Top 100 Miguel Ruiz Quotes
#1. It's not true for the plants or the animals. It's not true for the stars or the trees, or for the rest of nature. It's only true for humans.
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#2. people call magic is power in action." "Action!
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#3. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama.
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#4. For every moment that is past, the angel of death keeps taking the part that is dead and we keeping living in the present. The parasite wants us to carry the past with us and that makes it so heavy to be alive.
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#5. Also, go inside and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Everything in existence is a manifestation of the one living being we call God. Everything is God.
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#8. But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. You are hurting yourself. There is no way I can take this personally.
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#9. You don't have to try to be good; you just need to stop pretending to be what you are not.
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#10. They are living in the moment. They are not ashamed of the past; they are not worried about the future. Little children express what they feel, and they are not afraid to love.
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#11. To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans.
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#12. Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do.
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#13. Most of the time when we tell our children how to live their lives, it's because we don't respect them. We feel sorry for them, and we try to do for them what they should do for themselves.
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#14. 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 place of war and violence, a place of judgment and no justice, a place of punishment that never ends.
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#15. Love is based on respect. Fear doesn't respect anything, including itself. If I feel sorry for you, it means I don't respect you. You cannot make your own choices.
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#16. Words are your paintbrush, and your life is the canvas. You can paint whatever you want to paint; you can even copy another artist's work - but what you express with your paintbrush is the way you see yourself, the way you see the entire reality.
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#17. The Four Agreements
1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don't take anything personally.
3. Don't make assumptions.
4. Always do your best.
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#18. 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.
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#19. You may even tell me, "Miguel, what you are saying is hurting me." But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said.
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#20. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to gossip about others. Use your power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
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#21. The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.
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#22. 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.
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#23. Humans cover themselves, and protect themselves, and when someone says, "You are pushing my buttons," it is not exactly true. What is true is that you are touching a wound in his mind, and he reacts because it hurts.
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#24. He also saw that matter is a mirror - everything is a mirror that reflects light and creates images of that light - and the world of illusion, the Dream, is just like smoke which doesn't allow us to see what we really are. "The real us is pure love, pure light," he said.
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#25. Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see ... .
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#26. Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.
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#27. After domestication, we try to be good enough for everybody else, but we are no longer good enough for ourselves, because we can never live up to our image of perfection.
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#28. True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.
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#29. 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.
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#30. True freedom has to do with the human spirit - it is the freedom to be who we really are.
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#31. When you do your best you learn to accept yourself. But you have to be aware and learn from your mistakes. Learning from your mistakes means you practice, look honestly at the results, and keep practicing. This increases your awareness.
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#32. But as soon as he made her responsible for his happiness, she broke the star because she could not be responsible for his happiness. No
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#34. We are the same, you and I. We are images of light.
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#35. By making this one agreement a habit, your whole life will be completely transformed.
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#36. That is why whenever we make assumptions, we're asking for problems. We make an assumption, we misunderstand, we take it personally, and we end up creating a whole big drama for nothing.
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#37. You can be loving all the time. This is your choice. You may not have a reason to love, but you can love because love makes you so happy. Love in action only produces happiness.
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#38. You are divine, you are perfect, but as an artist, you create your own story and you have the illusion that the story is real. You live your life by justifying that story. And by justifying the story, you are wasting your life.
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#39. Angel means messenger. I dedicate this book to the angels in human form that deliver a message of love instead of fear, superstition, and emotional poison. To
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#40. I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love.
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#41. Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
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#42. When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure.
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#44. Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.
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#45. We want our freedom; we want to be ourselves, but we are also afraid to be by ourselves.
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#46. The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. We could swear they are real.
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#48. You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.
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#49. We judge others according to our image of
perfection as well, and naturally they fall short of our expectations.
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#50. Be responsible for every choice you make in your life. This is your life; it's nobody else's life, and you will find that it's nobody else's business what you do with your life.
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#51. Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance.
