The Four Agreements - by Don Miguel Ruiz

The Four Agreements - by Don Miguel Ruiz

how strongly I recommend it:
2/10
ISBN:
9781878424310
date read:

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Hm. I liked it the first time I read it in 2006. This time? Seems like a lot of generic blah blah, trying to declare it to be deep and powerful by calling it Ancient Toltec Wisdom™.

Humans are dreaming all the time. Dream of a family, country, society’s rules, religions, its different cultures and ways to be. Humans who live before us teach us how to dream the way society dreams.

We hook the child’s attention and introduce these rules into his or her mind. School, church, Mom and Dad, brothers and sisters: They were all trying to hook your attention. We also learn to hook the attention of other humans, and we develop a need for attention which can become very competitive.

As children, we didn’t have the opportunity to choose our beliefs, but we agreed with the information. The only way to store information is by agreement. If we don’t agree, we don’t store that information. As soon as we agree, we believe it, in the process of domestication. We become a copy of mama’s society’s beliefs. At a certain point in our lives we no longer need anyone to domesticate us. We can now domesticate ourselves according to our belief system.

Justice is paying only once for each mistake. Paying more than once is injustice. Every time we remember, we judge ourselves again, we are guilty again, and we punish ourselves again.