Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

I'm a minor player in my own life story.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

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

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

Be as you wish to seem.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

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

I must find a truth that is true for me.

Everyone's the hero in their own story. You've lived your life. You're the good guy of your life, the protagonist of your own movie. Everyone knows that they have more in them to offer than they sometimes show.

People are full of great advice... Professors, parents, friends mean well... But in the end, the person driving this thing called life is you. Listen to you. Spend time being alone. Learn your worth. Dream. And never forget where you came from.

I just want to be the greatest man that I can be while I'm alive, and in that, you have to find the truth. Find the hard truth about yourself.

The real existential challenge is to live up to your fullest potential, along with living up to your intense sense of responsibility and to be honest to yourself about what you want.

I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person.