Miguel Ángel Ruiz Macías
Don Miguel Ruiz is a Mexican author of Toltec spiritual and neoshamanistic texts. His work is best-received among members of the New Thought movement that focuses on ancient teachings as a means to achieve spiritual enlightenment. (Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes)
“A feeling of anger, anxiety, or fear is often an indicator that something is out of line between your attached beliefs and your inner truth.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
Living a Life of Awareness
“A relationship is an event; two individuals meet and catch each other’s attention. Like any event, the length and the quality of it depends on the quality of attention from both sides. A romantic relationship, like any other, can survive indefinitely. Respect is the key. Driven by old habits and emotional dramas, a union will fail, becoming an insatiable monster that eats love and turns it into a thousand investments and fears.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“A Toltec is an artist of Love, an artist of the Spirit, someone who is creating every moment, every second, the most beautiful art — the Art of Dreaming. Life is nothing but a dream, and if we are artists, then we can create our life with Love, and our dream becomes a masterpiece of art.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years because you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“After domestication, we try to be good enough for everybody else, but we are no longer good enough for ourselves, because we can never live up to our image of perfection.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The fifth agreement
“All humans create their story with their own unique point of view. Why try to impose your story on other people when for them your story is not true? When you understand that, you no longer have the need to defend what you believe. It’s not important to be right or to make others wrong. Instead, you see everybody as an artist, a storyteller. You know that whatever they believe is just their point of view. It has nothing to do with you.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Voice of Knowledge
“All of our drama and suffering is by practice.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“And what is the right woman, the right man? Someone who wants to go in the same direction as you do, someone who is compatible with your views and your values– emotionally, physically, economically, spiritually.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“As artists, we distort the truth and create the most amazing theories; we create entire philosophies and the most amazing religions; we create stories and superstitions about everything, including ourselves. And this is exactly the main point: We create them.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The fifth agreement
“Awareness is the ability to see what is there, and it is never too late to open your eyes.” (Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes)
Don Miguel Ruiz
The three questions
“Be responsible for every choice you make in your life. This is your life; it’s nobody else’s life, and you will find that it’s nobody else’s business what you do with your life.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The fifth agreement
“Being a lover is part of the warrior’s life, maestro. You would do well to consider that. A lover must stay alert and prepared for action.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. You are hurting yourself. There is no way I can take this personally.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“By modifying the mirror, we alter the face of ‘me’. By adopting energy’s point of view, we let go of our small obsessions. By seeing beyond our own concerns, we can appreciate the infinite landscape. Each of us is pure energy caught up in the dream of matter. We assume we know who we are. We assume we can discern what is real. We believe all our assumptions are true, until we start to doubt. That’s the first step in answering what is real. Our sense of reality starts to shift when we question what we believe.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The three questions
“By seeing how attached we are to a specific belief or idea, we recover something very important: the ability to choose, to say yes or no over and over again.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Five Levels of Attachment
“Change requires action. One action leads to another, and another, until the new habits become automatic and the changes become evident.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The three questions
“Children just feel emotions and their reasoning mind doesn’t interpret or question them. This is why children accept certain people and reject other people.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“Confess. Admit that you’ve sinned—that you have harmed your own human being in some way. Repent—that is, make an agreement to stop. Do penance, which means to offer yourself forgiveness. Modify your behavior from that moment forward.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“Detached and attentive to life’s command, I feel only freedom and the unreserved love that arises when fear has exhausted itself.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“Don’t waste time taking things personally. When people talk to you, what they’re really doing is talking to the minor character in their story. Anything people say about you is nothing more than a projection of their image of you. It has nothing to do with you.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Voice of Knowledge
“During your whole life you practiced every moment to become what you believe you are right now.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The fifth agreement
“Each one of them was a potential warrior, capable of facing the battle within himself, but they’d all devoted too much energy to fighting outward battles instead. They would have to confront their own lies.” (Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes)
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“Early in its education every mind learns how to use words to threaten, to punish, and to destroy. If that fact sounded harsh to his apprentices, he had only to remind them of how they spoke to themselves—how they attacked themselves on a daily basis. The mind is its own kind of predator, whether it belongs to the body of a bashful woman or a brawny man.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“Every human is a magician, and in the interaction between the magicians, there are spells being cast everywhere. How? By misusing the word, by taking everything personally, by distorting everything we perceive with assumptions, by gossiping and spreading emotional poison with the word. Humans cast spells mainly upon the people we love the most, and the more authority we have, the more powerful the spells.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The fifth agreement
