The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
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Author : Don Miguel Ruiz
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The Four Agreements Summary
Author says Dreaming is the main function of the mind, and the mind dreams twenty-four
hours a day. It dreams when the brain is awake, and it also dreams when the
brain is asleep.
Author says Humans are dreaming all the time. Before we were born the humans before
us created a big outside dream that we will call society’s dream or the dream
of the planet. The dream of the planet is the collective dream of billions of
smaller, personal dreams, which together create a dream of a family, a dream
of a community, a dream of a city, a dream of a country, and finally a dream of
the whole humanity.
We are born with the capacity to learn how to dream, and the humans who
live before us teach us how to dream the way society dreams. The outside
dream has so many rules that when a new human is born.
All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty. We are on an eternal search for the truth because we only believe in the lies we have stored in our mind
Be Impeccable with Your Word
Author says the first agreement is the Most Important One and also the
most difficult one to honor. It is so important that with just this first agreement
you will be able to transcend to the level of existence I call heaven on earth.
Author says the word is not just a sound or a written symbol. The word is a force; it is
the power you have to express and communicate, to think, and thereby to create
the events in your life.
The word is the most powerful tool you have as a human; it is the tool of
magic. But like a sword with two edges, your word can create the most
beautiful dream, or your word can destroy everything around you.
The word is so powerful that one word can change a life or destroy the lives
of millions of people. Every human is a magician, and we can either put a spell on someone with
our word or we can release someone from a spell. We cast spells all the time
with our opinions.
Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means
to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself.
Don’t Take Anything Personally
Author says 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.
Author says if someone gives you an opinion and says, “Hey, you look so fat,” don’t take
it personally, because the truth is that this person is dealing with his or her own
feelings, beliefs, and opinions.
Author says when you take things personally, then you feel offended, and your reaction is
to defend your beliefs and create conflicts. You make something big out of
something so little, because you have the need to be right and make everybody
else wrong.
The way you see that movie is according to the agreements you have made
with life. Your point of view is something personal to you. It is no one’s truth
but yours.
Whatever people do, feel, think, or say, don’t take it personally. If they tell
you how wonderful you are, they are not saying that because of you. You know
you are wonderful.
Don’t Make Assumptions
Author says we have the tendency to make assumptions about everything. The problem
with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. We could swear
they are real.
Author says all the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in making
assumptions and taking things personally. Take a moment to consider the truth
of this statement. The whole war of control between humans is about making
assumptions and taking things personally.
Author says making assumptions in our relationships is really asking for problems. Often
we make the assumption that our partners know what we think and that we don’t
have to say what we want.
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume
that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we
judge, and abuse the way we abuse.
We don’t need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting
other people the way they are without trying to change them. If we try to change
them, this means we don’t really like them.
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Always Do Your Best
Author says under any circumstance, always do your best, no more and no less. But keep
in mind that your best is never going to be the same from one moment to the
next. Everything is alive and changing all the time, so your best will sometimes
be high quality, and other times it will not be as good.
Author says regardless of the quality, keep doing your best — no more and no less than
your best. If you try too hard to do more than your best, you will spend more
energy than is needed and in the end your best will not be enough.
Just do your best — in any circumstance in your life. It doesn’t matter if you
are sick or tired, if you always do your best there is no way you can judge
yourself.
Author says doing your best, you are going to live your life intensely. You are going to be
productive, you are going to be good to yourself, because you will be giving
yourself to your family, to your community, to everything.
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