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BOOK - THE FOUR AGREEMENTS
The document discusses 'The Four Agreements' by Don Miguel Ruiz, highlighting its teachings on personal freedom and self-awareness. It presents the agreements: being impeccable with your word, not taking anything personally, not making assumptions, and always doing your best, emphasizing their transformative power. Additionally, it explores the Toltec philosophy, the mastery of awareness, and the importance of living in the present moment.
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- 1. INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO NACIONALDE MEXICO EN CELAYA INGENIERIAAMBIENTAL Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental “THE FOUR AGREEMENTS “ Equipo1 Altanas Lynda González Cervantes Andrés Servín Cervantes Mónica Medina Calderón Fanny Saraí López Nieto Jennifer Nogueira Guimarães Ezequías FECHA: 25 DE MARZO DE 2019
- 2. THE FOUR AGREEMENTS APractical Guide to Personal Freedom by don Miguel Ruiz
- 3. INTRODUCTION • THE FOURAGREEMENTS is a wisdom book; • Wrote by DON MIGUEL RUIZ; • Published for the first time in 1997 by AMBER-ALLEN PUBLISHING SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA; • Dedicated to the Circle of Fire; those who have gone before, those who are present, and those who have yet to come.
- 4. OBJETIVOS • To knowabout "The four agreements in life“; • To find the relation between the agreements and our own life; • To try to apply as much as posible the main ideas of the book " The four agreements".
- 5. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Domestication and theDream of the Planet THE FIRST AGREEMENT Be Impeccable with Your Word THE SECOND AGREEMENT Don’t Take Anything Personally THE THIRD AGREEMENT Don’t Make Assumptions THE FOURTH AGREEMENT Always Do Your Best THE TOLTEC PATH TO FREEDOM Breaking Old Agreements THE NEW DREAM Heaven on Earth and Prayers
- 6. A Toltec • TheToltec were scientists and artists who formed a society to explore and conserve the spiritual knowledge and practices of the ancient ones; • They came together as masters (naguals) and students at Teotihuacan, the ancient city of pyramids outside Mexico City; • Over the millennia, the naguals were forced to conceal the ancestral wisdom and maintain its existence in obscurity; • Now, don Miguel Ruiz, a nagual from the Eagle Knight lineage, has been guided to share with us the powerful teachings of the Toltec.
- 7. The Smokey Mirror •“I am made of light; I am made of stars.” So he called the stars the tonal and the light between the stars the nagual, and he knew that what created the harmony and space between the two is Life or Intent; • He also saw that matter is a mirror — everything is a mirror that reflects light and creates images of that light — and the world of illusion, the Dream, is just like smoke which doesn’t allow us to see what we really are; • Then he knew that he would soon forget all that he had learned. He wanted to remember all the visions he had had, so he decided to call himself the Smokey Mirror so that he would always know that matter is a mirror and the smoke in-between is what keeps us from knowing what we are.
- 8. Domestication and theDream of the Planet • The dream of the planet includes all of society’s rules, its beliefs, its laws, its religions, its different cultures and ways to be, its governments, schools, social events, and holidays; • The outside dream hooks our attention and teaches us what to believe, beginning with the language that we speak; • Language is the code for understanding and communication between humans. Every letter, every word in each language is an agreement. • If we can see it is our agreements that rule our own life, and we don’t like the dream of our life, we need to change the agreements; • If you adopt these four new agreements, they will create enough personal power for you to change the entire system of your old agreements.
- 9. THE FIRST AGREEMENT BeImpeccable with Your Word
- 10. THE SECOND AGREEMENT Don’tTake Anything Personally • When we take personally what someone tells us, we assume who knows what is in our world and we try impose it on top of yours. • When you take things personally, you feel offended and you react by defending your beliefs and creating conflicts.
- 11. • Do nottake anything personally because, if you do, you expose yourself to suffer for nothing. Humans are addicted tosuffering at different levels and different degrees • For example: What you think about me is not important to me and I do not take it personally • When you feel good, everything that surrounds you is fine. When everything around you is magnificent, everything makes you happy. You love everything around you because you love yourself, because you like how you are, because you are happy with yourself, because you feel happy with your life.
