The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz

"A simple, easy to read guide as to how to shift your mindset/confront difficult circumstances and improve your life overall."

3 Stars

Pros: The agreements all make sense and Ruiz's explanation of them is easy to understand.

Cons: At times the book can become repetitive.

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Ruiz raised in the wisdom of the Toletc people, believes that all humans are trapped in a dream of their own creation. All these dreams that we've created have mixed and meshed together to create the dream of the planet. And though it would be nice if it was a dream of heaven, it is not. It is a dream of Hell. He feels that everyone, everywhere, is living in Hell. And he has found a way to combat and change this dream.

Full of wisdom and practices of, what I would hope would be common knowledge for most people, Ruiz explains the "4 agreements" that make up his/his peoples way of thinking. They are ways of challenging our own thoughts and behaviors that have been ingrained in us since we were born. Each agreement is a different mindset, or behavior, or simply a small suggestion of what to do to make your life a little more manageable.

This was a quick and easy read and though the book at times became repetitive, I did high light and safe quite a few passages as they will be good to remember. This book will help me try and change my way of thinking so as to better improve my outlook and my life in general. Making these agreements with myself will take work, as everything goes, but if I hold fast to the agreements and simply practice, Ruiz is assured that your life will change.

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