The Four Agreements
I am not sure if this is the correct board to start this thread, but I see it as an affirmation; a way in which we can make our lives easier for ourselves and for others. I am posting The Four Agreements written by Don Miguel Ruiz and as they are a mainstay of my life, I'd like to share them.
If you accept and follow these Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, you can transform your life! 1. Be impeccable with your word Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. 2. Don’t take anything personally Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering. 3. Don’t make assumptions Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. 4. Always do your best Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret. |
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However, I edited out my first response because they are fine principles. Among real friends they're the kind of precepts that keep those real friends. :smile: ♥ |
I think in business, I would focus on doing my best.
I'd long since retired before I heard of these agreements, but as a social worker they would have been fitting. In big business they may have been much more difficult and I think I would have 'practiced' them with my family, friends and in the community first. They are the principles which guide us in another spiritual forum. Thank you for responding, Lorelyen. X |
Cool i just read this recently for the first time. I love the opening 'dream of the planet' chapter and the 'smokey mirror' intro
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Interesting.
Here's an illustration of one of these agreements going wrong. 3. Don’t make assumptions Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. I responded to a topic today that included one of one, Abraham Hicks’ statements. (I understand that Abraham Hicks is a female by the way). It was: Stop trying to change your situation. You are not your situation. Your situation is you. Change YOU to change your situation I queried it. It’s as clear as daylight but doesn’t add up. If your situation is you then you must be your situation. The poster then reinterpreted it as You're not a result of your situation. Your situation is a result of you. change you to change your situation. Which is very different, relating cause and effect not adjectives about one's state. It illustrates when this agreement fails. If Mr or Mrs Hicks had intended the reinterpretation why not say it in the first place? ♥ |
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I wrote it like that to invoke thought. And yes i thought it made me sound smarter when i came up with it. :cool: Lorelyen full response from that thread explains this Quote:
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I don't expect to have to "figure out by myself" false logic. The statement is perfectly plain and is nonsensical. There's no need to state it in its original form if something different is intended. It illustrates Valerian's point. However, let's leave it at this, shall we? ♥ |
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You're the first person I had to explain it to out of the hundreds that have seen it. But I will not insult your logic and perception and agree to let it at that. Thank you for noticing the flaw in my logic and wording. I have a lot of respect for you and your wisdom you spread on here I will contemplate on what has transpired today. Thank you :hug2: |
those Four Agreements seem to good principles to follow Valerian;
thanks for sharing. i think the fourth can serve to rescue the earlier three if they're found to be imperfect in some way. |
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