Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

What you are looking for is within you

What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.

I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.

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.

To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.

The Secret is within you.

. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.

Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within you.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

What's in your soul is in your soul.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

The key is within each of us. No instructions come with it.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

The profound self is a universal self.

I want people to find their inner depth.

I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.

If I can learn how to rely on my own strength, I can see the answers to my problems usually lie right there, within the problem itself.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.