The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz is a Toltec Wisdom Book designed to
empower readers into living a more emotionally free life. Ruiz proposes that if we
live by the four agreements, we will experience a spiritual awakening that will lead
us to personal freedom. Undertaking the principles in this book is akin to taking a
spiritual quest — a quest to be a spiritual warrior — a quest to live a more fulfilling
life. Adopting the four agreements will lead to freedom from fear and illusion; in
essence, we will learn to win the war over the negative and harmful beliefs we
harbor in our minds.
The Four Agreements are:
1. 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.
2. Don’t Take Anything Personally: Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own
dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others,
you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
3. Don’t Make Assumptions: Find the courage to ask questions and to
express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as
you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this
one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
4. Always Do Your Best: Your best is going to change from moment to
moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.
Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.
For your 1000-word analysis, please choose ONE relationship or issue in your life
and apply ONE of the four agreements to that ONE choice. Explain how this
relationship or issue has been negatively influencing your life and describe how
your life will be positively enhanced by dealing with this issue using one of the four
agreements
