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The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz draws upon ancient Toltec wisdom to offer a code of conduct for achieving personal freedom and happiness. Ruiz outlines four powerful agreements: Be Impeccable With Your Word, Don't Take Anything Personally, Don't Make Assumptions, and Always Do Your Best. By adopting these agreements, readers can transform their lives and cultivate inner peace.
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- Background information about the book.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023
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Table of Contents
Copyright
Overview
Introduction
. Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Prayer
Quotes from the book
Copyright
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Overview
Don Miguel Ruiz, raised in a lineage of healers, penned "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom" in 1997. This book, blending ancient Toltec wisdom with modern ideas, became a phenomenon. It stayed on the bestseller list for a decade, and even celebrities like Oprah endorsed it!
Considered a self-help gem, "The Four Agreements" is the first of Ruiz's Toltec Wisdom series. It delves into the idea of self-limiting beliefs we unconsciously pick up throughout life. The book emphasizes the power of choice—we can choose to make or break these agreements and live a life filled with unconditional love.
Introduction
The book begins by narrating a story from thousands of years ago. It follows a man studying medicine who feels there's more to life. One night, he falls asleep in a cave and has a mind-blowing dream.
In the dream, he sees himself sleeping but also feels separate from his body. He hears a voice claiming to be made of light and stars. Gazing at the stars, he realizes it's actually the light that creates them, not the other way around. He sees that everything, even the void between the stars, is made of this light, all connected as one giant living being. This light, he believes, is the carrier of life itself. He gives names to different parts of this light: the stars are "tonal," and the space in between is "nagual." He witnesses Life, this massive living being, creating harmony between the stars and the light that binds them.
The dream takes a wild turn. The man awakens to a new way of seeing things. He feels himself in everyone and everything, but no one else seems to recognize this connection. He can't explain his crazy realization—that everyone is essentially God, made of light. No one even tries to grasp what he's saying. This is when it hits him: everyone else is trapped in a dream world! They're living in an illusion where something hazy, like smoke, is blurring the reflections in mirrors. This smoke keeps them from seeing their true selves—pure love and pure light.
Waking from his dream, the man is determined to remember this experience. He takes on the name "The Smokey Mirror." The smoke represents the dream everyone's stuck in—the illusion that distorts their view of themselves. The mirror, on the other hand, represents the dreamer—each person experiencing this distorted reality.
Chapter 1
Domestication and the Dream of the Planet
This chapter dives into how humans experience the world. According to the author, everything is a dream, awake or asleep. It all starts with a giant dream, the "dream of the planet," created by past generations. This dream includes things like social norms, religions, and governments.
Kids are born with the ability to dream, and adults teach them this giant dream. They do this by grabbing a child's attention and repeating things until they stick. This shapes how kids believe and behave. It's like a competition for a child's attention, and kids learn to play the game.
Instead of picking their own beliefs, children "agree" with what adults tell them. These agreements turn into beliefs, and those beliefs become a whole way of life. It's kind of like training an animal—adults reward good behavior based on the dream of the planet and punish bad behavior. Kids learn to pretend to be what adults want to avoid punishment. This fear of getting in trouble turns into a fear of not being good enough.
Over time, kids don't even need adults to enforce these fears. They start judging themselves based on an internal "Book of Law" filled with all the agreements they've made. This book decides what's good, bad, right, and wrong. There's also a judge in this system that uses the Book of Law to constantly judge everything a person does. If someone breaks a rule in their Book of Law, the judge throws a guilt trip and punishes them. The person being judged feels like a victim who doesn't deserve love or happiness.