“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Every person is capable of seeing himself, hearing himself, and modifying what he sees—not because he sees imperfection, but because he sees infinite potential.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“Everyone has the power to guide their reality in a new direction.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The three questions
“Faith is a force that comes from our integrity. It is the expression of what we really are. Faith is the power of our creation because we use faith to create our life story and to transform our life story.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Voice of Knowledge
“Faith is so important because it is the force that gives life to every word, to every concept that we store in our mind. We can say that life manifests through faith, and that faith is a messenger of life. Life goes through our faith, and then our faith gives life to everything we agree to believe in.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Voice of Knowledge
“Feeling Visualization let’s do a feeling-based visualization to step into this way of relating to ourselves. Make a list of the feelings you want to experience more of. For example, you might want more peace, compassion, love, excitement, joy, generosity, ease, communion, gratitude, or self-acceptance. After you’ve listed a few of the feelings you want to create more of, the next step is to experience those feelings in the body. Close your eyes and take a breath into your belly. What feeling do you want to experience more of? Imagine giving yourself the gift of that feeling. Think of a person or thing that makes you feel love, and let that feeling generate inside you. Notice the physical sensations of the love you are experiencing.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Seven Secrets to Healthy, Happy Relationships
“Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“First, we need to accept that we’re afraid. Fear often runs under the radar, and only our actions give us a clue. Challenging fear means finding its source and then looking deeper.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The three questions
“For thousands of years people have believed there is a conflict between good and evil in the universe. But this is not true. The real conflict is between truth and what is not truth. The conflict exists in the human mind, not in the rest of nature. Good and evil are the result of that conflict. Believing in truth results in goodness; believing in and defending what is not truth results in evil. Evil is just the result of believing in lies.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
Prayers
“Forgive me, I have used your words and actions against myself, and I will no longer use them to hurt myself again.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Five Levels of Attachment
“Forgiveness Ceremony for Couples If your partner is open to it, you may want to try what we call a forgiveness ceremony, which has its roots in an ancient African tradition where spouses come together to forgive each other of their trespasses and start anew. One at a time, each person shares their upset and frustrations with their partner. They scream, they moan, they whine. One person speaks at a time, letting”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Seven Secrets to Healthy, Happy Relationships
“Freedom begins when each individual mind dares to liberate itself from the prison it created. We are free when the war in our heads is over.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do.” (Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes)
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Great spiritual warriors look deep into the psychic chasm and, confronting their worst fears, find renewed awareness and ultimate peace.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“He had spent a lifetime cleansing his mind of poison. He had searched his heart, found the corruption, and removed it. He had torn away the lies—lies he’d been told and had believed, and lies he had devised and used against himself. This was his mastery—the purification of the mind and the recovery of authenticity. This scene symbolized the mastery of death, the awakening.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“Here is a simple game for couples that can help you know when to listen, speak, or be silent. You will be creating a signal so that you and your partner know the goal of the conversation. Start by stating your intention—vent, advice, or share—so your partner knows what’s coming: Vent: If one of us needs to vent and express our frustration after a hard day, we say, “Vent!” One”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Seven Secrets to Healthy, Happy Relationships
“Holding on to a resentment is liking taking a poison pill and waiting for the other person to die.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
Living a Life of Awareness
“Humans cover themselves, and protect themselves, and when someone says, “You are pushing my buttons,” it is not exactly true. What is true is that you are touching a wound in his mind, and he reacts because it hurts.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“Humans have a need to explain and justify everything; we have a need for knowledge, and we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The fifth agreement
“Humans have invented all kinds of symbols to communicate not only with other humans but more importantly with ourselves.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The fifth agreement
“Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Humans use fear to domesticate humans, and our fear increases with each experience of injustice.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“I am only responsible for what I say; I am not responsible for what you hear.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Five Levels of Attachment
“I encourage people to love themselves. I show them how respect can open doors, while fear only closes them. Respect rules heaven, and heaven is within our grasp with every choice we make.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“I have always been perfect, and so have you. When we can’t perceive this, it’s because we are too busy judging everything for not being something other than what it is.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Five Levels of Attachment
“I respect you when I don’t try to tell you how to live your life, how to dress, how to walk, how to talk, how to do whatever you do in your kingdom.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The fifth agreement
“I saw humans more clearly. I saw them as exceptional creatures under the tyranny of knowledge, helpless to change their circumstances. The human animal is helpless, that is, until the mind decides to change and until knowledge has lost its supreme authority.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don’t tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don’t understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don’t have the courage to ask questions.” (Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes)
