The Four Agreements

[Loveisall21]

If only we could all master The Four Agreements. There is alot of love and freindliness on this forum. But there is also a fair share of rancor, drama and hurt feelings from time to time. Such is human nature at this stage of the game. But all the drama and hurt could be eliminated here on this forum and in the world if we could all master these great truths.
I just favorited this video for myself to remind me often of this as I need to incorporate these ways of being into myself as much or more than others.

Much Love to Us All,

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[Chester]

If only we could all master The Four Agreements. There is alot of love and freindliness on this forum. But there is also a fair share of rancor, drama and hurt feelings from time to time. Such is human nature at this stage of the game. But all the drama and hurt could be eliminated here on this forum and in the world if we could all master these great truths.
I just favorited this video for myself to remind me often of this as I need to incorporate these ways of being into myself as much or more than others.

Much Love to Us All,



I was given this book in the summer of 2001 - within 6 months I was divorced, lost my company I created (a few million $$ at least), lost my Dutch partners faith and trust and confidence, lost my 20K a month job, lost all my friends (many friends for decades), found myself hopelessly addicted to three powerful recreational drugs and on top of that my soon to be ex threatened to take my sons to Russia with her new boyfriend, so I got a court order on the island we lived (in the Caribbean) to have her rights as a parent revoked and at the last minute asked that the order be made against us both.

This book was for me, the most impacting book I ever read. Anyone wants to change their life - this book is on the list of the kick starters. Sam

[Sebastion]

One of the more potent books out there depending entirely on how well you can make and keep the personal contract with yourself!

[Earth Angel]

so do you feel this book helped you? was all this happening a good thing in the end ? or is this a warning not to read it !!



If only we could all master The Four Agreements. There is alot of love and freindliness on this forum. But there is also a fair share of rancor, drama and hurt feelings from time to time. Such is human nature at this stage of the game. But all the drama and hurt could be eliminated here on this forum and in the world if we could all master these great truths.
I just favorited this video for myself to remind me often of this as I need to incorporate these ways of being into myself as much or more than others.

Much Love to Us All,



I was given this book in the summer of 2001 - within 6 months I was divorced, lost my company I created (a few million $$ at least), lost my Dutch partners faith and trust and confidence, lost my 20K a month job, lost all my friends (many friends for decades), found myself hopelessly addicted to three powerful recreational drugs and on top of that my soon to be ex threatened to take my sons to Russia with her new boyfriend, so I got a court order on the island we lived (in the Caribbean) to have her rights as a parent revoked and at the last minute asked that the order be made against us both.

This book was for me, the most impacting book I ever read. Anyone wants to change their life - this book is on the list of the kick starters. Sam

[Decibellistics]

Just found this last night.

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[Loveisall21]

If only we could all master The Four Agreements. There is alot of love and freindliness on this forum. But there is also a fair share of rancor, drama and hurt feelings from time to time. Such is human nature at this stage of the game. But all the drama and hurt could be eliminated here on this forum and in the world if we could all master these great truths.
I just favorited this video for myself to remind me often of this as I need to incorporate these ways of being into myself as much or more than others.

Much Love to Us All,



I was given this book in the summer of 2001 - within 6 months I was divorced, lost my company I created (a few million $$ at least), lost my Dutch partners faith and trust and confidence, lost my 20K a month job, lost all my friends (many friends for decades), found myself hopelessly addicted to three powerful recreational drugs and on top of that my soon to be ex threatened to take my sons to Russia with her new boyfriend, so I got a court order on the island we lived (in the Caribbean) to have her rights as a parent revoked and at the last minute asked that the order be made against us both.

This book was for me, the most impacting book I ever read. Anyone wants to change their life - this book is on the list of the kick starters. Sam

Wow Sam! So yes I want to know too, was this ultimately a positive outcome for you?

[taliesin]

Hi all,

Yes this book is definitely one of the books I have read that have most stayed with me, and that I try to practice the most.

The four principles are easy enough to remember and I guess the most powerful one for me is the not taking anything personally one.

That has really helped me out in many circumstances.

I would definitely recommend this book, its very simple and that's it's strength.

And yes Sam, were these beneficial changes for you?

Yuletide blessings to all,

xxx T

[Chester]

so do you feel this book helped you? was all this happening a good thing in the end ? or is this a warning not to read it !!



If only we could all master The Four Agreements. There is alot of love and freindliness on this forum. But there is also a fair share of rancor, drama and hurt feelings from time to time. Such is human nature at this stage of the game. But all the drama and hurt could be eliminated here on this forum and in the world if we could all master these great truths.
I just favorited this video for myself to remind me often of this as I need to incorporate these ways of being into myself as much or more than others.

Much Love to Us All,



I was given this book in the summer of 2001 - within 6 months I was divorced, lost my company I created (a few million $$ at least), lost my Dutch partners faith and trust and confidence, lost my 20K a month job, lost all my friends (many friends for decades), found myself hopelessly addicted to three powerful recreational drugs and on top of that my soon to be ex threatened to take my sons to Russia with her new boyfriend, so I got a court order on the island we lived (in the Caribbean) to have her rights as a parent revoked and at the last minute asked that the order be made against us both.

