Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

There is no person without a world.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

As you are, so is the world.

Normal is all relative.

The only non-believer I encountered was Oscar Levant who wouldn't visit Disneyland because he said he had his own hallucinations.

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are - or as we are conditioned to see it.

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.

Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her like petals around the stem of a flower. This way the meadows, that way the woodland. Over here, the baryn's estate, out there, the hills that hug the known world close and imply a world at beyond. She could never come up with the edge of a world, because it always kept going on beyond. She moved the center of the world as she walked. The world was balanced on her head.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

There is no truth. There is only perception.