Don Miguel 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.

Don Miguel Ruiz

We are masters because we have the power to create and to rule our own lives.

Don Miguel Ruiz

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.

Don Miguel Ruiz

We judge others according to our image of perfection as well, and naturally they fall short of our expectations.

Don Miguel Ruiz

We look for love, we open our heart and we become vulnerable, just to find selfishness.

Don Miguel Ruiz

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make.

Don Miguel Ruiz

We try so hard to be important, to be a winner, to be powerful, to be rich, to be famous, to express our personal dream, and to impose our dream onto other people around us.

Don Miguel Ruiz

We want our freedom; we want to be ourselves, but we are also afraid to be by ourselves.

Don Miguel Ruiz

What we know and believe is just a program; it is nothing but words, opinions, and ideas we learn from others and from our own life experience.

Don Miguel Ruiz

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

Don Miguel Ruiz