Quotes from Miguel Ruiz

Yo soy vida y tú también eres vida. No existe el espacio vacío en el universo porque todo está lleno de vida. Pero la vida es una fuerza que no puedes ver. Sólo es posible ver los efectos de la vida, el proceso de la vida en acción.

Cuándo viviremos en el presente? Esto es lo que el ángel de la muerte nos enseña a hacer.

Cuando ya no hagas suposiciones, tus palabras se volverán impecables.

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.

The angel of death can teach us to live every day as if it is the last day of our lives, as if there may be no tomorrow. We can begin each day by saying, "I am awake, I see the sun. I am going to give my gratitude to the sun and to everything and everyone, because I am still alive. One more day to be myself.

One little piece of misinformation can break down communication between people, causing every person it touches to become infected and contagious to others. Imagine that every single time others gossip to you, they insert a computer virus into your mind, causing you to think a little less clearly every time. Then imagine that in an effort to clean up your own confusion and get some relief from the poison, you gossip and spread these viruses to someone else.

When you become impeccable with your word, your mind is no longer fertile ground for words that come from black magic. Instead, it is fertile for the words that come from love.

Without making assumptions your word becomes impeccable.

Gossip is black magic because it spreads emotional poison, perpetuates fear, and keeps others down.

La primera regla resulta muy sencilla: No me creas.

We pretend to be what we are not because we are afraid of being rejected. The fear of being rejected becomes the fear of not being good enough. Eventually we become someone that we are not. We become a copy of Mamma's beliefs, Daddy's beliefs, society's beliefs, and religion's beliefs.

It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe.

La segunda regla es más difícil: No te creas a ti mismo. No te creas todas las mentiras que te dices:

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view. It is not necessarily true.

It was not your choice to speak English. You didn't choose your religion or your moral values — they were already there before you were born. We never had the opportunity to choose what to believe or what not to believe. We never chose even the smallest of these agreements. We didn't even choose our own name.

All the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in making assumptions and taking things personally. Take a moment to consider the truth of this statement.

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.

La domesticación es tan poderosa que, en un determinado momento de nuestra vida, ya no necesitamos que nadie nos domestique.

Tienes el poder de crear. Tu poder es tan fuerte que cualquier cosa que decidas creer se convierte en realidad.

If we have a wife or husband he or she also reminds us of the mistake, so we can judge ourselves again, punish ourselves again, and find ourselves guilty again. Is this fair? How

En nuestra tradición esta rebelión representa el nacimiento de un guerrero tolteca: cuando reconocemos el mecanismo al que estamos sometidos y elegimos no creer en él, con lo que iniciamos una guerra interna para alcanzar nuestra libertad personal.

There are thousands of agreements you have made with yourself, with other people, with your dream of life, with God, with society, with your parents, with your spouse, with your children. But the most important agreements are the ones you made with yourself.

La vida no es más que un sueño, y si somos artistas, crearemos nuestra vida con amor y nuestro sueño se convertirá en una obra maestra de arte.

Es fácil vivir con los ojos cerrados, interpretando mal todo lo que se ve...