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“Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years because you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action.” (The Four Agreements Quotes)
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. You are hurting yourself. There is no way I can take this personally.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“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.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don’t tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don’t understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don’t have the courage to ask questions.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn’t walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don’t need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“If you live in a past dream, you don’t enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.” (The Four Agreements Quotes)
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Imagine living your life without judging others. You can easily forgive others and let go of any judgments that you have. You don’t have the need to be right, and you don’t need to make anyone else wrong. You respect yourself and everyone else, and they respect you in return.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“It is always better to ask questions than to make an assumption, because assumptions set us up for suffering.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“It is very interesting how the human mind works. We have the need to justify everything, to explain and understand everything, in order to feel safe. We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe. This is why we make assumptions…We make all sorts of assumptions because we don’t have the courage to ask questions…We have agreed that it is not safe to ask questions; we have agreed that if people love us, they should know what we want or how we feel. When we believe something, we assume we are right about it to the point that we will destroy relationships in order to defend our position.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“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.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“People who love us do black magic on us, but they don’t know what they do. That is why we must forgive them; they don’t know what they do.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves; it is why we don’t accept ourselves the way we are, and why we don’t accept others the way they are.
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to gossip about others. Use your power of your word in the direction of truth and love.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Taking things personally makes you easy prey for these predators, the black magicians. They can hook you easily with one little opinion and feed you whatever poison they want, and because you take it personally, you eat it up. You eat all their emotional garbage, and now it becomes your garbage. But if you do not take it personally, you are immune in the middle of hell. Immunity to poison in the middle of hell is the gift of this agreement.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“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.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives we will see that most of the time we do things just to please others, just to be accepted by others, rather than living our lives to please ourselves. That is what has happened to our freedom.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“The resurrection is to be like a child, but with a difference. The difference is that we have freedom with wisdom instead of innocence.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Very young children are not afraid to express what they feel. They are so loving that if they perceive love, they melt into love. They are not afraid to love at all. That is the description of a normal human being.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same belief system we were given, and using the same system of punishment and reward. We punish ourselves when we don’t follow the rules according to our belief system; we reward ourselves when we are the “good boy” or “good girl”.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“We don’t see the truth because we are blind. What blinds us are all those false beliefs we have in our mind. We have the need to be right and to make others wrong. We trust what we believe, and our beliefs set us up for suffering.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“We have learned to live by other people’s points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“We must forgive those we feel have wronged us, not because they deserve to be forgiven but because we love ourselves so much we don’t want to keep paying for the injustice…when someone can touch a wound and it no longer hurts you then you know you have truly forgiven.” (The Four Agreements Quotes)
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally… Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“When you take things personally, then you feel offended, and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflicts.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“You can be loving all the time. This is your choice. You may not have a reason to love, but you can love because love makes you so happy. Love in action only produces happiness.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“You can measure the impeccability of your word by your level of self-love. How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word. When you are impeccable with your word, you feel good; you feel happy and at peace.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
“You don’t need knowledge or great philosophical concepts. You don’t need the acceptance of others. You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others. It is an expression of God to say, “Hey, I love you.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
