Top 380 Miguel Ruiz Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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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152. “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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153. “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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154. “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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155. “Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.”

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

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157. “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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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. “If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you.”

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160. “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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161. “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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162. “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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163. “You have the right to be mad, but I don’t have to be mad because you are mad. I didn’t do anything to cause your anger.” You don’t have to accept your partner’s anger at all, but you can allow her to be angry. There is no need to argue; just allow her to be what she is, allow her to heal without intervening. And you can also agree not to interfere with your own healing process.”

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164. “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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165. “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.”

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166. “It’s easier to be skeptical because it’s easier to understand that every human lives in their own world.”

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167. “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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168. “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.”

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169. “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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170. “With knowledge, our creation can go in any direction – from the worst kind of drama, to the most beautiful dream. Then the best way to express our creativity is with love and awareness of what we really are.”

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171. “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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172. “Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.”

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173. “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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174. “We are addicted to being the way we are.”

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

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176. “Awareness makes all the difference.”

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177. “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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178. “You don’t have to try to be good; you just need to stop pretending to be what you are not.”

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

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180. “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.”

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181. “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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182. “After domestication, we try to be good enough for everybody else, but we are no longer good enough for ourselves, because we can never live up to our image of perfection.”

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183. “Once you are aware that you’re dreaming, you recover your power to change the dream whenever you choose.”

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

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185. “Love coming out of you makes you happy. The whole world can love you, but that love will not make you happy. What will make you happy is to share all the love you have inside you. That is the love that will make a difference.”

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

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187. “Imagine that you love yourself just the way you are. You love your body just the way it is, and you love your emotions just the way they are. You know that you are perfect just as you are.”

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188. “The angel of death comes to us and says, “You see everything that exists here is mine; it is not yours. Your house, your spouse, your children, your car, your career, your money – everything is mine and I can take it away when I want to, but for now you can use it.”

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189. “A sin is anything that you do which goes against yourself. Everything you feel or believe or say that goes against yourself is a sin. You go against yourself when you judge or blame yourself for anything. Being without sin is exactly the opposite. Being impeccable is not going against yourself. When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions, but you do not judge or blame yourself.”

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190. “The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don’t take it personally you are immune.”

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191. “Our brain is the factory of the emotions.”

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192. “It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control.”

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193. “Every day we awake with a certain amount of mental, emotional, and physical energy that we spend throughout the day. If we allow our emotions to deplete our energy, we have no energy to change our lives or to give to others.”

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194. “Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in.”

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195. “You are never responsible for the actions of others; you are only responsible for you. When you truly understand this, and refuse to take things personally, you can hardly be hurt by the careless comments or actions of others.”

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196. “The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. We could swear they are real.”

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197. “The limit of your self-abuse is the limit you will tolerate from other people. If someone abuses you more than you abuse yourself, you walk away, you run, you escape. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, perhaps you stay longer. You still deserve that abuse.”

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

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199. “It is always better to ask questions than to make an assumption, because assumptions set us up for suffering.”

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

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