Only you can change the world that you create, and by changing your world, the world will change… ‘and that is the Truth that will set you free’.

 

The Four Agreements, ~ Don Miguel Ruiz, the book that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.

 

 

Be impeccable with your word;

Don't take anything personally;

Don't make assumptions;

Always do your best.

 

Everything we do is based on agreements we have made - agreements with ourselves, with other people, with God, with life. But the most important agreements are the ones we make with ourselves. In these agreements we tell ourselves who we are, how to behave,

what is possible, what is impossible. One single agreement is not such a problem, but we have many agreements that come from fear,

deplete our energy, and diminish our self-worth.

 

 When we are ready to change these agreements, there are four deceptively simple, yet powerful agreements that we can adopt as

guiding principles.

 

                                     Wees onberispelijk in je woorden
                                             Vat niets persoonlijk op
                                    Ga niet uit van veronderstellingen
                                                   Doe altijd je best

Zo luidt het Tolteekse recept in De vier inzichten om een gelukkig en vrij mens te worden!

Deze verrassend eenvoudige, maar doeltreffende leefregels, gebaseerd

op de oude Tolteekse wijsheid geeft Don Miguel Ruiz, de auteur van dit boek en zelf van Tolteekse afkomst. Als we deze vier inzichten consequent en radicaal toepassen in ons dagelijks leven, gaan we alles door een heel andere bril bekijken. We zien in dat wijzelf de enigen zijn die ons eigen geluk en welzijn kunnen creëren. Nu leggen we de verantwoordelijkheid daarvoor vaak nog graag bij anderen. Liefde is daarbij een overkoepelende energie, een allesdoordringende kracht die het leven kan veranderen van een hel in een hemel. De manier waarop Ruiz ons dit laat zien ligt zo voor de hand dat je je afvraagt hoe het mogelijk is dat we met zoiets eenvoudigs niet allang een begin hebben gemaakt.

 

I used to like to read the poems of Rumi
But I did not have a clue
What he meant when he said Beloved Friend
Until I met you
Now I know why the Sufis whirl:
It's awfully hard to rest
With all this love and fire inside my chest

I never understood that last supper
I did not know what to think
When Jesus said, "my body is this bread
And my blood this drink"
Had he merged with all of creation? -
Or found some fountain of youth
Now I see what I thought was alchemy
Is just the literal truth

And you don't need to be a Christian mystic
Or be born under a lucky star
You only need to be still and ask who you are,
Be still and know who you are

And to know the sound of one hand clapping
You don't need to read Lao Tsu
Just look around, look around, this is the sound
Do you hear it too?
One hand clapping, one heart singing
One Being being me and you
Only one unmoving ocean
Where many waves pass through

And you don't need to be a Zen Buddhist
To pierce the heart of this mystery
You only need to be willing to stop and see,
See what is still and free

You don't need to be a whirling dervish,
Or study scripture or travel far
You only need to be still and ask who you are
Be willing to know who you are                                                                             by Kirtana