This book was for me, the most impacting book I ever read. Anyone wants to change their life - this book is on the list of the kick starters. Sam

It is the same thing icke says which is a warning OR a call - you can take it either way - I have not picked up that book in a very long time but the first agreement is what starts the ball rolling, because if one pursue true personal integrity at a point in their life where they had all but zero, then what happens is that everyone else's life gets jeopardized while you go through your transformation which is the weeding out within of the self lie - and this was what i got from don Miguel. So after that seed was planted, I started to grow a tree that blew up my own life and this is the important point here - by so doing that... I did not have to blow up everyone else's lives - losing my children's mother's love being the biggest mistake... but anyways - The Ickes and what David Wilcock shared with the world publically his living experience as he perceived in a pure and honest and the most important point TRUSTING of us moment ... all of as that were there with him in HIS Wogan moment in a way... - these are the ones who inspire me to be vigilant in living the First Agreement... what I have stupidly perhaps - only time will tell - have done today in another thread. In fact the core of the first agreement is the very heart of the matter... being impeccable with your word - I spent 10 more years darting around the only truth in that statement i had to get FIRST - and that was my own agreement with myself - to be honest with myself. That's what I spent the last 18 months privately doing. In AA it is known as the 4th step and well, its a real hard thing to do - especially when the closet full of skeletons runs as deep as mine. But anyway - you get the point - being impeccable in that means to me to be constantly self honest, and then, with a little bit of bravery, you cen be you, and not ever have to craete any illusions for others, especially those who give you your trust.

Now the Second Agreement, I still struggle with every single day. It is still my albatross and I hope to get much better at not taking things personally - I am still a neophyte with that one.

The Third Agreement is one I really learned to apply pretty well but it is double edged sword. I found people expect you "get" things sometimes that are representational of something you and they have established in the shared relationship. When I make shifts in my world view (as I am prone to do) I sometimes probe about something to the point i start to upset the one I am trying to protect from ME! So I am like Ron Reagan - trust but verify and so i do not like to assume so much and therefore I sometimes piss others off in my pusuit of verification. I restated this so maybe that second attempt helps... this is flowing out raw right now.

OK, and so the laast agreement is my favorite one because - the 4th agreement, when I read it, actually took all the weight off my shoulders. I no longer had to be super man... all I had to do is know within myself, that I did and always do my best (if that is the truth).

I think all in all, this book is the actual book that changed my entire life direction. I have often prayed to god that I would be able to one day get to hug don Miguel.

Just after 9/11 when my own world had taken that next big turn, Mandy and I both raced to our lawyers so fast i still do not know who filed first - but though i am not what we would call religious, I do enjoy the wisdom books and I would lie if I did not say the bible is one... and I had this bible I took out of the marriott hotel - I feel like I stole it but if I recall they are ok if you take one... anyways, I typed up something which I taped inside the front cover - it is attached below - it has some later hand writing when I was going through some of my dot connection process, but anyways - it shows that even 10 years ago, I knew that if I could just get to where I could honor those 4 simple to understand, but quite hard to apply agreements, then i believed I would find the kind of life I always believed in my heart the creator provided for me - like this thing heaven... its always there. You just have to... be it to see it...

So then I spent 10 years getting to the day I actually can say, I took my true first step to become a whole person - a person that now lives to give - instead of a person that, even though i always had a golden heart... i knew that, I truly never had the courage to take that leap.

Today I took that leap in another post and well... I am feeling this amazing weight starting to lift from my shoulders...

One last thing, I had a picture in this same bible - I recently took it out and placed it on my wall - that picture looks out to the south all the way to Venezuela from the south shores of the Island of Curacao... this day, the sea was glass all the way to Venezuela - some 30 miles or so - a hurricane had just passed. Hurricane Lenny - from Wikipedia - "Lenny formed on November 13 in the western Caribbean Sea, and maintained an unprecedented west-to-east track for its entire duration." Mandy's boyfriend's favorite singer too... Lenny Kravitz - I showed her the calm waters but she would have none of it - I never realized the message was for me, not her. So we fought again and so she stormed off the island back to Texas. Her favorite number was 11 and I was dubbed 12 by a local Texas rock band that had become friends of ours. When she arrived was the same day the Texas A&M bonfire tragedy occurred. The news reported 11 died. When I spoke with her on the phone I suggested she should ramp down her energy before she gets anyone else killed - the kind of message Mandy well understood. But the next day I heard that another one of the critically injured had also died. The voice inside said, "Always having to have the last word, Sunny Boy?" - a warning that if I had heeded, and just remained patient with Mandy a little bit longer, perhaps my original family would be together today. Anyways - the pic of the calm seas I also always kept, knowing that until I learn to calm my own, the ones I love the most will continue to suffer the most.

Sam