Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

If I lose touch with that... the reason why I act... then I'll leave it all. I don't do it for fame or money.

We're all always wondering about our own limits, what we're capable of.

If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power. Instead focus on your purpose, on your most authentic and fundamental intentions.

Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

Even when you're not acting, don't lose sight of your goals or who you are.

Life is about, every single day, getting up to manifest your truth.

God has placed within each of us an immeasurable, unique gift. It is our duty to live that out to the full and to encourage one another with gusto.

It's nice to take the gloves off, to really examine your character's desires and goals.

I admire people who operate from a place of love and who have gone through the rigorous process of finding and articulating their purpose, whatever it may be.

It's truly disheartening to me to see so many beautiful women who have no idea what their potential is.

If you're not doing it for the right reasons, then you'd be dumb to be making documentaries.

People should ask themselves why is it that they want to act.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

When you are plugged into you, anything is possible.

There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.

Courage and initiative come when you understand your purpose in life.

You do not need to be different from who you are. You only need to be more of the person you already are.

Many of us squander precious natural resources -time, creative energy, emotion- comparing our talents to those of others. Today ask Spirit to call forth your authentic gifts, so that you might know them, acknowledge them, and own them.