The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book
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Featured in the premiere issue of O: The Oprah Magazine and on Oprah’s Favorite Things 2000 segment, The Four Agreements reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob people of joy and make needless suffering. Based on very ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements — be impeccable with your word, don’t take anything personally, don’t make assumptions, permanently do your best — offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform life into a new experience of freedom, like, and right happiness. This jacketed linen-bound hardcover gift edition features two-color printing and a silk ribbon marker.Amazon.com Review
Sit at the foot of a native elder and listen as fantastic 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. Full of grace and simple truth, this handsomely designed book makes a lovely gift for anyone building an elementary change in life, and it reads in a voice that you would expect from an indigenous shaman. The four agreements are these: Be impeccable with your word. Don’t take anything personally. Don’t make assumptions. Permanently do your best. It’s the how and why one should do these things that make The Four Agreements worth reading and remembering. –P. Randall Cohan
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This book had 4 excellent things to be learned:
1. Be impeccable with your word
2. Do not take anything personally
3. Do not assume
4. Do your best.
But, I have to give the book one star because of his pagan beliefs which he sought to teach in the book. One of the things the leader started with before getting into the heart of his message, was that his philosophy is a lifestyle, and does not impose on religion. This was NOT right at all! He talked about things that did impose on my religion. Such as claiming we are all gods. This is such a pagan statement it made me nearly want to throw the book in the trash. His New Age and Humanistic view points were very far from the truth.
I would NOT recommend this book to anyone.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This guide to personal freedom achieves the “freedom” through what I call situational ethics. That may be unfair in that I couldn’t bring myself to listen to the second disc because it ran so counter to my beliefs
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
While this book offers some thouhtful suggestions, close reading reveals much of the philosophy open here to be in direct challenger to the truths expressed by the Bible. This book encourages you to make your own reality, to make no honor between right and incorrect and in effect, fire your conscience. It states that “evil is nothing but a disease of the human mind”. It claims that our point of view is the only one that matters. It states “we realize that the point of view that additional people use to see the world has nothing to do with us”.It refers to some basic beliefs of Christianity as “mythology”. I could go on but I reflect Christians should keep their Bibles nearby if they read this book so they can prove to themselves this new age philosophy is not compatible with Christ’s teachings.I recommend referencing Hebrews 4:12,13
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Mr Ruiz says—
“Take the example of Hitler: He sent out all persons seeds of dread, and they grew very strong and beautifully achieved massive destruction. Seeing the awesome power of the word, we must know what power comes out of our mouths. One dread or doubt planted in our mind can make an endless drama of events. One word is like a spell, and humans use the word like black magicians, thoughtlessly putting spells on each additional.”
..perfectly achieved massive destruction…???
This is in Mr. Ruiz’s book!!
This is the only self-help book I’ve ever read that has
said that Hitler’s destruction was “perfectly achieved” !!
You said only what you mean (according to your belief system).
I will now say only what I mean: Do not trust a self help book that says:
“Take the example of Hitler: He sent out all persons seeds of dread, and they grew very strong and beautifully achieved massive destruction.”
I see no beauty in what Hitler did. Only the massive destruction of many millions of people.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is a poorly written, self aggrandizing impiety.
There’s a reason why cultures die. Because they no longer serve the current belief system of the advancing culture. But, since this whole “very ancient belief system” was enshrouded in mystery, one can’t question if Miguel’s ridiculous tautology is fiction or fact. Which I’d imagine that he understood (that’s why it’s a secret) and is crucial to his marketing battle–granting exemption to personal accountability and empathy.
Usually when cultures live in secret it’s because their beliefs are too abhorrent (reflect KKK) for the current societal values. We’ve been advanced for a while now, I’m guessing that the one thing that the very ancient human sacrificing aztecs and our current society have in common is that we are all allergic to sociopaths.
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5