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn’t walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don’t need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“If we are selfish and we feel cranky, then we believe that nobody has the right to be happy around us.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Voice of Knowledge
“If you dishonor an agreement, learn from the experience and do your best next time. It is an act of grace to forgive. It is an act of love to offer yourself another chance.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“If you don’t perceive love, if you cannot recognize love, it’s because you only recognize the poison inside you. I am responsible for what I say, but I am not responsible for what you understand. I can give you my love, but you can make the interpretation that you are receiving judgments, or who knows? Only your storyteller knows. When we no longer believe our own stories, we find it so easy to enjoy one another.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Voice of Knowledge
“If you fail to listen to what else is going on in the world and only rely on what you think you know and believe, you’ve attached yourself to an idea that blinds.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Five Levels of Attachment
“If you live in a past dream, you don’t enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“If you take your happiness and put it in someone’s hands, sooner or later, she is going to break it. If you give your happiness to someone else, she can always take it away. Then if happiness can only come from inside of you and is the result of your love, you are responsible for your happiness.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“Imagine living your life without judging others. You can easily forgive others and let go of any judgments that you have. You don’t have the need to be right, and you don’t need to make anyone else wrong. You respect yourself and everyone else, and they respect you in return.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“In a relationship, we can pretend to be the same, to think the same, to feel the same, to dream the same, but there is no way that can happen. There are two dreamers with two dreams.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“It doesn’t matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“It is always better to ask questions than to make an assumption, because assumptions set us up for suffering.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“It is very interesting how the human mind works. We have the need to justify everything, to explain and understand everything, in order to feel safe. We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe. This is why we make assumptions…We make all sorts of assumptions because we don’t have the courage to ask questions…We have agreed that it is not safe to ask questions; we have agreed that if people love us, they should know what we want or how we feel. When we believe something, we assume we are right about it to the point that we will destroy relationships in order to defend our position.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“It was considered a warrior’s greatest challenge to rise beyond his own beliefs. Now it is seen as a tactless assault against one’s identity. In my day, we would chase anger to its borders, cutting through thorn and weed until we found our way to the open fields of awareness.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“It was right that Dhara should be the one to lead the journey. She was the one who had sought him out, who had emerged from his sleeping dreams into his waking reality. She was a woman he could walk with. She was his woman, and her lifelong happiness was at stake.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“It’s a different kind of mind that looks inward and perceives the need to fight a battle against its own long-held beliefs and judgments. It’s a rare mind that looks, sees, and then decides to wage this war—the last war.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“It’s not true for the plants or the animals. It’s not true for the stars or the trees, or for the rest of nature. It’s only true for humans.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Voice of Knowledge
“Just like a wave that ripples across the water, we change ourselves, and everything else changes.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Voice of Knowledge
“Knowledge follows us everywhere, like a concerned friend or a persuasive lover. It’s the discreet noise in our head, whose meaning we think we understand. It asks that our ears ignore what we hear and our eyes deny what we see. It attempts to tell our hearts whom to love and what to hate. At its most intrusive, knowledge is a ruthless autocrat. It will abuse us and demand that we abuse others. One thought can take us far from our normal instincts and compassions. One idea can justify atrocities. It’s a simple thing to say that we are knowledge, swept from our own authenticity by words and meanings, but not so simple a thing to grasp, and to change. It’s challenging, of course, but faith in ourselves makes it possible, even inevitable.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“Let go of the attachment that you must obtain some image of perfection in order to be happy.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Five Levels of Attachment
“Let us proceed, keeping in mind that fear makes us deaf to truth.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“Life brings to you exactly what you need. There is perfect justice in hell. There is nothing to blame. We can even say that our suffering is a gift. If you just open your eyes and see what is around you, it’s exactly what you need to clean your poison, to heal your wounds, to accept yourself, and to get out of hell.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“Life can be very easy when love is your way of life. You can be loving all the time. This is your choice. You may not have a reason to love, but you can love because to love makes you so happy.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Life is nothing but a dream, and if we are artists, then we can create our life with Love, and our dream becomes a masterpiece of art.” (Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes)
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“Looking at the story of your life, do you take action as dictated by your attachment to knowledge, or do you use knowledge to take an action based on the awareness of your present moment?”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Five Levels of Attachment
“Love for yourself is the key to loving other. Love begins with you.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
