Summary of the Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz E-Book

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• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

A Comprehensive Summary the Four Agreements


The Four Agreements is a self-help guidebook written by a Mexican author named Don Miguel Angel Ruiz.
Ruiz was born in 1952 in rural Mexico as the youngest of thirteen children. Nevertheless, Ruiz attended medical school, became a surgeon and for several years he practiced medicine with his brothers. What made him decided to change careers and become a writer and so-called ‘shaman’ is a near-fatal accident. Not long after his accident, Ruiz returned to his mother to learn and get a better moral understanding and apprenticed himself as shaman of Toltec culture. What was unfortunate about Toltec culture is that there were no written records whatsoever of their belief and their teachings. Thanks to a combination of traditional wisdom and modern insights, Ruiz managed to write down some Toltec teachings, which make up the book The Four Agreements.
The Four Agreements was published in 1997 and was a bestselling book in New York Times for more than seven years. The book sold more than 5.2 million copies just in the United States and so far has been translated into thirty-eight languages.
What appears in the book and what are ‘the four agreements’ that the author talks about is left for us to see in the summary section.


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Leseprobe

SUMMARY

The Four

Agreements

Book by

Don Miguel Ruiz

(A Toltec Wisdom Book)

A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

Francis Thomas

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

SUMMARY

PART 1 – DREAMS THAT CAN CHANGE THE WORLD

PART 2 – AN IMPECCABLE SPEECH

PART 3 – NEVER TAKE ANYTHING PERSONAL

PART 4 – NEVER MAKE AN ASSUMPTION

PART 5 – ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST!

PART 6 – WE WANT TO BE FREE

PART 7 – ANGER

ANALYSIS

QUIZ (BONUS)

QUIZ ANSWERS

CONCLUSION

FURTHER READINGS

INTRODUCTION

The Four Agreements is a self-help guidebook written by a Mexican author named Don Miguel Angel Ruiz.

Ruiz was born in 1952 in rural Mexico as the youngest of thirteen children. Nevertheless, Ruiz attended medical school, became a surgeon and for several years he practiced medicine with his brothers. What made him decided to change careers and become a writer and so-called ‘shaman’ is a near-fatal accident. Not long after his accident, Ruiz returned to his mother to learn and get a better moral understanding and apprenticed himself as shaman of Toltec culture. What was unfortunate about Toltec culture is that there were no written records whatsoever of their belief and their teachings. Thanks to a combination of traditional wisdom and modern insights, Ruiz managed to write down some Toltec teachings, which make up the book The Four Agreements.

The Four Agreements was published in 1997 and was a bestselling book in New York Times for more than seven years. The book sold more than 5.2 million copies just in the United States and so far has been translated into thirty-eight languages.

What appears in the book and what are ‘the four agreements’ that the author talks about is left for us to see in the summary section.

SUMMARY

PART 1 – DREAMS THAT CAN CHANGE THE WORLD

The book opens with the author’s thesis that everything that exists in the world is a reverie in every aspect. This means that religions, law, cultures, customs and everything around us are celebrated in our human minds. We humans have dreams. We dream of achieving something; whether that means finding a woman of your dreams or a job of your dreams, it is all the same. Every dream of ours revolves around everything that exists in the world, and people and voices that are around us tell us how to dream and how to live. Our parents teach us something, pastors teach us something, our societies are trying to teach us something; when we combine all those teachings, we get our personality. All those people around us shape the way we think, feel, communicate and even how we do certain things that other people think are necessary for us to do.

We learn that there is crime. We learn that there are ‘good deeds’ and that there is a punishment and reward. Little by little, as we grow older, we forget our dreams and we simply ‘absorb’ and accept all the rules imposed on us by all those outside influences. We live the way we live because ‘that is just the way it is supposed to be,’ even though this is far from the truth. But because we forget our inner dreams and wishes, and because we adopt set ways of thinking, living and behaving in this world, we do not even expect to reach anything better.

Then we do our best to achieve these ‘goals’ that other people set for us, and as we do that, we often think that doing so will give us the acceptance that we desire.

And even though many people want love and acceptance in their lives, they do not see it when it surrounds them because they believe the lies that are served to them every day.

PART 2 – AN IMPECCABLE SPEECH

The author continues and says that one of four agreements he talks about in his book is impeccable speech. He explains this by saying that our tongues have the ability to produce both blessings and curses. Then he says that God has provided all people with the incredible gift of words, which can be used either for good or for bad. That is why we should carefully consider which words we are going to say and when we will say these words. Ruiz then encourages us to be persistent in saying positive words, while rejecting negative ones. The word ‘impeccable’ is defined as ‘nearly perfect, without any sin,’ so when we practice saying positive words and blessings, we will experience impeccability in our lives. Because we ‘give’ blessings with our speech, we will not feel the guilt of saying something bad. Impeccable speech requires a lot of time, effort, and skillful, loving words. People often find this hard because we are used to having dishonest, hurtful and ‘cursing’ speech in our lives. Also, impeccable speech invokes love and rejects fear, because when we say something nice to someone, we can encourage that person and give him/her dignity. With impeccable speech we plant seeds of love and appreciation in others.

But there are many obstacles to impeccable speech.