The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz 🎧 | Full Audiobook

0:00 The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz the toltech thousands of years ago the toltech were known throughout southern Mexico as women and men of knowledge anthropologists have spoken of the toltech as a nation or a race but in fact the toltech were scientists and artists who formed a society to explore and conserve the spiritual knowledge and practices of the ancient ones they came together as Masters noals and students at tiak the ancient city of pyramids outside Mexico's city known as the place where man becomes God over the Millennia the noals were forced to conceal the ancestral wisdom and maintain its existence in obscurity European Conquest coupled with rampant misuse of personal Power by a few of the apprentices made it necessary to Shield

0:50 the knowledge from those who were not prepared to use it wisely or who might intentionally misuse it for personal gain fortunately the esoteric toll technology was embodied and passed on through generations by different lineages of noals though it remained veiled in secrecy for hundreds of years ancient prophecies foretold the coming of an age when it would be necessary to return the wisdom to the people now Don Miguel Ruiz an noal from the eagle Knight lineage has been guided to share with us the powerful teachings of the toltech toltech knowledge arises from the same essential Unity of Truth as all the sacred esoteric Traditions found around the world though it is not a religion it honors all the spiritual Masters who have taught on the earth

1:36 while it does embrace Spirit it is most accurately described as a way of life distinguished by the ready accessibility of happiness and love introduction the Smoky mirror 3,000 years ago there was a human just like you and me who lived near a city surrounded by mountains the human was studying to become a medicine man to learn the knowledge of his ancestors but he didn't completely agree with everything he was learning in his heart he felt there must be something more one day as he slept in a cave he dreamed that he saw his own body sleeping he came out of the cave on the night of a new moon the sky was clear and he could see millions of stars then something

2:22 happened inside of him that transformed his life forever he looked at his hands he felt his body and he heard heard his own voice say I am made of light I am made of stars he looked at the stars again and he realized that it's not the stars that create light but rather light that creates the Stars everything is made of light he said and the space in between isn't empty and he knew that everything that exists is one living being and that light is the messenger of life because it is alive and contains all information then he realized that although he was made of star St s he was not those Stars I am in between the Stars he thought so he called the Stars the tonal and the Light Between the Stars the noall and he knew that what created the Harmony and space

3:12 between the two is life or intent without life the tonel and the noal could not exist life is the force of the absolute the Supreme the Creator who creates everything this is what he discovered everything in existence is a manifestation of the one living being we call God everything is God and he came to the conclusion that human perception is merely light perceiving light he also saw that matter is a mirror everything is a mirror that reflects light and creates images of that light and the world of Illusion the dream is just like smoke which doesn't allow us to see what we really are the real us is pure love pure light he said this realization changed his life once he

4:00 knew what he really was he looked around at other humans and the rest of Nature and he was amazed at what he saw he saw himself in everything in every human in every animal in every tree in the water in the rain in the clouds in the earth and he saw that life mix the tonel and the noal in different ways to create billions of manifestations of life in those few moments he comprehended everything he was very excited and his heart was filled with with peace he could hardly wait to tell his people what he had discovered but there were no words to explain it he tried to tell the others but they could not understand they could see that he had changed that something beautiful was radiating

4:46 from his eyes and his voice they noticed that he no longer had judgment about anything or anyone he was no longer like anyone else he could understand everyone very well but no one could understand him they believed that he was an incarnation of God and he smiled when he heard this and he said it is true I am God but you are also God we are the same you and I we are images of light we are God but still the people didn't understand him he had discovered that he was a mirror for the rest of the people a mirror in which he could see himself everyone is a mirror he said he saw himself and everyone but nobody saw him as themselves and he realized that everyone was

5:36 dreaming but without awareness without knowing what they really are they couldn't see him as themselves because there was a wall of fog or smoke between the mirrors and that wall of fog was made by the interpretation of images of light the dream of humans then he knew that he would soon forget all that he had learned he wanted to remember all the visions he had had so he decided to call himself the Smoky mirror so that he would always know that matter is a mirror and the smoke in between is what keeps us from knowing what we are he said I am the Smoky mirror because I am looking at myself in all of you but we don't recognize each other because of the smoke in between us that smoke is the dream and the mirror is you the dreamer living is easy with eyes closed

6:26 misunderstanding all you see John lennin chapter 1 domestication and the dream of the planet what you are seeing and hearing right now I ask nothing but a dream you are dreaming right now in this moment you are dreaming with the brain awake dreaming is the main function of the mind and the mind dreams 24 hours a day it dreams when the brain is awake and it also dreams when the brain is asleep the difference is that when the brain is awake there is a material IAL frame that makes us perceive things in a linear way when we go to sleep we do not have the frame and the dream has the tendency to change constantly humans are dreaming all the time before we were born the humans before

