People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
Miguel Angel RuizWe learn to be right and to make everyone else wrong. The need to be right is the result of trying to protects the image we want to project to the outside. We have to impose our way of thinking, not just onto other humans, but even upon ourselves.
Miguel Angel RuizAlways 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.
Miguel Angel RuizEvery prayer is an agreement with yourself. The mind is asking the real you, which is life, to guide your decisions for every single choice that you make.
Miguel Angel RuizMy personal prayer is simply my joy to be alive, and to live in gratitude and generosity.
Miguel Angel RuizIn your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. if someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.
Miguel Angel Ruiz