Miguel Angel Ruiz Quotes & Sayings

I am the love of my life, the marriage between my mind and my body. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

When you are aware that you are the force that is Life, anything is possible. Miracles happen all the time, because those miracles are performed by the heart. The heart is in direct communion with the human soul, and when the heart speaks, even with the resistance of the head, something inside you changes; your heart opens another heart, and true love is possible. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

'Eveything is made of light,' he said, 'and the space between isn't empty.' — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Forgiveness is the only way to heal — Miguel Angel Ruiz

If you hold a beautiful flower in your hand, you can write a whole book about it. However, you are still just you perceiving and experiencing it from your own point of view. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

You aren't staying in heaven because you still need to purify the mind. Your faith is powerful, but it is invested in what you believe you are, and most of what you believe about yourself is a lie. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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? — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Our life is so short that every time I see my children, I enjoy them as much as I can. Whenever I can, I enjoy my beloved, my family, my friends, my apprentices. But mainly I enjoy myself, because I am with myself all the time. Why should I spend my precious time with myself judging myself, rejecting myself, creating guilt and shame? Why should I push myself to be angry or jealous? If I don't feel good emotionally, I find out what is causing it and I fix it. Then I can recover my happiness and keep going with my story. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

You go against yourself when you judge or blame yourself for anything — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Doing your best, you are going to live your life intensely. You are going to be productive, you are going to be good to yourself, because you will be giving yourself to your family, to your community, to everything. But it is the action that is going to make you feel intensely happy. When you always do your best, you take action. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

I change the world by changing myself. I am changing the world by loving myself, by enjoying life, by making my personal world a dream of heaven. I change myself, and just like magic, other people start to change. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

You are alive, so take your life and enjoy it. You were born with the right to be happy, to love, and to share your love. Just to be-to take a risk and enjoy your life-is all that matters. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Practice makes the Master. You can reconcile what you are and what you want to be. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The world is very beautiful and very wonderful. 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. Love in action only produces happiness. Love will give you inner peace. It will change your perception of everything. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Your own body is a manifestation of God, and if you honor your body everything will change for you — Miguel Angel Ruiz

You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

How are you going to change the world? The answer is easy. By changing the world that exists in your head. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Don't make assumptions. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

What has happened to the adult human? — Miguel Angel Ruiz

You can recover the truth of what you really are. When you finally see yourself as you are, when you finally take responsibility for your creation, you will cleanse the lies from your own creation. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Our brain is the factory of the emotions — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Imagine living your life without being afraid to take a risk and to explore life. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

When you are happy, the people around you are happy, too, and it inspires them to change their own world. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Society teaches us conditional love; i.e., "I love you if you are the way I want you to be." — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

You can live in heaven right now. Heaven or hell is here and now; you don't need to wait to die. If you take responsibility for your own life, for your own actions, then your future is in your hands, and you can live in heaven while your body is alive. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

You deliver a message every time you speak. Do you deliver the truth, or do you deliver lies? When the message you deliver comes from truth and love, you are happier. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Let's stop believing that our differences make us superior or inferior to one another. Let's not be afraid that our different colors make us different people. Who cares? It's just a lie, and we don't have to believe all the lies and superstitions that control our lives. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

To have great faith is to have great power, because your intent, your will, is undivided. When your word isn't dissipated by doubt, the power of your word becomes even stronger. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

If there is anything in your life that takes away your happiness, you have all the power you need to change it. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Your word is the power that you have to create — Miguel Angel Ruiz

You are what you believe you are. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

If we like what we do, if we always do our best, then we are really enjoying life. We are having fun, we don't get bored, we don't have frustrations. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

If you always do your best, there is no way you can judge yourself. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss — Miguel Angel Ruiz

We are addicted to being the way we are — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The truth is the most important part of being impeccable with your word ... Only the truth will set us free. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

From my point of view, humanity is one living being. Male-female - we complement each other in a sacred communion. But once again, respect is the key. Respect is what makes the sacred communion possible. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Return to the purity of your innocence where you are enchanted with life. Give love for no reason. Surround yourself with others doing the same ... — Miguel Angel Ruiz

There is nothing to learn about love. Everything is already there, in our genes, in our nature. We don't have to learn anything except what we invent in this world of illusion. We search for love outside ourselves when love is all around us. Love is everywhere, but we don't have the eyes to see ... Your heart can create any amount of love, not just for yourself, but for the whole world. When we know that our heart is a magical kitchen, we are always generous and our love is completely unconditional. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

You are Life passing through your body, passing through your mind, passing through your soul. Once you find that out, not with logic, not with the intellect, but because you can feel that Life-you find out that you are the force that makes the flowers open and close, that makes the hummingbird fly from flower to flower. You find out that you are in every tree, and you are in every animal, vegetable, and rock. You are that force that moves the wind and breathes through your body. The whole universe is a living being that is moved by that force, and that is what you are. You are Life. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The action is what makes the dreams come true. Always do your best. The dream that you have becomes real when you take the action. If you dont take the action whatever is in your head ... will dissolve and you will forget about it — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

We don't need to invest all of our faith in every concept, in every symbol, in every opinion that forms the totality of our knowledge. Faith means to believe in something 100% without a doubt, and to doubt our own knowledge can seem like the most frightening thing that can happen to us. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

We are masters because we have the power to create and to rule our own lives. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

You will free yourself from emotional drama by uncovering all the lies you believe in. It is a process of unlearning the lies. It is a period of cleansing, and it has nothing to do with the dream of society. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

When we respect ourselves, our lives change because the conflict in our mind ends. Then the relationship with our beloved also changes, and there will be peace in our family, in our friendships, in our community, and so on. Just imagine what kind of planet this would be if everybody respected themselves and everybody else? — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

True justice is to pay one time for every mistake we make. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

You can choose to follow your heart always. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy, and envy will disappear, and even your sadness will simply disappear if you don't take things personally. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The voice in your head is like a wild horse taking you wherever it wants to go ... When the voice in your head finally stops talking, you experience inner peace. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

It is always better to ask then to make an assumption. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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! — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Know that truth, forgiveness, and love can heal the world. Imagine if all of us could be truthful with ourselves, start forgiving everyone, and start loving everyone. We would no longer be selfish, gossiping would be over, and we would no longer judge one another. The world would become a place where all of us live in love. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things personally. The whole world of control between humans is based on that. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Love does not want or fear anything. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The truth is silent. The truth doesn't come with words. It's something that I just know; it's something that I can feel without words, and it's called silent knowledge. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

When we get into a relationship of any kind, it is because we want to share, we want to enjoy, we want to have fun, we don't want to be bored. If we look for a partner, it is because we want to play, we want to be happy and enjoy what we are. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Dream masters create a masterpiece of life; they control the dream by making choices. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

There is nothing to do except to be just who you are. You have the right to feel beautiful and enjoy it. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward. Most people do the exact opposite: They only take action when they expect a reward, and they don't enjoy the action. And that's the reason why they don't do their best. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

We want to know. If we don't know, we don't feel safe, we don't feel secure. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

To say a prayer doesn't take more than a minute, but you need the discipline to do it. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Everything that is true is authentic. When we were born, we did not have knowledge. As soon as we have language, we learn to describe everything through that language and we learn to be like our family, our parents, those at school, etc. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

My personal prayer is simply my joy to be alive, and to live in gratitude and generosity. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

When you feel good, everything around you is good, when everything around you is great, everything makes you happy. You are loving everything that is around you, because you are loving yourself. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives. — Miguel Angel Ruiz