The Four Agreements & The Fifth by Don Miguel Angel Ruiz

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The Four Agreements and the Fifth: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery and Personal Freedom

The toltec way is a spiritual path to follow and structure your own life. The Four Agreements by don Miguel Angel Ruiz is a book that can bring more happiness into your life, if that is what you choose. It is a very popular book with people who are interested in self improvement that isn't complicated to understand or to follow the wisdom. Actually, if you can get the first agreement, the other three are going to fall into place in your life as you become impeccable with your word. Being impeccable with your word first starts with being honest with what you say to yourself.
I enjoy Toltec Spiritual Quotes here by don Miguel Angel Ruiz.

The Four Agreements are:
#1 Be Impeccable With Your Word.
#2 Don't Take Anything Personally.
#3 Don't Make Assumptions.
#4 Always Do Your Best.


The Fifth Agreement is a practical guide to Self-Mastery. Being disillusioned is the beginning of honesty! If we believe a lie, we are illusion-ed. We believe ourselves more than anyone else, so if we lie to our-self we believe it. Chew on that thought. We can be our own worst enemy. - There is a better way...the choice is yours!

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The truth is that The Four Agreements was given to me by a friend, who told me it was so good and easy to change your life with 4 agreements, or steps. I thought that would be easy enough, but I realized that I had not be being impeccable with what I was saying to myself about somethings. First, I had to get real honest about what I believed, valued, and what works; and change mind mind about about what I was saying to me. We can't be impeccable with our word to others, if we can't be impeccable with our word to ourselves.

You know what? The guy who gave me the book, couldn't live by the Four Agreements. Then, years later another guy gave me a copy of the same book for Christmas one year as a gift. It didn't take me long to figure out that he wasn't impeccable with what he was saying either. I'm happy I have read the book, work through things and improved my own life. Basically, if you get the 1st agreement, the others fall into place.

Don Miguel Ángel Ruiz (born 1952) is a Mexican author, nagual, shaman, and teacher. He was a surgeon until a near-death experience impelled him to seek answers in ancestral traditions of the Toltec in which his mother was a curandera (healer), and his grandfather a nagual (shaman) who, after death, continued to teach Ruiz in his dreams.

His most famous and influential work, The Four Agreements, was published in 1997 and has sold around 4 million copies. - Ultimately, it is about finding one's own integrity, self-love, and peace within this reality.

""You'll know you are totally free when you no longer have to be the you that you pretend to be." ~ Don Miguel Ruiz


If we no longer believe in all that we know that makes us suffer, then just like magic, our suffering disappears. ~ Don

The Four Agreements

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"If you have the eyes of love, you just see love wherever you go". ~ Don Miguel Ruiz

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book

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Sit at the foot of a native elder and listen as great wisdom of days long past is passed down. In The Four Agreements shamanic teacher and healer Don Miguel Ruiz exposes self-limiting beliefs and presents a simple yet effective code of personal conduct learned from his Toltec ancestors. ...

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* The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

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Since 1997, The Four Agreements has transformed the lives of millions of people around the world with a simple but profound message.
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Be impeccable with your word, Dont take anything personally, Dont make assumptions, Always do your best.

"El amor es ese fuego que no destruye. El miedo es el fuego que quema todo lo que toca. el propio amor es nuestra verdad"

"There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally." ~ Don Miguel Ruiz
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The Mastery of Love

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The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book

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In a refreshingly honest investigation of the true nature of love, don Miguel Ruiz brings to light the commonly held fallacies and misplaced expectations about love that permeate most relationships.

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The Four Agreements Companion Book

The Four Agreements Companion Book : Using the Four Agreements to Master the Dream of Your Life

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The book takes readers on a journey to recover the awareness and wisdom of self.

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The Four Agreements Toltec Wisdom Collection: 3-Book Boxed Set

The Four Agreements Toltec Wisdom Collection: 3-Book Boxed Set

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The Four Agreements reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering.

