416 Quotes by Miguel Ruiz

A Toltec is an artist of Love, an artist of the Spirit, someone who is creating every moment, every second, the most beautiful art – the Art of Dreaming. Life is nothing but a dream, and if we are artists, then we can create our life with Love, and our dream becomes a masterpiece of art.

Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them. If we try to change them, this means we don’t really like them.

Taking the action over and over again strengthens your will, nurtures the seed, and establishes a solid foundation for the new habit to grow.

If you tell someone you love him, and that person says ‘Well, I don’t love you,” is that a reason for you to suffer? Just because someone rejects you doesn’t mean you have to reject yourself. If one person doesn’t love you, someone else will love you. There is always someone else. And it’s better to be with someone who wants to be with you than to be with someone who has to be with you.

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.

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.

The denial system is like a wall of fog in front of our eyes that blinds us from seeing the truth. We wear a social mask because it’s too painful to see ourselves or to let others see us as we really are. And the denial system lets us pretend that everyone believes what we want them to believe about us. We put up these barriers for protection, to keep other people away, but those barriers also keep us inside, restricting our freedom.

Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies.

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of Love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don’t respect you. They consider that you’re not a good artist who can write your own story, even though you were born to write your own story.