Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

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.

What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.

When we change the input into our minds, we change the output into our lives.

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.

We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind.

The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world.

It's how you view the life inside you that creates the life outside of you. Everyday.

Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe, expand your mind.

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

My life exists in an imagined reality.

Act the way that you want to feel.

I've changed. You can't help it. Your mind starts working in a different way. You feel really scrutinised by people.

Changing your attitude has a curative effect... Maybe you can go directly to a change of mind, a change of attitude.

Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?

What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?

[H]uman beings...make a limit in their mind of what their potential is. They decide, "I've been told this," or "this is what society tells me," or they've been made to believe something. If every human being actually threw away those thoughts...the potential of human beings is great, it's huge, compared to what they actually think of themselves.

What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin somewhere. Though I suppose the truth is that we begin more than once; we begin many times. Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.

As you are, so is the world.

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It’s not a tool to understand myself.