The Four Agreements Toltec Wisdom Collection: The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, the Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship, the Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace
About this title: This three-book boxed set by bestselling author Ruiz offers his most widely acclaimed works: "The Four Agreements, The Mastery of Love," and "The Voice of Knowledge."
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: AMBER-ALLEN PUBLISHING, U.S. Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781878424587ISBN:1878424580
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 856 pages. A boxed set of 3 paperbacks offering don miguel ruiz's most widely acclaimed works-'the four agreements', 'the mastery of love' and 'the voice of knowledge'. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Amber-Allen Publishing, U. S
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781878424587ISBN:1878424580
Description: New. A boxed set of 3 paperbacks offering don Miguel Ruiz's most widely acclaimed works-'The Four Agreements', 'The Mastery of Love' and 'The Voice of Knowledge'. read more
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Description: New. PLEASE NOTE: All books are promptly imported from the UK using International Priority Airmail. Delivery is typically 5-10 working days. Please do not select expedited shipping. Heavier and more expensive items have tracking number. Professional and reliable bookseller (est.1987). read more
"I am reading an Oprah book club re: spirituality.
Me. Kierkegaard me. The guy with 'Varieties of Religious Experience'. Cultural studies, Don Juan 'Yaqui Ways of Knowledge' criticizin' me.
But here's the deal: Although Miguel Ruiz uses a very familiar cultural myth (The wise elder passing down ancient and buried secrets)- this sucker is well written, and like so many folkways it casts a huge net with only a few strings.
I found some immediate parallels with the Eight Noble Truths- except Ruiz limits himself to four:
1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Don't take anything personally. 3. Don't make assumptions. 4. Always do your best.
Four simple little lines; Easy, no?
Just moving a little bit forward on #1- which has some great discussion about the consequences of deceit- is going to take this Pizza/Spiritual Warrior years of work.
Reductionisitic, a best seller. I want to hate it, but it's written with clean, minimalist style- and contains well-researched and experienced interlinks to other spiritual traditions- so I can't. I could take or leave the Toltec backstory- the principles ring of truth."
"Ruiz has come up with four principles from ancient Toltec wisdom. If one adopts these four agreements, Ruiz argues, they will help bring a sense of peace and happiness to one's life. Generally the agreements sound reasonable enough: don't take things personally, say only good things about others, etc. So far, so good. But there's some serious theoretical problems that underlie Ruiz's plan. Ruiz seems to suggest that the self can determine the majority of one's experience outside of social context. He claims that society is composed of collective dreams. Even recognizing that Ruiz is infusing dreams with more importance than western culture generally does, it still strikes me that the message here is that if one has fortified one's spirit with these four principles, nothing anyone else says or does can strongly affect you. Maybe I'm too close-minded, but I just can't buy it. We all live in social and cultural worlds, and those worlds do shape our experience, whether we like it or not."
"This is a sweet little book -- a few parts are overly naive or treacly, but on the whole it has good advice in a wholesome format. Ruiz claims this is ancient Toltec wisdom, a la Castaneda -- so check your scholarly skepticism at the door, because this is a very contemporary spiritual worldview filtered through dreamland and nostalgia for the "primitive" -- but frankly, that's a worldvuew I like so I'm not opposed to Ruiz promoting it with a bit of anthropological sleight of hand.
Ruiz starts with the premise that we create our own reality,but most people sleepwalk through a fog of crippling delusion foisted on them by a sick society, and the path of the spiritual warrior is to cut through that fog to arrive at a clear, sane, bright place that is wild, free, compassionate and wise. This is more or less the same spiritual theory that you find in Hindu and Buddhist Tantra, with slightly different language, emphases, and cultural symbolism -- comparable to Osho, or Trungpa.
The Four Agreements are:
Be impeccable with your word Don't take anything personally Don't make assumptions Always do your best
One of the assumptions you should not make on the spiritual path is that your work can be reduced to a four step anything. Reality is both more complicated than that and more simple. That being said, if you ignore the way the book's truth has been shoe-horned into a cliche format for marketing purposes, it contains nourishing food for thought."
"The Four Agreements is an inspiring text that describes the ways in which human beings can live, love and enjoy life in its entirety. Through the compassion, understanding, respect and forgiveness that we impose on ourselves, we are able to reach a deeper understanding and acceptance for the people in our lives and how we treat them. I thought that this book was very encouraging and for those who are continually searching to be better human beings should share in the advice that Don Miguel Ruiz offers to his readers."
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