Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

I am myself a fabulous fake.

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

To be authentic is to stop pretending to be what think you are, because you are not.

Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

I always say that you are who you are and you can't hide it.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?

We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

Awareness is something that is very important. And you say that it looks impossible to become what we really are, to be authentic, to be ourselves again. But I will tell you that it is much more difficult to try to be what we are not.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.

If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.

This is myself, baby. All of my selves. I own each and every one of them. I know who I'm pretending to be and who I am." The look he gives me is withering. "Do you?

The real self is who you are when you're at home, when you're comfortable, and the false self is what you're pretending - and the reason you pretend is because you want to create a character for the surroundings you're within.

Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.

Identity is invariably false to facts.