In The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.

Don Miguel Ruiz has dedicated his life to sharing the wisdom of the ancient Toltec. For more than two decades, he has guided others toward their personal freedom. Today, he continues to combine his unique blend of ancient wisdom and modern-day awareness through journeys to sacred sites around the world.

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2 hours and 31 minutes
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don Miguel Ruiz
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Peter Coyote
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27 January 2005
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English
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Amber Allen Publishing Inc.
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B00NPB6VT0
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	2 hours and 31 minutes
Author	don Miguel Ruiz
Narrator	Peter Coyote
Audible.com.au Release Date	27 January 2005
Publisher	Amber Allen Publishing Inc.
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B00NPB6VT0
Best Sellers Rank	280 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 1 in Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts (Audible Books & Originals) 8 in Spiritual Self-Help (Books) 19 in Self-Help for Happiness

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Insights, approaches, and a few penny-drops

Reviewed in Australia on 16 September 2020

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A couple of things that I'll take from this book will be with me for life. The second agreement (take nothing personally, nothing at all!) is one, and the idea of denial as a plaster-cast that needs discarding once healing has occurred. There were other interesting takes too. The 4 agreements are a profound prescription for a basis of happy loving living. There’s a lot of repetition and reexpression of points, via different syntax or more examples, but justified in intent obviously. The 3 ways of addressing fear, or “the parasite” as he cleverly calls it, were notable in their clarity also. Also that these fears we are shackled to, and feed through addiction, are more often than not borne from the limited imaginings and understandings of a 4yo trying to explain life’s slings and arrows from a self-centric (by psychological definition) perspective, and their necessary re-examination from a mature POV depends on ability to access them, through either plaster-cast removal or the three ways of addressing fears.

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Svetlana

Amazing book

Reviewed in Australia on 4 March 2022

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I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone it is amazing! I will have to re read it again because that's how much I loved it. Great insight to life and the way we approach everyday living

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Great truths

Reviewed in Australia on 19 October 2016

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Great truths of wisdom expressed so clearly. It is written like a map to guide us out of the Illusion. Doesn't matter how long we have been on the journey of awakening or how much self discovery work we have done. It is good to revisit some wisdom to keep reminding us of the keys we hold within us to create the life we desire rather than the life we are programmed to follow.

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Adam Satori

one & only

Reviewed in Australia on 8 December 2018

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Great book written by a great man, for someone who is looking for what they call 'our life's answers'

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Cassandra Wong

Principles for living a good life

Reviewed in Australia on 9 May 2020

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I found his principles to be extremely practical and seemed to have unlocked something in me that has stopped me from moving forward. I will continue this practice.

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Reviewed in Australia on 25 January 2020

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Simple and relevant and insightful. Resonates and in harmony with other spiritual axioms which are always good to revisit from a new perspective

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Great read

Reviewed in Australia on 13 March 2019

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a great book with an abundance of knowledge to take control of your life and steer it in the way you want.

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Anne Mayadunne

Wonderfully encouraging and helpful

Reviewed in Australia on 17 December 2021

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This was an excellent read. Easy to follow. So may initiatives to help change ones addictions to follow a better path.

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Joe

Just read it. It’s short

Reviewed in the United States on 24 February 2018

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The book helped me understand the following:

1. I can’t blame my parents for how they raised me. That’s what they were taught by their parents and the environment around them.

2. I am responsible for my own thoughts, emotions and actions. No one can force me to do anything unless I choose to .

3. People’s perspectives are based on their own experiences. I don’t have to react to them since they are not mine.

4. It’s possible to be authentic with yourself and others.

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Kerri

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Reviewed in Canada on 12 March 2021

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Lard jezus, what I just read b'y? Buddy be over here telling me I's an "auto-domesticated animal". Who knit you!? G'wan b'y quit yer nonsense.

Luh, I sums it up fer ya and saves ya a buck. Watch yer gob, don't be crooked when the b'ys are going on bout ya and you'll be best kind.

