Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

Every day is a reminder to accept myself as I am.

They say you'll be blooming when you're in love; I agree, but what is important to bloom is taking care of yourself, too.

I'm aware that I am flawed. I'm aware that I have issues. I'm aware that I need to be able to be healthy, not just physically but mentally.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

Today, I will focus on having a good relationship with myself.

You have to be content with who you are on a day-to-day basis.

I just try to live a moderate life of always checking and trying to be the best person I can be and I'm in therapy and am always working on something.

Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others. That seems so simple-except when we substitute for real practice some idea that we should be different or better than we are, or that our lives should be different from the way they are. When we substitute our ideas about what should be (such notions as "I should not be angry or confused or unwilling") for our life as it truly is, then we're off base and our practice is barren.

You're not going to be perfect, you're not going to stop berating yourself, you're not going to stop the comparisons, you're not going to stop the judgment, but you can become evermore mindful of it, and that has to be good enough.

I forgive myself for not being perfect. I am living the very best way I know how.

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

I can live with myself.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.