Top 85 Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes
#2. Don't take anything personally because by taking things personally you set yourself up to suffer for nothing.
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#3. Suffering and drama begin when you lie to yourself, even if you don't realize you are lying.
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#4. For me personally, I don't pray using words - it is just with my intent. Why do I need to pray with "words," to something external, when I know what I want?
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#5. For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.
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#6. When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.
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#8. We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.
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#9. If we like what we do, if we always do our best, then we are really enjoying life. We are having fun, we don't get bored, we don't have frustrations.
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#10. We want to know. If we don't know, we don't feel safe, we don't feel secure.
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#11. Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
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#12. Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
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#13. You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.
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#14. Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.
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#15. Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to.
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#16. You can live in heaven right now. Heaven or hell is here and now; you don't need to wait to die. If you take responsibility for your own life, for your own actions, then your future is in your hands, and you can live in heaven while your body is alive.
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#17. We don't see the truth because we are blind. What blinds us are all those false beliefs we have in our mind. We have the need to be right and to make others wrong. We trust what we believe, and our beliefs set us up for suffering.
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#18. 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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#19. I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author ... ' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am.
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#20. 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.
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#23. 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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#24. THE THIRD AGREEMENT Don't Make Assumptions
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#25. You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first.
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#26. 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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#27. There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don't like who we are.
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#28. Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.
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#29. 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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#30. When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth.
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#31. Imagine living your life without judging others. You can easily forgive others and let go of any judgments that you have. You don't have the need to be right, and you don't need to make anyone else wrong. You respect yourself and everyone else, and they respect you in return.
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#32. Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.
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#33. Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally ... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.
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#34. Be impeccable with your word. Don't take anything personally. Don't make assumptions. Always do your best.
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#35. I love and respect all religions and philosophies. I see how they get formed, how they grow up, and how powerful they are. But for me to believe in a specific god - no. Because what I believe is that the infinite, the absolute, is a living being and the only one living being that really exists.
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#36. Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.
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#37. Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner
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#39. I don't take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people's stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me.
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#40. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them. If we try to change them, this means we don't really like them.
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#41. 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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#42. Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.
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#43. 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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#44. Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward. Most people do the exact opposite: They only take action when they expect a reward, and they don't enjoy the action. And that's the reason why they don't do their best.
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#45. Words don't need to be spoken to devastate. They have only to be thought. Words band together to form opinions, which strut along the back roads of our minds, inciting doubt and controversy. Opinions rally toward a cause - a belief.
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#46. 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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#47. People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
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#48. We don't need to invest all of our faith in every concept, in every symbol, in every opinion that forms the totality of our knowledge. Faith means to believe in something 100% without a doubt, and to doubt our own knowledge can seem like the most frightening thing that can happen to us.
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#49. If you are impeccable with your word, if you don't take anything personally, if you don't make assumptions, if you always do your best, then you are going to have a beautiful life. You are going to control your life one hundred percent.
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#50. 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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#52. You don't have to live with anger, or sadness, or jealousy. You don't have to judge yourself, make yourself guilty, and punish yourself.
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#53. We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.
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#54. The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.
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#55. 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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#56. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.
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#57. I respect you when I don't try to tell you how to live your life, how to dress, how to walk, how to talk, how to do whatever you do in your kingdom.
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#58. Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
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#59. Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.
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#60. When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!
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#61. I am perfect because i am inseparable from the infinite, the force of life that creates the stars and the entire universe of light. i am God's creation. i don't need to be what i am not.
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#62. When you love, whatever you do is because you want to do it. It becomes a pleasure, it's like a game, and you have fun with it. When you love, you don't expect something to happen; whatever happens is okay, and hardly anything disappoints you.
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#63. The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
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#64. What you pretend to be is so complicated that I don't even bother to try to understand it.
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#65. Let's stop believing that our differences make us superior or inferior to one another. Let's not be afraid that our different colors make us different people. Who cares? It's just a lie, and we don't have to believe all the lies and superstitions that control our lives.
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#66. Help me to change the world is an invitation to be authentic, to follow your heart, to be free of superstitions and lies. And I'm not asking you to try to change the world. Don't try: just do it.
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#67. You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.
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#68. We must forgive those we feel have wronged us, not because they deserve to be forgiven but because we love ourselves so much we don't want to keep paying for the injustice ... when someone can touch a wound and it no longer hurts you then you know you have truly forgiven.
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#69. Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else.
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#70. The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.
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#71. You are alive, and you don't need to justify your existence. You can be the biggest mystery in your own story.
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#72. No one is responsible for your emotional reactions except you. Others can say and do anything they like but what happens inside you is only the result of what you are thinking and feeling.
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#74. You must forgive those who hurt you, even if whatever they did to you is unforgivable in your mind. You will forgive them not because they deserve to be forgiven, but because you don't want to suffer and hurt yourself every time you
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#75. You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.
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#76. How can you ask for something you don't think you deserve?
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#77. Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.
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#78. We search for everything we believe we don't have, not knowing that everything we are looking for is already inside us. We are born with it.
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#80. You don't need to worship idols of the Virgin Mary, the Christ, or the Buddha. You can if you want to; if it feels good, do it. Your own body is a manifestation of God,
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#81. In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.
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#82. When we get into a relationship of any kind, it is because we want to share, we want to enjoy, we want to have fun, we don't want to be bored. If we look for a partner, it is because we want to play, we want to be happy and enjoy what we are.
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#83. The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life.
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#84. Whatever people do, feel, think, or say, don't take it personally. If they tell you how wonderful you are, they are not saying that because of you. You know you are wonderful. It is not necessary to believe other people who tell you that you are wonderful. Don't take anything personally.
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#85. 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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