7:14 us created a big outside dream that we will call society's dream or the dream of the planet the dream of the planet is the collective dream of billions of smaller personal dreams which together create a dream of a family a dream of a community a dream of a city a dream of a country and finally a dream of the whole Humanity the dream of the planet includes all of society's rules its beliefs its laws its religions its different cultures and ways to be its governments schools social events and holidays we are born with the capacity to learn how to dream and the humans who live before us teach us how to dream the way Society dreams the outside dream has so many rules that when a

7:59 new human is born we hook the child's attention and introduce these rules into his or her mind the outside dream uses Mom and Dad the schools and religion to teach us how to dream attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive we can perceive millions of things simultaneously but using our attention we can hold whatever we want to perceive in the foreground of our mind the adults around us hooked our attention and put information into our minds through repetition that is the way we learn everything we know by using our attention we learned a whole reality a whole dream we learned how to behave in society what to believe and what not to believe what is acceptable and what is not acceptable what is good and what is bad what

8:50 is beautiful and what is ugly what is right and what is wrong it was all there already all that knowledge all those rules and Concepts about how to behave in the world when you were in school you sat in a little chair and put your attention on what the teacher was teaching you when you went to church you put your attention on what the priest or Minister was telling you it is the same Dynamic with mom and dad brothers and sisters they were all trying to hook your attention we also learned to hook the attention of other humans and we develop a need for attention which can become very competitive children compete for the attention of their parents their teachers their friends look at me look at what I'm doing hey I'm here the need for attention becomes very strong and continues

9:42 into adulthood the outside dream hooks our attention and teaches us what to believe beginning with the language that we speak language is the code for understanding and communication between humans every letter every word in each language is in agreement we call this a page in a book the word page is an agreement that we understand once we understand the code our attention is hooked and the energy is transferred from one person to another it was not your choice to speak English you didn't choose your religion or your moral values they were already there before you were born we never had the opportunity to choose what to believe or what not to believe we never chose even the smallest of these agreements we didn't even choose our own name as children we didn't

10:33 have the opportunity to choose our beliefs but we agreed with the information that was passed to us from the dream of the planet via other humans the only way to store information is by agreement the outside dream may hook our attention but if we don't agree we don't store that information as soon as we agree we believe it and this is called Faith to have faith is to believe unconditionally that's how we learn as children children believe everything adults say we agree with them and our faith is so strong that the belief system controls our whole dream of life we didn't choose these beliefs and we may have rebelled against them but we were not strong enough to win the Rebellion

11:19 the result is surrender to the beliefs with our agreement I call this process the domestication of humans and through this domestication we learn how to live and how to dream in human domestication the information from the outside dream is conveyed to the inside dream creating our whole belief system first the child is taught the names of things Mom Dad milk bottle day by day at home at school at church and from television we are told how to live what kind of behavior is acceptable the outside dream teaches us how to be a human we have a whole concept of what a woman is and what a man is and we also learn to judge we judge ourselves judge other people judge the

12:06 neighbors children are domesticated the same way that we domesticate a dog a cat or any other animal in order to teach a dog we punish the dog and we give it rewards 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 we are told you're a good boy or you're a good girl when we do what Mom and Dad want us to do when we don't we are a bad girl or a bad boy when we went against the rules we were punished when we went along with the rules we got a reward we were punished many times a day and we were also rewarded many times a day soon we became afraid of being punished and also afraid of not receiving

12:57 the reward the reward is the attention that we got from our parents or from other people like siblings teachers and friends we soon develop a need to hook other people's attention in order to get the reward the reward feels good and we keep doing what others want us to do in order to get the reward with that fear of being punished and that fear of not getting the reward we start pretending to be what we are not just to please others just to be good enough for someone else we tried to please Mom and Dad we try to please the teachers at school we try to please the church and so we start acting we pretend to be what we are not because we are afraid of being rejected the fear of being rejected becomes the fear of not being good enough eventually we become someone

13:46 that we are not we become a copy of Mama's beliefs Daddy's beliefs society's beliefs and religions beliefs all our normal Tendencies are lost in the process of domestication and when we are old enough for our mind to understand we learn the word no the adults say don't do this and don't do that we Rebel and say no we Rebel because we are defending our freedom we want to be ourselves but we are very little and the adults are big and strong after a certain time we are afraid because we know that every time we do something wrong we are going to be punished the domestication is so strong that at a certain point in our lives we no longer need

14:31 anyone to domesticate us we don't need Mom or Dad the school or the church to domesticate us we are so well trained that we are our own domesticat 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 re W ourselves when we are that good boy or good girl the belief system is like a book of law that rules our mind without question whatever is in that book of law is Our Truth we base all of our judgments according to the book of law even if these judgments go

15:17 against our own inner nature even moral laws like the Ten Commandments are programmed into our mind in the process of domestication one by one all these agreements go into the book of law and these agreements rule our Dream there is something in our minds that judges everybody and everything including the weather the dog the cat everything the inner judge uses what is in our book of law to judge everything we do and don't do everything we think and don't think and everything we feel and don't feel everything lives under the tyranny of this judge every time we do something that goes against the book of law the judge says we are guilty we need to be punished we should be ashamed this happens many times a day day after day for all the years of our

