Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

The world "out there" won't change until the world "in here" does.

We can't change the world except insofar as we change the way we look at the world - and, in fact, any one of us can make that change, in any direction, at any moment.

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.

The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.

I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.

Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.

The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.

This world's not going to change unless we're willing to change ourselves.

A human can alter their field, but can't change the world.

Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual.

We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

What you have at the moment you have attracted by the person you have become.

I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned.

Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.

Change in yourself what you want to change in the world.

The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.

Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.

Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?

Rise above your circumstances, change the world one person at a time starting with you, and be the inspiration you’ve been searching for.

Only changed people can change the world. Start with yourself.

What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.