110+ Miguel Angel Ruiz Quotes On Education, Death And World

Miguel Angel Ruiz is a Mexican author, best known for his book The Four Agreements. He is a Nagual, a Toltec master of awareness, and is the author of several books on the subject of Toltec wisdom. He has also written several books on personal transformation and spiritual growth, including The Mastery of Love and The Voice of Knowledge. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Miguel Angel Ruiz on life, education, love.

Top 10 Miguel Angel Ruiz Quotes

1. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
2. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
3. The real us is pure love, pure light
4. We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.
5. Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.
6. 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.
7. When you love without conditions, you the human and you the God, align with the spirit of life moving through you.
8. You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.
9. Say only what you mean.
10. Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you.

Miguel Angel Ruiz Short Quotes

• What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
• The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions.
• When you do your best you learn to accept yourself
• The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.
• Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else.
• Humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear.
• Don't make assumptions.
• We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
• We only see what we want to see, and hear what we want to hear
• Be impeccable with your words

Miguel Angel Ruiz Quotes About Life

Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned to live our life trying to satisfy other people's demands. We have learned to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else. — 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

Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren't enjoying the dream. — 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

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

You are immortal; you exist for billions of years in different manifestations, because you are Life, and Life cannot die. You are in the trees, the butterflies, the fish, the air, the moon, the sun. Wherever you go, you are there, waiting for yourself. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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. — 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

If you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Miguel Angel Ruiz Quotes About Love

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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

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

Relationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one. — 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

I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love. — 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

YOU ARE AN ARTIST OF THE SPIRIT Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Miguel Angel Ruiz Quotes About World

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

Doubt is a powerful tool. Doubt challenges my beliefs and breaks the spell of all the lies and superstitions that control my world. I use doubt to recover faith in myself, to take my power back from every superstition I believe in, and return that power to myself. — 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

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

It's easier to be skeptical because it's easier to understand that every human lives in their own world. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

We ask everybody to help us to change the world, but we are not talking about our planet Earth; we are talking about the world that each one of us creates within our mind. We are talking about the story that we create. — 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

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

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

Miguel Angel Ruiz Quotes About Spiritual

Don't make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Be Impeccable with Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word. When you are impeccable with your word, you feel good; you feel happy and at peace. — 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 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

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

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

And what is the right woman, the right man? Someone who wants to go in the same direction as you do, someone who is compatible with your views and your values-- emotionally, physically, economically, spiritually. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we pretend to be, or that we want to be, and we cannot hide that from ourselves. We know that we are pretending to be what we are not in the name of perfection. — 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

Miguel Angel Ruiz Quotes About Avoid

Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. — 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

Miguel Angel Ruiz Quotes About Express

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

You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years becuase you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action. — 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

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Miguel Angel Ruiz Quotes About Dream

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

Say the prayer first thing in the morning when you open your eyes; then say it again before you go to sleep. Dream the prayer. Feel the prayer with your emotional body. Be the prayer; align your faith and intent with the prayer until your whole life is based on this prayer. — 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

Letting go of the past means that you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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

The dream you are living is your creation. It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time. You have the power to create hell, and you have the power to create heaven. Why not dream a different dream? Why not use your mind, your imagination, and your emotions to dream heaven? — 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

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

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing 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 and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

...What you are is a force--a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream...You are life — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Miguel Angel Ruiz Famous Quotes And Sayings

Humans believe so many lies because we aren’t aware. We ignore the truth or we just don’t see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn’t allow us to perceive the truth, what really is. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

...Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. — 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

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

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

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

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

When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do. — 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

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. — 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

Also, go inside and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally. — 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

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

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Do not let great ambitions overshadow small success. — 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

Through our faith, we gain the courage to take action. And through action, we move one step closer toward the manifestation of our desires. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward — 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

You can only be you when you do your best. When you don't do your best you are denying yourself the right to be you. That's a seed that you should really nurture in your mind. You don't need knowledge or great philosophical concepts. You don't need the acceptance of others. You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others. — 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

How many times do we pay for one mistake? The answer is a thousand times for the same mistake. The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for ONE mistake. The rest of the animals pay once for every mistake. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you. — 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

Forgiveness is the only way to heal — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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

What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss. — 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

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

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

I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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

You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results and no reward. — 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

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

It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. You are hurting yourself. There is no way I can take this personally. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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

Life Lessons by Miguel Angel Ruiz

1. Miguel Angel Ruiz teaches that we should strive to be our best selves by understanding and accepting our own personal truths.
2. He encourages us to be mindful of our thoughts and words, and to take responsibility for our own lives and happiness.
3. He emphasizes the importance of forgiveness and understanding, and encourages us to strive for balance and harmony in all aspects of our lives.