Quotes from Miguel Ruiz

The only truth for you is what you perceive in your world. With this awareness, there's nothing to prove to anyone. It's not about being right or wrong. You respect whatever somebody says because it's another artist speaking. Respect is so important. When you learn to listen, you show respect for the other artists—you show respect for their art, for their creation.

A relationship is an event; two individuals meet and catch each other's attention. Like any event, the length and the quality of it depends on the quality of attention from both sides. A romantic relationship, like any other, can survive indefinitely. Respect is the key. Driven by old habits and emotional dramas, a union will fail, becoming an insatiable monster that eats love and turns it into a thousand investments and fears.

It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world. 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

Solamente recibirás una idea negativa si tu mente es un campo fértil para ella.

you were born to write your own story. Respect comes directly from love; it is one of the greatest expressions of love.

Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind;

The sense of injustice is like a knife that opens an emotional wound in the mind. Then, according to our reaction to the injustice, the wound may get infected with emotional poison.

Right now, you are interpreting what I'm saying according to your personal knowledge. You are rearranging the symbols and transforming them in a way that maintains an equilibrium with everything in your belief system.

What we believe possesses us, and thus too often it overwhelms love—the truth of us.

El amor que me hace feliz es el que puedo compartir con la gente que amo. ¿Por qué voy a negar que les quiero? No es importante que me devuelvan ese amor. Quizá muera yo mañana o tal vez muera alguien a quien amo. Lo que me hace feliz es hacerle saber hoy lo mucho que le quiero.

Si eres impecable con tus palabras, no te tomas nada personalmente, no haces suposiciones y siempre haces lo máximo que puedas, tu vida será maravillosa y la controlarás al cien por cien.

I saw humans more clearly. I saw them as exceptional creatures under the tyranny of knowledge, helpless to change their circumstances. The human animal is helpless, that is, until the mind decides to change and until knowledge has lost its supreme authority.

De la misma manera en que las distintas sociedades y religiones de todo el mundo han creado una mitología increíble, nosotros creamos la nuestra. Nuestra mitología personal está poblada de héroes y villanos, ángeles y demonios, reyes y plebeyos.

Don't believe everything you learned! Not believing yourself is a huge advantage, because most of what you learned is not the truth. Everything you know, your whole reality, is nothing but symbols. But you are not that bunch of symbols that talk in your head. You know that, and that's why you are skeptical and you don't believe yourself.

Life is the force of the absolute, the supreme, the Creator who creates everything.

Tras la domesticación, ya no se trata de que seamos lo suficientemente buenos para los demás. No somos lo bastante buenos para nosotros mismos porque no encajamos en nuestra propia

To have faith is to believe unconditionally.

everything that exists is one living being, and that light is the messenger of life, because it is alive and contains all information.

La importancia personal, o el tomarse las cosas personalmente, es la expresión máxima del egoísmo, porque consideramos que todo gira a nuestro alrededor.

The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions. Make sure the communication is clear. If you don't understand, ask. Have the courage to ask questions until you are clear as you can be, and even then do not assume you know all there is to know about a given situation. Once you hear the answer, you will not have to make assumptions because you will know the truth. Also

imagen de perfección. Nos resulta imposible perdonarnos por no ser lo que desearíamos ser, o mejor dicho, por no ser quien creemos que deberíamos ser. No podemos perdonarnos por no ser perfectos.

Buscamos ser lo que éramos antes de creer en las mentiras: auténticos, verdaderos, amorosos, dichosos. La verdad es que estamos buscando nuestro Yo.

Can you see the consequences of believing yourself? Believing yourself is one of the worst things you can do because you've been telling yourself lies your whole life, and if you believe all those lies, that's why your dream isn't a pleasant dream.

Nos deshonramos a nosotros mismos sólo para complacer a otras personas. Incluso llegamos a dañar nuestro cuerpo para que los demás nos acepten.