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Summary: A Practical Guide to Help Us Decode Our Emotional Garbage
Review: After reading The Four Agreements, I felt that it is great to learn the four agreements ¡V be impeccable with your word, don¡¦t take anything personally, don¡¦t make assumptions and always try your best. However, that book did not have enough practical ideas or skills to guide me decode our old agreements/emotional garbage, how to be aware and how to transform. This book has a practical guide to teach us how to live in the four agreements. It teaches us how to become aware and how to transform.
1. Bring the Awareness to Surface so We Can Let Go of the Parasites, the Old Agreement, the Judge, the Victim, the fear
2. How to transform by the second attention (become aware and not act on or judge too fast), action-reaction, attach-detach
Don Miguel Ruiz has a very playful style of writing when he was telling us the above skills. I think in essence, the above skills suggests us to slow down our thinking process to give us enough time to steer our feelings and actions to apply the four agreements and to enjoy life intensely within the moment. His dialogue about the four agreements and other people¡¦s stories about applying the four agreements give me hope that I can live my life with what he has suggested. The dialogue helps us to decode certain emotional garbage and the dialogue helps me to break the old agreements. It is definitely a must-read if you have read the four agreements. Again, reading is not enough. However, putting the new adopted philosophies into everyday¡¦s life is the way to turn the dream of hell to become the dream of heaven.
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Summary: Not very impressive...
Review: Anecdotal stories without much true insight, and CERTAINLY not the level that some of these reviewers claim. I continue to get the impression that some people suffer from being overly enamoured with the author or the concept of T4A, and thus lose sight of the fact that this book is really a lot of fluffy stuff wrapped around four lines of text. Honestly, the Four Agreements are wonderful points to live by, and I do every day. However, it seems quite bizarre to me that one would need this book (or any other) to explain what these four simple sentences mean:
1) Speak your thoughts clearly
2) Don't ASSume
3) Don't take things personally
4) Do your best
Folks, these are NOT hard things to understand, and you definitely don't need books to figure this stuff out (well, ok, maybe some of you do :-). Do yourself a favor. Print out the four points I've listed above and you'll save yourself lots of money. Peace.
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Summary: A Must Have!
Review: Anyone who has read his first book will definitely want to read this one as well. This book actually helps the reader to implement the Four Agreements into daily life. Very insightful and I wish I had read it forty years ago!
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Summary: Thought Provoking...
Review: I have not finished reading this book yet, but it has been such a journey for what I have read! I came to such realizations in myself. It is very thought provoking, I never realized how fearful I really am. I never saw myself as fearful, putting a lable on the feelings I have is so freeing! I am looking forward to what lies ahead in this great book!
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Summary: Little dissapointment
Review: I like Miguel Ruiz as an author very much. You can see that from my grades of other his books. But this book is dissapointment for me. I read some other experiental and companion books that were much better, for example Teachings of don Carlos or Celestine Prophecy - an experiental guide. In all these books the diary writing as a method is included too, but in the Four Agreements Companion Book the writing in the diary or notebook is the only method. In very short time it becomes boring. Maybe if it was not a book of Miguel Ruiz I would grade it with greater mark, but because Ruiz is so briliant writer, I'll give 3 to this book. My opinion is that last part of Four Agreements, last part of Mastery of Love and the book Beyond the Fear are much better experiental guides for Miguels teachings.
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Summary: Pay attention
Review: I was hooked from chapter one about being domesticated. This world would be a better place if more people read the works of Don Miguel Ruiz. If you liked The Four Agreements, don't miss this follow up. If you haven't read The Four Agreements you're missing a chance to live a happier life. I also recommend Rat Race Relaxer: Your Potential & The Maze of Life by JoAnna Carey.
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Summary: found my second attention
Review: I was hooked from chapter one on being domesticated. This world would be a better place if more people read the works of Don Miguel Ruiz. I also recommend Rat Race Relaxer: Your Potential & The Maze of Life by JoAnna Carey.
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Summary: found my second attention
Review: I was hooked from chapter one on being domesticated. This world would be a better place if more people read the works of Don Miguel Ruiz. I also recommend Rat Race Relaxer: Your Potential & The Maze of Life by JoAnna Carey.
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Summary: A TERRIFIC BOOK!
Review: If you have read "The Four Agreements", you will not want to miss this excellent and energizing companion book. Like "The Four Agreements", much of the content in this book is based on Eastern philosophies and attaining personal freedom and happiness. This book expands upon "The Four Agreements" by indicating one's life is a dream, a dream that is often dictated by others. In this light, "domestication" is seen as the root of human suffering. There is much to be learned from the Toltec way, and I highly recommend both this book and "Awakening the Buddha Within" by Lama Surya Das. There is much truth and food for thought contained in both these excellent, spiritually refreshing books. The wisdom learned gives direction to the reader on a path towards a more peaceful, serene and happy life.
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Summary: A TERRIFIC BOOK!
Review: If you have read "The Four Agreements", you will not want to miss this excellent and energizing companion book. Like "The Four Agreements", much of the content in this book is based on Eastern philosophies and attaining personal freedom and happiness. This book expands upon "The Four Agreements" by indicating one's life is a dream, a dream that is often dictated by others. In this light, "domestication" is seen as the root of human suffering. There is much to be learned from the Toltec way, and I highly recommend both this book and "Awakening the Buddha Within" by Lama Surya Das. There is much truth and food for thought contained in both these excellent, spiritually refreshing books. The wisdom learned gives direction to the reader on a path towards a more peaceful, serene and happy life.
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