16:05 lives there is another part of us that receives the judgments and this part is called the victim the victim carries the blame the guilt and the shame it is the part of us that says per me I'm not good enough I'm not intelligent enough I'm not attractive enough I'm not worthy of Love per me the big judge agrees and says yes you are not good enough and this is all based on a belief system that we never chose to believe these beliefs are so strong that even years later when we are exposed to New Concepts and try to make our own decisions we find that these beliefs still control our lives whatever goes against the book of law will make you feel a funny sensation in your solar plexus and it's called fear breaking the rules in the book of law opens your emotional

16:56 wounds and your reaction is to create emotional poison because everything that is in the book of law has to be true anything that challenges what you believe is going to make you feel unsafe even if the book of law is wrong it makes you feel safe that is why we need a great deal of courage to challenge our own beliefs because even if we know we didn't choose all these beliefs it is also true that we agreed to all of them the agreement is so strong that even if we understand the concept of it not being true we we feel the blame the guilt and the shame that occur if we go against these rules just as the government has a book of laws that rule the society's dream our belief system is the book of laws that rules our personal dream all these laws exist in our mind we believe them

17:46 and the judge inside us bases everything on these rules the judge decrees and the victim suffers the guilt and punishment but who says there is Justice in this dream true Justice is paying only once for each mistake true Injustice is paying more than once for each mistake how many times do we pay for one mistake the answer is thousands of times the human is the only animal on Earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake the rest of the animals pay once for every mistake they make but not us we have a powerful memory we make a mistake we judge ourselves we find ourselves guilty and we punish ourselves if Justice exists then that was enough we don't need to do it again

18:36 but every time we remember we judge ourselves again we are guilty again and we punish ourselves again and again and again if we have a wife or husband he or she also reminds us of the mistake so we can judge ourselves again punish ourselves again and find ourselves guilty again is this Fair how many times do we make our spouse our children or our parents pay for the same mistake every time we remember the mistake we blame them again and send them all the emotional poison we feel at the Injustice and then we make them pay again for the same mistake is that Justice the judge in the mind is wrong because the belief system the book of law is wrong the whole dream is based on false law 95%

19:25 of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies and we suffer because we believe all these lies in the dream of the planet it is normal for humans to suffer to live in fear and to create emotional dramas the outside dream is not a pleasant dream it is a dream of violence a dream of fear a dream of War a dream of Injustice the personal dream of humans will vary but globally it is mostly a nightmare if we look at Human Society we see a place so difficult to live in because is ruled by fear throughout the world we see human suffering anger Revenge addictions violence in the street and tremendous Injustice it may exist at different levels in different countries around

20:12 the world but fear is controlling the outside dream if we compare the dream of human society with the description of hell that religions all around the world have promulgated we find they are exactly the same religions say that hell is a place of punishment a a place of fear pain and suffering a place where the fire burns you fire is generated by emotions that come from Fear whenever we feel the emotions of anger jealousy Envy or hate we experience a fire burning within us we are living in a dream of hell if you consider hell as a state of mind then hell is all around us others may warn us that if we don't do what they say we should do we will go to hell

20:59 bad news we are already in Hell including the people who tell us that no human can condemn another to hell because we are already there others can put us into a deeper hell true but only if we allow this to happen every human has his or her own personal dream and just like the society dream it is often ruled by fear we learn to dream hell in our own life in our personal dream the same fears manifest in different ways for each person of course but we experience anger jealousy hate envy and other negative emotions our personal dream can also become an ongoing nightmare where we suffer and live in a state of fear but we don't need to dream a nightmare it is possible to enjoy

21:49 a pleasant dream all of humanity is searching for truth justice and Beauty we are on an eternal search for the truth because we only Believe In The Lies We have stored in our mind we are searching for justice because in the belief system we have there is no justice we search for beauty because it doesn't matter how beautiful a person is we don't believe that person has Beauty we keep searching and searching when everything is already within us there is no truth to find wherever we turn our heads all we see is the truth but with the agreements and beliefs we have stored in our mind we have no eyes for this truth we don't see the truth because we are blind what blinds us

22:35 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 it is as if we live in the middle of a fog that doesn't let us see any further than our own nose we live in a fog that is not even real this fog is a dream your personal dream dream of Life what you believe all the concepts you have about what you are all the agreements you have made with others with yourself and even with God your whole mind is a fog which the toex called a Mot pronounced MD t y your mind is a dream where a thousand people talk at the same time and nobody understands each other this is the condition of

23:22 the human mind a big mote and with that big mote you cannot see what you really are in they call the mot Maya which means illusion it is the personality's notion of I am everything you believe about yourself in the world all the concepts and programming you have in your mind are all the mote we cannot see who we truly are we cannot see that we are not free that is why humans resist life to be alive is the biggest fear humans have death is not the biggest fear we have our biggest fear is Tak taking the risk to be alive the risk to be alive and express what we really are just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans we have learned to live our lives

