Miguel Angel Ruiz Quotes:

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.

Topics: Children, Thinking, Live In The Moment

The cells in your body are completely loyal to you; they work for you in harmony. We can even say they pray to you. You are their God. That is absolutely the truth. Now what are you going to do with this knowledge?

Topics: Cells, Loyal, Body

When you are aware that you are the force that is Life, anything is possible. Miracles happen all the time, because those miracles are performed by the heart. The heart is in direct communion with the human soul, and when the heart speaks, even with the resistance of the head, something inside you changes; your heart opens another heart, and true love is possible.

Topics: Life, Heart, Love Is

The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices.

Topics: Recovery, Loss, Choices, Different Choices

We have a tendency to make assumptions about everything! The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are truth. We could swear they are real. We make assumptions about what others are doing or thinking-we take it personally-then we blame them and react by sending emotional poison in our word. That is why whenever we make assumptions, we're asking for problems. We make assumptions, we misunderstand, we take it personally, and we end up creating a whole big drama for nothing.

Topics: Spiritual, Real, Drama

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.

source: - "‘Four Agreements’ Author Don Miguel Ruiz Reveals How Doubt Can Lead To Happiness" by don Miguel Angel Ruiz, don Jose Ruiz, with Janet Mills, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2013.

Topics: Children, Real, Ocean, Real You, Young Children

They were so much alike and they become best friends. It was a wonderful relationship. They respected each other, and they never put each other down. With every step they took together, they were happy. There was no envy or jealousy; there was no control, there was no possessiveness. Their relationship kept growing and growing. They loved to be together because when they were together, they had alot of fun. When they were not together, they missed each other.

Topics: Love, Soulmate, Fun, Possessiveness

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.

Topics: Wall, Lying, Believe

You are Life passing through your body, passing through your mind, passing through your soul. Once you find that out, not with logic, not with the intellect, but because you can feel that Life-you find out that you are the force that makes the flowers open and close, that makes the hummingbird fly from flower to flower. You find out that you are in every tree, and you are in every animal, vegetable, and rock. You are that force that moves the wind and breathes through your body. The whole universe is a living being that is moved by that force, and that is what you are. You are Life.

Topics: Flower, Moving, Animal, Passing Through, Hummingbirds

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

Topics: Real, Lying, People, Truth And Lies

Forgiveness is the only way to heal

Topics: Apology, Way, Heal, Four Agreements

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.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Do Not Fear Death, Facing Fear

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.

source: - "The Four Agreements". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997.

Topics: Love, Inspirational, Encouragement, Spiritual Integrity, Spiritual Truth

Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

source: - "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

Topics: Inspirational, Regret, Self Esteem, You Will Regret, Past Regrets

When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.

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!

Topics: Lying, Believe, Assumption

Do not let great ambitions overshadow small success.

Topics: Ambition, Great Ambition, Small Successes

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Beautiful, Beautiful Art

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.

Topics: Expression, Expressions Of Love, Write Your Own, Good Artist

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

Topics: Art, Positive Thinking, Stories

Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Topics: Love, And Love, Use

Doing your best, you are going to live your life intensely. You are going to be productive, you are going to be good to yourself, because you will be giving yourself to your family, to your community, to everything. But it is the action that is going to make you feel intensely happy. When you always do your best, you take action.

Topics: Motivational, Giving, Community, Giving Yourself

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

Topics: Regret, Self, Abuse

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.

source: - "‘Four Agreements’ Author Don Miguel Ruiz Reveals How Doubt Can Lead To Happiness" by don Miguel Angel Ruiz, don Jose Ruiz, with Janet Mills, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2013.

Topics: Believe, Mirrors, Want, Grey's Anatomy

Love for yourself is the key to loving other. Love begins with you

Topics: Keys, Loving Others

People are starving for love, not knowing their heart is a magical kitchen. Open your heart. Open your magical kitchen and refuse to walk around the world begging for love. In your heart is all the love you need. Your heart can create any amount of love, not just for yourself, but for the whole world.

Topics: Love, Heart, Knowing

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. There is an old expression that says, 'Misery likes company,' and people who are suffering in hell don't want to be all alone.

Topics: Motivational, Communication, Feel Better

...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

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Dream

Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.

