The Four Agreements

Toltec Wisdom for living an awakened life

In his best selling book The Four Agreements don Miguel Ruiz gives four simple principles to practice in order to create love and happiness in  our lives, and to extract ourselves from the collective nightmare that most humans live, due to their programming.

This book has been a favourite of mine since the day I first read it… 21 YEARS AGO!! I have since re-read it several times over, reflected on it, and… most importantly, integrated it into my very way of being.

I invite you to do the same.

What’s an agreement?

An agreement here is simply one you make with yourself.

Adopting and committing to these agreements seems simple enough – but, as with all great spiritual truths, living the Four Agreements is very challenging to live by.

Indeed, Living the Four Agreements may be one of the hardest things you will ever do – but it will also be one of the most rewarding, life changing things you will ever do!

In the beginning you will lapse countless times because the nature of the ego is to revert to type. Yet, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a simple first step, does it not?

If you begin to practice these agreements, living from your heart, your life will become effortless as a result.

You will still experience pain and loss on the level of form, but you will be freed from the collective ‘nightmare’ and begin to enjoy the ‘dream’ instead, as well as be able to shape and direct your part in it much more effectively.

As more and more of us awaken, humanity will be freed from its present course of self-destruction and misery (dukha).

The Four Agreements

The four agreements are as follows.

Write them down somewhere you will see them regularly – for example, on a post-it on your bathroom mirror, on the home screen of your phone or tablet. Reminding yourself of them, and recommitting to them, each day is critical to your success.

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.

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