Top 380 Miguel Ruiz Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Our emotions act like a filter through which we see the rest of the world.”

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302. “This is the first step in using the truth as a scalpel: You find that the injustice that created a wound is no longer true, right now, in this moment. You discover that perhaps what you believe hurt you so badly was never true. Even if it was true, it doesn’t mean that now it is true. By using the truth, you open the wound and see the injustice from a new perspective.”

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303. “Everything is made of light.”

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304. “Very young children are not afraid to express what they feel. They are so loving that if they perceive love, they melt into love. They are not afraid to love at all. That is the description of a normal human being. As children we are not afraid of the future or ashamed of the past. Our normal human tendency is to enjoy life, to play, to explore, to be happy, and to love.”

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305. “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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306. “Words are your paintbrush, and your life is the canvas.”

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

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308. “Sean cuales sean las circunstancias, todos lo hacemos lo mejor posible.”

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309. “Imagine living without the fear of loving and not being loved. You are no longer afraid to be rejected, and you don’t have the need to be accepted. You can say “I love you” with no shame or justification. You can walk in the world with your heart completely open, and not be afraid to be hurt.”

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310. “Even the worst thing that can happen to you is meant to happen because it’s going to push you to grow.”

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311. “We have to be what we are, so we don’t have to present a false image. If you love me the way I am, “Okay, take me.” If you don’t love me the way I am, “Okay, bye-bye. Find someone else.” It may sound harsh, but this kind of communication means the personal agreements we make with others are clear and impeccable.”

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312. “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.”

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313. “So much of the knowledge in our minds is based on lies and superstitions that come from thousands of years ago. Humans create stories long before we are born, and we inherit those stories, we adopt them, and we live in those stories.”

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

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315. “When someone can touch what used to be a wound and it no longer hurts you, then you know you have truly forgiven.”

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316. “The people of power abuse the people who have less power because they need to release their emotional poison. We have the need to release the poison, and sometimes we don’t want justice; we just want to release, we want peace. That is why humans are hunting power all the time, because the more powerful we are, the easier it is to release the poison to the ones who cannot defend themselves.”

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317. “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.”

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318. “The happiest moments in our lives are when we are playing just like children, when we are singing and dancing, when we are exploring and creating just for fun.”

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319. “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.”

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320. “We are masters because we have the power to create and to rule our own lives.”

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321. “Faith is so important because it is the force that gives life to every word, to every concept that we store in our mind. We can say that life manifests through faith, and that faith is a messenger of life. Life goes through our faith, and then our faith gives life to everything we agree to believe in.”

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322. “All of our drama and suffering is by practice.”

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323. “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.”

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324. “There’s the object of perception, which is the truth, and there’s our interpretation of the truth, which is just a point of view. The truth is objective, and we call it science. Our interpretation.”

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325. “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.”

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326. “When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do. Even if others lie to you, it is okay. They are lying to you because they are afraid. They are afraid you will discover that they are not perfect.”

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327. “Humans cover themselves, and protect themselves, and when someone says, “You are pushing my buttons,” it is not exactly true. What is true is that you are touching a wound in his mind, and he reacts because it hurts.”

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328. “If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.”

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329. “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.”

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330. “Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss.”

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331. “What is real we cannot change, and it doesn’t matter what we believe.”

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332. “For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they’re lies, you’re free.”

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333. “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.”

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334. “Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn’t have to.”

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335. “Who stops us from being free? We blame the government, we blame the weather, we blame our parents, we blame religion, we blame God. Who really stops us from being free? We stop ourselves.”

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336. “For many years, I used to pray as an act of power, but that was before I had 100% faith in myself.”

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337. “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.”

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338. “No te creas ninguna cosa que te haga sufrir.”

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339. “When you do your best you learn to accept yourself.”

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340. “The word is like a seed, and the human mind is so fertile, but only for those kinds of seeds it is prepared for.”

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341. “We are so selfish that we want the person with whom we are sharing our life to be as needy as we are. We want “someone who needs me” in order to justify our existence, in order to feel that we have a reason to be alive. We think we are searching for love, but we are searching for “someone who needs me,” someone we can control and manipulate.”

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342. “There are truths covering lies, and lies covering truth. Like peeling an onion, you uncover the truth little by little until in the end, you open your eyes to find out that everyone around you, including yourself, is lying all the time.”

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343. “By the time we grow up, our faith is already invested in so many lies that we hardly have any power left to create the dream that we want to create.”

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344. “Our eyes are on the past, and our imaginations fly to the future. This makes us impervious to the present moment. So we forget to be kind. We forget to say hello to a stranger or listen to a friend. We forget to be good to ourselves.”

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

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346. “Confess. Admit that you’ve sinned – that you have harmed your own human being in some way. Repent – that is, make an agreement to stop. Do penance, which means to offer yourself forgiveness. Modify your behavior from that moment forward.”

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347. “We also make assumptions about ourselves, and this creates a lot of inner conflict. “I think I am able to do this.” You make this assumption, for instance, then you discover you aren’t able to do it. You overestimate or underestimate yourself because you haven’t taken the time to ask yourself questions and to answer them.”

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348. “La fe es el resultado de un acuerdo.”

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349. “What has happened to the adult human?”

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350. “I didn’t expect that I could do it at first. I have fallen many times, but I stood up and kept going. And I fell again, and I kept going. I didn’t feel sorry for myself. There was no way that I felt sorry for myself. I said, “If I fall, I am strong enough, I’m intelligent enough, I can do it!” I stood up and kept going.”

— Miguel Ruiz