416 Quotes by Miguel Ruiz

You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

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.

If you do your best always, over and over again, you will become a master of transformation. Practice makes the master. By doing your best you become a master. Everything you have ever learned, you learned through repetition. You learned to write, to drive, and even to walk by repetition. You are a master of speaking your language because you practiced. Action is what makes the difference.

We make an assumption, we misunderstand, we take it personally, and we end up creating a whole big drama for nothing.

Humans use fear to domesticate humans, and our fear increases with each experience of injustice. The sense of injustice is the knife that opens a wound in our emotional body. Emotional poison is created by our reaction to what we consider injustice.

Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss.

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

True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.

I will be impeccable with my word, I will not take anything personally, I will not make any assumptions, and I am going to do my best.