Published on 12, July, 2020
Does anybody here live by the Four Agreements?
For anybody who is unfamiliar with them, they are ~
1. Be impeccable with your word
2. Don’t take anything personally
3. Don’t make assumptions
4. Always do your best
and a later addition ~
5. Be skeptical but learn to listen.
They are all based on Toltec Wisdom.
I’m currently re-reading book one, The Four Agreements, and after a few more re-reads I’ll move on to some re-reads of the Fitth Agreement.
It is said that if all of society practiced just one of the agreements, the world would change ~ but why stop at one?
I love reading the books, they don’t teach me anything I don’t know but I love the way the author describes how a person can live by the five agreements and live in perfect bliss and happiness.
With this book, there’s no need to understand the underlying laws that support these agreements but they can help a person to achieve perfect bliss regardless.
I know plenty of people who have read the book but I don’t know anybody who practices the agreements, who has made a commitment to them in their everyday lives.
What other inspiring books are people reading?
1. Everybody lies sometimes
2. Trust nobody absolutely
3. Embrace pessimism
4. Life is ultimately futile
5. Treat all religions with equal disdain
Most people lie most of the time, they trust nobody, they embrace pessimism and believe that life is ultimately futile and they treat all religions with equal disdain, so if you’re autistic, congratulations, you are also very normal.
The people who think differently to this are in the minority, hence why we have wars and poverty and terrorists running around all over the place etc etc.
But fair play, well said, I think that’s the best description of normality that I’ve heard so far.
I wouldn’t say he’s a renegade DC, unless I have misunderstood that word, I would say he’s of the upmost normal it’s just most people aren’t as honest.
They make me giggle they’re so accurate.
You function more than well enough I love love love the school rules
p.p.s. Or I didn’t function well enough for them to be wanted to be kept.
P.s.. they didn’t work x
Ahhhhhh number 4 is so touching, it’s so romantic. I love all of them. 3 and 4 wouldn’t work for me as that much holding would freak me out but I love the sentiment of them and if I was going to have a regular type of relationship with rules, I’d say they were pretty good rules, but alas, I’m not.