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4/16/11

Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes


"Accept yourself just the way you are." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"All human suffering is the result of believing in lies. To become aware of this is the first thing we must do." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in." ~don Miguel Ruiz

"All the magic you possess is based on your word, and you cast spells all the time with your opinions. You can either put a spell on someone with your word, or you can release someone from a spell." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"An enlightened mind knows how to use imagination as wings, flying ever higher toward the unknowable." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

”As you work through your own healing, remember that you are held up by the strength and love of the warriors who have come before you." ~Don Miguel Reyes

"Be impeccable with your Word. Speak with Integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of Truth and Love." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"By changing ourselves. By loving ourselves, the message we deliver to our children carries the love and truth." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Don't make assumptions. 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. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life." ~Miguel Angel Ruiz

"Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Each human mind is fertile, but only for those seeds for which it is prepared." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Every relationship is as unique as the individuals that are in it." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Forgiveness is the only way to heal." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Go inside yourself 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." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"If someone gives you an opinion and says, "Hey, you look so fat," don't take it personally, because the truth is that this person is dealing with his or her own feelings, beliefs, and opinions. That person tried to send poison to you and if you take it personally, then you take that poison and it becomes yours. Taking things personally makes you easy prey for these predators, the black magicians. They can hook you easily with one little opinion and feed you whatever poison they want, and because you take it personally, you eat it up." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn’t walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don’t need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"If you can see yourself as an Artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?" ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears." ~Miguel Ruiz

"Impeccability of the word can be measured by your level of self-love. If you love yourself, you will express that love in your interactions with others, and that action will produce a like reaction." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"It's not the stars that create light, but rather light that creates stars." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Let us be aware of our power to create a dream of heaven where everything is possible. Help us to use our imagination to guide the dream of our life, the magic of our creation." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Life as you perceive it is a reflection of your perception and beliefs." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Love is always kind, and that kindness makes you generous and opens all the doors. Love is generous." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"No matter how dark things are or seem to be, raise your sights and see possibilities, for they are always there." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Our best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when we are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret." ~Miguel Ruiz

"People say the conflict is between good and evil.  The real conflict though is between truth and lies." ~Don Miguel Ruiz 

"Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having fun or playing, when you feel happy, when you are painting, or writing poetry, or playing the piano, or expressing yourself in some way. These are the happiest moments of your life--when the real you comes out, when you don't care about the past and you don't worry about the future. You are childlike." ~ Don Miguel Ruiz

"Surrendering to life is an act of power." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"The dream you are living is your creation. It is your perception of reality that you can change at anytime." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"The first step to personal freedom is awareness." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"The truth doesn't need us [to exist] but a belief does, and sometimes we confuse the two." ~Don Miguel Ruiz, Jr.

"The whole world can love you, but that love will not make you happy. What will make you happy is the love coming out of you." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Through our faith, we gain the courage to take action. And through action, we move one step closer toward the manifestation of our desires." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"To have great faith is to have great power, because your intent, your will, is undivided. When your word isn’t dissipated by doubt, the power of your word becomes even stronger." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"We don't have the right to change anyone else, and no one else has the right to change us. You dance or you don't dance." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"We humans create the story of separation, and we search for what we believe we don't have." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"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." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"We search for everything we believe we don't have, not knowing that everything we are looking for is already inside us." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally…Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"When we love each other unconditionally, our mirror is clean; we see others and ourselves as we really are, beautiful expressions of the divine." ~Don Miguel Ruiz Jr.

"When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions, but you do not judge or blame yourself." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"When you focus on your dreams, set goals and take action you are able to create anything you desire." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"When you hear an opinion and believe it, you make an agreement and it becomes part of your belief system. The only thing that can break this agreement is to make a new one based on truth. Only the truth has the power to set you free." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"When you refuse to take things personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your feelings of anger, jealousy—and even your sadness—will simply disappear if you don’t take things personally." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"With awareness today, remember that everyone you see, everyone you meet, everyone you interact with is a part of you. What you do to another you also do to yourself. Loving and recognizing the equal divinity in all beings is recognizing the divinity in yourself." ~Don Miguel Ruiz Jr., author of Living A Life of Awareness: Daily Meditations on the Toltec Path

"Words are my paintbrush, and my life is the canvas. What I paint with words is the way I see myself. . . the way I see my entire reality. What I paint is my life, and how it looks depends on how I use the word." ~Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements for a Better Life

"You are wise when you no longer act against yourself." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"You just change yourself and just like magic, everything starts changing around you." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"Your own opinions and point of view reflect your own agreements and are personal to you. It is no one’s truth but yours." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

"You will know you have forgiven someone when you see them and you no longer have an emotional reaction." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

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