The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace (Toltec Wisdom Book)</br></br>Product Description</br></br><div>In <I>The Voice of Knowledge</I>?? Miguel Ruiz reminds us of a profound and simple truth: The only way to end our"motional suffering and restore our joy in living is to stop believing in lies ? mainly about ourselves. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom?? this breakthrough book shows us how to recover our faith in the truth and return to our own common sense.<BR><BR> Ruiz changes the way we perceive ourselves?? and the way we perceive other people. Then he opens the door to a reality that we once perceived when we were one and two years old ? a reality of truth?? love?? and joy.<BR><BR><I>??We are born in truth?? but we grow up believing in lies. . . . One of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.??</I>? ?? don Miguel Ruiz<BR><BR> ?</div></br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>As little children we know how to live in the moment and be completely authentic. But then something damaging happens to us?? according to author Don Miguel Ruiz: we are given "e" about how to live in the world. Parents tell us how to behave in order to be a "good" boy or girl. Teachers tell us what it takes to be a "winner" or a "successful" adult. This collective "voice of knowledge" is not only false--it is often poisonous?? explains Ruiz?? bestselling author of <I>The Four Agreements</I>. It makes us believe that "am not the way I should be; it is not okay to be me." Drawing upon the story of Adam and Eve?? Ruiz refers to the forbidden tree of knowledge and likens the abandonment of the true self to the fall from heaven. What Ruiz calls "he voice of knowledge" others spiritual teachers might call ego--the hidden and carefully defended belief system that prevents us from living and express