The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
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ready accessibility of happiness and love.
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Abundance and plenitude
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everything that exists is one living being, and that light is the messenger of life,
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Everything in existence is a manifestation of the one living being we call God.
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Pantheism, not a creator??
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the world of illusion, the Dream, is just like smoke which doesn’t allow us to see what we really are. “The real us is pure love, pure light,” he said.
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He saw himself in everything — in every human, in every animal, in every tree, in the water, in the rain, in the clouds, in the earth.
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Schizophrenia ?
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that wall of fog was made by the interpretation of images of light — the Dream of humans.
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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.
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The reward is the attention that we got from our parents or from other people like siblings, teachers, and friends. We soon develop a need to hook other people’s attention in order to get the reward.
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With that fear of being punished and that fear of not getting the reward, we start pretending to be what we are not, just to please others,
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The inner Judge uses what is in our Book of Law to judge everything we do and don’t do, everything we think and don’t think, and everything we feel and don’t feel.
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Victim carries the blame, the guilt, and the shame. It is the part of us that says, “Poor me, I’m not good enough,
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Breaking the rules in the Book of Law opens your emotional wounds, and your reaction is to create emotional poison.
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Even if the Book of Law is wrong, it makes you feel safe.
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How many times do we pay for one mistake? The answer is thousands of times.
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Is this how we learn?
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In the dream of the planet it is normal for humans to suffer, to live in fear, and to create emotional dramas. The outside dream is not a pleasant dream; it is a dream of violence, a dream of fear,
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Whenever we feel the emotions of anger, jealousy, envy, or hate, we experience a fire burning within us. We are living in a dream of hell.
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Our personal dream can also become an ongoing nightmare where we suffer and live in a state of fear.
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we cannot see that we are not free. That is why humans resist life. To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive
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no longer about being good enough for anybody else. We are not good enough for ourselves because we don’t fit with our own image of perfection. We cannot forgive ourselves for not being what we wish to
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They are not aware that the problem is that they don’t accept themselves. They reject themselves because they are not what they pretend to be. They wish to be a certain way, but they are not, and for this they carry shame and guilt.
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punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.
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In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else.
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Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves; it is why we don’t accept ourselves the way we are, and why we don’t accept others the way they are.
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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.
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agreements that come from fear require us to expend a lot of energy, but the agreements that come from love help us to conserve energy and even gain extra energy.
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Each time you break an agreement, all the power you used to create it returns to you.
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your intent manifests through the word. What you dream, what you feel, and what you really are, will all be manifested through the word.
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like a sword with two edges, your word can create the most beautiful dream, or your word can destroy everything around you.
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Some years ago one man in Germany, by the use of the word,
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But a mass movement, he was replaceable...
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human mind is like a fertile ground where seeds are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts.
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Every human mind is fertile, but only for those kinds of seeds it is prepared for. What is important is to see which kind of seeds our mind is fertile for, and to prepare it to receive the seeds of love.
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You go against yourself when you judge or blame yourself for anything.
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When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions, but you do not judge or blame yourself.
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If I love myself I will express that love in my interactions with you, and then I am being impeccable with the word, because that action will produce a like reaction.
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Mostly we use the word to spread our personal poison — to express anger, jealousy, envy, and hate.
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Misuse of the word is how we pull each other down and keep each other in a state of fear and doubt.
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only thing that can break a spell is to make a new agreement based on truth.
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opinions about people they didn’t know. Emotional poison was transferred along with the opinions, and we learned this as the normal way to communicate.
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makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do.
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Fear and suffering are an important part of the dream of the planet; they are how the dream of the planet keeps us down.
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gossip can be compared to a computer virus.
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Gossip is data - a virus would cause the behaviour, not the gossip data itself...
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you have learned to ingest information like a child,
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world full of humans who can only read information through circuits that are clogged with a poisonous, contagious virus.
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misuse of our word is putting us deeper into hell.
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we have received the gossip and spells from the words of others, but also from the way we use our word with ourselves.
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you hooked other people’s attention, and spread poison about your loved one in order to make your opinion right? 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.
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You will only receive a negative idea if your mind is fertile ground for that idea.
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You can transcend the dream of hell just by making the agreement to be impeccable with your word.
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Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.
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Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about “me.”
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