The Four Agreements

by

Don Miguel Ruiz

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Introduction: The Smokey Mirror Quotes

Everything is God.

Related Characters: Miguel Ruiz (speaker), The Smokey Mirror (the student of medicine)
Page Number: xvii
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“The real us is pure love, pure light.”

Related Characters: The Smokey Mirror (the student of medicine) (speaker), Miguel Ruiz
Page Number: xvii
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“That smoke is the Dream, and the mirror is you, the dreamer.”

Related Characters: The Smokey Mirror (the student of medicine) (speaker), Miguel Ruiz
Related Symbols: Dream
Page Number: xix
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Chapter 1. Domestication... Quotes

By using our attention we learned a whole reality, a whole dream.

Related Characters: Miguel Ruiz (speaker), The Smokey Mirror (the student of medicine)
Related Symbols: Dream
Page Number: 3
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The only way to store information is by agreement.

Related Characters: Miguel Ruiz (speaker)
Page Number: 5
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I call this process the domestication of humans. And through this process we learn now to live and how to dream.

Related Characters: Miguel Ruiz (speaker)
Related Symbols: Dream
Page Number: 6
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We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal.

Related Characters: Miguel Ruiz (speaker), Judge, Victim
Page Number: 8-9
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The Judge decrees, and the Victim suffers the guilt and the punishment. But who says there is justice in this dream?

Related Characters: Miguel Ruiz (speaker), Judge, Victim
Related Symbols: Dream
Page Number: 11-12
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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.

Related Characters: Miguel Ruiz (speaker), Judge, Victim
Page Number: 21
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Chapter 2. The First Agreement Quotes

The first agreement is to be impeccable with your word.

Related Characters: Miguel Ruiz (speaker)
Page Number: 25
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When we see the world through a computer virus, it is easy to justify the cruelest behavior.

Related Characters: Miguel Ruiz (speaker), Judge
Related Symbols: Computer virus
Page Number: 41
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Chapter 3. The Second Agreement Quotes

The second agreement is don’t take anything personally.

Related Characters: Miguel Ruiz (speaker), Judge
Related Symbols: Dream
Page Number: 47
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Chapter 4. The Third Agreement Quotes

The third agreement is don’t make assumptions.

Related Characters: Miguel Ruiz (speaker)
Page Number: 63
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Chapter 5. The Fourth Agreement Quotes

The fourth agreement is about the action of the first three: Always do your best.

Related Characters: Miguel Ruiz (speaker)
Page Number: 63
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“If you meditate four hours a day, perhaps you will transcend in ten years.”

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“If you meditate eight hours a day, perhaps you will transcend in twenty years.”

Related Characters: Master (speaker), Miguel Ruiz, Man
Page Number: 77
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I did my best.

Related Characters: Miguel Ruiz (speaker), Judge, Victim
Page Number: 80
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Chapter 6. The Toltec Path to Freedom Quotes

We are still children, but we have lost our freedom.

Related Characters: Miguel Ruiz (speaker)
Page Number: 97
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A Toltec becomes wise, becomes wild, and becomes free again.

Related Characters: Miguel Ruiz (speaker)
Page Number: 100
Explanation and Analysis:

The parasite dreams through your mind and lives its life through your body. It survives on the emotions that come from fear, and thrives on drama and suffering.

Related Characters: Miguel Ruiz (speaker), Judge, Victim
Related Symbols: Dream, Parasite
Page Number: 102
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If we surrender to the angel of death we will be happy forever.

Related Characters: Miguel Ruiz (speaker)
Page Number: 121
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Chapter 8. Prayers Quotes

And then the old man opens his own chest, takes out his heart with that beautiful flame inside, and he puts that flame your own heart.

Related Characters: Miguel Ruiz (speaker), Old Man , Teacher
Related Symbols: Flame
Page Number: 137
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