Miguel Ángel Ruiz quotes - page 2

It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control. (Miguel Ángel Ruiz)
Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system. View quote
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Love for yourself is the key to loving other. Love begins with you. View quote
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We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. View quote
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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. View quote
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The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. View quote
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What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being. View quote
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The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. View quote
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Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me. View quote
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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. View quote
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If one hundred people perceive the same event, you hear one hundred different stories, and everybody claims that his or her story is the true story. Of course, it's only true for that person, and your story is only true for you. What we share with one another is just our perception; it is just our point of view. And it's completely normal because the only thing we have is our point of view. You know, the way we create our stories is very interesting. We have a tendency to distort everything we perceive to make it agree with what we already believe; we "fix it" to make it agree with our lies. It is amazing how we do this. With awareness, we recover the control of our story. That is the good news. If we don't like our story, we are the authors; we can change it. (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. View quote
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