Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. Miguel Angel Ruiz More Quotes by Miguel Angel Ruiz More Quotes From Miguel Angel Ruiz People are starving for love, not knowing their heart is a magical kitchen. Open your heart. Open your magical kitchen and refuse to walk around the world begging for love. In your heart is all the love you need. Your heart can create any amount of love, not just for yourself, but for the whole world. Miguel Angel Ruiz knowing heart love Awareness is always the first step. Miguel Angel Ruiz awareness steps firsts How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word. When you are impeccable with your word, you feel good; you feel happy and at peace. Miguel Angel Ruiz spiritual integrity peace 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. Miguel Angel Ruiz insults-you growing-up life You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others. Miguel Angel Ruiz loving-yourself divinity alive We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them. Miguel Angel Ruiz real love-is people The big diffrence between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains. Miguel Angel Ruiz four-agreements warrior victim It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control. Miguel Angel Ruiz four-agreements loses emotion But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. You are hurting yourself. There is no way I can take this personally. Miguel Angel Ruiz four-agreements hurt way If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears. Miguel Angel Ruiz self dream past I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love. Miguel Angel Ruiz acceptance judging self God is life. God is life in action. The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now. Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment. Letting go of the past means you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now. Miguel Angel Ruiz god dream letting-go We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same belief system we were given, and using the same system of punishment and reward. We punish ourselves when we don't follow the rules according to our belief system; we reward ourselves when we are the "good boy" or "good girl". Miguel Angel Ruiz girl animal boys And what is the right woman, the right man? Someone who wants to go in the same direction as you do, someone who is compatible with your views and your values-- emotionally, physically, economically, spiritually. Miguel Angel Ruiz views want men the real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself Miguel Angel Ruiz real order believe when the need is in the mind, you cannot satisfy the need Miguel Angel Ruiz mind needs You find that the injustice that created a wound is no longer true, right now, in this moment. Miguel Angel Ruiz injustice right-now moments The Word is the Magic that Humans possess and misuse of the Word is Black Magic... Miguel Angel Ruiz misuse magic black Happiness begins with impeccability of the word. The way to measure the impeccability of my word is to ask, "Am I happy or am I suffering?" If I'm suffering, then I'm not being impeccable with my word. Miguel Angel Ruiz suffering integrity way True justice is to pay one time for every mistake we make. Miguel Angel Ruiz karma mistake inspirational
