Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.

money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it.

The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied, emotions unconnected with them become important in deciding whether a man is to be happy or unhappy.

Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

Usually when we do something to corrupt our lives, it's usually something to fulfill an ache that we have.

Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something of your own to bestow it on?

I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.

I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

(Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying.

I think the balance is between what you can get, what you want and what wants you.

Work well done is not only a responsibility to yourselves and society; it is also an emotional need.

What we want is not always what we need.

Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.

At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.

Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness

Every need got an ego to feed.

I didn't need more fame or money. I needed more heart.

And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.

loneliness has its own needs!

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.