Toltec wisdom... Oh me nerves, he got me drove.

Not fit fer reading. I gives er 1 out of 5 cod fish.

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Mrs. K. Gardner

Life-changing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 January 2019

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Speaking as a fully-qualified CBT Counsellor with many (many) years experience, I recommend this books, where appropriate, to my clients. If these four agreements are - in the main - followed, the personal freedom that can be gained is life-changing. And that is no exaggeration.

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Nilanjana

I wish I had read this book back in school

Reviewed in India on 21 February 2021

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It’s such a shame I didn’t read this book back in school or childhood and read chemistry and mathematics instead!!!!

Page 20, stated by Miguel Guiz: “In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you abused yourself”

I am speechless and shedding silent tears. For this is absolutely true!

For a very long term ever since my journey in the field of medicine began I have been trying to acquire a way to liberate myself from the hell the whole industry casts upon its service providers should they not measure up to what’s needed at any point——I wanted to liberate myself from that hell for probably a decade or more. I wanted a hard-boiled answer for the reason behind why, as doctors, we should be denied compassion and consideration in the process of becoming an expert. Why? This book gave me the answer and I can honestly say, I have found it!

I wanted to know why, if this is what I will doing for a while now, I would need to brave for the rest of life through a career that is forever hinged against people who are ever ready to curse these very doctors at the slightest unintended mishap. This includes teachers and professors who don’t ever mind using terse, objective language to teach the students. Whatever happened to compassion?????

I wanted to know how, just how I could, by any means match the whole process of being a doctor to my personality of being a silent, calm-minded, compassionate, creative individual who above all, really cares about peace. I was seeking liberation from this maze forever and ever, and Miguel answered it very handsomely! The agreements that bully my mind are right here (pointing to my head). So to repeat his revelatory words:

Page 20, stated by Miguel Guiz: “In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you abused yourself”

A personal story to explain how this book helped me. To be honest, it beautifully liberated me from a personal life issue and so many others!!! Putting this story up in public is a way of overriding the 'shame-whisper' that's right me urging me back from typing. If you want to dearly understand how this book helped me you have to read this story I am writing:

My Story--> I am an Ophthalmologist. In Ophthalmology, while doing Cataract Surgery, we are required to carefully extract the cataract out and then assess if the posterior capsule of the cataracts lens is intact and thereafter proceed towards placing a human-made Lens over it. If the capsule is damaged, you are in trouble, you can't place the lens over it. This is a skill which takes every surgeon lot and lot of time to learn---months, years...I recall making a rent in the posterior capsule in a patient recently. Accidentally. In the process of making it, I had not noticed that I had made it but when I did, my teacher yelled at me like crazy inside the operation theatre right there in front of the patient and others. This, I disagree with. Why? Not because I shouldn't be told where I am wrong but because a rent, which is often inevitable no matter how much experience you gain, is supposed to be learnt to handle as much as otherwise (which of course doesn't mention that you rent away at will!!). Second reason, the patient's ears are wide open and he can sense disturbances in the words spoken by the surgeons swarming around him----by no means should the patient be allowed to understand that a problem has happened else he will agitate and grow apprehensive for the life of his delicate organ. Third reason--> The problem can be handled in various ways and there are actual tutorials on that and it is very possible to recover from it by following one or the other of those ways. And, fourth reason--> This reason I saved for the last and yet I think it is pertinent for a teacher to not reject a beginner in the skill for an error she had only noticed a little late---> rejecting someone solves nothing, :) that's why. It's just an emotional outburst that is serving no one---> not the patient, not me (because I could freeze the urge to learn further simply because I am being berated so harshly when on the whole I REALLY was trying my best), not even the yeller------> yelling, raises bad hormones (cortisol, Adrenaline), tenses the muscles, robs one off peace. It is doing no good to the deliverer. Ignorance, hell!

But, needless to say, I kept ruminating about it for days—this happens to be the very bad-habit that allows me to write well. But look at the amount of suffering it causes in the process!