24:08 trying to satisfy other people's demands 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 during the process of domestication we form an image of what Perfection is in order to try to be good enough we create an image of how we should be in order to be accepted by everybody we especially try to please the ones who love us like Mom and Dad big brothers and sisters the priests and the teacher trying to be good enough for them we create an image of perfection but we don't fit this image we create this image but this image is not real we are never going to be perfect from this point of view never

24:54 not being perfect we reject ourselves and the level of self-rejection depends upon how effective the adults were in breaking our integrity after domestication it is no longer about being good enough for anybody else we are not good enough for ourselves because we don't fit with our own image of perfection we cannot forgive ourselves for not being what we wish to be or rather what we believe we should be we cannot forgive ourselves for not being perfect we know we are not what we believe we are supposed to be and so we feel false frustrated and dishonest we try to hide ourselves and we pretend to be what we are not the result is that we feel unauthentic and wear social masks to keep others from noticing this we are so afraid that somebody else will notice that

25:44 we are not what we pretend to be we judge others according to our image of perfection as well and naturally they fall short of our expectations we dishonor ourselves just to please other people we even do do harm to our physical bodies just to be accepted by others you see teenagers taking drugs just to avoid being rejected by other teenagers they are not aware that the problem is that they don't accept themselves they reject themselves because they are not what they pretend to be they wish to be a certain way but they are not and for this they carry shame and guilt 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 but nobody abuses us more than

26:34 we abuse ourselves and it is the judge the victim and the belief system that make us do this true we find people who say their husband or wife or mother or father abuse them but you know that we abuse ourselves much more than that the way we judge ourselves is the worst judge that ever existed if we make a mistake in front of people we try to deny the mistake AK and cover it up but as soon as we are alone the judge becomes so strong the guilt is so strong and we feel so stupid or so bad or So Unworthy 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

27:21 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 if you abuse yourself very badly you can even tolerate someone who beats you up humiliates you and treats you like dirt why because in your belief system you say I deserve it this person is doing me a favor by being with me I'm not worthy of love and respect I'm not good enough we have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others but we cannot accept and love ourselves the more self-love we have the less we will experience self-abuse

28:08 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 Prelude to new dream there are thousands of agreements you have made with yourself with other people with your dream of life with god with Society with your parents with your spouse with your children but the most important Agreements are the ones you made with yourself in these agreements you tell yourself who you are what you feel what you believe and how to behave the result is what you call your personality in these agreements you say this is what I am

28:59 this is what I believe I can do certain things and some things I cannot do this is reality that is fantasy this is possible that is impossible one single agreement is not such a problem but we have many agreements that make us suffer that make us fail in life if you want to live a life of joy and fulfillment you have to find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim your personal power the agreements that come from Fear require us to expend a lot of energy but the agreements that come from love help us to conserve energy and even gain extra energy each of us is born with a certain amount of personal power that we rebuild every day after we rest

29:45 unfortunately we spend all our personal power first to create all these agreements and then to keep these agreements our personal power is dissipated by all the agreements we have created and the result is that we feel powerless we have just enough power to survive each day because most of it is used to keep the agreements that trap us in the dream of the planet how can we change the entire dream of our life when we have no power to change even the smallest agreement if we can see it as our agreements that rule our own life and we don't like the dream of our life we need to change the agreements when we are finally ready to change our agreements there are four very powerful agreements that will help us to break those agreements that come from fear and deplete our

30:31 energy each time you break an agreement all the power you use to create it returns to you if you adopt these four new agreements they will create enough personal power for you to change the entire system of your old agreements you need a very strong will in order to adopt The Four Agreements but if you can begin to live your life with these agreements the transformation in your life will be amazing you will see the drama of Hell dis appear right before your very eyes instead of living in a dream of hell you will be creating a new dream your personal dream of Heaven chapter 2 The First Agreement be impeccable with your word The First Agreement is the most important one and also the most difficult one to honor it is so important that with just this First Agreement you will

31:21 be able to transcend to the level of existence I call Heaven on Earth The First Agreement is to be impact eable with your word it sounds very simple but it is very very powerful why your word your word is the power that you have to create your word is the gift that comes directly from God the Gospel of John in the Bible speaking of the creation of the universe says in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the word is God through the word you express your creative power it is through the word that you manif EST everything regardless of what language you speak your intent manifests through the word what you dream what you feel and what you really

32:07 are will all be manifested through the word the word is not just a sound or a written symbol the word is a force it is the power you have to express and communicate to think and thereby to create the events in your life you can speak what other animal on the planet can speak the word is the most powerful tool you have as a human it is the tool of magic but like a sword with two edges your word can create the most beautiful dream or your word can destroy everything around you one Edge is the misuse of the word which creates a living hell the other Edge is the impeccability of the word which will only create Beauty love and Heaven on Earth

