About this title: Rooted in traditional Toltec wisdom beliefs, four agreements in life are essential steps on the path to personal freedom. As beliefs are transformed through maintaining these agreements, shamanic teacher and healer don Miguel Ruiz asserts lives will "become filled with grace, peace, and unconditional love". Author workshops.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Amber-Allen Publishing
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9781878424310ISBN:1878424319
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Amber-allen Publ
Date Published: 1997-01-01
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Amber-Allen Publishing
Date Published: 11/1/1997
ISBN-13:9781878424310ISBN:1878424319
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Edition: First Thus
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Amber-Allen Publishing, San Rafael, CA, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9781878424310ISBN:1878424319
Description: Good. As issued No Jacket. "A Toltec wisdom book" Slight spine lean, a couple of notes on the rear endpaper, small smount of marginalia to the text, and some other light shopwear. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Amber-Allen Pub, San Rafael, California, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9781878424310ISBN:1878424319
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"I am reading an Oprah book club re: spirituality.
Me. Kierkegaard me. The guy with 'Varieties of Religious Experience'. Cultural studies, Don Juan 'Yaqui Ways of Knowledge' criticizin' me.
But here's the deal: Although Miguel Ruiz uses a very familiar cultural myth (The wise elder passing down ancient and buried secrets)- this sucker is well written, and like so many folkways it casts a huge net with only a few strings.
I found some immediate parallels with the Eight Noble Truths- except Ruiz limits himself to four:
1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Don't take anything personally. 3. Don't make assumptions. 4. Always do your best.
Four simple little lines; Easy, no?
Just moving a little bit forward on #1- which has some great discussion about the consequences of deceit- is going to take this Pizza/Spiritual Warrior years of work.
Reductionisitic, a best seller. I want to hate it, but it's written with clean, minimalist style- and contains well-researched and experienced interlinks to other spiritual traditions- so I can't. I could take or leave the Toltec backstory- the principles ring of truth."
"This has to be the number one book that just makes sense. The first thing that stuck out for me is to never, ever (under any circumstances) do not take anything personally. I had to think about this one long and hard and it's true, if I do not take anything personally, how can I be offended by anyone? Yet, this is the hardest agreement to make since we have been taught that we should be nice to everyone, then everyone should be nice to us in return???! Well, let's face it. There are going to be people in life that do not like us. Don't take it personally. It does not matter who is right or wrong. People are going to disagree with you. That's okay too.
The next principle (agreement) I remember is our word and how we create life or death with our words. This book is not a religious book and does not go into details about God or how our Earth was formed. It does have principles that go along with the Bible, however, this book gets right to the heard of 4 agreements. You will see that once you make an agreement with anything, that thing is set in stone. This book will teach the reader to change his agreements in order to direct his life.
If I had a thirteen year old, I would have him or her read this book. It is that simple for a thirteen year old to read. Practice is the one thing that needs to happen after this book is read. May everyone get a chance to read this book-every inmate, every nurse, every student, every mother, every drunk, every teacher, every unemployed person, every homeless person and yes people need to read this to those that can not read. Teach someone to read with this book!"
"Ruiz has come up with four principles from ancient Toltec wisdom. If one adopts these four agreements, Ruiz argues, they will help bring a sense of peace and happiness to one's life. Generally the agreements sound reasonable enough: don't take things personally, say only good things about others, etc. So far, so good. But there's some serious theoretical problems that underlie Ruiz's plan. Ruiz seems to suggest that the self can determine the majority of one's experience outside of social context. He claims that society is composed of collective dreams. Even recognizing that Ruiz is infusing dreams with more importance than western culture generally does, it still strikes me that the message here is that if one has fortified one's spirit with these four principles, nothing anyone else says or does can strongly affect you. Maybe I'm too close-minded, but I just can't buy it. We all live in social and cultural worlds, and those worlds do shape our experience, whether we like it or not."
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