Miguel Angel Quotes & Sayings

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

As a kid, I succumbed to peer pressure; I created an image of myself that was not true. But that belief system ended with the death of a close friend. It was then that I reached out for help from my father. It wasn't the teachings of The Four Agreements exactly, it was just my father's teachings in general. And because of this, I am grateful to continue my family's legacy. In this way, I say "thank you" to my family and teachers before me. — 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

Words and prayers are powerful agreements, and you need to see what kind you are using every day. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Love is ruthless; it doesn't feel sorry for anyone, but it does have compassion. Fear is full of pity; it feels sorry for everyone. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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." — 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

Every prayer is an agreement with yourself. The mind is asking the real you, which is life, to guide your decisions for every single choice that you make. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

To be authentic is to stop pretending to be what think you are, because you are not. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

In prison there's no bad, everything's worse. Worse bellyache, worse misery, worse sadness--the worst of the worst. Jailers and judges seem like people without reason, deranged. Compliance with rules and regulations which have nothing to do with reality turns them into madmen, at least they seem such to those not under the strange influence of the law. — Miguel Angel Asturias

Be skeptical, but not as a social position, not claiming to be so intelligent that you cannot believe what other people say. It's not about being right and making everybody else wrong. No, you are skeptical because you know without a doubt that everybody lives in their own story, and in their story they have their own truth. But it's only truth in their mind, just as your truth is only truth in your mind, and nobody else's. — 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

I believe that death should not be feared instead we should endure life and give our best even though life isn't always fair we shall always enjoy life the way it comes and if death is upon us its cause its time for us to go knowing that there is something better for us ... — Miguel Angel Puma

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

The Word is the Magic that Humans possess and misuse of the Word is Black Magic ...
Be Impeccable with Your Word. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The greatest joy of the oppressed people, is enjoying his freedom while,
the greatest misfortune of the oppressors is to suffer for the joy of his people. — Miguel Angel Saez Gutierrez

Everything is made of light — Miguel Angel Ruiz

I think children have a degree of wisdom totally unknown by adults — Miguel Angel Saez Gutierrez

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

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

Life is like dancing ... changing all the time. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

I live every day full of gratitude for the body in which I live, treating it with great love and respect. It allows me to enjoy life, experiencing everything that I perceive, exploring the events that hook my attention, modifying what I can change, and letting go of whatever I cannot. — 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

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives. — 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 devil is an angel too. — Miguel De Unamuno

In Spain, after the dictatorship, thanks to Pedro Almodovar, many artists put on the streets through art a big explosion of freedom. — Miguel Angel Silvestre

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

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

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

Don't make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. - MIGUEL ANGEL RUIZ It's better to take the time to ask questions and to find the words to say what you really feel. Often we leave so much room for interpretation either because we are rushing or because we are afraid to speak the whole truth, but this is where miscommunications start. So even if you aren't sure about what someone means or how they feel, just ask them. Goal: When was the last time you assumed something and were wrong? Make a point to know the truth and not assume it. — Demi Lovato

Life is not the body; it is not the mind; it is not the soul. It is a force. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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

You don't have to live with anger, or sadness, or jealousy. You don't have to judge yourself, make yourself guilty, and punish yourself. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Love has no resistance. Whatever we do is because we want to do it. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Just by being happier, everyone benefits because your happiness is contagious. — 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

Today is the most wonderful day of your life. This moment represents eternity. It is the moment when you return to love by deciding to live in communion with our Creator. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Rise and demand; you are a burning flame.
You are sure to conquer there where the final horizon
Becomes a drop of blood, a drop of life,
Where you will carry the universe on your shoulders,
Where the universe will bear your hope. — Miguel Angel Asturias

Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love. — 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

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. — 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

What makes me the happiest are the times I get together with my family, those times when I am with my children, grandchildren, my brothers and sisters and my very close friends, as well as when I am with my extended family in each one of my lectures and power journeys. My greatest joy is just to be alive! — 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

The only way to store information is by agreement. The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind. Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive. Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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

I belong to a generation that has seen the explosion of freedom, the celebration of freedom. — Miguel Angel Silvestre

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

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it. — 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

Our minds have the need to know. When we dont know we make assumptions - they make us feel safer than not knowing. And we are pretty much always making assumptions. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

If you believe you are guilty and deserve to be punished, you are asking for it! — Miguel Angel Ruiz

I studied physical therapy, and I started to study theater because my aunt is a theater director. — Miguel Angel Silvestre

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

Never marry who doesn't love you,
If you do it, your ordeal will turn into hell. — Miguel Angel Saez Gutierrez

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

Suffering and drama begin when you lie to yourself, even if you don't realize you are lying. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Love is to love and be loved — Miguel Angel Saez Gutierrez

It doesn't matter whether you believe in Christ, Moses, Allah, Brahma, Buddha, or any other being or master. Each one of us has our own beliefs, our own point of view. There are billions of different points of view, but it's the same force of life behind each one of us. — 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

For many years, I used to pray as an act of power, but that was before I had 100% faith in myself. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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

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

Let's enjoy this world. Let's enjoy one another. We are meant to love one another, not to hate one another. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

I am made of light; I am made of stars. — 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

Find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim your personal power. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Don't waste a single moment to stay with your parents, cause maybe it could be your last moment with them. — Miguel Angel Saez Gutierrez

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

If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Being impeccable with your word is not using the word against yourself. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

When you love, whatever you do is because you want to do it. It becomes a pleasure, it's like a game, and you have fun with it. When you love, you don't expect something to happen; whatever happens is okay, and hardly anything disappoints you. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

I can remember exactly where I was when I saw 'The Matrix' for the first time. — Miguel Angel Silvestre

Your reactions are the key to having a wonderful life. — 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

You see everything is about belief, whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Angel means messenger. I dedicate this book to the angels in human form that deliver a message of love instead of fear, superstition, and emotional poison. To — Miguel Ruiz

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

What I have most learned from my son is to respect him and to love him unconditionally. I believe that if parents respect their children and educate them with love and justice (and not just with words, but with their own behavior) the relationship with their children will be wonderful. Then parents will always be proud of their children, and children will always be proud of their parents. There will be peace in the family, and the home will be a sanctuary. — 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

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 the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are. — 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