Quotes from Miguel Ruiz

Very young children are not afraid to express what they feel. They are so loving that if they perceive love, they melt into love. They are not afraid to love at all. That is the description of a normal human being.

Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself.

Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. What they say, what they do, and the opinions they give are according to the agreements they have in their own minds. Their point of view comes from all the programming they received during domestication.

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty. We are on an eternal search for the truth because we only believe in the lies we have stored in our mind. We are searching for justice because in the belief system we have, there is no justice. We search for beauty because it doesn't matter how beautiful a person is, we don't believe that person has beauty. We keep searching and searching, when everything is already within us. There is no truth to find.

Who stops us from being free? We blame the government, we blame the weather, we blame our parents, we blame religion, we blame God. Who really stops us from being free? We stop ourselves.

Don't take anything personally because by taking things personally you set yourself up to suffer for nothing.

If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is.

The warrior has awareness...we are aware that we are at war , and the war in our minds requires discipline. Not the discipline of a soldier but the discipline of a warrior. Not the discipline from the outside to tell us what to do and not to do, but the discipline to be ourselves, no matter what.

Whatever people think of you is really about the image they have of you, and that image isn't you.

The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. We could swear they are real.

Making assumptions in our relationships is really asking for problems. Often we make the assumption that our partners know what we think and that we don't have to say what we want. We assume they are going to do what we want, because they know us so well. If they don't do what we assume they should do, we feel so hurt and say, "You should have known.

Wherever I go, whomever I meet, I see myself in their eyes, because I am a part of everything, because I love.

We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make. And this is why we have a fear of being ourselves around others.

The big difference between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses, and the warrior refrains. Victims repress because they are afraid to show the emotions, afraid to say what they want to say. To refrain is not the same thing as repression. To refrain is to hold the emotions and to express them in the right moment, not before, not later. That is why warriors are impeccable. They have complete control over their own emotions and therefore over their own behavior.

Children just feel emotions and their reasoning mind doesn't interpret or question them. This is why children accept certain people and reject other people.

You are alive, and you don't need to justify your existence. You can be the biggest mystery in your own story.

You have the right to believe or not believe these voices and the right not to take what they say personally. We have a choice whether or not to believe the voices we hear within our own minds

The inner Judge uses what is in our Book of Law to judge everything we do and don't do, everything we think and don't think, and everything we feel and don't feel. Everything lives under the tyranny of this Judge.

In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself.

Under any circumstance, always do your best, no more and no less. But keep in mind that your best is never going to be the same from one moment to the next.

You don't have to try to be good; you just need to stop pretending to be what you are not.

ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST

Let us trust ourselves completely to make the choices we must make.

You are never responsible for the actions of others; you are only responsible for you.