Miguel Angel Ruiz
Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.Collection: Children
My greatest joy is just to be alive!Collection: Joy
We search for everything we believe we don't have, not knowing that everything we are looking for is already inside us. We are born with it.Collection: Spiritual
The Four Agreements 1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Don’t take anything personally. 3. Don’t make assumptions. 4. Always do your best.Collection: Life
Life is like dancing...changing all the time.Collection: Dancing
Relationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one.Collection: Relationship
All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to impose our story on others or to defend what we believe. Instead we see all of us as artists with the right to create our own art.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Recovery
I am here to enjoy life. I am not here to suffer. I am here to be a dreamer, to be an artist, to be a seer. The mission of my life is to enjoy every single moment of my life.Collection: Single Mom
Once you forgive yourself, the self-rejection in your mind is over. Self-acceptance begins, and the self-love will grow so strong that you will finally accept yourself just the way you are. That's the beginning of the free human. Forgiveness is the key.Collection: Inspirational
We [people] love ourselves with conditions. We need opinions, we need approval, we create an image of ourselves that is not what we are. This how we lose our authenticity and create masks - how we become "domesticated."Collection: People
In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. 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.Collection: Self
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.Collection: Children
DON'T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY. NOTHINGS OTHERS DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU. WHAT OTHERS SAY AND DO IS A PROJECTION OF THEIR OWN REALITY, THEIR OWN DREAM. WHEN YOU ARE IMMUNE TO THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS, YOU WON'T BE THE VICTIM OF NEEDLESS SUFFERING.Collection: Inspirational
How are you going to change the world? The answer is easy. By changing the world that exists in your head.Collection: Answers
I don't take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people's stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me.Collection: Character
I am here and I'm alive. That's enough.Collection: Alive
There is really no reason to suffer. The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer. If you look at your life you will find many excuses to suffer, but a good reason to suffer you will not find. The same is true for happiness. The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.Collection: Motivational
You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself.Collection: Believe
My personal prayer is simply my joy to be alive, and to live in gratitude and generosity.Collection: Gratitude
Accept your own divinity. Everything is a manifestation of God. When you know that, the power that is LIFE is inside you, you accept your own divinity, and yet you are humble, because you see that see the same divinity in everyone else.Collection: Humble
Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view and opinion come from all the programming they received growing up. When you take things personally, you feel offended and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflict. You make something big out of something so little because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.Collection: Life
The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life.Collection: Expression
Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.Collection: Destiny
When you look in the mirror and hate what you see, you need addictions to survive.Collection: Hate
The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!Collection: Ideas
Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.Collection: Believe
The word is not just a sound or a written symbol. The word is a force; it is the power you have to express and communicate, to think, and thereby to create the events in your life. The word is the most powerful tool you have as a human; it is a tool of magic.Collection: Spiritual
Say only what you mean.Collection: Integrity
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.Collection: Believe
It's incredible what we can do if we really want to do it. All we need is to be aware of what we are doing and to return to the authenticity we were born with.Collection: Needs
The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.Collection: Character
For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.Collection: Lying
Love for yourself is the key to loving other. Love begins with youCollection: Keys
Be impeccable with your wordsCollection: Impeccable
Let's enjoy this world. Let's enjoy one another. We are meant to love one another, not to hate one another.Collection: Hate
The big difference between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains. Victims repress because they are afraid to show the emotions, afraid to say what they want to say. To refrain is not the same thing as repression. To refrain is to hold the emotions and to express them in the right moment, not before, not later. That is why warriors are impeccable.Collection: Warrior
You have to stand up and be a human. You have to honor the man or woman that you are. Respect your body, enjoy your body, love your body, feed, clean, and heal your body. Exercise and do what makes your body feel good. This is a puja to your body, and that is a communion between you and God. . . . When you practice giving love to every part of your body, you plant seeds of love in your mind, and when they grow, you will love, honor, and respect your body immensely.Collection: Love You
When you speak openly and honestly, you won't have to make assumptions. The day you stop making assumptions, you will communicate cleanly and clearly, and achieve impeccability with your word.Collection: Assumption
Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.Collection: Focus
A sin is anything you do which goes against yourselfCollection: Twilight
The truth is the most important part of being impeccable with your word...Only the truth will set us free.Collection: Truth
Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies.Collection: Truth
The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.Collection: Fear
The Human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves. Every time we remember, we judge ourselves again, we are guilty again, and we punish ourselves again and again and again.Collection: Mistake
The big diffrence between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains.Collection: Warrior
Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.Collection: Simple
Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself.Collection: Mean
I am grateful for the 30 years of my work and the way it has influenced humanity, especially all the books that became international bestsellers and were translated into 37 different languages, which means they have gone all around the world.Collection: Book