Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

I don't take anything personally.

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.

When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do.

Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view and opinion come from all the programming they received growing up. When you take things personally, you feel offended and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflict. You make something big out of something so little because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.

I don't recognize hate, I don't recognize bitterness, I don't recognize jealousy, I don't recognize greed. I don't give them power. They don't exist to me.

All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things personally. The whole world of control between humans is based on that.

It's definitely the biggest lesson - not to take things personally. But it's also the hardest one.

Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness.

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.

Although we are all the same in not wanting problems and wanting a peaceful life, we tend to create a lot of problems for ourselves. Encountering those problems, anger develops and overwhelms our mind, which leads to violence. A good way to counter this and to work for a more peaceful world is to develop concern for others. Then our anger, jealousy and other destructive emotions will naturally weaken and diminish.

I try not to take things too personally, because most of the time, people aren't even thinking about anyone else but themselves.

The energy of compassion is very strong. We suffer. That is real. But we have learned not to get angry and not to allow ourselves to be carried by anger. We realize right away that that is fear. That is corruption.

Detachment doesn't mean I'm trying less hard. It just means that fears and emotions that used to torment and paralyze me no longer have the same power over me. Getting to this point hasn't always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that if you're not what you do, then what you do has no business keeping you entertained at night.

Sometimes happiness comes, sometimes sadness, anger, jealousy - you need not make them your problems

But feelings, no matter how strong or “ugly,” are not a part of who you are. They are the radio stations your mind listens to if you don’t give it something better to do. Feelings are fluid and dynamic; they change frequently. Feelings are something you HAVE, not something you ARE. Like physical beauty, a cold sore, or an opinion. Admitting you feel rage or terrible pain or regret or some old, rotten blame does not mean these feelings are part of who you are as a person. What these feelings mean is, you have to change your thinking to be free of them.

Anger will come and go and the watcher abides. Sadness comes and passes by and the witness remains

When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.