Top 380 Miguel Ruiz Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “If you decide to be with a person, don’t try to change anything about her. Just like your dog or your cat, let her be who she is. She has the right to be who she is; she has a right to be free. When you inhibit your partner’s freedom, you inhibit your own because you have to be there to see what your partner is doing or not doing. And if you love yourself so much, you are never going to give up your personal freedom. Can.”

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302. “If others say one thing, but do another, you are lying to yourself if you don’t listen to their actions.”

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

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304. “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. 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. This is why we make assumptions.”

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305. “When you take things personally, then you feel offended, and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflicts.”

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306. “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.”

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307. “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.”

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308. “If you are not afriad, thereis no way you will get mad at me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will hate me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will be jealous or sad.”

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309. “Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.”

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310. “The one who has the little need is the one who controls the whole relationship. You can see this dynamic so clearly because usually in every relationship there is one who loves the most and the other who doesn’t love, who only takes advantage of the one who gives his or her heart. You can see the way they manipulate each other, their actions and reactions, and they are just like the provider and the drug addict.”

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

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312. “Every single human being on this earth make a difference on this planet earth but each one of us make a different contribution and it will be a better contribution when we have more gratitude and more generosity, when we love more.”

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313. “Your reactions are the key to having a wonderful life.”

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314. “Sea lo que sea lo que la gente haga, piense o diga, no te lo tomes personalmente.”

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315. “Our emotions act like a filter through which we see the rest of the world.”

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316. “Everything is made of light.”

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317. “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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318. “Words are your paintbrush, and your life is the canvas.”

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

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

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321. “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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322. “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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323. “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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324. “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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325. “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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326. “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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327. “We are masters because we have the power to create and to rule our own lives.”

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328. “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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329. “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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330. “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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331. “All of our drama and suffering is by practice.”

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

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333. “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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334. “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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335. “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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336. “Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss.”

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337. “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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338. “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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339. “The voice that says, “That’s the way I am,” is the voice of knowledge. It’s the voice of the liar living in the Tree of Knowledge in your head. The Toltec consider it a mental disease that is highly contagious because it’s transmitted from human to human through knowledge. The symptoms of the disease are fear, anger, hatred, sadness, jealousy, conflict, and separation between humans. Again, these lies are controlling the dream of our life. I think this is obvious.”

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340. “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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341. “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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342. “Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn’t have to.”

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343. “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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344. “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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345. “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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346. “No te creas ninguna cosa que te haga sufrir.”

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

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349. “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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350. “You create yourself, whatever you believe you are. You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself.”

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