Topics: Lying, Believe, People, People Lie

The dream you are living is your creation. It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time. You have the power to create hell, and you have the power to create heaven. Why not dream a different dream? Why not use your mind, your imagination, and your emotions to dream heaven?

Topics: Dream, Reality, Imagination, Perception Reality

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. 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.

Topics: Motivational, Thinking, Judging

Perhaps you're not finished with your story, and who knows if you'll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it's not that important.

Topics: Important, Stories, Honestly

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.

Topics: Lying, Heart, Play

Say only what you mean.

Topics: Mean

What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss.

Topics: Light, Sky, Tree, Four Agreements

You find that the injustice that created a wound is no longer true, right now, in this moment.

Topics: Injustice, Moments, Wounds

You can only be you when you do your best. When you don't do your best you are denying yourself the right to be you. That's a seed that you should really nurture in your mind. You don't need knowledge or great philosophical concepts. You don't need the acceptance of others. You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.

Topics: Motivational, Philosophical, Acceptance, Denying Yourself, Four Agreements

The real you is still a little child who never grew up. 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.

Topics: Children, Fun, Real, Inner Child, Real You

When you look in the mirror and hate what you see, you need addictions to survive.

Topics: Hate, Mirrors, Addiction

Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly.

Topics: Finding Yourself, Way, Originality

Your own body is a manifestation of God, and if you honor your body everything will change for you

Topics: Honor, Body, Manifestation, Your Body

The truth is silent. The truth doesn't come with words. It's something that I just know; it's something that I can feel without words, and it's called silent knowledge.

Topics: Silence, Silent, Truth Is

The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.

Topics: Positive Thinking, Choices, Suffering, Choose To Be Happy, Happiness Is A Choice

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of Love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don't respect you. They consider that you're not a good artist who can write your own story, even though you were born to write your own story.

Topics: Being Yourself, Writing, Mean

Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned to live our life trying to satisfy other people's demands. We have learned to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.

Topics: Being Yourself, Views, People, Being Accepted, Being Good Enough

How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word. When you are impeccable with your word, you feel good; you feel happy and at peace.

Topics: Integrity, Love You, Feel Good, Four Agreements, Impeccable

The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does.

Topics: Life, Change, Path

DON'T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY. NOTHINGS 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 OF OTHERS, YOU WON'T BE THE VICTIM OF NEEDLESS SUFFERING.

Topics: Inspiring, Dream, Reality, Offence, Insults You

The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.

Topics: Being Happy, Truth, Believe, Four Agreements

Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.

Topics: Believe, Self, People, Four Agreements

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

Topics: Letting Go, Freedom, Positivity, Free Your Mind

Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.

Topics: Destiny, Choices, Suffering

Relationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one.

Topics: Relationship, Dream, Art

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.

Topics: Life, Agreement, Honor, Deep Life, Impeccable

The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now.

source: - "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

Topics: Letting Go, Love You, Past, Thank You God

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.

source: - AMBER-ALLEN PUBLISHING Interview, www.amberallen.com. June 4, 2013.

Topics: Spiritual, Believe, Knowing

How are you going to change the world? The answer is easy. By changing the world that exists in your head.

Topics: Answers, World, Changing The World

Once you forgive yourself, the self-rejection in your mind is over. Self-acceptance begins, and the self-love will grow so strong that you will finally accept yourself just the way you are. That's the beginning of the free human. Forgiveness is the key.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide, Forgive Yourself, Suicidal Thoughts

Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else.

Topics: Life, Dream, Truth

You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself.

Topics: Believe, Self, Way

Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.

source: - "3 Things That Happen to Your Life When You Stop Taking Things Personally" by Tara-Nicholle Nelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 8, 2016.

Topics: Inspirational, Karma, Positivity, Individual Differences, Different Worlds

Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.

Topics: Selfish, Heart, Love Is

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.

Topics: Character, People, Stories, Projection

You are immortal; you exist for billions of years in different manifestations, because you are Life, and Life cannot die. You are in the trees, the butterflies, the fish, the air, the moon, the sun. Wherever you go, you are there, waiting for yourself.

Topics: Life, Butterfly, Moon

Accept your own divinity. Everything is a manifestation of God. When you know that, the power that is LIFE is inside you, you accept your own divinity, and yet you are humble, because you see that see the same divinity in everyone else.

Topics: Humble, Divinity, Life Is

When you are happy, the people around you are happy, too, and it inspires them to change their own world.

