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The Four Agreements

The Four Agreements

by Don Miguel Ruiz

A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)

1997
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Personal freedom begins when you recognize that most of your beliefs are inherited agreements installed by domestication, reclaim your attention from fear-based rewards and punishments, and rewrite your inner Book of Law so you stop self-punishing and start creating a new dream. The argument shows how language and social norms hook attention early, how a reward–punishment economy conditions compliance, and how this external control becomes an internal “Judge and Victim” that keeps you paying for the same mistake again and again. By challenging these agreements and adopting love-based ones, you recover the personal power previously dissipated in maintaining a fear-ruled dream and redirect it to a freer, more truthful life.

Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements