Quotes From "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide To Personal Freedom" By Miguel Ruiz

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Prayer for LoveThank You, Creator of the Universe for the gift of Life you have given me, Thank You for giving me everything that I have ever needed, Thank You for the opportunity to experience this beautiful body and this wonderful mind, Thank You for living inside me with all Your Love and Your pure and boundless Spirit, with Your warm and radiating Light.Thank You for using my words, for using my eyes, for using my heart to share your love wherever I go. I love You just the way you are and because I am your creation, I love myself just the way I am. Help me to keep the Love and the Peace in my Heart and to make that Love a new way of life, that I may live in Love the rest of my life. Amen. . Miguel Ruiz
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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. Miguel Ruiz
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In any kind of relationship we can make the assumption that others know what we think, and we don’t have to say what we want. They are going to do what we want because they know us so well. If they don’t do what we want, what we assume they should do, we feel hurt and think, “How could you do that? You should know.” Again, we make the assumption that the other person knows what we want. A whole drama is created because we make this assumption and then put more assumptions ontop of it. . Miguel Ruiz
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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. Miguel Ruiz
You can have many great ideas in your head, but...
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You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward Miguel Ruiz
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using...
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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. Miguel Ruiz
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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. Miguel Ruiz
There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to...
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There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally. Miguel Ruiz
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Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. Miguel Ruiz
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The word is like a seed, and the human mind is so fertile, but only for those kinds of seeds it is prepared for. Miguel Ruiz
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The power of the word is completely misused in hell. We use the word to curse, to blame, to find guilt, to destroy. Of course, we also use it in the right way, but not too often. Mostly we use the word to spread our personal poison - to express anger, jealousy, envy, and hate. The words is pure magic - the most powerful gift we have as humans - and we use it against ourselves. We plan revenge. We create chaos with the word. We use the word to create hate between different races, between different people, between families, between nations. We misuse the word so often, and this misuse is how we create and perpetuate the dream of hell. Misuse of the word is how we pull each other down and keep each other in a state of fear and doubt. . Miguel Ruiz
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I am awake, I see the sun. I am going to give my gratitude to the sun and to everything and everyone because I am still alive. One more day to be myself. Miguel Ruiz
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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. Miguel Ruiz
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The Four Agreements:1. Be impeccable with your word.2. Don't take anything personally. 3. Don't make assumptions. 4. Always do your best. Miguel Ruiz
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Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you commit Miguel Ruiz
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For every moment that is past, the angel of death keeps taking the part that is dead and we keeping living in the present. The parasite wants us to carry the past with us and that makes it so heavy to be alive. Miguel Ruiz
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The Four Agreements1. Be impeccable with your word.2. Don’t take anything personally.3. Don’t make assumptions.4. Always do your best. Miguel Ruiz
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Being impeccable is not going against yourself. When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions but you do not judge or blame yourself. Miguel Ruiz
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Life is the force of the absolute, the supreme, the Creator who creates everything. Miguel Ruiz
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Everything in existence is a manifestation of the one living being we call God. Everything is God. Miguel Ruiz
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Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believethey should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well. Miguel Ruiz
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We judge others according to our image ofperfection as well, and naturally they fall short of our expectations. Miguel Ruiz
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When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure. Miguel Ruiz
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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. Miguel Ruiz
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Wherever I go, whomever I meet, I see myself in their eyes, because I am a part of everything, because I love. Miguel Ruiz