The Four Agreements
You can measure the impeccability of your word by your level of self-love. How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word. When you are impeccable with your word, you feel good; you feel happy and at peace.
Don Miguel Ruiz • The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
You are never responsible for the actions of others; you are only responsible for you. When you truly understand this, and refuse to take things personally, you can hardly be hurt by the careless comments or actions of others.
Don Miguel Ruiz • The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
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.
Don Miguel Ruiz • The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.
Don Miguel Ruiz • The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.
Don Miguel Ruiz • The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
It is very interesting how the human mind works. We have the need to justify everything, to explain and understand everything, in order to feel safe. We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us f
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The fourth agreement is about the action of the first three: Always do your best.
Don Miguel Ruiz • The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
It is always better to ask questions than to make an assumption, because assumptions set us up for suffering.
Don Miguel Ruiz • The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
call this process the domestication of humans. And through this domestication we learn how to live and how to dream. In human domestication, the information from the outside dream is conveyed to the inside dream, creating our whole belief system.