The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, Janet Mills Flashcards
the Toltec were scientists and artists who formed a society to explore and conserve the spiritual knowledge and practices of the ancient ones. 35
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he called the stars the tonal and the light between the stars the nagual, and he knew that what created the harmony and space between the two is Life or Intent. 58
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Everything in existence is a manifestation of the one living being we call God. Everything is God. 61
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human perception is merely light perceiving light. 62
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“I am the Smokey Mirror, because I am looking at myself in all of you, but we don’t recognize each other because of the smoke in-between us. That smoke is the Dream, and the mirror is you, the dreamer.” 80
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when the brain is awake, there is a material frame that makes us perceive things in a linear way. When we go to sleep we do not have the frame, and the dream has the tendency to change constantly. Humans are dreaming all the time. 86
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Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive. 95
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You didn’t choose your religion or your moral values — they were already there before you were born. 110
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The only way to store information is by agreement. 114
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That is why we need a great deal of courage to challenge our own beliefs. 161
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True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake. 166
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The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of the animals pay once for every mistake they make. 168
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Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies. 175
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If you consider hell as a state of mind, then hell is all around us. Others may warn us that if we don’t do what they say we should do, we will go to hell. Bad news! We are already in hell, including the people who tell us that. No human can condemn another to hell because we are already there. Others can put us into a deeper hell, true. But only if we allow this to happen. 185
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We keep searching and searching, when everything is already within us. 194
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Your mind is a dream where a thousand people talk at the same time, and nobody understands each other. 202
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In India they call the mitote maya, which means illusion. It is the personality’s notion of “I am.” 203
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Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive — the risk to be alive and express what we really are. 207
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nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves, and it is the Judge, the Victim, and the belief system that make us do this. 225
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The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. 236
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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. 245
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The 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. 246
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The first agreement is to be impeccable with your word. 263
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The human mind is like a fertile ground where seeds are continually being planted. 279
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By hooking our attention, the word can enter our mind and change a whole belief for better or for worse. 294
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Impeccable comes from the Latin pecatus, which means “sin.” The im in impeccable means “without,” so impeccable means “without sin.” 303
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A sin is anything that you do which goes against yourself. 305
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Sin begins with rejection of yourself. Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you commit. 309
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Mostly we use the word to spread our personal poison 323
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People who love us do black magic on us, but they don’t know what they do. 345
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On one side of the sword are the lies which create black magic, and on the other side of the sword is the truth which has the power to break the spell of black magic. Only the truth will set us free. 353
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Over time this interaction has become the worst form of black magic, and we call it gossip. 356
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Imagine that every single time others gossip to you, they insert a computer virus into your mind, causing you to think a little less clearly every time. 379
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the first agreement, be impeccable with your word, you begin to see all the changes that can happen in your life. Changes first in the way you deal with yourself, and later in the way you deal with other people, especially those you love the most. 395
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Impeccability of the word will also give you immunity from anyone putting a negative spell on you. 402
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How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word. 405
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The second agreement is don’t take anything personally. Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally. 423
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You take it personally because you agree with whatever was said. As soon as you agree, the poison goes through you, and you are trapped in the dream of hell. 428
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Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. 432
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Taking things personally makes you easy prey for these predators, the black magicians. 439
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Others are going to have their own opinion according to their belief system, so nothing they think about me is really about me, but it is about them. 454
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But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. You are hurting yourself. 456
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Your point of view is something personal to you. It is no one’s truth but yours. 461
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Even the opinions you have about yourself are not necessarily true; therefore, you don’t need to take whatever you hear in your own mind personally. 474
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The mitote is the reason humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it. They don’t agree with themselves because there are parts of the mind that want one thing, and other parts that want exactly the opposite. 491
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Don’t take anything personally because by taking things personally you set yourself up to suffer for nothing. 497
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If you keep this agreement, you can travel around the world with your heart completely open and no one can hurt you. You can say, “I love you,” without fear of being ridiculed or rejected. You can ask for what you need. You can say yes, or you can say no — whatever you choose — without guilt or self-judgment. You can choose to follow your heart always. Then you can be in the middle of hell and still experience inner peace and happiness. You can stay in your state of bliss, and hell will not affect you at all. 527
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We have the tendency to make assumptions about everything. The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. 533
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whenever we make assumptions, we’re asking for problems. 536
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gossiping is the way we communicate to each other in the dream of hell and transfer poison to one another. 541
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Making assumptions in relationships leads to a lot of fights, a lot of difficulties, a lot of misunderstandings with people we supposedly love. 560
