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The Four Agreements Deep Dive
Revisiting them 20 years later
“The Four Agreements
1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don’t take anything personally.
3. Don’t make assumptions.
4. Always do your best. ”
― don Miguel Ruiz
9/11/2001 became a sort of wake-up call for me.
I’d been living small, tucked into a box, into more boxes within myself, trying to survive an abusive marriage. I wasn’t happy. I wasn’t inspired. I wasn’t safe.
Life wasn’t good.
9/11 made me realize I had a lot of unfinished ‘God business’ to work through, and it really made me realize how abruptly life can end.
One of the ways I coped was by attending a local progressive church — in search of community and support in my inner journey. It turned out not to be a lifelong fit — that first church — but it did turn out to have a lifelong impact because it was at that progressive church that I was blessed to hear don Miguel Ruiz speak in person about his book The Four Agreements.
I bought and read my first copy and continue to live by the principles he teaches in that book to this day.
Well, the book came back to the front of my awareness recently because I included some…