Topics: People, Inspire, World

If you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.

Topics: Dream, Art, Love You

Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren't enjoying the dream.

Topics: Dream, Wisdom, Art, Four Agreements

Today, imagine all the love flowing from your heart to all the people who need your love.

Topics: Heart, People, Needs

There is nothing to learn about love. Everything is already there, in our genes, in our nature. We don't have to learn anything except what we invent in this world of illusion. We search for love outside ourselves when love is all around us. Love is everywhere, but we don't have the eyes to see...Your heart can create any amount of love, not just for yourself, but for the whole world. When we know that our heart is a magical kitchen, we are always generous and our love is completely unconditional.

Topics: Love, Heart, Eye, Searching For Love

The voice in your head is like a wild horse taking you wherever it wants to go...When the voice in your head finally stops talking, you experience inner peace.

Topics: Horse, Peace, Voice, Wild Horses

Let everything we do and say be an expression of the beauty in our heart, always based on love

Topics: Heart, Expression

Know that truth, forgiveness, and love can heal the world. Imagine if all of us could be truthful with ourselves, start forgiving everyone, and start loving everyone. We would no longer be selfish, gossiping would be over, and we would no longer judge one another. The world would become a place where all of us live in love.

Topics: Selfish, Judging, Forgiving, Being Selfish, Being Truthful

I am here and I'm alive. That's enough.

Topics: Alive, Enough, I'm Alive

I am here to enjoy life. I am not here to suffer. I am here to be a dreamer, to be an artist, to be a seer. The mission of my life is to enjoy every single moment of my life.

Topics: Single Mom, Artist, Enjoy Life, Seers

The real us is pure love, pure light

Topics: Real, Light, Four Agreements, Pathos

Our minds have the need to know. When we dont know we make assumptions - they make us feel safer than not knowing. And we are pretty much always making assumptions.

Topics: Knowing, Mind, Needs

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.

Topics: Growing Up, Lying, Believe

When you love without conditions, you the human and you the God, align with the spirit of life moving through you.

Topics: Moving, Spirit, Humans

We are creators, just like the one who created us. And we are always expressing our creativity, with or without awareness.

source: - "Wisdom Keeping Traditions of don Miguel Ruiz and don Jose". Interview with Kala Ambrose, www.exploreyourspirit.com.

Topics: Creativity, Awareness, Creator

You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Growth, Four Agreements, Need A Change

There is really no reason to suffer. The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer. If you look at your life you will find many excuses to suffer, but a good reason to suffer you will not find. The same is true for happiness. The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.

Topics: Motivational, Choices, Suffering, Choose To Be Happy, Happiness Is A Choice

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.

source: - "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997.

Topics: Inspirational, Courage, Drama, Spiritual Integrity, Four Agreements

All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to impose our story on others or to defend what we believe. Instead we see all of us as artists with the right to create our own art.

Topics: Spiritual, Art, Believe

If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.

Topics: Looks, Difficult, Humans, Human Society

My greatest joy is just to be alive!

Topics: Joy, Alive

I turned my head to the sky, to the sun, to the stars, and put a little piece of my love in every star, in the moon, in the sun, and they loved me back. And I became one with the moon and the sun and the stars, and my love kept growing and growing. And I put a little piece of my love in every human, and I became one with the whole of humanity. Wherever I go, whomever I meet, I see myself in their eyes, because I am a part of everything, because I love.

Topics: Stars, Eye, Moon

Doubt is a powerful tool. Doubt challenges my beliefs and breaks the spell of all the lies and superstitions that control my world. I use doubt to recover faith in myself, to take my power back from every superstition I believe in, and return that power to myself.

Topics: Faith, Powerful, Lying

The world is very beautiful and very wonderful. Life can be very easy when love is your way of life. You can be loving all the time. This is your choice. You may not have a reason to love, but you can love because to love makes you so happy. Love in action only produces happiness. Love will give you inner peace. It will change your perception of everything.

Topics: Motivational, Beautiful, Love Is, Happy Love, Reason To Love

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.

Topics: Life, Change, Dance, Inspirational Dance, Life Is Changing

I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.

Topics: Names, Mind, Four Agreements

Dream masters create a masterpiece of life; they control the dream by making choices.