32:52 depending upon how it is used the word can set you free or it can enslave you even more more than you know all the magic you possess is based on your word your word is pure magic and this use of your word is black magic the word is so powerful that one word can change a life or destroy the lives of millions of people some years ago one man in Germany by the use of the word manipulated a whole country of the most intelligent people he led them into a world war with just the power of His word he convinced others to commit the most atrocious acts of violence he activated people's fear with the word and like a big explosion there was killing and War all around the world all over

33:38 the world humans destroyed other humans because they were afraid of each other Hitler's word based on fear generated beliefs and agreements will be remembered for centuries the human mind is like a fertile ground where seeds are continually being planted the seeds are opinions ideas and Concepts you plant a seed a thought and it grows the word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile the only problem is that too often it is fertile for the seeds of fear every human mind is fertile but only for those kinds of seeds it is prepared for what is important is to see which kind of seeds our mind is fertile for and to prepare it to receive the seeds of love take

34:25 the example of Hitler he sent out all those seeds of fear and they grew very strong and beautifully achieved massive destruction seeing the awesome power of the word we must understand what power comes out of our mouths one fear or doubt planted in our mind can create an endless drama of events one word is like a spell and humans use the word like Black magicians thoughtlessly putting spells on each other every human is a magician and we can either put a spell on someone without our word or we can release someone from a spell we cast spells all the time with our opinions an example I see a friend and give him an opinion that just popped into my mind I say h i see that kind of color in

35:12 your face and people who are going to get cancer if he listens to the word and if he agrees he will have cancer in less than one year that is the power of the word during our domestication our parents and siblings gave their opinions about us without even thinking we believed these opinions and we lived in fear over these opinions like not being good at swimming or sports or writing someone gives an opinion and says look this girl is ugly the girl listens believes she is ugly and grows up with the idea that she is ugly it doesn't matter how beautiful she is as long as she has that agreement she will believe that she is ugly that is the spell she is under

35:57 by hooking our attention the word can enter our mind and change a whole belief For Better or For Worse another example you may believe you are stupid and you may have believed this for as long as you can remember this agreement can be very tricky causing you to do a lot of things just to ensure that you are stupid you may do something and think to yourself I wish I were smart but I must be stupid or I wouldn't have done that the Mind goes in hundreds of different directions and we could spend days getting hooked by just that one belief in our own stupidity then one day someone hooks your attention and using the word lets you know that you are not stupid you believe what the person says and make a new agreement as a result you no longer feel or

36:45 act stupid a whole spell is broken just by the power of the word conversely if you believe you are stupid and someone hooks your attention and says yes you are really the most stupid person I have ever met the agreement will be reinforced and become even stronger now let us see what the word impeccability means impeccability means without sin impeccable comes from the Latin picus which means sin the IM impeccable means without so impeccable means without sin religions talk about Sin and sinners but let's understand what it really means to sin a sin is anything that you do which goes against yourself everything you feel or believe or say that goes against yourself

37:34 is a sin you go against yourself when you judge or blame yourself for anything being without sin is exactly the opposite 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 from this point of view the whole concept of sin changes from something moral or religious to something Common Sense sin begins with rejection of yourself self-rejection is the biggest sin that you commit in religious terms self-rejection is a mortal sin which leads to death impeccability on the other hand leads to life being impeccable with your word is not using the word against yourself

38:22 if I see you in the street and I call you stupid it appears that I'm using the word against you but really I'm using my word against myself because you're going to hate me for this and you're hating me is not good for me therefore if I get angry and with my words send all that emotional poison to you I'm using the word against myself if I love myself I will Express that love in my interactions with you and then I am being impeccable with the word because that action will produce a like reaction if I love you then you will love me if I insult you you will insult me if I have gratitude for you you will have gratitude for me if I'm selfish with you you will be selfish with me if I use the word to put a spell on you you are going to put a spell on

39:11 me 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 if you make an agreement with yourself to be impeccable with your word just with that intention the truth will manifest through you and clean all the emotional poison that exists within you but making this agreement is difficult because we have learn to do precisely the opposite we have learned to lie as a habit of our communication with others and more importantly with ourselves we are not impeccable with the word 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

39:56 we also use 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 word 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 missuse use 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 because the word is the magic that humans possess and Mis use of the word

40:43 is black magic we are using black magic all the time without knowing that our word is Magic at all there was a woman for example who was intelligent and had a very good heart she had a daughter whom she had adored and loved very much one night she came home from a very bad day at work tired full of emotional tension and with a terrible headache she wanted peace and quiet but her daughter was singing and jumping happily the daughter was unaware of how her mother was feeling she was in her own world in her own dream she felt so wonderful and she was jumping and singing louder and louder expressing her joy and her love she was singing so loud that it made her mother's headache

