Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

People tend to complicate things in life.

Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

Life doesn't have to be as hard as we make it for ourselves a lot of the time.

All beliefs are bald ideas.

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.

It's simple until you make it complicated.

I find the more you analyze, the less you really know.

If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.

Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.

No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.

It’s a fun playtime. Please, don’t kill it with big words.

Big ideas are usually simple ideas.

If you analyse anything, you destroy it.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.

Don't over analyze your relationships.

The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.

The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

There is no order of things except in the human mind.

The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to find his way. We proceed much the same when we divide the earth by meridians and parallels, for only thus do we obtain fixed points which we can bring into a relationship with one another.