Topics: Dream, Choices, Four Agreements

The action is what makes the dreams come true. Always do your best. The dream that you have becomes real when you take the action. If you dont take the action whatever is in your head ... will dissolve and you will forget about it

Topics: Dream, Real, Action

You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results and no reward.

source: - "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1997.

Topics: Ideas, Differences, Rewards, Four Agreements

In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate 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.

Topics: Self, Abuse, Littles

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

Topics: Moving, Desire, Gains

You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first.

Topics: World, Firsts, Don't Change

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.

source: - "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz and Janet Mills, books.google.ru. January 18, 2010.

Topics: Letting Go, Hurt, Heart, Make The Right Choice, Four Agreements

We [people] love ourselves with conditions. We need opinions, we need approval, we create an image of ourselves that is not what we are. This how we lose our authenticity and create masks - how we become "domesticated."

source: - Source: www.awaken.com

Topics: People, Approval, Needs

Humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear.

Topics: Fear, Sick, Disease

We learn to be right and to make everyone else wrong. The need to be right is the result of trying to protects the image we want to project to the outside. We have to impose our way of thinking, not just onto other humans, but even upon ourselves.

Topics: Thinking, Self, Trying

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.

Topics: Dream, Past, Self, Four Agreements, Living In The Past

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. Today let something extraordinary happen that will change our life forever; let everything we do and say be an expression of the beauty in our heart, always based on love

Topics: Dream, Heart, Expression

My personal prayer is simply my joy to be alive, and to live in gratitude and generosity.

source: - Source: www.awaken.com

Topics: Gratitude, Prayer, Generosity

We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are.

Topics: Motivational, Mean, Self, Measuring Up

Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss

Topics: I Love You, Stupid, Bliss

We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment.

Topics: Art, Expression, Ongoing

Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.

Topics: Self, Rejection, Sin

There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don't like who we are.

Topics: Hurt, Who We Are, Way

Life is like dancing...changing all the time.

Topics: Dancing, Life Is Like, Life Is

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?

source: - Source: www.awaken.com

Topics: Needs, Want, Using Words

Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to.

source: - "Ellen DeGeneres Sits Down with The Four Agreements Author don Miguel Ruiz". Interview with Ellen DeGeneres, www.oprah.com. October 2001.

Topics: Hurt, Heart, Love Is, Love Hurt

To be authentic is to stop pretending to be what think you are, because you are not.

source: - Source: www.awaken.com

Topics: Thinking, Pretending

...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

Topics: Garbage, Doe, Four Agreements

Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else.

Topics: Believe, Madness, Believe In Yourself

To have faith is to believe unconditionally.

Topics: Believe, Have Faith

You are alive, so take your life and enjoy it. You were born with the right to be happy, to love, and to share your love. Just to be-to take a risk and enjoy your life-is all that matters.

Topics: Risk, Alive, Matter, Enjoy Your Life

Today is the most wonderful day of your life. This moment represents eternity. It is the moment when you return to love by deciding to live in communion with our Creator.

Topics: Today, Return, Wonderful, Wonderful Day

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.

Topics: Motivational, Opposites, People, Best Husband, Four Agreements

Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.

Topics: Want, Four Agreements, Humans

When you do your best you learn to accept yourself

Topics: Apology, Acceptance, Accepting Yourself, Self Acceptance

What we know and believe is just a program; it is nothing but words, opinions, and ideas we learn from others and from our own life experience.

Topics: Faith, Believe, Ideas

YOU ARE AN ARTIST OF THE SPIRIT Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.

Topics: Love, Dream, Art

The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives we will see that most of the time we do things just to please others ... The worst part is that most of us are not even aware that we are not free.

Topics: Looking For Love, Looks, Worst

Your word is the power that you have to create

Topics: Powerful, Four Agreements

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Letting Go

If you always do your best there is no way you can judge yourself.

source: - "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

Topics: Judging, Way, Ifs

I am the love of my life, the marriage between my mind and my body.

source: - Source: www.awaken.com

Topics: Love Of My Life, Mind, Body

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?

Topics: Life, Beautiful, Art

What I have most learned from my son is to respect him and to love him unconditionally. I believe that if parents respect their children and educate them with love and justice (and not just with words, but with their own behavior) the relationship with their children will be wonderful. Then parents will always be proud of their children, and children will always be proud of their parents. There will be peace in the family, and the home will be a sanctuary.

source: - "Wisdom Keeping Traditions of don Miguel Ruiz and don Jose". Interview with Kala Ambrose, www.exploreyourspirit.com.

