There are so many lessons we can learn from past cultures...this book is rich with wisdom that comes from the past, yet still can guide us to a better future. The core of this book (for me) is that we have to come into agreement on how we will go through life; if you are untrue to yourself how can you be true to anyone else? Uplifting and inspirational!

It was hard to take this book seriously. Early statements went something like this:
..everything is made of light
..light is alive and contains all information
..to be alive is the biggest fear that humans have
Once we get past that silliness we come upon the agreements.

#1 says that words are power. I disagree. I think it is our thoughts that are our true power. He says that we are all conditioned by our culture and language but never explains why there are counterculturals or whether it's a good idea to be one.

#2 says we should not take anything personally. Including praise. But no man is an island, praise from loved ones is a blessing that should not be disregarded.

#3 says we should not make assumptions. But he ignores the fact that human brains work inductively and the resultant mistakes are inevitable.

#4 says always do your best. Usually good advice but sometimes leads to undue stress.

There is some good advice in here and it can (and has) been useful for some people. But the basis of his advice is so silly that as I said, I can't take it seriously.

کتاب خوبی بود ، نکاتی که طرح کرده بود البته شاید بشه گفت حرف تازه ای نبود ولی دسته بندی و بیان خوبی داشت. ارزش خوندن رو داشت و به نظرم توان اثر گذاری خوبی هم داشت

I believe that the author can explain each of the agreements on one page. He keeps saying the same things over and over...until I got annoyed, but to be honest, except for the repetition, it was an easy read and the four agreements were useful.
The four agreements are:
1. Be Impeccable with Your Words: Everything starts with words, so be careful how you use them.
2. Don’t Take Anything Personally: you are not the center of the world, and not everything is necessarily about you.
3. Don’t Make Assumptions: Assumptions, prejudice, high expectations, etc., only harm you.
4. Always Try Your Best: Always try your best, but keep in mind that your best will vary depending on the situation and that we are imperfect creatures by nature.

2020: January
As with every year I try to re-read this gem of a book. Will this be the year I practice all four agreements? Stay tuned to find out.

2019: November
According to Goodreads, this is my 6th time reading this book. Every time I pick it up I feel renewed that I need to find a way to implement all four agreements.

2019
One of my favorite books to re-read at the start of the year.

2018
There are four simple agreements, if we are able to stick to these four things, our lives will improve significantly. These four agreements are:
The Four Agreements are:
Be Impeccable With Your Word
Don't Take Anything Personally
Don't Make Assumptions
Always Do Your Best

While these are "Simple" agreements, there is nothing simple about not taking anything personal, not making assumptions and always doing your best. I do believe these are four really great principles to live by and I look forward to putting these into practice.




2017
At the beginning of every year I try to read this book, maybe this year I will make it a monthly read. This book challenges us to do four "simple" things in order for us to live a more fulfilling life. I love how practical these challenges are, but each year I fail to live up to all. For the most part, I try to be impeccable with my word because I am firmly believe that your words create worlds. I keep telling people about the power of their words so this is an agreement I try to live as closely to as possible. The others are a little difficult but I think with constant reading and practice it will become a habit.
This should be mandatory reading for everyone.

A very powerful, life changing book, providing you do as instructed. Granted I have heard all of the Four Agreements in some form or another, but in this format I really "got it".
The Four Agreements are:
Be Impeccable With Your Word
Don't Take Anything Personally
Don't Make Assumptions
Always Do Your Best
All Four Agreements are things that can be done, but will be really hard. After reading this book, I honestly saw how I sometimes get in my own way, in the way I speak, how I take things personally and by making assumptions. I honestly do believe if you work at these Four Agreements, your life will change in phenomenally.

PLEASE READ.

Wowwwwwwww!

4.25 ⭐

GENRE - SELF HELP

PAGES - 140

This book talks about the 4 important fundamentals of living life.

1) Be impeccable with your words.
2)Don't take things personally.
3)Don't make assumptions.
4) Always do your Best.

A quick and easy read with short stories and anecdotes this book will keep you glued and intrested.

Thankyou

2.5 stars. video reading kylie jenner's favourite books: https://youtu.be/DE5_qfqwRkY

Trivial introduction to New Age ethics with a large side order of third-rate, rancid leftovers from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, all written for a third-grade reading comprehension.

Considering that the first agreement is "be impeccable with your word," it's ironic and even more horrifying that the words in this book are so lazy, careless, contradictory, infantile, incoherent, and devoid of integrity.

Miguel Ruiz thinks that the ideal human is--get this--a toddler:

If we see a child who is two or three, perhaps four years old, we find a free human. Why is this human free? Because this human does whatever he or she wants to do. The human is completely wild. Just like a flower, a tree, or an animal that has not been domesticated--wild!

Uh, yeah. That human also completely loses its shit if for some reason it can't keep doing what it wants, and if you were to leave it in the woods, like a flower, a tree, or an animal that has not been domesticated, it would die--like, really soon, unless it was, you know, adopted by wolves. In which case it would be useless as a human.

There's a reason people call the period of being 24 to 36 months old "the terrible twos." If you think about it, a toddler is basically "a living being who lives off of other living beings, sucking their energy without any useful contribution in return, and hurting their host little by little." Or at least, that's what toddlers would be if they didn't stop being toddlers. And that, by the way, is Don Miguel Ruiz's own definition of a parasite--but he's too dense to realize it. (And if you are inclined to protest that it's harsh to describe toddlers as as beings that suck the energy of their hosts without making a useful contribution in return, google reasons my kid is crying. )

At least the idealization of children explains the childish syntax and diction, the crudeness of the examples. This douche nozzle actually writes:

An example: I see a friend and give him an opinion that just popped into my mind. I say, "Hmmm! I see the kind of color in your face in 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.

