Miguel Ángel Ruiz quotes - page 2

Miguel Ángel Ruiz is a Mexican author and spiritual teacher, best known for his book "The Four Agreements." His teachings combine ancient Toltec wisdom with modern insights on personal growth and happiness. He has inspired millions worldwide to pursue a path of self-awareness and transformation. Here are 37 of his quotes:

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

Miguel Ángel Ruiz

Love for yourself is the key to loving other. Love begins with you.

Miguel Ángel Ruiz

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do.

Miguel Ángel 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.

Miguel Ángel Ruiz

The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.

Miguel Ángel Ruiz

What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

Miguel Ángel Ruiz

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

Miguel Ángel Ruiz

Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.

Miguel Ángel Ruiz

Relationship is an art. To keep the two of you happy, you have to keep your half perfect. You are responsible for your half, and your half has a certain amount of garbage. Your garbage is your garbage. The one who has to deal with that garbage is you, not your partner. And it's the same with your partner's half. Your partner has a certain amount of garbage. Knowing your partner has garbage, you allow her to deal with her own garbage. You are going to love her and accept her with all of her garbage. You are going to respect her garbage. You are not in a relationship to clean your partner's garbage; she is going to clean her own. Even if your partner asks for your help, you have the choice to say no. Saying no doesn't mean you don't love or accept your partner; it means you are not able or you don't want to play that game.

Miguel Ángel Ruiz

To be aware is to see what is truth, to see everything the way it is, not the way we want it to be to justify what we already believe. The mastery of awareness is the first mastery of the Toltec, and we can also call it the mastery of truth. First you need to be aware that the voice in your head is always telling you a story. You are dreaming all the time. It is true that you perceive, but the way the storyteller justifies, explains, and makes assumptions about what you perceive is not the truth; it's just a story. Next, you need to have the awareness that the voice of the storyteller in your head is not necessarily your voice. Finally, you need to practice awareness until you master awareness. When you master awareness as a habit, you always see life the way it is, not the way you want to see it.

Miguel Ángel Ruiz