Topics: Children, Believe, Home

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.

Topics: Lying, Believe, Color

When you feel good, everything around you is good, when everything around you is great, everything makes you happy. You are loving everything that is around you, because you are loving yourself.

Topics: Motivational, Loving Yourself, Feel Good, Loving Everything, Four Agreements

When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy to be alive!

Topics: Gratitude, Love You, Joy

If you believe you are guilty and deserve to be punished, you are asking for it!

Topics: Believe, Asking, Guilty

Awareness is something that is very important. And you say that it looks impossible to become what we really are, to be authentic, to be ourselves again. But I will tell you that it is much more difficult to try to be what we are not.

source: - "The bestselling author of The Four Agreements talks about his book, The Voice of Knowledge". Amber-Allen Publishing Interview, www.amberallen.com. June 4, 2013.

Topics: Important, Trying, Looks

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.

Topics: Responsibility, Hands, Waiting, Heaven Or Hell

You are what you believe you are.

Topics: Life, Believe

You go against yourself when you judge or blame yourself for anything

Topics: Twilight, Judging, Blame

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.

source: - "‘Four Agreements’ Author Don Miguel Ruiz Reveals How Doubt Can Lead To Happiness" by don Miguel Angel Ruiz, don Jose Ruiz, with Janet Mills, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2013.

Topics: Memories, Belief, Relative Truth

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

source: - Source: www.awaken.com

Topics: Love You, Want, Way, Conditional Love, Conditional

Love is ruthless; it doesn't feel sorry for anyone, but it does have compassion. Fear is full of pity; it feels sorry for everyone.

Topics: Sorry, Love Is, Compassion

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

Topics: Gossip, World, Awareness, Immune

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.

Topics: Hurt, Way, Four Agreements, Hurting You, Hurting Yourself

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.

Topics: Nonsense, Grew Up, Born

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.

Topics: Mean, Trying, Stories

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

Topics: Drama, Lying, Suffering

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

Topics: Hurt, People, Four Agreements, Mean People, Negative People

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

Topics: Art, Use, Creation

To say a prayer doesn't take more than a minute, but you need the discipline to do it.

Topics: Prayer, Discipline, Needs

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.

Topics: Lost Love, Mistake, Animal

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.

Topics: Dream, Morning, Prayer, Sleep Dream

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.

Topics: Children, Fun, Real

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

Topics: Light

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.

source: - AMBER-ALLEN PUBLISHING Interview, www.amberallen.com. June 4, 2013.

Topics: Spiritual, Character, Names

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.

Topics: Strong, Sadness, Envy

Love does not want or fear anything.

Topics: Love, Doe, Want, Stillness Speaks

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.

Topics: Moving, Judgement, Risk

Life brings you exactly what you need.

Topics: Life, Needs

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.

Topics: Acceptance, Self, Forgiving, Forgive Yourself, Love Grows

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

Topics: Way, Four Agreements, Assumption

Everything that is true is authentic.

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.

Topics: Dream, Betrayal, Hate, Reasoning, Anger Hate

There is nothing to do except to be just who you are. You have the right to feel beautiful and enjoy it.

Topics: Beautiful, Enjoy, Feels, Feeling Beautiful

All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things personally. The whole world of control between humans is based on that.

Topics: Drama, Sadness, World

You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life.

Topics: Art, Messages, Creation

Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself.

Topics: Mean, And Love, Energy, Truth And Love, Impeccable

Happiness begins with impeccability of the word. The way to measure the impeccability of my word is to ask, "Am I happy or am I suffering?" If I'm suffering, then I'm not being impeccable with my word.

Topics: Integrity, Suffering, Way, Impeccable

Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.

Topics: Freedom, Fear, Joy, Personal Freedom, Four Agreements

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.

source: - "What Oprah Winfrey Can Teach Us About Living Well" by Lindsay Holmes, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2014.

Topics: Life, Lying, Believe, Four Agreements

You deliver a message every time you speak. Do you deliver the truth, or do you deliver lies? When the message you deliver comes from truth and love, you are happier.

Topics: Lying, Love You, And Love, Truth And Love

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.