How the hell does Ruiz know? Has he actually tried it? Is he such a horrible person that he would actually tell a friend that he looks like someone who's going to get cancer? I seriously hope not, because that most definitely does not constitute being impeccable with one's word; it's being wantonly careless, glibly harmful, and perniciously cruel with one's word. (Shame, shame on Miguel Ruiz. Bad, naughty Miguel Ruiz.)

I would like to hear from anyone who has evidence, however anecdotal, that supports Ruiz's claim about giving someone cancer with one's (utterly unimpeccable) word. In the meantime, I can offer this anecdotal evidence to the contrary: one of my relatives suffered for years with severe OCD related to medical issues. This person spent years convinced that they were developing cancer, but they just kept being wrong, because it turns out that mere belief is not necessarily enough to give someone cancer after all. More to the point, people are told all the time, "Don't smoke! Smoking gives you cancer!" And they say, "Meh. That will happen to someone else. It won't happen to me," and even though they don't believe the warnings, they still get cancer. Why? Well, it's obvious enough: the reason people started getting cancer from smoking in the first place isn't that they were told they would get cancer within a year; it's that smoking causes cancer. Freakin' DUH.

This book is so devoid of integrity that it even manages to make Hitler trivial and trite in ways not even the most egregious example of Godwin's Law on the internet could do. Seriously:

Take the example of Hitler. He sent out all those seeds of fear, and they grew very strong and beautifully (sic) achieved massive destruction. Seeing the awesome power of the word, we must understand what power comes out of our mouths.

The mind reels. Hitler didn't merely "send out all those seeds of fear," and his rhetoric alone isn't responsible for the "massive destruction" he so "beautifully" (?!) achieved. He invaded over twenty countries, including Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Britain, Yugoslavia, Greece, Soviet Union, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia. He established death camps and systematically murdered six million Jews and is also responsible for the murder of another ten million people, including Poles, Russians, Gypsies, people with disabilities, Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and Germans who opposed him for any reason.

Describing a genocide and that much deliberate savagery in trite terms like "seeds of fears" that "beautifully achieved massive destruction" is vile and something an intelligent reader should object to. The book manages to make evil banal in ways even Hannah Arendt could not have predicted.

But hey. Guess what will fix everything? TALKING MORE! TALKING BETTER!: "All human problems would be resolved if we could just have good, clear communication."

Except you know who excelled at clear communication? Hitler. And you know who's shitty at good, clear communication--besides, you know, Miguel Ruiz? "A child who is two or three, perhaps four years old." The "wild," "undomesticated" human that Ruiz posits as the ideal human totally sucks at the thing that Ruiz says will solve all our problems.

This would be a significant flaw if Ruiz were actually trying to formulate a sophisticated system that would offer human beings a coherent guide to ethics and behavior--if, that is, his work had any integrity. But it obviously doesn't. My guess is that Ruiz's one and only goal is to convince gullible people to buy the shit he's peddling, and he has clearly succeeded very well at that.

There is no wisdom in this book, only cheap platitudes. And if you can't recognize that The Four Agreements is full of bullshit, well, science says there's a reasonable chance that you're just not smart. See http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sci... for details.

En los cuatro acuerdos, haciendo uso de una sencillez tan prodigiosa como apabullante, Miguel Ruiz nos propone un acercamiento a la sabiduría de los toltecas acerca de la naturaleza de la libertad, la vida y las nociones que nos imponen en la etapa de formación y que adoptamos como verdades irrefutables.

Con palabras simples, el autor desmantela un sistema de creencias inconscientes que venimos arrastrando como consecuencia de la domesticación a la que se nos somete desde pequeños. Es decir, de ese cúmulo de opiniones o juicios inculcados que acabaron definiendo nuestra personalidad y percepción del mundo. Nos habla de las limitaciones autoimpuestas, el peso de las expectativas externas, la insatisfacción tras no poder ser lo que se espera de nosotros y otras duras falacias en las que caemos al dejarnos arrastrar por el pensamiento colectivo silenciando nuestra voz o deseo individual.

Miguel Ruiz, o los toltecas, nos proponen romper con el miedo y los acuerdos preestablecidos que socavan nuestra libertad y amargan nuestra vida. Nos invitan a ser impecables con nuestras palabras, a no tomarnos nada personalmente, a no suponer y a dar lo máximo en cada posible situación para alcanzar la más auténtica versión de nosotros mismos y, con ello, nuestra realidad más plena. Es un libro enriquecedor y revelador.

:چهار میثاق
.با کلام خود گناه نکنید
.هیچ چیز را به خود نگیرید
.تصورات باطل نکنید
.همیشه بیشترین تلاشتان را بکنید
...
.باشد که رستگار شویم

The Four Agreements is a book about four critical agreements that you make with yourself so that you can live the life of your dreams. Ruiz indicates that our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive and to be true to ourselves.

The four agreements are:
* Be Impeccable With Your Word. This means to use your energy to believe in yourself and to take responsibility for your actions.
* Don't Take Things Personally
* Don't Make Assumptions
* Always Do Your Best

These four agreements can help you transform your life and help you stay in the present.

3.5 stars