Prayers
“Love is based on respect. Fear doesn’t respect anything, including itself. If I feel sorry for you, it means I don’t respect you. You cannot make your own choices.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“Love would determine everything, as it always has. My heart is full, even now.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“Love: The aspect of energy that manifests as the totality of all vibrations, moving matter and recording information into matter. Matter perceives and reflects it, and reacts with the complete range of emotions.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“Making assumptions and then taking them personally is the beginning of hell in this world. Almost all of our conflicts are based on this, and it’s easy to understand why. Assumptions are nothing more than lies that we are telling ourselves. This creates a big drama for nothing, because we don’t really know if something is true or not. Making assumptions is just looking for drama when there’s no drama happening. And if drama is happening in someone else’s story, so what? It’s not your story; it’s someone else’s story.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The fifth agreement
“Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Most people live their entire lives in the track of fear. They are in a relationship because they feel they have to be. They are in a relationship where they have all those expectations about their partner and about themselves. All that drama and suffering is because we are using the channels of communication that existed before we were born.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“My best students are still hunters, but they feed on different foods now. They were one thing, and now they’re something else. They are loyal to the human, creating realities based on gratitude and generosity. Where the mind used to control and to punish, now it serves. Where it may have behaved like a villain, now it’s a hero. Where once it craved only poison, now it has a taste for nectar.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“Not believing their strongest opinions was the most powerful tool for awareness. Not believing their own thoughts, and the stories they’d created, was the best path to freedom. They fed on superstition, and my message to them was one of common sense. Appetites would have to change.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“Once you are aware that you’re dreaming, you recover your power to change the dream whenever you choose.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The fifth agreement
“Our eyes are on the past, and our imaginations fly to the future. This makes us impervious to the present moment. So we forget to be kind. We forget to say hello to a stranger or listen to a friend. We forget to be good to ourselves.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The three questions
“People who love us do black magic on us, but they don’t know what they do. That is why we must forgive them; they don’t know what they do.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Socrates, one of the greatest philosophers of all time, took his whole life to get to the point where he said, “As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The fifth agreement
“Sometimes the anchor that is the most difficult to let go of is the one that insists our partners should be something other than who they are right here, right now.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Seven Secrets to Healthy, Happy Relationships
“Sometimes we can’t fix what has been broken. The act of surrender is accepting that truth.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
Living a Life of Awareness
“Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to gossip about others. Use your power of your word in the direction of truth and love.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Staying Strong in Times of Adversity Over the course of our lives, situations will arise that can sometimes seem insurmountable. When I’m faced with obstacles and life seems really difficult, my unconditional love for myself gives me the strength to continue. I greet the ups and downs of life’s journey with unconditional love for myself and the people in my life by understanding that I am only truly alive in the present moment; the future is a projection that does not yet exist. As long as there is life, everything is possible. Practice With awareness, remember to love yourself and others unconditionally when the road gets tough. Only through love can you overcome obstacles with peace.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
Living a Life of Awareness
“Taking things personally makes you easy prey for these predators, the black magicians. They can hook you easily with one little opinion and feed you whatever poison they want, and because you take it personally, you eat it up. You eat all their emotional garbage, and now it becomes your garbage. But if you do not take it personally, you are immune in the middle of hell. Immunity to poison in the middle of hell is the gift of this agreement.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“That is the healing. Three simple points: the truth, forgiveness, and self-love. With these three points, the whole world will heal and will no longer be a mental hospital.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“That is why every brother and sister will react differently according to how they learn to defend themselves and adapt to different circumstances. When our parents are constantly fighting, when there is disharmony, disrespect, and lies, we learn the emotional way of being like them.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“That is why you cannot change yourself just by wishing to change. No, you need to really challenge what you believe you are, especially the beliefs that limit the expression of your life. You need to challenge every belief that you use to judge yourself, to reject yourself, to make yourself little.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Voice of Knowledge
“The angel of death comes to us and says, “You see everything that exists here is mine; it is not yours. Your house, your spouse, your children, your car, your career, your money — everything is mine and I can take it away when I want to, but for now you can use it.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“The awakening is when you have the awareness that you are Life. When you are aware that you are the force that is Life, anything is possible.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“The biggest fear we have is not the fear of dying, but the fear to be alive, to be ourselves, to say what we feel, to ask for what we want, to say yes when we want to say yes, and no when we want to say no. To express what is in our hearts is to be truly alive. If we pretend to be what we are not, how can we be truly alive?”
