Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

To be alive──is Power.

There's a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

As a cell contains a natural intelligence by which it fosters the healthy functioning of the body, I, too, have natural intelligence that fosters the perfect unfolding of my life.

I really believe in speaking things into existence.

There's too much judgment out there. Really what we need to be doing is just all of us finding our own paths towards living the best lives we can live as clearly and boldly in accordance with our own personal values. And that's what I'm trying to do.

The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them... and royally squander their lives with her.

You've got one life: find your voice within it.

I'm doing what I love to do. Martial arts is my everything. It's my life, my philosophy, how I think, who I am.

We can be confident about our qualities, but the qualities need something to come out.

Art is a way of life.

I have so much built up inside. To be able to put what I have in my head into real life is just an amazing thing.

Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they die, God meets them at the gates of heaven, totes up how many fields of self-expression they have mastered, and then hands them a divine diploma and lets them in.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

Spirit is the life, the mind the builder the physical the result

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

Let the power of intention lead the way.

It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

Life in the physical realm is glorious, and its purpose is to bring you happiness through the awareness of who you really are. So go into this magnificent world of your creation, and make your lifetime an extraordinary statement and experience of the most glorious idea that you have ever had about yourself.