The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
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If you live in a past dream, you don’t enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive.
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You were born with the right to be happy. You were born with the right to love, to enjoy and to share your love.
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existence proves the existence of God.
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Not necessary?
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Your existence proves the existence of life and energy.
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You don’t need the acceptance of others.
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But no man is an island... And is this potentially narcissistic?
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Don’t expect that you will always be able to be impeccable with your word. Your routine habits are too strong and firmly rooted in your mind. But you can do your best.
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By doing your best, the habits of misusing your word, taking things personally, and making assumptions will become weaker and less frequent with time.
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You have to honor the man or woman that you are. Respect your body, enjoy your body, love your body, feed, clean, and heal your body. Exercise and do what makes your body feel good.
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When you practice giving love to every part of your body, you plant seeds of love in your mind, and when they grow, you will love, honor, and respect your body immensely.
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If you are impeccable with your word,
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How to measure this?
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going to control your life one hundred percent.
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Nobody can do this...
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The problem is all the other agreements that are a part of the dream of the planet. They are alive, and they are very strong.
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If we see a child who is two or three, perhaps four years old, we find a free human.
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observe humans who are two years old, we find that most of the time these humans have a big smile on their face
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But also violently self centered...
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living our lives to please ourselves.
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What of service to others, to the greater good?
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worst part is
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What of mortality, the built in time bomb... and that we are afraid to be free, to lead - the responsibility...
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you are not aware that your mind is full of wounds and emotional poison, you cannot begin to clean
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If you go into the dream and start challenging your beliefs, you will find that most of the beliefs that guided you into the wounded mind are not even true.
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They compare the Judge, the Victim, and the belief system to a parasite that invades the human mind.
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The food for the parasite is the negative emotions that come from fear.
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The parasite dreams through your mind and lives its life through your body. It survives on the emotions that come from fear, and thrives on drama and suffering.
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freedom we seek is to use our own mind and body, to live our own life, instead of the life of the belief system.
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warriors, because they are in a war against the parasite in the mind.
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We can reach heaven while we are alive;
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The parasite can be compared to a monster with a thousand heads. Every head of the parasite is one of the fears that we have.
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control of our emotions, we have to refrain from fueling the emotions that come from fear.
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a symbolic death which kills the parasite without harming our physical body.
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If you have the awareness that the whole drama of your life is the result of what you believe, and what you believe is not real, then you can begin to change it.
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You have to know which agreements you want to change
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going into the desert. When you go into the desert you meet your demons face-to-face.
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You start by breaking agreements that are very small and require less power.
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every agreement you break that makes you suffer, you will need to replace it with a new agreement that makes you happy.
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we put the power of the word (which is the power of our will) into every agreement we have made.
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We are addicted to anger, jealousy, and self-pity. We are addicted to the beliefs that tell us, “I’m not good enough,
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imagine that all humans have this skin disease. Nobody can touch each other because it is going to hurt.
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mind is so wounded and full of poison by the process of domestication, that everyone describes the wounded mind as normal. This is considered normal, but I can tell you it is not normal.
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symptoms of the disease are all the emotions that make humans suffer: anger, hate, sadness, envy, and betrayal. When the fear is too great, the reasoning mind begins to fail, and we call this mental illness.
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forgive those we feel have wronged us, not because they deserve to be forgiven, but because we love ourselves so much we don’t want to keep paying for the injustice.
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forgive God, you can finally forgive yourself. Once you forgive yourself, the self-rejection in your mind is over. Self-acceptance begins,
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truth is painful, because it opens all of the wounds which are covered by lies so that we can be healed.
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When we lose control we say things that we don’t want to say, and do things that we don’t want to do. That is why it is so important to be impeccable with our word and to become a spiritual warrior.
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So, not free in the sense of out of control...
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aware that we are at war, and the war in our minds requires discipline.
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the victim represses, and the warrior refrains.
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