Quotes from Miguel Ruiz

No human can condemn another to hell because we are already there. Others can put us into a deeper hell, true. But only if we allow this to happen.

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.

to love. There is no other way. You cannot be happy if you don't love yourself.

The way you are living now is the result of many years of domestication. You cannot expect to break the domestication in one day.

How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word.

The real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself. Be completely honest about your happiness. Don't project a false sense of happiness by telling everyone, Look at me. I'm a success in life, I have everything I want, I am so happy, when you don't like yourself.

The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering. Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny. To suffer, or to love and be happy. To live in hell, or to live in heaven. My choice is to live in heaven. What is yours?

I was being selfish. I was afraid for myself, and not even thinking of you." Sitting on the bed, he took his father's hands in his. "I can do as you say—I can rise above fear. I can hear knowledge speaking, and choose to disbelieve it. I can hear the way people spread poison, and choose to ignore it. I'm ready." José looked directly into his teacher's eyes and said, "I'm with you now.

That's because our agreements are actually like a strong addiction. We are addicted to being the way we are. We are addicted to anger, jealousy, and self-pity.

In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly. If

In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word is God.

We are an autodomesticated animal.

Llega un momento en la vida en que nos cansamos de necesitar tener siempre la razón, sobre todo cuando vemos que la necesidad de alimentar el ego afecta nuestras relaciones con quienes deseamos tener por amigos, cuyas bellas almas no desean más que querernos.

The third agreement is don't make assumptions. We have the tendency to make assumptions about everything. The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.

If you want to live a life of joy and fulfillment, you have to find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim your personal power. The agreements that come from fear require us to expend a lot of energy, but the agreements that come from love help us to conserve energy and even gain extra energy.

Si me exige tanto esfuerzo mantener algo con vida, no puede tener demasiada solidez, ¿no?

I was using symbols to try to understand the truth, when the real truth is that the symbols have nothing to say about the truth. The truth existed long before humans created symbols.

Your word is the power that you have to create. Your word is the gift that comes directly from God.

During the period of our education, or our domestication, we learn to take everything personally. We think we are responsible for everything. Me, me, me, always me!

The real us is pure love, pure light," he said. This realization changed his life. Once he knew what he really was, he looked around at other humans and the rest of nature, and he was amazed at what he saw. He saw himself in everything — in every human, in every animal, in every tree, in the water, in the rain, in the clouds, in the earth.

Lo que ves y escuchas ahora mismo no es más que un sueño. En este mismo momento estás soñando. Sueñas con el cerebro despierto.

The truth leads us to our authenticity, to happiness. Lies lead us to limitations in our lives, to suffering and drama. Whoever believes in truth, lives in heaven. Whoever believes in lies, sooner or later lives in hell.

El mayor pecado que cometes es rechazarte a ti mismo. En términos religiosos, el autorrechazo es un «pecado mortal», es decir que te conduce a la muerte. En cambio, la impecabilidad te conduce a la vida.

Everything that exists is true: the earth is true, the stars are true, the entire universe has always been true. But the symbols that we use to construct what we know are only true because we say so.