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In any kind of relationship we can make the assumption that others know what we think, and we don’t have to say what we want. 561
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We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make. 574
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Your love will not change anybody. If others change, it’s because they want to change, not because you can change them. 585
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Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them. 588
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The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions. 599
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find your voice to ask for what you want. Everybody has the right to tell you no or yes, but you always have the right to ask. Likewise, everybody has the right to ask you, and you have the right to say yes or no. 602
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This is what I want; this is what you want. If we communicate in this way, our word becomes impeccable. If all humans could communicate in this way, with impeccability of the word, there would be no wars, no violence, no misunderstandings. All human problems would be resolved if we could just have good, clear communication. 607
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Under any circumstance, always do your best, no more and no less. 623
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“You are not here to sacrifice your joy or your life. You are here to live, to be happy, and to love. 643
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Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you’re expecting a reward. 649
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If you take action because you have to, then there is no way you are going to do your best. Then it is better not to do it. 670
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Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. 673
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God is life. God is life in action. The best way to say, “I love you, God,” is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, “Thank you, God,” is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now. 687
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Letting go of the past means you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now. 689
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Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self-pity, suffering, and tears. 691
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Practice makes the master. 707
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Your own body is a manifestation of God, and if you honor your body everything will change for you. 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. 715
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If you are impeccable with your word, if you don’t take anything personally, if you don’t make assumptions, if you always do your best, then you are going to have a beautiful life. You are going to control your life one hundred percent. 722
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if you fall, do not judge. Do not give your Judge the satisfaction of turning you into a victim. 738
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True freedom has to do with the human spirit — it is the freedom to be who we really are. 751
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They are not afraid to love at all. That is the description of a normal human being. As children we are not afraid of the future or ashamed of the past. Our normal human tendency is to enjoy life, to play, to explore, to be happy, and to love. 762
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There is no need to blame your parents or anyone who abused you in your life, including yourself. But it is time to stop the abuse. It is time to free yourself of the tyranny of the Judge by changing the foundation of your own agreements. It is time to be free from the role of the Victim. 772
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The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. 783
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if we look at our lives we will see that most of the time we do things just to please others, just to be accepted by others, rather than living our lives to please ourselves. 784
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The problem with most people is that they live their lives and never discover that the Judge and the Victim rule their mind, and therefore they don’t have a chance to be free. The first step toward personal freedom is awareness. 788
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That is why in all the shamanic traditions in America, from Canada to Argentina, people call themselves warriors, because they are in a war against the parasite in the mind. That is the real meaning of a warrior. The warrior is one who rebels against the invasion of the parasite. 823
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We can reach heaven while we are alive; we don’t have to wait until we die. God is always present and the kingdom of heaven is everywhere, 831
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If we want to be free, we have to destroy the parasite. One solution is to attack the parasite head by head, which means we face each of our fears, one by one. 834
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A second approach is to stop feeding the parasite. 836
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A third solution is called the initiation of the dead. 839
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develop awareness of all the self-limiting, fear-based beliefs that make you unhappy. 856
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Going to the core of those agreements is what I call going into the desert. When you go into the desert you meet your demons face-to-face. After coming out of the desert, all those demons become angels. 865
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for every agreement you break that makes you suffer, you will need to replace it with a new agreement that makes you happy. This will keep the old agreement from coming back. 874
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The way you see the world will depend upon the emotions you are feeling. 894
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Every human has an emotional body completely covered with infected wounds. 906
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We must 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. 916
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Forgiveness is the only way to heal. 917
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It’s a good thing we have the denial system, because it allows us to cover our wounds and still function. 926
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It is the emotions that control the behavior of the human, not the human who controls the emotions. 930
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The big difference between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses, and the warrior refrains. 939
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We become aware that we can die at any moment; we have just the present to be alive. 945
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We can begin each day by saying, “I am awake, I see the sun. I am going to give my gratitude to the sun and to everything and everyone, because I am still alive. One more day to be myself.” 953
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Whoever survives the initiation of the dead receives the most wonderful gift: the resurrection. 967
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To receive the resurrection is to arise from the dead, to be alive, to be ourselves again. The resurrection is to be like a child — to be wild and free, but with a difference. The difference is that we have freedom with wisdom instead of innocence. 968
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It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time. You have the power to create hell, and you have the power to create heaven. 982
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But there is really no reason to suffer. The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer. If you look at your life you will find many excuses to suffer, but a good reason to suffer you will not find. 1026
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Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering. 1028
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I put a little piece of my love in every human, and I became one with the whole of humanity. Wherever I go, whomever I meet, I see myself in their eyes, because I am a part of everything, because I love.” 1078
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