Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.

And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

My eyes were closed, they're open now

Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes to an end by itself. Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

We are wiser than we know.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

You only change what you understand. What you do not understand and are not aware of, you repress. You dont change. But when you understand it, it changes.

It might be good to open our eyes and see.

Once you realize something, then you can't pretend you don't know it any more.

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

I think I surprise myself.