Don Miguel Ruiz

After domestication, we try to be good enough for everybody else, but we are no longer good enough for ourselves, because we can never live up to our image of perfection.

Don Miguel 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.

Don Miguel Ruiz

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

Don Miguel Ruiz

Awareness is something that is very important. And you say that it looks impossible to become what we really are, to be authentic, to be ourselves again. But I will tell you that it is much more difficult to try to be what we are not.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Awareness makes all the difference.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Be impeccable with your word. Don’t take anything personally. Don’t make assumptions. Always do your best.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Be responsible for every choice you make in your life. This is your life; it’s nobody else’s life, and you will find that it’s nobody else’s business what you do with your life.

Don Miguel Ruiz

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.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Even the worst thing that can happen to you is meant to happen because it’s going to push you to grow.

Don Miguel Ruiz