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4 Agreements
"The dream you are living is your creation. It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time"
~~Don Miguel Ruiz~~
Date: 5/14/2005 3:48:51 PM ( 19 y ) ... viewed 1398 times More Spiritual Articles
4 Agreements
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Don Miguel Ruiz is a Toltec master who has brought forth empowering words to live by in the form of The Four Agreements. If you don't already know the 4 Agreements work here is the basic premise.
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1. Be Impeccable With Your Word
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
2. Don’t Take Anything Personally
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
3. Don’t Make Assumptions
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. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
4. Always Do Your Best
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
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Here are some excellent quotes from the best selling spiritual classic The Four agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
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Quotes from the Book The Four Agreements
"Everything is made of light"
"Everything is God"
"The real us is pure love, pure light"
"Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive."
"The only way to store information is by agreement"
"The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind"
"Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive"
"Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be."
"We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves."
"Your word is the power that you have to create"
"A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself"
"You go against yourself when yo judge or blame yourself for anything"
"When you are impeccable, you take responsibilty for your actions, but you do not judge or blame yourself."
"Your opinon is nothing but your point of view"
"Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everthing is about me."
"Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves"
"The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune."
"You can choose to follow your heart always"
"The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth"
"We only se what we want to see and hear what we want to hear"
"We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do"
"Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them"
"Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward"
"If we like what we do, if we always do our best, then we are really enjoying life. We are having fun, we don't get borded, we don't have frustrations."
"When you do your best you learn to accept yourself"
"Your own body is a manifestation of God, and if you honor your body everything will change for you"
"Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren't enjoying the dream."
"Our brain is the factory of the emotions"
"We are addicted to being the way we are"
"Forgiveness is the only way to heal"
"The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful"
"The dream you are living is your creation. It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time"
"Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss"
"The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer"
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering"
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If you are intrigued by these ideas then you may visit Ruiz's site
www.miguelruiz.com
He has authored several more books since this classic including my favorite, The Voice Of Knowledge.
If all of us applied these spiritual teachings, the world's problems would disappear in an instant.
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