Don Miguel Ruiz
Prayers
“The emotional energy that lives in our home is going to tune our emotional body to that frequency.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“The emotional roller coaster makes the game more exciting. You decide which team to root for based on just about anything—from the color of the uniforms”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Five Levels of Attachment
“The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives we will see that most of the time we do things just to please others, just to be accepted by others, rather than living our lives to please ourselves. That is what has happened to our freedom.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“The happiest moments in our lives are when we are playing just like children, when we are singing and dancing, when we are exploring and creating just for fun.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“The judgments in your head are the result of your beliefs and past experiences.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The three questions
“The limit of your self-abuse is the limit you will tolerate from other people. If someone abuses you more than you abuse yourself, you walk away, you run, you escape. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, perhaps you stay longer. You still deserve that abuse.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“The living have a simple choice. They can pay a high penalty for believing their lies—sheer stupidity!—or laugh at themselves and be happy.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“The mind is fertile ground for concepts, ideas, and opinions. If someone tells us a lie and we believe it, that lie takes root in our mind and can grow big and strong, like a tree. One little lie can be very contagious, spreading its seeds from person to person when we share it with others.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Voice of Knowledge
“The mind shifts with small abuses of truth,” he said. “A new idea is sometimes enough—a change of perception, or one brief look into itself.” His voice was soft, but carried force. “The biggest shifts come from experiencing the pure sensations of life, without commentary. Stop thinking, and there’s only sensation. Stop trying, and you rise in love.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“The more attached I am to my beliefs, the more difficult it becomes to see myself for who I am at this moment, and the less freedom I have to see life from a fresh perspective and perhaps choose a different path.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Five Levels of Attachment
“The more attached you are to something, the more your vision is obscured and narrowed, sometimes to the point where you are convinced that there is only one way to proceed.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Five Levels of Attachment
“The one who has the little need is the one who controls the whole relationship. You can see this dynamic so clearly because usually in every relationship there is one who loves the most and the other who doesn’t love, who only takes advantage of the one who gives his or her heart. You can see the way they manipulate each other, their actions and reactions, and they are just like the provider and the drug addict.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“The pressures of a relationship had brought out old fears, the fears of a dejected adolescent. Euphoria and anger still played against each other, and the result was considerable drama in a dream that should have felt safe.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“The real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“The result of practicing the fifth agreement is the complete acceptance of yourself just the way you are, and the complete acceptance of everybody else just the way they are. The reward is your eternal happiness.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The fifth agreement
“The resurrection is to be like a child, but with a difference. The difference is that we have freedom with wisdom instead of innocence.” (Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes)
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“The secondary characters are based on people who really exist, but everything I believe about them is a story of my own creation.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Voice of Knowledge
“The Toltec sages had realized this over two thousand years before: knowledge must ultimately yield to love.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“The truth is like a scalpel because it is painful to open our wounds and uncover all of the lies. The wounds in our emotional body are covered by the denial system, the system of lies we have created to protect those wounds. When we look at our wounds with eyes of truth, we can finally heal these wounds.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“The truth leads us to our authenticity, to happiness. Lies lead us to limitations in our lives, to suffering and drama. Whoever believes in truth, lives in heaven. Whoever believes in lies, sooner or later lives in hell.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The fifth agreement
“The universe is simple, as it is or as it is not, but human beings complicate everything.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Voice of Knowledge
“The waking dream can be mastered. Just as we can alter the course of our nighttime dreaming we can remind ourselves before falling asleep to wake up in the middle of a recurring nightmare. We can leave clues to pinch ourselves or to challenge threatening characters in a sleeping dream. Same is true of our waking life. It’s simple enough to remind ourselves that we’re dreaming all the time, even as we go through an ordinary day.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The three questions
“There are humans versus humans in a jungle of predators; humans full of judgment, full of blame, full of guilt, full of emotional poison — envy, anger, hate, sadness, suffering. We create all these little demons in our mind because we have learned to dream hell in our own life.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“They are living in the moment. They are not ashamed of the past; they are not worried about the future. Little children express what they feel, and they are not afraid to love.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“This is what freedom is: the ability to enjoy and be exactly who you are without suppressing yourself in the form of judgment.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Five Levels of Attachment
