Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

If you find your freedom, if you find something that cannot be taken from you, then you're free. If your freedom depends on what you have, or you position, or your security, or anything that is just passing, because those are just waves of things.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

Jesus resolved the false opposition between obedience and freedom and opened the path to freedom

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

It is not the mind, but the heart that makes free.

The spirit of liberty it is not the result of culture; it may be found in the lowest man.

I'm not a fool and when I swap my life for liberty I've got to know in advance what liberty is, and whose idea of liberty we're talking about and just how much of that liberty we're going to have.

All of us should do what we want and have to do. We can only limit ourselves.

Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better.

for the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

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

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months. How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.

Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.

I am not contain'd between my hat and boots.

America is not so much a country as it is an idea, and that must be why so many people are drawn to it, the idea of it, the idea that you might be free of your past, free of the traditions that kept you in your own traditions - that is the idea of it: freedom from your very own self.

Become aware of your aloneness - which is a reality. And it is so beautiful to experience it, to feel it, because it is your freedom from the crowd, from the other. It is your freedom from the fear of being lonely.

What's truly important--and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn--is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself.