By practicing the Five Agreements, what you are really doing is respecting everything in creation. You are respecting your dream; you are respecting everybody else's dream. If you use these tools, your effort is really for everyone, because your joy, your happiness, your peace, and your heaven are contagious. When you are happy, the people around you are happy too, and it inspires them to change their own world.
Miguel Angel RuizWhen you look in the mirror and hate what you see, you need addictions to survive.
Miguel Angel RuizThe freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.
Miguel Angel RuizThere is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.
Miguel Angel RuizWherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.
Miguel Angel Ruiz