BEST Miguel Ruiz Books & Quotes of All Time (February 2023)

by Arthur Worsley
M.A. Psychology, Oxford. McKinsey Alum. Founder & Editor at TAoL.

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Contents

1. Who Is Miguel Ruiz?

2. The Best Miguel Ruiz Books of All Time

3. More Books Like Miguel Ruiz's Books

4. Best Miguel Ruiz Quotes

5. Wish There Was a Faster/Easier Way?

Who Is Miguel Ruiz?

Miguel Ruiz (born August 27, 1952) is a Mexican author of Toltec spiritualist and neoshamanistic texts. His work is best-received among members of the New Thought movement that focus on ancient shamanic teachings as a means to achieve spiritual enlightenment.

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The Best Miguel Ruiz Books of All Time

Why these best Miguel Ruiz books and not others? To stay objective, I rank all my book recommendations by a combination of what’s most loved (Goodreads rating), what’s most popular (Goodreads review count) and what’s proven timlessly relevant (first publication date).

This isn’t a whimsical list. It’s a data-driven, crowdsourced collection of the best Miguel Ruiz books ever published as decided by book lovers like you.

And if you think something's missing? I LOVE book recommendations so if there are any other books by Miguel Ruiz that you think deserve mentioning, email me and I’ll be sure to include them in the next round of updates.

Until then, here are the best Miguel Ruiz books of all time...

Best Miguel Ruiz Books: The Mastery of Love

1. The Mastery of Love - Miguel Ruiz (FREE Summary)

A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship

The Mastery of Love is a beautiful, poetic and easy-to-read self-help book that illuminates the false and unnecessarily dramatic lives we lead, filled with fear and self-rejection, and how to wake up to our own inner power so that we can learn to love others and ourselves — by Toltec Nagual and best selling author, Don Miguel Ruiz.

Published 1999 // 240 pages // Rated 4.2 over 42,100 reviews on Goodreads

Best Miguel Ruiz Books: The Four Agreements

2. The Four Agreements - Miguel Ruiz (FREE Summary)

A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

The Four Agreements is a provocative and mind-altering Toltec guide to waking up and finding peace in our illusory world - by retired surgeon, author and Eagle-Knight shaman Don Miguel Ruiz.

Published 1997 // 168 pages // Rated 4.2 over 265,000 reviews on Goodreads

3. Prayers - Miguel Ruiz

A Communion with Our Creator

Published 2001 // 128 pages // Rated 4.2 over 300 reviews on Goodreads

Best Miguel Ruiz Books: The Voice of Knowledge

4. The Voice of Knowledge - Miguel Ruiz

A Practical Guide to Inner Peace

Published 2000 // 234 pages // Rated 4.1 over 8,100 reviews on Goodreads

Best Miguel Ruiz Books: The Fifth Agreement

5. The Fifth Agreement - Miguel Ruiz

A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

Published 2009 // 248 pages // Rated 4.0 over 12,700 reviews on Goodreads

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Best Miguel Ruiz Quotes

Here are some of the best Miguel Ruiz of all time...

"The Four Agreements are: 1. Be impeccable with your word; 2. Don’t take anything personally; 3. Don’t make assumptions; and 4. Always do your best."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

"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."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

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

- Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

"If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

"I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

"God is life. God is life in action. The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now. Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment. Letting go of the past means you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

"Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

"If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

"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."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

"There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

"When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

"A Toltec is an artist of Love, an artist of Spirit, someone who is creating every moment, every second, the most beautiful art — the Art of Dreaming."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

"Life is nothing but a dream, and if we are artists, then we can create our life with Love, and our dream becomes a masterpiece of art."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

"If you take your happiness and put it in someone’s hands, sooner or later, they are going to break it."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

"Love respects. I love you; I know you can make it. I know you are strong enough, intelligent enough, good enough that you can make your own choices. I don’t have to make your choices for you. You can make it. If you fall, I can give you my hand, I can help you to stand up. I can say, ‘You can do it, go ahead.’"

- Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

"Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

"Love is not about concepts; love is about action. Love in action can only produce happiness. Fear in action can only produce suffering."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

"You are complete. When love is coming out of you, you are not searching for love because you are afraid to be alone. When you have all that love for yourself, you can be alone and there’s no problem. You are happy to be alone, and to share is also fun."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

"Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

"Every relationship in your life can be healed, every relationship can be wonderful, but it’s always going to begin with you."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

"You are not responsible for what is happening in the world. You are responsible for yourself."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

"Humans who hunt each other for love will never be satisfied; they will never find the love they need in other humans."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

"You are what you believe you are."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

"When you make it your goal to create the perfect relationship between you and your body, you are learning to have a perfect relationship with anyone you are with, including your mother, your friends, your lover, your children, your dog."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

"But if you have the eyes of love, you just see love wherever you go. The trees are made with love. The animals are made with love. That water is made with love."

- Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

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