The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

by Miguel Ruiz

True justice is paying only once for each mistake.

We have a powerful memory. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves.

The personal dream of humans will vary, but globally it is mostly a nightmare. If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.

fear is controlling the outside dream.

Others can put us into a deeper hell, true. But only if we allow this to happen.

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty.

personal dream of life — what you believe, all the concepts you have about what you are, all the

agreements

you have made with others, with yourself, and...

illusion.

During the process of domestication, we form an image of what perfection is in order to try to be good enough.

We create this image, but this image is not real.

self-rejection

perfection.

we feel unauthentic and wear social masks to keep others from noticing this.

nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves,

The way we judge ourselves is the worst judge that ever existed.

We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves.

In these agreements you tell yourself who you are, what you feel, what you believe, and how to behave. The result is what you call your personality.

If you want to live a life of joy and fulfillment, you have to find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim your personal power.

the agreements that come from love help us to conserve energy and even gain extra energy.

powerless.

When we are finally ready to change our agreements, there are four very powerful agreements that will help us to break those agreements that come from fear and deplete our energy.

If you adopt these four new agreements, they will create enough personal power for you to change the entire system of your old agreements.

Your word is the power that you have to create.

your intent manifests through the word.

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.

You plant a seed, a thought, and it grows.

Impeccability means “without sin.”

When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions, but you do not judge or blame yourself.

Sin begins with rejection of yourself.

Being impeccable with your word is not using the word against yourself.

I’m using the word against myself. If I love myself I will express that love in my interactions with you, and then I am being impeccable with the word,

use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself.

truth will manifest through you and clean all the emotional poison that exists within you.

Misuse of the word is how we pull each other down and keep each other in a state of fear and doubt.

make a new agreement based on truth.

Only the truth will set us free.

gossip.

Emotional poison was transferred along with the opinions, and we learned this as the normal way to communicate.

this poisonous virus is what the Toltecs called the mitote, the chaos of a thousand different voices all trying to talk at once in the mind.

We talk to ourselves constantly and

we use the word against ourselves?

understand what the word is and what the word does.

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view. It is not necessarily true. Your opinion comes from your beliefs, your own ego, and your own dream.

mind is fertile ground for that idea.

You can measure the impeccability of your word by your level of self-love.

I am impeccable with my word. Nurture this seed, and as it grows in your mind, it will generate more seeds of love to replace the seeds of fear.

Tell yourself how wonderful you are, how great you are. Tell yourself how much you love yourself.

You take it personally because you agree with whatever was said.