Top 380 Miguel Ruiz Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Imagine living your life without being afraid to take a risk and to explore life.”

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152. “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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153. “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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154. “Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.”

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155. “The big diffrence between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains.”

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156. “Making assumptions and then taking them personally is the beginning of hell in this world.”

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

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158. “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; it is why we don’t accept ourselves the way we are, and why we don’t accept others the way they are.”

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159. “We want to know. If we don’t know, we don’t feel safe, we don’t feel secure.”

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160. “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!”

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161. “Every prayer is an agreement with yourself. The mind is asking the real you, which is life, to guide your decisions for every single choice that you make.”

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162. “Humans have a need to explain and justify everything; we have a need for knowledge, and we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know.”

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163. “That is the healing. Three simple points: the truth, forgiveness, and self-love. With these three points, the whole world will heal and will no longer be a mental hospital.”

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164. “A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself.”

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165. “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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166. “True justice is to pay one time for every mistake we make.”

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167. “We are on an eternal search for the truth because we only believe in the lies we have stored in our mind.”

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168. “Hemos de perdonar a los que creemos que se han portado mal con nosotros, no porque se lo merezcan, sino porque sentimos tanto amor por nosotros mismos que no queremos continuar pagando por esas injusticias.”

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169. “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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170. “Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. 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. Expressing what you are is taking 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.”

— Miguel Ruiz

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

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172. “Forgiveness is the only way to heal. We can choose to forgive because we feel compassion for ourselves.”

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173. “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.”

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174. “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. Their point of view comes from all the programming they received during domestication.”

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175. “It is very interesting how the human mind works. We have the need to justify everything, to explain and understand everything, in order to feel safe.”

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176. “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.”

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177. “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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178. “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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179. “You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself.”

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180. “We are addicted to being the way we are.”

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181. “All the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in making assumptions and taking things personally. Take a moment to consider the truth of this statement. The whole war of control between humans is about making assumptions and taking things personally. Our whole dream of hell is based on that.”

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182. “When we talk about the Toltec path to freedom, we find that they have an entire map for breaking free of domestication. They compare the Judge, the Victim, and the belief system to a parasite that invades the human mind. From the Toltec point of view, all humans who are domesticated are sick. They are sick because there is a parasite that controls the mind and controls the brain. The food for the parasite is the negative emotions that come from fear.”

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183. “The denial system is like a wall of fog in front of our eyes that blinds us from seeing the truth. We wear a social mask because it’s too painful to see ourselves or to let others see us as we really are. And the denial system lets us pretend that everyone believes what we want them to believe about us. We put up these barriers for protection, to keep other people away, but those barriers also keep us inside, restricting our freedom.”

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184. “When we believe something, we assume we are right about it to the point that we will destroy relationships in order to defend our position.”

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185. “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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186. “Humans hunt for love. We feel that we need that love because we believe we don’t have love, because we don’t love ourselves. We hunt for love in other humans just like us, expecting to get love from them when these humans are in the same condition as we are. They don’t love themselves either, so how much love can we get from them? We merely create a bigger need that isn’t real; we keep hunting and hunting, but in the wrong place, because other humans don’t have the love we need.”

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187. “The only person who needs to be concerned about the story of you is you.”

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188. “There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don’t like who we are.”

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189. “Just your existence proves the existence of God.”

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

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191. “Learning from your mistakes means you practice, look honestly at the results, and keep practicing. This increases your awareness.”

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192. “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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193. “If you tell someone you love him, and that person says ‘Well, I don’t love you,” is that a reason for you to suffer? Just because someone rejects you doesn’t mean you have to reject yourself. If one person doesn’t love you, someone else will love you. There is always someone else. And it’s better to be with someone who wants to be with you than to be with someone who has to be with you.”

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194. “Suffering makes you feel safe because you know it so well.”

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195. “Everything that is true is authentic. When we were born, we did not have knowledge. As soon as we have language, we learn to describe everything through that language and we learn to be like our family, our parents, those at school, etc.”

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196. “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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197. “Children just feel emotions and their reasoning mind doesn’t interpret or question them. This is why children accept certain people and reject other people.”

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198. “What causes you to be trapped is what we call personal importance. Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about “me.”

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199. “I encourage people to love themselves. I show them how respect can open doors, while fear only closes them. Respect rules heaven, and heaven is within our grasp with every choice we make.”

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200. “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, just to be accepted by others, rather than living our lives to please ourselves.”

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