“To become masters of love, we have to practice love. The art of relationship is also a whole mastery, and the only way to reach mastery is with practice.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“To give to one another and receive from one another is the purpose of a relationship. We don’t need a lot of words. When we share time with someone, what is important is to communicate with feelings, not with words. But if we want to share words, we don’t need anything complicated. It’s just three words: “I love you.” That’s it. What makes you happy is not the love that other people feel for you, but the love you feel for other people.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Voice of Knowledge
“To master a relationship is all about you. The first step is to become aware, to know that everyone dreams his own dream.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“Transformation is the result of big shifts in perceptions and responses. The process can be uncomfortable, since the mind is reluctant to notice itself, to take responsibility for its stories, and to change. When the mind is in acute resistance, the emotional body pays a price.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Very young children are not afraid to express what they feel. They are so loving that if they perceive love, they melt into love. They are not afraid to love at all. That is the description of a normal human being.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“We all obey laws that exist within our personal reality. Asleep, we’re still dreaming but the laws are different. If laws exist at all, the law of gravity may not exist in our sleeping dreams, the laws of physics are ignored and basic logic becomes irrelevant. Our waking dream follows physical laws and social and civic laws.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The three questions
“We are all making distinct and separate impressions of this moment. Wherever we are and whatever we’re doing, the moment is real but we’re telling our own story about it. This is the wonderful magic of the human mind – to turn real things into symbols and Impressions, but we shouldn’t forget that the body responds emotionally to our kind of Magic.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The three questions
“We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same belief system we were given, and using the same system of punishment and reward. We punish ourselves when we don’t follow the rules according to our belief system; we reward ourselves when we are the “good boy” or “good girl”.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“We can ignore our own advice and trust life more.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The three questions
“We don’t see the truth because we are blind. What blinds us are all those false beliefs we have in our mind. We have the need to be right and to make others wrong. We trust what we believe, and our beliefs set us up for suffering.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“We frequently use memory against ourselves, but we have the power to use it differently. Instead, we can let memory enlighten us.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The three questions
“We have learned to live by other people’s points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“We humans comprehend truth through emotion and physical intimacy, but notice how quickly we turn against truth with stories of blame or resentment. We make the human body pay for our ideas of good and evil. I learned early in my life that the truth can be felt without a story. Love, the truth of us, transforms reality on its own.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“We must forgive those we feel have wronged us, not because they deserve to be forgiven but because we love ourselves so much we don’t want to keep paying for the injustice…when someone can touch a wound and it no longer hurts you then you know you have truly forgiven.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“We need to open the wounds and clean the wounds, use some medicine, and keep the wounds clean until they heal.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“We poison ourselves with judgment and fear, and then we spread the toxin to living beings all around us. To heal ourselves requires self-love, the white magic that works wonders on the dream of humanity.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“We speak the truth because we live in truth.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The fifth agreement
“We think that in order to be worthy of our own love we must live up to the expectations we place on ourselves—but we need to realize that these expectations are the expression of our agreements, not of our true nature.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Five Levels of Attachment
“We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally… Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Whatever people think of you is really about the image they have of you, and that image isn’t you.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The fifth agreement
“Whatever the circumstances, we all do our best.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The three questions
“When it comes to the bad behavior of others, remember that you’re just standing in the target zone. You are collateral damage in their war with themselves.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Seven Secrets to Healthy, Happy Relationships
“When we become too attached to an ideal, the first thing that we lose is respect; first for the people around us, and eventually for ourselves.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Five Levels of Attachment
“When we find out that Santa Claus isn’t the truth, we no longer believe in Santa Claus, and the power we invested in that symbol returns to us. This is when we become aware that we are the one who agreed to believe in Santa Claus.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The fifth agreement