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#52. if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly. If
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#53. When the need is in the mind, you cannot satisfy the need
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#54. People who love us do black magic on us, but they don't know what they do. That is why we must forgive them; they don't know what they do.
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#55. 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.
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#56. The happiest moments in our lives are when we are playing just like children, when we are singing and dancing, when we are exploring and creating just for fun.
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#57. And this is all based on a belief system that we never chose to believe. These beliefs are so strong, that even years later when we are exposed to new concepts and try to make our own decisions, we find that these beliefs still control our lives. Whatever
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#58. You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.
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#59. Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.
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#60. In a relationship, we can pretend to be the same, to think the same, to feel the same, to dream the same, but there is no way that can happen. There are two dreamers with two dreams.
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#61. If you dishonor an agreement, learn from the experience and do your best next time. It is an act of grace to forgive. It is an act of love to offer yourself another chance.
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#62. What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream. You are dreaming right now in this moment. You are dreaming with the brain awake.
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#63. The resurrection is to be like a child, but with a difference. The difference is that we have freedom with wisdom instead of innocence.
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#64. We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.
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#65. Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.
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#66. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
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#67. Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies.
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#68. To be Toltec is a way of life. It is a way of life where there are no leaders and no followers, where you have your own truth and live your own truth. A Toltec becomes wise, becomes wild, and becomes free again.
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#69. We look for love, we open our heart and we become vulnerable, just to find selfishness.
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#70. That is why every brother and sister will react differently according to how they learn to defend themselves and adapt to different circumstances. When our parents are constantly fighting, when there is disharmony, disrespect, and lies, we learn the emotional way of being like them.
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#71. Don't take anything personally because by taking things personally you set yourself up to suffer for nothing.
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#72. You have the right to live your own life, in your own way, and there is no wrong way.
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#73. Life is full of choices," Miguel said sweetly. "Do you want to choose unhappiness?
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#74. 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.
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#75. Someone can intentionally send emotional poison, and if you don't take it personally, you will not eat it. When you don't take the emotional poison, it becomes even worse to the sender, but not in you.
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#76. 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.
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#78. When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth
it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else.
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#79. 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.
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#80. The pressures of a relationship had brought out old fears, the fears of a dejected adolescent. Euphoria and anger still played against each other, and the result was considerable drama in a dream that should have felt safe.
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#81. Their addiction to suffering is nothing but an agreement that is reinforced every day.
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#83. We practice and practice, and we master how to be what we are not.
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#85. When you go into the desert you meet your demons face-to-face. After coming out of the desert, all those demons become angels.
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#86. As artists, we distort the truth and create the most amazing theories; we create entire philosophies and the most amazing religions; we create stories and superstitions about everything, including ourselves. And this is exactly the main point: We create them.
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#87. We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.
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#88. 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.
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#90. We believe Mom and Dad fight because of us, even if it doesn't have anything to do with us. Little by little we lose our innocence;
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#91. It doesn't matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be.
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#92. If others feel they have to change you, that means they really don't love you
just the way you are. So why be with someone if you're not the way he or she wants you to be?
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#93. We were brought into this world as authentic beings, and then we began to practice "who we are" until it became a mastery. At any stage in our adult lives we can unpractice; we can let go of our attachments to an identity . . . and we can be.
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#94. If you understand the first agreement, be impeccable with your word, you begin to see all the changes that can happen in your life. Changes first in the way you deal with yourself, and later in the way you deal with other people, especially those you love the most.
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#95. The result of practicing the fifth agreement is the complete acceptance of yourself just the way you are, and the complete acceptance of everybody else just the way they are. The reward is your eternal happiness.
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#96. 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.
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#97. Our normal human tendency is to enjoy life, to play, to explore, to be happy, and to love.
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#98. It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control.
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#99. THE THIRD AGREEMENT Don't Make Assumptions
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#100. To become masters of love, we have to practice love. The art of relationship is also a whole mastery, and the only way to reach mastery is with practice.
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