Quotes from Miguel Ruiz

Tu verdad no es la verdad de nadie más y eso incluye a tus propios hijos o a tus propios padres.

You are not here to sacrifice your joy or your life. You are here to live, to be happy, and to love. If you can do your best in two hours of meditation, but you spend eight hours instead, you will only grow tired, miss the point, and you won't enjoy your life. Do your best, and perhaps you will learn that no matter how long you meditate, you can live, love, and be happy.

The secondary characters are based on people who really exist, but everything I believe about them is a story of my own creation.

La vida en este cuerpo físico es muy corta, aun cuando lleguemos a vivir cien años. Cuando descubrí esto, decidí no perder mi tiempo en crear conflictos, en especial con las personas que amo. Quiero disfrutar de ellas, y lo hago amándolas por ser quienes son, no por lo que creen.

During your whole life you practiced every moment to become what you believe you are right now.

Then, if you get mad at me, I know you are dealing with yourself. I am the excuse for you to get mad. And you get mad because you are afraid, because you are dealing with fear. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will get mad at me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will hate me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will be jealous or sad.

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Toda la humanidad busca la verdad, la justicia y la belleza. Estamos inmersos en una búsqueda eterna de la verdad porque sólo creemos en las mentiras que hemos almacenado en nuestra mente. Buscamos la justicia porque en el sistema de creencias que tenemos no existe. Buscamos la belleza porque, por muy bella que sea una persona, no creemos que lo sea. Seguimos buscando y buscando cuando todo está ya en nosotros.

modificamos nuestro sueño según sea nuestra manera de juzgar, según sean nuestras heridas.

The love that makes me happy is the love that I can share with you. 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.

I create the character of my mother, the character of my father, the character of each of my brothers and sisters, my friends, my beloved, even my dog and my cat.

El respeto proviene directamente del amor; es una de las grandes expresiones de amor.

If you can imagine this, perhaps you can understand that someone from another planet who came to visit us would have a similar experience with humans. But it isn't our skin that is full of wounds. What the visitor would discover is that the human mind is sick with a disease called fear.

if you take action just for the sake of doing it, without expecting a reward, you will find that you enjoy every action you do. Rewards will come, but you are not attached to the reward.

I said, "If I fall, I am strong enough, I'm intelligent enough, I can do it!" I stood up and kept going. I fell and I kept going and going, and each time it became easier and easier. Yet, in the beginning it was so hard, so difficult.

you see the nonsense behavior of humans, and it becomes amusing. What for everyone else is a big drama, for you becomes a comedy.

Being impeccable with your word is not using the word against yourself.

Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years because you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are. 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.

Taking action is being alive. It's taking the risk to go out and express your dream. This is different than imposing your dream on someone else, because everyone has the right to express his or her dream. Doing

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.

and because I am your creation, I love myself just the way I am.

No te tomes nada personalmente porque, si lo haces, te expones a sufrir por nada.

The mastery of the human mind requires complete control of the attention — the way we interpret and react to information we perceive from inside of us and outside of us.

Okay, I broke my agreement to be impeccable with my word. I will start all over again. I am going to keep The Four Agreements just for today. Today I will be impeccable with my word, I will not take anything personally, I will not make any assumptions, and I am going to do my best.