Miguel Angel Ruiz

Author, Spiritual Teacher

Miguel Angel Ruiz is a renowned author and spiritual teacher, best known for his book 'The Four Agreements,' which explores personal freedom and love.

Born
August 27, 1952
Quotes
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Rank
#1597

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"You are what you believe you are."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. if someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly."

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"You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others."

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"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."

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

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"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."

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"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."

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"If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions."

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"Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system."

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"The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful."

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"Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly."

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"The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves."

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"Everything is made of light"

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"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."

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