six books in The Toltec Wisdom Series, Jane Mills is the founder and president of Amber-Allen Publishing and co-author with Ruiz. Additionally, Mills is the publisher of Jane Roberts’s world-famous “Seth Books” and editor of Deepak Chopra’s best-selling book, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success.
Review
Even as young children, we understand how to be really genuine and live in the present. However, author Don Miguel Ruiz claims that after that, we are given “knowledge” about how to exist in the world, which is harmful. To be a “good” boy or girl, parents teach us how to act. Teachers explain to us what it takes to be a “successful” or “winner” adult.
Ruiz, the best-selling author of The Four Agreements, emphasises that this communal “voice of knowledge” is not only untrue but also dangerous. We are led to feel that “I am not the way I should be; it is not okay to be me.
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Ruiz compares the departure of the genuine self to the fall from heaven and alludes to the forbidden tree of knowledge with reference to the account of Adam and Eve. Spiritual teachers may refer to what Ruiz refers to as the voice of knowledge as ego, which is the concealed and fiercely guarded belief system that keeps us from being authentically ourselves.
We feel safe because of the structure of our knowledge.” The basis of our entire reality starts to crumble when we realise that we are not who we think we are. Every person is an artist, according to Ruiz, who cites the Toltec heritage, “and the supreme art is the expression of the beauty of our spirit.
As he puts it, “the ones who create their story without awareness, and the ones who recover awareness and create their story with truth and love” are the two types of artists. The focus of the fourth volume in the Toltec Wisdom series is the recovery of awareness.
This is an excellent book for spiritual growth to read before bed. Every chapter concludes with “Points to Ponder”—summary ideas to ponder while you write your life’s more genuine narrative. Galil Hudson
Having sold over 2.7 million copies of The Four Agreements, Ruiz is back with a new book that offers his most recent ideas on how to gain inner knowledge and heal. The book, which is written in the first person and frequently uses apostrophic addresses,.
(“You need to challenge every belief that you use to judge yourself, to reject yourself, to make yourself little”), seamlessly and anecdotally transitions from “Adam and Eve: The Story from a Different Point of View” to “The Tree of Life: The Story Comes Full Circle,” with ten chapters in between.
These include “The Lie of Our Imperfection,” a chapter that discusses “emotional pain as a symptom of abuse,” and one on “Writing Our Story with Love,” with frequent pauses for “Points to Ponder.
For Ruiz, both to ourselves and to others, life may be a tale. His observations on the process by which individuals narrate these stories, how they may alter their stories, draw on the folklore of his home country of Mexico, and feel both focused and deserving.
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Summary
This is one of the numerous lies you are exposed to every day, according to Don Miguel Ruiz. He states in the epigraph of The Voice of Knowledge, “What is truth is real.” “What isn’t true isn’t genuine.” It appears genuine, yet it’s an illusion. There is such a thing as love. It is life’s ultimate manifestation.
And that’s exactly what’s at stake: we’ve lost how to love and, by extension, how to live because of all the illusions we’ve come to think to be real in our lives. As you may assume, the voice of wisdom from Don Miguel Ruiz’s 2004 book is not a voice of God; rather, it is the voice of the prince of darkness who is keeping you from your own self.