Top 380 Miguel Ruiz Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe.”

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152. “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.”

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

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154. “You are beautiful no matter what your mind tells you. That is a fact. You don’t have to do anything because you already have all the beauty you need.”

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

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156. “Imagine living your life without being afraid to take a risk and to explore life.”

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157. “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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158. “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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159. “Making assumptions and then taking them personally is the beginning of hell in this world.”

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160. “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.”

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

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162. “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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163. “Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.”

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

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165. “Under any circumstance, always do your best, no more and no less. But keep in mind that your best is never going to be the same from one moment to the next. Everything is alive and changing all the time, so your best will sometimes be high quality, and other times it will not be as good.”

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

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167. “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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168. “People who love us do black magic on us, but they don’t know what they do.”

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

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170. “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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171. “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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172. “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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173. “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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174. “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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175. “If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you.”

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176. “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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177. “True justice is to pay one time for every mistake we make.”

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

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179. “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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180. “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.”

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

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182. “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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183. “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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184. “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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185. “Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.”

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186. “Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream.”

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187. “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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188. “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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189. “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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190. “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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191. “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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192. “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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193. “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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194. “Learning from your mistakes means you practice, look honestly at the results, and keep practicing. This increases your awareness.”

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195. “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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196. “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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197. “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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198. “You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself.”

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

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

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