Quotes from Miguel Angel Ruiz

The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.

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.

Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives.

Humans create their own boundaries, their own limitations. We say what is humanly possible, and what is not possible. Then just because we believe it, it becomes truth for us.

Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies.

You can recover the truth of what you really are. When you finally see yourself as you are, when you finally take responsibility for your creation, you will cleanse the lies from your own creation.

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.

Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.

If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.

Practice makes the Master. You can reconcile what you are and what you want to be.

It's incredible what we can do if we really want to do it. All we need is to be aware of what we are doing and to return to the authenticity we were born with.

Love has no resistance. Whatever we do is because we want to do it.

Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren't enjoying the dream.

I am the love of my life, the marriage between my mind and my body.

We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment.

Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.

What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

To have great faith is to have great power, because your intent, your will, is undivided. When your word isn't dissipated by doubt, the power of your word becomes even stronger.

To have faith is to believe unconditionally.

You aren't staying in heaven because you still need to purify the mind. Your faith is powerful, but it is invested in what you believe you are, and most of what you believe about yourself is a lie.

Humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear.

If you are not afriad, thereis no way you will get mad at me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will hate me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will be jealous or sad.

...find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim your personal power.

The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.