- 12. THE THIRD AGREEMENT Don´tMake Assumptions •The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. •When we make assumptions, we're asking for problems. We take it personally, and we end up creating a whole big drama for nothing. As a result… •We create a lot of emotional poison just by making assumptions and taking it personally, because usually we start gossiping about our assumptions.
- 13. • Reason whywe make assumptions: It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe. • We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel. • It is always better to ask questions than to make an assumption. • So… Don´t make assumptions. • By making this one agreement a habit, your whole life will be completely transformed. • This is the path to personal freedom.
- 14. THE FOURTH AGREEMENT AlwaysDo Your Best • This agreement allows the other three to become habits. • Under any circumstance, always of your best, no more and no less. But keep in mind that your best is never going to be the same from one moment to the next. • Doing your best, you are going to live your life intensely. You are going to be productive, you are going to be good to yourself, because you will be giving yourself to your family, to your community, to everything.
- 15. • Doing yourbest is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward. • When you honor these four agreements together, there is no way that you will live in hell. • If you are impeccable with your word, if you don't take anything personally, if you don't make assumptions, if you always do your best, then you are going to have a beautiful life. You are going to control your life one hundred percent.
- 16. THE TOLTEC PATHTO FREEDOM Breaking Old Agreements But what is freedom? • The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. • To be Toltec is a way of life. It is a way of life where there are no leaders and no followers, where you have your own truth and live your own truth. • A Toltec becomes wise, becomes wild, and becomes free again. • The freedom we seek is to use our own mind and body, to live our own life, instead of the life of the belief system.
- 17. There are threemasteries that lead people to become Toltecs. • First is the Mastery of Awareness. This is to be aware of who we really are, with all the possibilities. • The second is the Mastery of Transformation — how to change, how to be free of domestication. • The third is the Mastery of Intent. Intent from the Toltec point of view is that part of life that makes transformation of energy possible; it is the one living being that seamlessly encompasses all energy, or what we call “God.” Intent is life itself; it is unconditional love. The Mastery of Intent is therefore the Mastery of Love.
- 18. THE ART OFTRANSFORMATION: THE DREAM OF THE SECOND ATTENTION • But for every agreement you break that makes you suffer, you will need to replace it with a new agreement that makes you happy.
- 19. THE DISCIPLINE OFTHE WARRIOR: CONTROLLING YOUR OWN BEHAVIOR • The way you see the world will depend upon the emotions you are Feeling • The way you see the world will depend upon the emotions you are Feeling • How are we to become a warrior? The warrior has control. Not control over another human, but control over one’s own emotions, control over one’s own self. They have complete control over their own emotions and therefore over their own behavior.
- 20. THE INITIATION OFTHE DEAD: EMBRACING THE ANGEL OF DEATH • The angel of death can teach us to live every day as if it is the last day of our lives, as if there may be no tomorrow. • The angel of death comes to us and says, “You see everything that exists here is mine; it is not yours. Your house, your spouse, your children, your car, your career, your money — everything is mine and I can take it away when I want to, but for now you can use it.” • When we try to live in the past, how can we enjoy the present? When we dream of the future, why must we carry the burden of the past? When are we going to live in the present? That is what the angel of death teaches us to do
- 21. THE NEW DREAM Heavenon Earth • The dream you are living is your creation. It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time. • You have the power to create hell, and you have the power to create heaven. • Imagine living your life without being afraid to take a risk and to explore life. You are not afraid to lose anything. You are not afraid to be alive in the world, and you are not afraid to die. • The world is very beautiful and very wonderful. Life can be very easy when love is your way of life. You can be loving all the time. This is your choice. You may not have a reason to love, but you can love because to love makes you so happy. Love in action only produces happiness. Love will give you inner peace. It will change your perception of everything.
- 22. Prayers • PRAYER FORFREEDOM Today, help us to be like you are, to love life, to be life, to be love. Help us to love the way you love, with no conditions, no expectations, no obligations, without any judgment. Help us to love and accept ourselves without any judgment, because when we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty and we need to be punished. • PRAYER FOR LOVE Wherever I go, whomever I meet, I see myself in their eyes, because I am a part of everything, because I love.”
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Editor's Notes
- #20 That’s the beginning of the free human. Forgiveness is the key. You will know you have forgiven