Quotes from Miguel Ruiz

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.

On the first day of class, you run into someone who took the class before, who tells you, "Oh that instructor was such a pompous jerk! He didn't know what he was talking about, and he was a pervert too, so watch out!" You are immediately imprinted with the word and the emotional code the person had when saying this, but what you are not aware of is his or her motivation in telling you.

La cantidad de amor que sientes por ti es directamente proporcional a la calidad e integridad de tus palabras. Cuando eres impecable con tus palabras, te sientes bien, eres feliz y estás en paz.

Miró al cielo de nuevo y se dio cuenta de que no son las estrellas las que crean la luz, sino que es la luz la que crea las estrellas.

There was a woman, for example, who was intelligent and had a very good heart. She had a daughter whom she adored and loved very much.

If someone is not treating you

Because the word is the magic that humans possess and misuse of the word is black magic, we are using black magic all the time without knowing that our word is magic at all.

Do not be concerned about the future; keep your attention on today, and stay in the present moment. Just live one day at a time. Always do your best to keep these agreements, and soon it will be easy for you. Today is the beginning of a new dream. 6 THE TOLTEC PATH TO FREEDOM Breaking Old Agreements EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT FREEDOM.

The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions. Make sure the communication is clear. If you don't understand, ask. Have the courage to ask questions until you are clear as you can be, and even then do not assume you know all there is to know about a given situation.

When you take things personally, then you feel offended, and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflicts. You make something big out of something so little, because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.

Los chismes son magia negra de la peor clase, porque son puro veneno.

Expressing what you are is taking action. You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward.

The Judge decrees, and the Victim suffers the guilt and punishment. But who says there is justice in this dream? True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.

Si vas por la vida traduciéndola mientras la observas, no la vivirás.

The first agreement is to be impeccable with your word.

Soy Espejo Humeante porque me veo en todos vosotros, pero no nos reconocemos mutuamente por el humo que hay entre nosotros. Ese humo es el Sueño, y el espejo eres tú, el soñador».

Why do I need to deny that I love you? It is not important if you love me back. I may die tomorrow or you may die tomorrow. What makes me happy now is to let you know how much I love you.

The second agreement is don't take anything personally.

Imagine living without the fear of loving and not being loved. You are no longer afraid to be rejected, and you don't have the need to be accepted.

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty. We are on an eternal search for the truth because we only believe in the lies we have stored in our mind. We are searching for justice because in the belief system we have, there is no justice. We search for beauty because it doesn't matter how beautiful a person is, we don't believe that person has beauty. We keep searching and searching, when everything is already within us.

El Primer Acuerdo consiste en ser impecable con tus palabras. Parece muy simple, pero es sumamente poderoso.

What you pretend to be is so complicated that I don't even bother to try to understand it.

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.

Soñar es la función principal de la mente, y la mente sueña veinticuatro horas al día.