Quotes from Miguel Ruiz

Be impeccable with your word.

Not being perfect, we reject ourselves. And the level of self-rejection depends upon how effective the adults were in breaking our integrity. After domestication it is no longer about being good enough for anybody else. We are not good enough for ourselves because we don't fit with our own image of perfection. We cannot forgive ourselves for not being what we wish to be, or rather what we believe we should be. We cannot forgive ourselves for not being perfect.

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?

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.

No volveré a ser la Víctima».

Words are your paintbrush, and your life is the canvas.

lot of emotional poison from an injustice that comes from her husband.

Si alguien no te trata con amor ni respeto, que se aleje de ti es un regalo.

You can never be what you are not. You can only be you, and that's it. And you are you right now, and it's effortless.

Hiçbir ÅŸeyi kiÅŸisel alg?lama. BaÅŸkalar?n?n yapt??? ÅŸeylerin nedeni sen deÄŸilsin. BaÅŸkalar?n?n söyledikleri ve yapt?klar?, kendi gerçeklerinin, kendi hayallerinin bir yans?mas?d?r. BaÅŸkalar?n?n davran??lar?na ve düÅŸüncelerine ba????kl?k kazand???n zaman, gereksiz yere ac? çekmekten kurtulursun.

We need to open the wounds and clean the wounds, use some medicine, and keep the wounds clean until they heal.

When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do. Even

Taking the action over and over again strengthens your will, nurtures the seed, and establishes a solid foundation for the new habit to grow.

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.

That is how we pass our disease to our children, and that is how our parents, our teachers, our older siblings, the whole society of sick people infected us with that disease.

We can talk about love and write a thousand books about it, but love will be completely different for each of us because we have to experience love. Love is not about concepts; love is about action. Love in action can only produce happiness. Fear in action can only produce suffering. The only way to master love is to practice love. 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.

Forgiveness. There is no other way but forgiveness to clean the wounds of all the poison.

Nacemos con el derecho a ser felices, con el derecho a disfrutar de la vida.

You have the right to be mad, but I don't have to be mad because you are mad. I didn't do anything to cause your anger." You don't have to accept your partner's anger at all, but you can allow her to be angry. There is no need to argue; just allow her to be what she is, allow her to heal without intervening. And you can also agree not to interfere with your own healing process.

But as soon as we are alone, the Judge becomes so strong, the guilt is so strong, and we feel so stupid, or so bad, or so unworthy.

On the other hand, if you take action just for the sake of doing it, without expecting a reward, you will find that you enjoy every action you do.

First is the Mastery of Awareness. This is to be aware of who we really are, with all the possibilities.

Fear is energy also, and it's food for the mind — not exactly the food you want, but it works. We need to give the body the freedom from the tyrant that is the mind. If we no longer have the need for food in our mind, the need for sex in our mind, everything becomes so easy. The first step is to split the needs into two categories: These are the needs of the body; these are the needs of the mind.

That is the healing. Three simple points: the truth, forgiveness, and self-love.