The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Most of your suffering runs on rules you agreed to before you were old enough to object. Don Miguel Ruiz, drawing on the Toltec tradition of ancient Mexico, calls this domestication. From birth, family and society punish you for breaking their rules and reward you for keeping them, until you’ve traded your own individuality for their approval and forgotten you ever had a choice. These invisible agreements — about what you’re worth, what’s expected, what’s forbidden — come to feel like simply who you are. The book offers four new ones to replace the old, fear-based script: commitments that are simple to state and hard to live — the sort of inspirational spiritual wisdom that fits on a card yet takes years to embody — but powerful enough to loosen the whole inheritance.

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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom