Several weeks have gone by, and you haven’t eaten. Don’t believe I’m going to do whatever you want me to do. You can come into my house and eat whatever you want, and you don’t have to do anything. You are going to laugh and say, “No, thank you! I don’t need your food I have plenty of food. Yet this person comes to you and offers you food, if you just do whatever he wants you to do. You just have to be good to me.”Ĭan you imagine your reaction? In your kitchen you can have the same pizza - even better. You are never going to starve because I can bring pizza every day. You open the door, and the person looks at you and says, “Hey, do you see this pizza? I’ll give you this pizza if you let me control your life, if you just do whatever I want you to do. Then one day someone knocks at your door, and it’s a person with a pizza.

Whoever comes to your home, you feed just for the pleasure of sharing your food, and your house is always full of people who come to eat the food from your magical kitchen. You are very generous with your food you give your food unconditionally to others, not because you want something in return from them. You never worry about what to eat whatever you wish for, you can have at your table. In that magical kitchen, you can have any food you want from any place in the world in any quantity. Imagine that you have a magical kitchen in your home. When you are aware that no one else can make you happy, and that happiness is the result of your love, this becomes the greatest mastery of the Toltec: The Mastery of Love.” - don Miguel Ruiz “ Happiness can only come from inside of you and is the result of your love.

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Using insightful stories to bring his message to life, Ruiz shows us how to heal our emotional wounds, recover the freedom and joy that are our birthright, and restore the spirit of playfulness that is vital to loving relationships. In The Mastery of Love, don Miguel Ruiz illuminates the fear-based beliefs and assumptions that undermine love and lead to suffering and drama in our relationships. Read by actors Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker.Los Angeles Times and USA Today Bestseller Lists.

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