Quotes from Miguel Ruiz

Ser impecable con tus palabras es no utilizarlas contra ti mismo.

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.

The process of domestication can be called the dream of the first attention because it was how your attention was used for the first time to create the first dream of your life.

Each one of them was a potential warrior, capable of facing the battle within himself, but they'd all devoted too much energy to fighting outward battles instead. They would have to confront their own lies.

True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake...We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves.

You change what you believe about yourself. Your point of view changes, the way you express yourself changes, and your reactions change.

The belief system rules the human life like a tyrant. It takes our freedom away from us and makes us its slave.

One way to change your beliefs is to focus your attention on all those agreements and beliefs, and change the agreements with yourself. In doing this you are using your attention for the second time, thus creating the dream of the second attention or the new dream.

Not believing their strongest opinions was the most powerful tool for awareness. Not believing their own thoughts, and the stories they'd created, was the best path to freedom. They fed on superstition, and my message to them was one of common sense. Appetites would have to change.

Through the word, you express your creative power. It is through the word that you manifest everything.

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty...We don't see the truth because we are blind. What blinds us are all those false beliefs we have in our mind.

A sin is anything that you do which goes against yourself. Everything you feel or believe or say that goes against yourself is a sin. You go against yourself when you judge or blame yourself for anything. Being without sin is exactly the opposite. Being impeccable is not going against yourself. When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions, but you do not judge or blame yourself

Cuando nos comportamos como niños nos resulta maravilloso porque ese es el estado normal de la mente humana, la tendencia natural.

No te inquietes por el futuro; mantén tu atención en el día de hoy y permanece en el momento presente.

But nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves, and it is the Judge, the Victim, and the belief system that make us do this.

We need to hear the opinions of others because we are domesticated and we can be manipulated by those opinions.

How do we live our life? This is our art, the art of living. With our power of creation, we express the force of life in everything we say, everything we feel, everything we do. But there are two kinds of artists: the ones who create their story without awareness, and the ones who recover awareness and create their story with truth and with love.

Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned to live our life trying to satisfy other people's demands. We have learned to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.

Every one of our beliefs, from a minimal one like the sound of a letter to a whole philosophy, is using our life force to survive.

Being impeccable with your word is not using the word against yourself. If I see you in the street and I call you stupid, it appears that I'm using the word against you. But really I'm using my word against myself, because you're going to hate me for this, and your hating me is not good for me. Therefore, if I get angry and with my word send all that emotional poison to you, I'm using the word against myself.

When we go into a relationship, we become selfish because we are needy. It's all about me. We are so selfish that we want the person with whom we are sharing our life to be as needy as we are. We want "someone who needs me" in order to justify our existence, in order to feel that we have a reason to be alive. We think we are searching for love, but we are searching for "someone who needs me," someone we can control and manipulate.

Be Impeccable With Your Word Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

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.

The world of the warriors is the world of trying. We try to change the world that we don't like, and we keep trying, and trying, and trying, and the war looks endless.