Topics: Believe, Communication, People

Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.

Topics: Simple, Ideas, Belief

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.

Topics: Sadness, Judging, Guilty

We ask everybody to help us to change the world, but we are not talking about our planet Earth; we are talking about the world that each one of us creates within our mind. We are talking about the story that we create.

source: - "Wisdom Keeping Traditions of don Miguel Ruiz and don Jose". Interview with Kala Ambrose, www.exploreyourspirit.com.

Topics: Talking, Mind, Stories, Our Planet Earth

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

Topics: Abuse, Mindset

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. We punish ourselves when we don't follow the rules according to our belief system; we reward ourselves when we are the "good boy" or "good girl".

Topics: Girl, Animal, Boys, Good Boy

Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives.

Topics: Drama, Conflict, Our Lives

When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure.

Topics: Beauty, Giving, Needs

God is life. God is life in action. The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now. Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment. Letting go of the past means you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.

source: - "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997.

Topics: God, Letting Go, Dream, Thank You God, Four Agreements

True justice is to pay one time for every mistake we make.

Topics: Inspirational, Karma, Mistake, True Justice

Awareness is always the first step.

Topics: Firsts, Steps, Awareness

Just by being happier, everyone benefits because your happiness is contagious.

Topics: Benefits, Contagious

And what is the right woman, the right man? Someone who wants to go in the same direction as you do, someone who is compatible with your views and your values-- emotionally, physically, economically, spiritually.

Topics: Men, Views, Want, Right Man, Compatible

Life is not the body; it is not the mind; it is not the soul. It is a force.

Topics: Life, Soul, Mind

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.

Topics: Real, Love Is, People, Four Agreements, Accepting Others

the real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself

Topics: Real, Believe, Order, Make Yourself Happy

True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.

Topics: Mistake, Justice, Four Agreements, True Justice

Humans create their own boundaries, their own limitations. We say what is humanly possible, and what is not possible. Then just because we believe it, it becomes truth for us.

Topics: Believe, Boundaries, Humans

You see everything is about belief, whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life.

Topics: Believe, Belief, Existence

Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.

source: - "The Fifth Agreement : A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 2009.

Topics: Listen To Your Heart, Skeptical

By practicing the Five Agreements, what you are really doing is respecting everything in creation. You are respecting your dream; you are respecting everybody else's dream. If you use these tools, your effort is really for everyone, because your joy, your happiness, your peace, and your heaven are contagious. When you are happy, the people around you are happy too, and it inspires them to change their own world.

Topics: Dream, Agreement, People

If I love myself I will express that love in my interactions with you, and then I am being impeccable with the word, because that action will produce a like reaction. If I love you, then you will love me. If I insult you, you will insult me. If I have gratitude for you , you will have gratitude for me. If I'm selfish with you, you will be selfish with me.

Topics: Motivational, Gratitude, Integrity, Insults You, Impeccable

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.

Topics: Lying, Heart, Trying

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.

Topics: Stars, Light, Perfect

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.

source: - "‘Four Agreements’ Author Don Miguel Ruiz Reveals How Doubt Can Lead To Happiness" by don Miguel Angel Ruiz, don Jose Ruiz, with Janet Mills, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2013.

Topics: Lying, Believe, Mirrors, Look At Yourself

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.

Topics: Fun, Love You, Games

It doesn't matter whether you believe in Christ, Moses, Allah, Brahma, Buddha, or any other being or master. Each one of us has our own beliefs, our own point of view. There are billions of different points of view, but it's the same force of life behind each one of us.

Topics: Believe, Views, Different, Different Points Of View, Brahma

Every prayer is an agreement with yourself.

source: - Interview with Jill V. Mangino, www.awaken.com. August 5, 2014.

Topics: Prayer, Agreement

You will free yourself from emotional drama by uncovering all the lies you believe in. It is a process of unlearning the lies. It is a period of cleansing, and it has nothing to do with the dream of society.

Topics: Dream, Drama, Lying, Free Yourself, Uncovering

What makes me the happiest are the times I get together with my family, those times when I am with my children, grandchildren, my brothers and sisters and my very close friends, as well as when I am with my extended family in each one of my lectures and power journeys. My greatest joy is just to be alive!

source: - Source: www.awaken.com

Topics: Brother, Children, Journey