41:29 even worse and at a certain moment the mother lost control angrily she looked at her beautiful little girl and said shut up you have an ugly voice can you just shut up the truth is that the mother's tolerance for any noise was non-existent it was not that the little girl's voice was ugly but the daughter believed what her mother said and in that moment she made an agreement with herself after after that she no longer sang because she believed her voice was ugly and would bother anyone who heard it she became shy at school and if she was asked to sing she refused even speaking to others became difficult for her everything changed in the little girl because of this new agreement

42:16 she believed she must repress her emotions in order to be accepted and loved whenever we hear an opinion and believe it we make an agreement and it becomes part of our belief system this little girl grew up and even though she had a beautiful voice she never sang again she developed a whole complex from one spell this spell was cast upon her by the one who loved her the most her own mother her mother didn't notice what she did with her word she didn't notice that she used black magic and Put a Spell on her daughter she didn't know the power of her word and therefore she isn't to blame she did what her own mother father and others had done to her in many ways they misused

43:03 the word how many times do we do this with our own children we give them these types of opinions and our children carry that black magic for years and years 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 another example you awake in the morning feeling very happy you feel so wonderful you stay one or two hours in front of the mirror making yourself beautiful well one of your best friends says what has happened to you you look so ugly look at the dress you are wearing you look ridiculous that's it that is enough to put you all the way down in hell maybe this girlfriend just told you this to

43:50 hurt you and she did she gave you an opinion with all the power of her word behind behind it if you accept the opinion it becomes an agreement now and you put all your power into that opinion that opinion becomes black magic these types of spells are difficult to break the only thing that can break a spell is to make a new agreement based on truth the truth is the most important part of being impeccable with your word on one side of the sword are the lies which create black magic and on the other side of the sword is the truth which has the power to break the spell of black magic only the truth will set us free looking at everyday human interactions imagine how many times

44:36 we cast spells on each other with our word over time this interaction has become the worst form of black magic and we call it gossip gossip is black magic at its very worst because it is pure poison we learn how to gossip by agreement when we were children we heard the adults around us gossiping all the time openly giving their opinions about other people they even had opinions about people they didn't know emotional poison was transferred along with the opinions and we learned this as the normal way to communicate 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

45:23 as badly as we do there is an old expression that says misery likes company and people who are suffering in hell don't want to be all alone fear and suffering are an important part of the dream of the planet they are how the dream of the planet keeps us down using the analogy of the human mind as a computer gossip can be compared to a computer virus a computer virus is a piece of computer language written in the same language all the other codes are written in but with a harmful intent this code is inserted into the program of your computer when you least expect it and most of the time without your awareness after this code has been introduced your computer doesn't work quite right or it doesn't function at all because the codes get so mixed up with so many

46:11 conflicting messages that it stops producing good results human gossip works exactly the same way for example you are beginning a new class with a new teacher and you have looked forward to it for a long time on the first day of class you run into someone who took the class before who tells you oh that instructor was such a pompous jerk he didn't know what he was talking about and he was a pervert too so watch out you are immediately imprinted with the word and the emotional code the person had when saying this but what you are not aware of is his or her motivation in telling you this person could be angry for failing the class or simply making an assumption based on fears and prejudices but because you have learned to ingest information like a child some part of you believes

46:59 the gossip and you go on to the class as the teacher speaks you feel the poison come up inside you and you don't realize you see the teacher Through The Eyes of the person who gave you that gossip then you start talking to other people in the class about this and they start to see the teacher in the same way as a jerk and a pervert you really hate the class and soon you decide to drop out you blame the teacher but it is Gossip that is to blame all of this mess can be caused by one little computer virus one little piece of misinformation can break down communication between people causing every person it touches to become infected and contagious to others imagine that every single time others gossip to you they insert a computer virus into your mind causing you

47:48 to think a little less clearly every time then imagine that in an effort to clean up your own confusion and get some relief from the poison you gossip and spread these viruses to someone else now imagine this pattern going on in a never- ending chain between all the humans on Earth the result is a world full of humans who can only read information through circuits that are clogged with a poisonous contagious virus once again this poisonous virus is what the toex called the mote the chaos of a thousand different voices all trying to talk at once in the mind even worse are the Black magicians or computer hackers who intentionally spread the virus think back to a time when you are someone you know was angry with someone else and desired revenge in order to seek

48:39 revenge you said something to or about that person with the intention of spreading poison and making that person feel bad about him or herself as children we do this quite thoughtlessly but as we grow older we become much more calculated in our efforts to bring other people down then we lie to ourselves and say that person received a just punishment for their wrongdoing when we see the world through a computer virus it is easy to justify the cruess behavior what we don't see is that misuse of our word is putting us deeper into hell for years we have received the gossip and spells from the words of others but also from the way we use our word with ourselves we talk to ourselves constantly and most of the time we say things like oh I look fat I look ugly

49:27 I'm getting old I'm losing my hair I'm stupid I never understand anything I will never be good enough and I'm never going to be perfect do you see how we use the word against ourselves we must begin to understand what the word is and what the word does if you understand the First Agreement be impeccable with your word you begin to see all the changes that can happen in your life changes first in the way you deal with yourself and later in the way you deal with other people especially those you love the most consider how many times you have gossiped about the person you love the most to gain the support of others for your point of view how many times have you hooked other people's attention and spread poison about your loved one in order to make your opinion right

