Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.
Miguel Angel RuizWe search for everything we believe we don't have, not knowing that everything we are looking for is already inside us. We are born with it.
Miguel Angel RuizHappiness 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 RuizWe 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