“Doing your best means taking action because you love it,” Ruiz starts out by saying in Part 10, “not because you expect a reward.” We all do this, most notably at work, especially if our job is not our first choice for ‘what we wanted to be when we grew up’. As householders, we are […]
MoreHow many assumptions do you make in a day? Do you know? I am not sure that I know how many I make. Even though I have been working on implementing the Third Agreement into my daily life for a few years now, I can honestly agree with Ruiz, in Part 9, when he says […]
MoreWe often wonder why people lie to us and are deeply wounded when they do. We cause ourselves needless suffering by constantly believing that everything people do is somehow about us. This leads us immediately into the third agreement: Don’t Make Assumptions as I have found the second and third agreement are closely tied to one […]
MoreAs I started to learn about the second agreement, in Part 7, it became quickly apparent that this agreement would be one of the most challenging for me. It challenged my ego’s conventional way of reacting. Things in life were not happening TO me, rather around me, yet this is how most of us are […]
MoreLove is what you are; it’s the center of your creation. It’s your point of origination and can become your point of attraction as well. As Karl Menninger told his patients, and anyone else who was suffering and willing to listen, “Love cures, the ones who receive love and the ones who give it, too.” […]
More“Be Impeccable With Your Word: Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.” Words have power. Until you make this agreement, you will continue to waste your energy being […]
MoreHow many times has someone stated their opinion of you, or maybe of someone you know, and, whether you believe it to be true or not, you find yourself agreeing with that opinion? Often, we agree with others, even if we don’t believe what they say to be true because we want their acceptance. Ruiz […]
MoreWhenever I have been challenged that my choices or beliefs in life would land me straight in hell, I have always said that I can’t go to hell because I am already there. Ruiz reiterates this point in Part 3 of the Four Agreements as he discusses how the human dream, the dream of our […]
MoreI have a difference of philosophical opinion with this statement….partly because of my understanding of Karma and partly because of the concepts Ruiz introduces to us in Part Two of the Four Agreements. Accepting a statement that your life is only a result of any choice that you made is a bit narcissistic. It somehow […]
MoreWe are all made of light – not the spiritual hippy dippy, can’t we all just get along kind of light – but true particles of light. We are also stars. Whether or not you believe in a God, science has proven that the elements that create stars are the same as the elements that […]
MorePart of the journey through the Four Agreements includes listening to the audio book of Don Miguel Ruiz’s masterpiece. Each segment is about 10 minutes long, so it won’t require much demand on your time. Part 1 begins with the framework for the Four Agreements. Please listen and then take 24 hours to think about what […]
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