50:15 your opinion is nothing but your point of view it is not necessarily true your opinion comes from your beliefs your own ego and your own dream we create all this poison and spread it to others just so we can feel right about our own point of view if we adopt The First Agreement and become impeccable with our word any emotional poison will eventually be cleaned from our mind and from our communication in our personal relationships including with our pet dog or cat impeccability of the word will also give you immunity from anyone putting a negative spell on you you will only receive a negative idea if your mind is fertile ground for that idea idea when you become impeccable with your word your mind is no longer fertile ground for words that come from Black

51:03 Magic instead it is fertile for the words that come from love 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 you can transcend the dream of hell just by making the agreement to be impeccable with your word right now I am planting that seed in your mind whether or not the seed grows depends upon how fertile your mind is for the seeds of love it is up to you to make this agreement with yourself I am impeccable with my word nurture the seed and as it grows in your mind it will generate more Seeds of Love to replace the seeds of fear this

51:54 First Agreement will change the kind of seeds your mind is fertile for be impeccable with your word this is the first agreement that you should make if you want to be free if you want to be happy if you want to transcend the level of existence that is hell it is very powerful use the word in the correct way use the word to share your love use white magic beginning with yourself tell yourself how wonderful you are how great you are tell yourself how much you love yourself use the word to break all those teeny tiny agreements that make you suffer it is possible it is possible because I did it and I am no better than you no we are exactly the same we have the

52:42 same kind of brain the same kind of bodies we are humans if I was able to break those agreements and create new agreements then you can do the same if I can be impeccable with my word why not you just this one agreement can change your whole life impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom to huge success and abundance it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love just imagine what you can create with impeccability of the word with the impeccability of the word you can transcend the dream of fear and live a different life you can live in heaven in the middle of thousands of people living in hell because you are immune to that hell you can attain the Kingdom of Heaven from this one agreement be impeccable with your word

53:32 chapter 3 the second agreement don't take anything personally the next three Agreements are really born from The First Agreement the second agreement is don't take anything personally whatever happens around you don't take it personally using an earlier example if I see you on the street and I say hey you are so stupid without knowing you it's not about you it's about me if you take it personally then perhaps you believe you are stupid maybe you think to yourself how does he know is he Clairvoyant or can everybody see how stupid I am you take it personally because you agree with whatever was said as soon as you agree the poison goes through you and you are trapped in the dream

54:19 of hell what causes you to be trapped is what we call personal importance personal importance or taking things personally is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me during the period of our education or our domestication we learn to take everything personally we think we are responsible for everything me me me always me nothing other people do is because of you it is because of themselves all people live in their own dream in their own mind they are in a completely different world from the one we live in when we take something personally we make the assumption that they know what is in our world and we try to impose our world on their world even when a situation seems so personal even if others

55:11 insult you directly it has nothing to do with you what they say what they do and the opinions they give are according to the agreements they have in their own minds their point of view comes from all the programming they received during domestication if someone gives you an opinion and says hey you look so fat don't take it personally because the truth is that this person is dealing with his or her own feelings beliefs and opinions that person tried to send poison to you and if you take it personally then you take that poison and it becomes yours 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

56:01 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 when you take things personally then you feel offended and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflicts you make something big out of something so little because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong you also try hard to be right by giving them your own opinions in the same way whatever you feel and do is just a projection of your own personal dream a reflection of your own agreements what you say what you do and the opinions you have are according to the agreements you have made and these opinions have nothing to do with me

56:49 it is not important to me what you think about me and I don't take what you think personally I don't take it personally when people say Miguel you are the best and I also don't take it personally when they say Miguel you are the worst I know that when you are happy you will tell me Miguel you are such an angel but when you are mad at me you will say oh Miguel you are such a devil you are so disgusting how can you say those things either way it does not affect me because I know what I am I don't have the need to be accepted I don't have the need to have someone tell me Miguel you are doing so good or how dare you do that no I don't take it personally whatever you think whatever you

57:38 feel I know is your problem and not my problem it is the way you see the world it is nothing personal because you are dealing with yourself not with me others are going to have their own opinion according to their belief system so nothing they think about me is really about but it is about them you may even tell me Miguel what you are saying is hurting me 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 that I can take this personally not because I don't believe in you or don't trust you but because I know that you see the world with different eyes with your eyes you create an entire picture or movie in your mind and in that picture you are

58:27 the director you are the producer you are the main actor or actress everyone else is a secondary actor or actress it is your movie the way you see that movie is according to the agreements you have made with life your point of view is something personal to you it is no one's truth but yours then if you get mad at me I know you are dealing with yourself I am the excuse for you to get mad and you get mad because you are afraid because you are dealing with fear if you are not afraid there is no way you will get mad at me if you are not afraid there is no way you will hate me if you are not afraid there is no way you will be jealous or sad if you live without

