The Voice of Knowledge Part 2 of 4: Storytelling
January 20, 2009 by dr. lam
Ruiz imagines that our lives are a dream and that we tell our stories of our life through imagining how we want to live that life. In essence, we are our own creators of our story like an artist. Ruiz’s grandfather presents the scenario that Ruiz asks Pablo Picasso to paint a portrait of him: ”When you see it finally, you say, ‘That’s not me. It does not look like me.’ Picasso replies, ‘But, of course, that is how I see you.’” We are all artists creating our own imagined story. If we see ourselves as an artist creating our story, then we do not have issues with someone else telling us that our story should be so and so. We create our own story based on our own perception.
However, sometimes we create a false story because we do not see the truth of ourselves or refuse to do so. We believe our own lies and we believe the lies that others tell of us. How do we begin to tell an authentic story of ourselves? How do we scrub away the voice of knowledge so that we see ourselves without the dense fog of mitote? The answer is straightforward but not easy: we follow the four agreements outlined last week. We stay impeccable with our word; we do not take anything personally; we do not make assumptions; and we always do our best (not more and not less).
When we start living by the principles of the four agreements, we start to see the obvious qualities of the lies that we tell ourselves and we see how others lie about us. If we remain impeccable with our word, we approach a condition in which we cannot lie to ourselves because it is against our very nature. The voice of knowledge that tells us that we are not worthy or when someone else screams that to us must be gently erased through the process of self awareness. If we remain impeccable with our word, we become authentic and truthful. The greatest lie that we tell is not one told to others, it is the one that we tell ourselves every day. What is that lie? Once you start living by the four agreements, you will start to see your own lies and begin to free yourself from those lies. You start to become an authentic individual, unfettered by the shackles of our own self-imposed hell. We become the perfect creatures that God created and reflect His light. We stop becoming a product of our own untruth. Tomorrow, we will investigate how emotions play in our lives and how we should perceive emotions in our lives.
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