The Four Agreements
Posted with Love by
Joe
The Four Agreements
~ by Don Miguel Ruiz ~
There are thousands of agreements you have made with
yourself, with other people, with your dream of life, with
God, with society, with your parents, with your spouse, with
your children. But the most important agreements are the
ones you made with yourself. In these agreements you tell
yourself who you are, what you feel, what you believe, and
how to behave. The result is what you call your personality.
In these agreements you say, “This is what I am.
This is what I believe. I can do certain things, and some
things I cannot do. This is reality, that is fantasy;
this is possible, that is impossible.”
One single agreement is not such a problem, but we have
many agreements that make us suffer, that make us fail in
life. 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. 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.
Each of us is born with a certain amount of personal power
that we rebuild every day after we rest. Unfortunately, we
spend all our personal power first to create all these
agreements and then to keep these agreements. Our
personal power is dissipated by all the agreements we
have created, and the result is that we feel powerless.
We have just enough power to survive each day, because
most of it is used to keep the agreements that trap us in
the dream of the planet. How can we change the entire
dream of our life when we have no power to
change even the smallest agreement?
If we can see it is our agreements which rule our life,
and we don’t like the dream of our life, we need to change
the agreements. When we are finally ready to change
our agreements, there are four very powerful agreements
that will help us break those agreements that
come from fear and deplete our energy.
Each time you break an agreement, all the power you used to
create it returns to you. If you adopt these four new
agreements, they will create enough personal power for you
to change the entire system of your old agreements.
You need a very strong will in order to adopt the Four
Agreements – but if you can begin to live your life with these
agreements, the transformation in your life will be amazing.
You will see the drama of hell disappear right before your
very eyes. Instead of living in a dream of hell, you will be
creating a new dream-your personal dream of heaven.
Namasté
Joe