The Mastery of Love illuminates the fear-based beliefs and assumptions that undermine love and lead to suffering and drama in our relationships.

The Voice of Knowledge reminds us of a profound
and simple truth: The only way to end our emotional suffering and restore our joy in living is to stop believing in lies - mainly about ourselves.

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Beyond Fear leads seekers of the Toltec way of freedom and joy on their spiritual journey into a state of empowerment.10 points

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Toltec Wisdom series by Don Miguel Ruiz explores the concept of "impeccability of the word" as a simple yet potent prescription for countering the judgmental inner "voice of knowledge." Adhering to "the word" - saying only what you mean, refusing to speak against you - allows anyone to transform those inner tyrannical thoughts into a voice of self-trust and integrity.7 points

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In Prayers he introduces his favorite prayers and meditations. Don Miguel begins each of his lectures and classes with a prayer or guided meditation to inspire and invoke a receptive frame of mind and to reinforce the concepts being introduced. Similarly, readers can use this book as a source of inspiration in times of need or as daily encouragement.7 points

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Don Miguel illuminates the fear-based beliefs and assumptions that undermine love and lead to suffering and drama in our relationships. Using insightful stories to bring his message to life, he shows us how to heal our emotional wounds, recover the freedom and joy that are our birthright, and restore the spirit of playfulness that is vital to loving relationships. Using teachings from the three Toltec Masteries (Awareness, Transformation, and Love) as a foundation, don Miguel brings to light the fallacies and misplaced expectations about love that permeate most relationships.

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The Mastery Of Love: A Practical Guide To The Art Of Relationship

In The Mastery of Love, don Miguel Ruiz illuminates the fear-based beliefs and assumptions that undermine love and lead to suffering and drama in relationships. Using insightful stories to bring his message to life, Ruiz shows listeners how to heal emotional wounds, recover the freedom and joy that are every person's birthright, and restore the spirit of playfulness that is vital to loving relationships. Noted readers Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker present the insights in a compelling way, exploring such questions as: why "domestication" and the "image of perfection" lead to self-rejection; how the war of control slowly destroys most relationships; why people hunt for love in others; how to capture the love inside; and how to finally accept and forgive oneself and others. Not a quick fix, this audio shows listeners how to practice being oneself without judgment, a powerful process that leads to fulfillment and a new sense of self.
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"Be impeccable with your word; Don't take anything personally; Don't make assumptions; and always do your best."

don Miguel Ruiz was born into a family of healers and raised in rural Mexico by a curandera (healer) mother and nagual (shaman) grandfather. The family believed don Miguel would embrace their centuries old legacy of healing and teaching and become a nagual, and then carry forward the esoteric Toltec knowledge. However, don Miguel chose to attend medical school and later teach and practice as a surgeon. and he began teaching in the United States, with his mother, the Curandera, Sarita in 1987. He taught small groups of people in a small room in Logan Heights, CA. Working with Sarita, he first began with healing practices. As his knowledge of English grew, he realized that he preferred to share his lineage through oral tradition, rather than a healing tradition. don Miguel's students grew in numbers and his mythologies and guidance grew with them. He appeared in lectures in Santa Fe, NM, Los Angeles, CA, Sacramento, CA, Santa Rosa, CA and in many other locales. The tools shared by don Miguel are based on common sense, that the universal message underlying his teaching is recognized by many as messages that are simple, practical for everyday life, and when practiced, even a little at a time, changes lives.

The Four Agreements Toltec Wisdom Collection: 3-Book Boxed Set 

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The Four Agreements reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering.

The Mastery of Love illuminates the fear-based beliefs and assumptions that undermine love and lead to suffering and drama in our relationships.

The Voice of Knowledge reminds us of a profoundand simple truth: The only way to end our emotional suffering and restore our joy in living is to stop believing in lies - mainly about ourselves.

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