Don Miguel Ruiz

My personal prayer is simply my joy to be alive, and to live in gratitude and generosity.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies.

Don Miguel Ruiz

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.

Don Miguel 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.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Once you are aware that you’re dreaming, you recover your power to change the dream whenever you choose.

Don Miguel Ruiz

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

Don Miguel Ruiz

Perhaps you’re not finished with your story, and who knows if you’ll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it’s not that important.

Don Miguel 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.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Suffering makes you feel safe because you know it so well.

Don Miguel Ruiz

The big diffrence between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains.

Don Miguel Ruiz