The Five Levels of Attachment Quotes

“I am only responsible for what I say; I am not responsible for what you hear.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“When we become too attached to an ideal, the first thing that we lose is respect; first for the people around us, and eventually for ourselves.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“This is what freedom is: the ability to enjoy and be exactly who you are without suppressing yourself in the form of judgment.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“The more attached you are to something, the more your vision is obscured and narrowed, sometimes to the point where you are convinced that there is only one way to proceed.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“Without respect for the freedom of choice, peace is not possible.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“I have always been perfect, and so have you. When we can't perceive this, it's because we are too busy judging everything for not being something other than what it is.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“Your beliefs, and your beliefs alone, belong to you. You are the only one who is with you for your entire life.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“It is like taking a sip of wine and saying, “It’s a bit dry; it has definitely aged well, but I can taste the bark. I’ve had better.” Instead of simply experiencing the joy and flavors of the wine, we are analyzing the flavor, trying to break it down and fit it into a context and language we already know. In doing this, we miss out on much of the actual experience.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“Looking at the story of your life, do you take action as dictated by your attachment to knowledge, or do you use knowledge to take an action based on the awareness of your present moment?”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“Our life is a canvas, and we are all Picassos.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“We all want to be a part of a group or a community, to find that place that allows us to feel as one. We are always looking for that communion, so in the end, all of this work is about the ability to have a harmonious relationship with my brothers, my sisters, and myself.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“This relationship between us, however small it may be, is the dream called us.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“I am a living being regardless of my knowledge, which exists only because I exist.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“All the things my narrators told me were based on my attachment to what I believed a relationship should be in order for us to continue loving each other. All these expectations were informed by my past experience and the beliefs I had acquired growing up. I allowed my knowledge to analyze how a relationship is supposed to be, and I believed it.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“This is my art, my agreement: to allow myself to experience life in its ever-changing truth with love. Think about an individual”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“Let go of the attachment that you must obtain some image of perfection in order to be happy.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“Harmony exists when we engage one another with respect, honoring each other's yeses and nos as we construct the dream of us.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“Self-judgment resides where self-acceptance wishes to be.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“We think that in order to be worthy of our own love we must live up to the expectations we place on ourselves—but we need to realize that these expectations are the expression of our agreements, not of our true nature.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“In essence, we are defending our definition of self.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“When you become aware of how attachment distorts and corrupts knowledge, you can begin to see how some people easily confuse the quest for truth with the quest for being right. These are not the same thing. The quest to be right is about self-importance: we need to be right in order to accept ourselves; this is a condition we place on our self-acceptance and our acceptance of others. The quest for truth, on the other hand, is the desire to discover—regardless of whether our beliefs are supported in the process.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“When we look closely, we can notice how we're always defending the object of our attachment in one way or another.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“When we place ourselves in a safety zone where we feel comfortable and secure, and we are firmly entrenched in the this-is-who-I-am mindset, the worst thing imaginable is that it will all go away.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“I imagined what the situation was like from her point of view: everything she knew would be going away. Her whole world was going to change, and she did not know who or what was going to remain.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“When you let go of your attachment to the meaning and the perceived truth that you apply to words and symbols—mine, yours, and others'—you have the freedom to step back and decide for yourself if those meanings reflect your experience in life. In addition, by openly listening to someone else's expression of their knowledge without holding an attachment of what those symbols mean, you have the opportunity to better understand them.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“A symbol's meaning is derived from agreement by a community, a culture, a nation, and so on.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“Ever-Changing Meanings I am only responsible for what I say; I am not responsible for what you hear. –DON MIGUEL RUIZ”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“If my attachment to what I know blinds me to all the available options, then my knowledge is controlling me; it is controlling my intention, and it is creating my Personal Dream for me. But with awareness of my attachments comes the opportunity to take back that control and to live as I choose.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“If you fail to listen to what else is going on in the world and only rely on what you think you know and believe, you've attached yourself to an idea that blinds.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

“Sometimes we think that the only way to make someone a better person, and, by extension, make the world a better place, is to convince them that they should see things our way. But there are plenty of people around us who don't behave the way we think they should, and we waste energy trying to convince them to be something they are not, instead of allowing them to be who they are.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World