Miguel Angel Ruiz Quotes - Page 6

Society teaches us conditional love; i.e., "I love you if you are the way I want you to be."

...What you are is a force--a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream...You are life

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.

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.

The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune.

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.

Don't make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Don't make assumptions.

Suffering and drama begin when you lie to yourself, even if you don't realize you are lying.

God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself.

How many times do we pay for one mistake? The answer is a thousand times for the same mistake. The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for ONE mistake. The rest of the animals pay once for every mistake.

there is no need to justify what we are. there is no need to work hard to become what we are not. we just need to return to our intergrity, to the way we were before we learned to speak. perfect. as little children, we are authentic. only the present time is real for us; wo don't care about the past, and we aren't worried about the future. we enjoy life; we want to explore and have fun. nobody teaches us to be that way; we are born that way.

We are the same, you and I. We are images of light.

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.

Say the prayer first thing in the morning when you open your eyes; then say it again before you go to sleep. Dream the prayer. Feel the prayer with your emotional body. Be the prayer; align your faith and intent with the prayer until your whole life is based on this prayer.

We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we pretend to be, or that we want to be, and we cannot hide that from ourselves. We know that we are pretending to be what we are not in the name of perfection.

Love does not want or fear anything.

We are alive and need to take risks. And if we fail, so what? Who cares? It doesn't matter. Learn and move on without judgement.

Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.

Life brings you exactly what you need.

The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions.

Everything that is true is authentic.

When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do.

We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the disease are all the emotions that make humans suffer: anger, hate, sadness, envy, and betrayal. When the fear is too great, the reasoning mind begins to fail, and we call this mental illness.