As Miguel Ruiz imparts wisdom of the Toltec, he states that there was once a man who lived in a cave who suddenly woke up from a dream, one day, to take a serious look at his hands and feet, to come to a strange realisation——that we are all made up of stars and light——the exact same thing—only on the surface we are different. This usher of clairvoyance enabled him to operate forever thereafter from a very different standpoint, all the time——that is he saw himself in everything and everyone, everywhere! In that he attained personal liberation. Miguel explains that if this is possible for one man, what currently rests in the world is a dream-world. And honestly, dear friends, in the midst of AUM chanting which I do everyday, I discovered that we really are locked in a waking dream. The focus around "what I like" and "what I dislike" creates a separation-oriented dream world---when reality is we are all one and the same. Even the concept of ourselves as who we have defined ourselves is a concept——it is as much a reverberating bleep as is every other thought. Essentially, as Miguel says, we are operating from the way we were domesticated (that’s the word he uses) as a child——when we were branded with “what is good” and “what is bad”, so that by and by we learnt to push aside our natural tendencies and become one of the crowd. By adulthood, we are absolutely unrecognisable from what we original came here as!

These inner domestication code of ethics that we operate form serve to demonise our experience of life all the life——anytime we stray from it, we punish ourselves——it may not even be visible to outsiders.

Now how this book came to help me nullify the memory of my issue at work, is through two of his statements:
1.

According to Miguel Ruiz,

“Not being perfect, we reject ourselves, And the level of self-rejection depends upon how effective the adults were in breaking our integrity. After domestication it is no longer about being good enough for anybody else. We are not good enough for ourselves because we don’t fit with our own image of perfection. We cannot forgive ourselves for not being what we wish to be, or rather what we believe we should be. We cannot forgive ourselves for not being perfect.”

So, I was clinging onto a code of ethics of how I-MUST-BE to be a good-person at work. In doing so, a mistake, even if unintended and accidental is like a baton being dug into the tissues of my brains!

2.

“We judge others according to our image of perfection as well, an naturally fall short of our expectations.”

I was judging my ma’am. You may have felt it when you read my description of my personal issue. But then am I not living the exact same dreamscape as herself?!

The solution, as described in the book, is seeing things for what they are. Fullstop.

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Another line from his book which completely transformed me ever since I read it and began applying it is:
“ Taking everything personally is an expression of the maximum form of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about “me””

I am often cursed for preferring silence and solitude as opposed to social circles (I prefer being an introvert). I began applying this line and I actually felt liberated despite the recent scorns of introversion from close circles. Wow!

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There is so much more this book taught me, but I refuse to state more because that would take away the delight of reading it.
Oh and one more! One of his teachings revolve around doing work such for the sake of doing. When you do it that way, you experience liberation. So if I am promoting my book, if I am doing it for the mere pleasure of promoting, there you go, I experience liberation! Because the process itself is becoming more joyous now---reaching out to people who genuinely care about books, coming to think of it I actually love it! The more I think this way, the more I enjoy the process and I actually forget the outcome when I am enjoying the process!

If I am doing it for a reward, it is crushing to watch anybody refuse at my request!

I had to share this because these personal examples of transformation as a result of Miguel’s book will show you just how much it is opening doorways into liberation for me!

Trust me, ultimately, all of us want one thing—liberation!

We really don’t need the other things!

these books should be taught in childhood!
I recommend this book for everybody---I promise you these four agreements if applied will liberate you!

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Anne Duff

Repetitive, banal, oversimplified.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 September 2019

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I really wanted to love this book. I wanted to learn secret Toltec wisdom and have my life changed for the better forever. I didn't like this book. Not one bit. The author contradicted himself. The Agreements are just plain common sense to the point of banality. The style of writing seems to be aimed at a very young reader, repetitive and oversimplified. I stuck with it, though I was very irritated by the end, and really wish I hadn't bothered. I would never recommend this to a friend.

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