Quotes from Miguel Ruiz

When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy, and envy will disappear, and even your sadness will simply disappear if you don't take things personally.

The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of the animals pay once for every mistake they make. But not us. We have a powerful memory. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves. If justice exists, then that was enough; we don't need to do it again. But every time we remember, we judge ourselves again, we are guilty again, and we punish ourselves again, and again, and again.

We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same belief system we were given, and using the same system of punishment and reward.

Debido a ese miedo a ser castigados y a no recibir la recompensa, empezamos a fingir que éramos lo que no éramos, con el único fin de complacer a los demás, de ser lo bastante buenos para otras personas.

If we compare the dream of human society with the description of hell that religions all around the world have promulgated, we find they are exactly the same. Religions say that hell is a place of punishment, a place of fear, pain, and suffering, a place where the fire burns you. Fire is generated by emotions that come from fear. Whenever we feel the emotions of anger, jealousy, envy, or hate, we experience a fire burning within us. We are living in a dream of hell.

Love would determine everything, as it always has. My heart is full, even now.

La acción consiste en vivir con plenitud. La inacción es nuestra forma de negar la vida

But like a sword with two edges, your word can create the most beautiful dream, or your word can destroy everything around you.

We have to be what we are, so we don't have to present a false image. If you love me the way I am, "Okay, take me." If you don't love me the way I am, "Okay, bye-bye. Find someone else.

We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.

Every person is capable of seeing himself, hearing himself, and modifying what he sees—not because he sees imperfection, but because he sees infinite potential.

Para que los dos seáis capaces de mantener la felicidad, será necesario que mantengas tu mitad en perfecto estado. Eres responsable de tu mitad, que contiene una determinada cantidad de basura. Tu basura es tu basura. Y quien tiene que hacerse cargo de ella eres tú, no tu pareja. Si tu pareja intenta limpiar tu basura acabará con la nariz rota. Tenemos que aprender a no meter la nariz donde no nos llaman.

Only by making an inventory of our agreements will we uncover all of the conflicts in the mind and eventually make order out of the chaos of the mitote.

will fight with everything

Everyone looks for someone to love them, even when they hate themselves. They wait for lightning to strike, for the phone to ring, for a knight to arrive in shining armor. When people are disappointed in love, they think they're unlovable. They feel deprived and always hungry. This hunger makes them desperate for any offer of love and attention, and susceptible to all forms of mistreatment. To encourage

Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about "me." 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!

My best students are still hunters, but they feed on different foods now. They were one thing, and now they're something else. They are loyal to the human, creating realities based on gratitude and generosity. Where the mind used to control and to punish, now it serves. Where it may have behaved like a villain, now it's a hero. Where once it craved only poison, now it has a taste for nectar.

Estar vivos es nuestro mayor miedo. No es la muerte; nuestro mayor miedo es arriesgarnos a vivir: correr el riesgo de estar vivos y de expresar lo que realmente somos.

Un pecado es cualquier cosa que haces y que va contra ti. Todo lo que sientas, creas o digas que vaya contra ti es un pecado. Vas contra ti cuando te juzgas y te culpas por cualquier cosa. No pecar es hacer exactamente lo contrario. Ser impecable es no ir contra ti

Los juicios que hay en tu cabeza son el resultado de tus creencias y experiencias pasadas.

If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is a place of suffering, a place of fear, a

La consciencia es la habilidad para ver lo que hay, y nunca es demasiado tarde para abrir los ojos.

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.

You eat all their emotional garbage, and now it becomes your garbage. But if you do not take it personally, you are immune in the middle of hell. Immunity to poison in the middle of hell is the gift of this agreement.