Remember book reports when we were in school? For some they were a dreaded terrible thing, for others they were fun ways to recall your favorite book and an easy format to tell someone what the book was about. I've decided to post some reports of books I've read recently; let's jump right in.
I don't remember where I got this book from. It feels like it was always around waiting for me to read it and digest it. When I had enough knowledge to understand the core of it.
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Author: Don Miguel Ruiz
Title: The Four Agreements ( A Toltec Wisdom Book)
Main Characters: There are no characters in this book it is something like a self-help book.
Setting: The setting is where ever you choose to read it.
Plot: This books helps the reader understand the source of self-limiting beliefs that can rob us of joy and create needless suffering. This book also shows how a powerful code of conduct can change and transform our lives into new experiences of freedom.
Personal Endorsement: * It was not your choice to speak whatever language you speak. You didn't choose your religion or your moral values they were already there before you born. ( I ad libed here he said English)
* We also learn to judge: We judge ourselves, judge other people and judge the neighbors.
* We train our children whom we love so much the same way that we train any domesticated animal: with a system of punishment and reward.
* Even moral laws like the Ten Commandments are programed into our mind in the process of domestication.
* How many times do we make our spouse, our children, our parents pay for the same mistake? Every time we remember the mistake, we blame them again and send them all emotional poison we feel at the injustice, and then we make them pay again for the same mistake.
* If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.
* No human can condemn another to hell because we are already there.
* What binds us are all those false beliefs we have in our mind.
* They wish to be a certain way, but they are not, and for this they carry shame and guilt.
* In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself.
* Our image of perfection is the reason why 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.
* All over the world humans destroyed other humans because they were afraid of each other.
* A sin is anything that you do that goes against yourself.
* People who love us do black magic on us, but they don't know what they do. This is why we must forgive them they don't know what they do.
* One little piece of misinformation can break down communication between people, causing every person it touches to become infected and contagious to others.
* Tell yourself how wonderful you are, how great you are. Tell yourself how much you love yourself!
* It is not important to me what you think about me, and I don't take what you think personally.
* I don't have the need to be accepted.
* Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves.
* You are never responsible for the actions of others, you are only responsible for you.
* Because we are afraid to ask for clarification, we make assumptions, and believe we are right about the assumptions, then we defend our assumptions and try to make someone else wrong.
* Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.
* All human problems would be resolved if we could just have good clear communication.
* Under any circumstance always do your best no more and no less!
* You are not here to sacrifice your joy or life. You are here to live, to be happy and to love.
* If we like what we do, if we always do our best, then we are really enjoying life.
* Without action upon any idea, there will be no manifestation, no results and no rewards.
* Whatever life takes away from you let it go.
* The warrior's goal is to transcend this world, to escape from this hell and never come back!
* We are still children but we have lost our freedom.
* A parasite is a living being who lives off of other living beings, sucking their energy without any useful contribution in return, and hurting their host little by little.
* Every time we face one of the fears we are a little more free.
* We are addicted to being the way we are. We are addicted to anger, jealousy, and self-pity.
* Psychotic behavior occurs when the mind is do frightened and the wounds so painful, that it seems better to break contact with the outside world.
* That's enough! I will no longer be the big Judge that goes against myself. I will no longer beat myself up and abuse myself. I will no longer be the victim.
* When we lose control we say things that we don't want to say, and do things that we don't to do.
As you can see I was very moved by the pages in this book. You can purchase it and do a more in depth reading here: https://www.amazon.com/Four-Agreements-Practical-Personal-Freedom/dp/1878424319
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