Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you.

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

I try not to take things too personally, because most of the time, people aren't even thinking about anyone else but themselves.

When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do.

It doesn't matter what the other is being, doing, having, saying, wanting, demanding. It doesn't matter what the other is thinking, expecting, planning. It only matters what you are being in relationship to that.

Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view and opinion come from all the programming they received growing up. When you take things personally, you feel offended and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflict. You make something big out of something so little because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.

I don't take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people's stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me.

You learn to not take things personally and to just let it roll off of you.

I don't take anything personally.

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy, and envy will disappear, and even your sadness will simply disappear if you don't take things personally.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

I think I'm working on being a lot more positive in my everyday life because I realize comments and things can hurt.

If you don't do yoga, it doesn't mean that you can't have a sense of detachment, which means not attaching yourself to your thoughts or your emotions.

Become alert about desire and non-attachment begins to appear. This is not to be made to happen, it follows naturally from awareness of attachment. Each one of us has to become aware of his attachments, and keep being so! Nothing should be done unconsciously.

It's definitely the biggest lesson - not to take things personally. But it's also the hardest one.

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.

...Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner

For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion.

And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, 'A black cloud passing. I am the witness, the watcher.'

Witness your thoughts. Your thoughts are attachments.