“When you have self-love, you no longer live your life according to other people’s opinions. You don’t need other people to accept you or tell you how good you are, because you know what you are. With self-love, you aren’t afraid to share your love because your heart is completely open. Today can be the day when you experience the beauty of yourself. Today can be the day when you reconnect with your own spirit and express all the love in your heart. Focus your attention on what you are feeling in this moment. Feel the desire to be alive, the desire for love and joy, the desire to create something wonderful to share with others. The biggest mission you have is to make yourself happy, and to share your love, your joy, and your happiness.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
Prayers
“When you look in the mirror, instead of accepting yourself for who you are at this very moment, you likely start telling yourself why you are unacceptable in your current form, and what you need to do to be able to accept yourself: I must meet this expectation to be worthy of my own love.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Five Levels of Attachment
“When you pretend to be what you are not, you are always going to fail.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“When you stop believing self-criticism, it stops having any power over you. It is possible to choose to view yourself with acceptance, based on the undeniable truth that you are already perfect and complete exactly as you are in this moment. From that point of view, you can still decide to make some changes in your life, but now the motivation for changes is not due to the hope of one day loving yourself, but precisely because you already love yourself.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Five Levels of Attachment
“When you take things personally, then you feel offended, and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflicts.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“With awareness, remember that balance is the key to a wonderful life, and fun is an integral component. Take on the serious quest of bringing some fun into this day.” (Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes)
Don Miguel Ruiz
Living a Life of Awareness
“Without respect for the freedom of choice, peace is not possible.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Five Levels of Attachment
“Words are your paintbrush, and your life is the canvas. You can paint whatever you want to paint; you can even copy another artist’s work — but what you express with your paintbrush is the way you see yourself, the way you see the entire reality.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The fifth agreement
“Words don’t need to be spoken to devastate. They have only to be thought. Words band together to form opinions, which strut along the back roads of our minds, inciting doubt and controversy. Opinions rally toward a cause—a belief.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
“You are alive, and you don’t need to justify your existence. You can be the biggest mystery in your own story.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Voice of Knowledge
“You are beautiful no matter what your mind tells you. That is a fact. You don’t have to do anything because you already have all the beauty you need.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“You are divine, you are perfect, but as an artist, you create your own story and you have the illusion that the story is real. You live your life by justifying that story. And by justifying the story, you are wasting your life.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Voice of Knowledge
“You are here just to be, for no reason. You have no mission except to enjoy life, to be happy. The only thing you need is just to be the real you. Be authentic. Be the presence. Be happiness. Be love. Be joy. Be yourself; that’s the main point. That’s wisdom.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The fifth agreement
“You are the only one who can change your story, and you do this by changing your relationship with yourself.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Voice of Knowledge
“You can be loving all the time. This is your choice. You may not have a reason to love, but you can love because love makes you so happy. Love in action only produces happiness.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“You can measure the impeccability of your word by your level of self-love. How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word. When you are impeccable with your word, you feel good; you feel happy and at peace.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“You create yourself, whatever you believe you are. You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“You don’t need knowledge or great philosophical concepts. You don’t need the acceptance of others. You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others. It is an expression of God to say, “Hey, I love you.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“You don’t have to try to be good; you just need to stop pretending to be what you are not.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Voice of Knowledge
“You don’t need to justify your love, you don’t need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“You must forgive those who hurt you, even if whatever they did to you is unforgivable in your mind. You will forgive them not because they deserve to be forgiven, but because you don’t want to suffer and hurt yourself every time you remember what they did to you. It doesn’t matter what others did to you, you are going to forgive them because you don’t want to feel sick all the time. Forgiveness is for your own mental healing. You will forgive because you feel compassion for yourself. Forgiveness is an act of self-love.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
“Your beliefs, and your beliefs alone, belong to you. You are the only one who is with you for your entire life.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Five Levels of Attachment
“Your nature is to love; remember your nature. If you are acting against your nature, you’re pretending to be another species. You’ve pretended so long that you actually are another species.
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
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