59:13 fear if you love there is no place for any of those emotions if you don't feel any of those emotions it is logical that you will feel good when you feel good everything around you is good when everything around you is great everything makes you happy you are loving everything that is around you because you are loving yourself because you like the way you are because you are content with you because you are happy with your life you are happy with the movie that you are producing happy with your agreements with life you are at peace and you are happy you live in that state of bliss where everything is so wonderful and everything everything is so beautiful in that state of bliss you are making love all the time with everything that you perceive whatever people

1:00:04 do feel think or say don't take it personally if they tell you how wonderful you are they are not saying that because of you you know you are wonderful it is not necessary to believe other people who tell you that you are wonderful don't take anything personally even if someone got a gun and shot you in the head it was nothing personal even at that extreme even the opinions you have about yourself are not necessarily true therefore you don't need to take whatever you hear in your own mind personally the mind has the ability to talk to itself but it also has the ability to hear information that is available from other Realms sometimes you hear a voice in your mind and you may wonder where it came from this voice may have come from another reality in which there are

1:00:54 living beings very similar to the human mind the totex called these beings allies in Europe Africa and India they called them the gods our mind also exists in the level of the Gods our mind also lives in that reality and can perceive that reality the Mind sees with the eyes and perceives this waking reality but the mind also sees and perceives without the eyes although the reason is hardly aware of this perception the Mind lives in more than one dimension there may be times when you have ideas that don't originate in your mind but you are perceiving them with your mind you have the right to believe or not believe these voices and the right not to take what they say

1:01:39 personally we have a choice whether or not to believe the voices we hear within our own minds just as we have a choice of what to believe and agree with in the dream of the planet the mind can also talk and listen to itself the mind is divided as your body is divided just as you can say I have one hand and I can shake my other hand and feel the other hand the mind can talk to itself part of the mind is speaking and the other part is listening it is a big problem when a thousand parts of your mind are all speaking at the same time this is called the mot remember the mot can be compared to a huge marketplace where thousands of people are talking and bartering at the same time each one has different thoughts and feelings each one has a different point of

1:02:30 view the programming in the mind all of those agreements we have made are not necessarily compatible with each other every agreement is like a separate living being it has its own personality and its own voice there are conflicting agreements that go against other agreements and on and on until it becomes a big war in the mind the mote is the reason humans hardly know what they want how they they want it or when they want it they don't agree with themselves because there are parts of the mind that want one thing and other parts that want exactly the opposite some part of the mind has objections to certain thoughts and actions and in another part supports the actions of the opposing thoughts all these little living beings create inner conflict because they are

1:03:17 alive and they each have a voice only by making an inventory of our agreements will we uncover all of the conflicts in the mind and eventually make out of the chaos of the mote don't take anything personally because by taking things personally you set yourself up to suffer for nothing humans are addicted to suffering at different levels and to different degrees and we support each other in maintaining these addictions humans agree to help each other suffer if you have the need to be abused you will find it easy to be abused by others likewise if you are with people who need to suffer something in you makes you abuse them it is as if they have a note on their back that says please kick me they are asking for justification for their suffering their addiction to suffering

1:04:05 is nothing but an agreement that is reinforced every day 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 what someone says to you when we really see other people as they are without taking it personally we can never be hurt by what they say or do even if others lie to you it is okay they are lying to you because they are afraid they are afraid you will discover that they are not perfect it is painful to take that social mask off if others say one thing but do another you are lying to yourself if you don't listen to their actions but if you are

1:04:56 truthful with yourself you will save yourself a lot of emotional pain telling yourself the truth about it may hurt but you don't need to be attached to the pain healing is on the way and it's just a matter of time before things will be better for you 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 when you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally you avoid many

1:05:41 upsets in your life your anger jealousy and Endy will disappear and even your sadness will simply disappear if you don't take things personally if you can make this second agreement a habit you will find that nothing nothing can put you back into hell there is a huge amount of Freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally you become immune to Black magicians and no spell can affect you regardless of how strong it may be the whole world can gossip about you and if you don't take it personally you are immune someone can intentionally send emotional poison and if you don't take it personally you will not eat it when you don't take the emotional poison it becomes even worse in the Ender but not in you you can see how important this agreement is taking

1:06:31 nothing personally helps you to break many habits and routines that trap you in the dream of hell and cause needless suffering just by practicing this second agreement you begin to break dozens of teeny tiny agreements that cause you to suffer and if you practice the first two agreements you will break 75% of the teeny tiny agreements that keep you trapped in Hell write this agreement on paper and put it on your refrigerator to remind you all the time don't take anything personally as you make a habit of not taking anything personally you won't need to place your trust in what others do or say you will only need to trust yourself to make responsible choices you are never responsible for the actions of others you are only responsible for you when you truly understand this and refuse

1:07:21 to take things personally you can hardly be hurt by the careless comments or or actions of others

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