Quotes from Miguel Ruiz

The fourth agreement is about the action of the first three: Always do your best.

Empecemos el día diciendo: «Estoy despierto, veo el sol. Voy a entregarle mi gratitud, y también a todas las cosas y todas las personas, porque todavía estoy vivo. Un día más para ser yo mismo».

We don't need to know or prove anything. Just to be, to take a risk and enjoy your life, is all that matters.

sólo emprenden la acción cuando esperan una recompensa, y no disfrutan de ella. Y ese es el motivo por el que no hacen lo máximo que pueden.

Write this agreement on paper, and put it on your refrigerator to remind you all the time: Don't take anything personally.

it's not the stars that create light, but rather light that creates the stars.

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.

Si las personas cambian es porque quieren cambiar, no porque tú puedas cambiarlas.

Sea lo que sea lo que la vida te arrebate, permite que se vaya. Cuando te entregas y dejas ir el pasado, te permites estar plenamente vivo en el momento presente.

When you go into the desert you meet your demons face-to-face. After coming out of the desert, all those demons become angels.

That voice never stops judging. It tells us what is right and what is wrong, what is beautiful and what is ugly. The storyteller is born inside our head, and survives inside our head because we feed it with our faith.

ángel de la muerte puede enseñarnos de qué forma estar verdaderamente vivos.

If you break an agreement, begin again tomorrow, and again the next day.

Humans carry our past, our history, around with us, and it's just like we're carrying a heavy corpse.

Then you can be in the middle of hell and still experience inner peace and happiness.

Anthropologists

The adults can only teach us what they know; they cannot teach us what they don't know. What they know is what they learned in their whole lives; it's what they believed in their whole lives. You can be sure that your parents did the best they could for you at the time. If they didn't do better, it's because they didn't know any better.

How many times have you hooked other people's attention, and spread poison about your loved one in order to make your opinion right?

Everything in existence is a manifestation of the one living being we call God. Everything is God. And he came to the conclusion that human perception is merely light perceiving light. He also saw that matter is a mirror — everything is a mirror that reflects light and creates images of that light

You can make an agreement that says, "I like you; you are wonderful and you make me feel so good. I'll bring the flowers, you bring the soft music. We'll dance, and we'll both go to the clouds." It's beautiful, it's wonderful, it's romantic. It's no longer a war of control; it's about service. But you can only do that when the love you have for yourself is very strong.

Your word is pure magic, and misuse of your word is black magic.

I declare a war against my Parasite for the freedom to use my own mind and body, for the freedom to become the architect of my own life, to design the life of my dreams, and to create a masterpiece of art.

Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves; it is why we don't accept ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are.

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