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Miguel Angel Ruiz, born on August 27, 1952, is a renowned Mexican author. His works are known for their profound philosophical insights and unique narrative style, which have won him a wide audience.

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“If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.”

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“We want to know. If we don't know, we don't feel safe, we don't feel secure.”

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“When you love, whatever you do is because you want to do it. It becomes a pleasure, it's like a game, and you have fun with it. When you love, you don't expect something to happen; whatever happens is okay, and hardly anything disappoints you.”

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“Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do. There is an old expression that says, 'Misery likes company,' and people who are suffering in hell don't want to be all alone.”

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“The voice in your head is like a wild horse taking you wherever it wants to go...When the voice in your head finally stops talking, you experience inner peace.”

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“The big difference between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains. Victims repress because they are afraid to show the emotions, afraid to say what they want to say. To refrain is not the same thing as repression. To refrain is to hold the emotions and to express them in the right moment, not before, not later. That is why warriors are impeccable.”

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“For me personally, I don't pray using words - it is just with my intent. Why do I need to pray with "words," to something external, when I know what I want?”

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“Society teaches us conditional love; i.e., "I love you if you are the way I want you to be."”

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“Practice makes the Master. You can reconcile what you are and what you want to be.”

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“It's incredible what we can do if we really want to do it. All we need is to be aware of what we are doing and to return to the authenticity we were born with.”

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“Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.”

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“We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.”

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“Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.”

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“If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn't walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don't need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.”

“there is no need to justify what we are. there is no need to work hard to become what we are not. we just need to return to our intergrity, to the way we were before we learned to speak. perfect. as little children, we are authentic. only the present time is real for us; wo don't care about the past, and we aren't worried about the future. we enjoy life; we want to explore and have fun. nobody teaches us to be that way; we are born that way.”

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“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.”

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“Love has no resistance. Whatever we do is because we want to do it.”

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“Love does not want or fear anything.”

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“When we get into a relationship of any kind, it is because we want to share, we want to enjoy, we want to have fun, we don't want to be bored. If we look for a partner, it is because we want to play, we want to be happy and enjoy what we are.”

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“Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.”

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“Don't make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want.”

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“We only see what we want to see, and hear what we want to hear”

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“We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we pretend to be, or that we want to be, and we cannot hide that from ourselves. We know that we are pretending to be what we are not in the name of perfection.”

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“We 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.”

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Born: August 27, 1952
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Quotes: 317

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