Don Miguel Ruiz Quotations

When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth.

I love and respect all religions and philosophies. I see how they get formed, how they grow up, and how powerful they are. But for me to believe in a specific god - no. Because what I believe is that the infinite, the absolute, is a living being and the only one living being that really exists.

Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.

When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.

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.

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.