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true justice is paying only once for each mistake. true injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.
the most important agremeents are the ones you make with yourself. in these agreements, you tell yourself who you are, what you feel, what you believe and how to behave. the result is what you call your personality. in these agreements, you tell yourself, "this is what I am. this is what I believe. there are certain things I can do, and some things I cannot. this is fantasy, this is reality; this is possible, that is impossible."
The first agreement - be impeccable with your word
It is through your word that you manifest everything. Your intent manifests through the word. What you dream, what you feel, and what you really are, will all be manifested through the word. The word is not just a sound or written symbol. It is a force, it is the power you have to express or communicate, to think, and thereby to create the events in your life.
The word is the most poeerful6toll you have as human, it is a tool of magic. But like a sword with two edges, your word can create the most beautiful dream, or your word can destroy everything around you. One edge is the misuse of the word, which creates living hell. The other edge us the impeccability of the word, which only create beauty, love, and heaven on earth.
The human mind is like a fertile ground where seeds are continually being planted. These seeds are opinions, ideas and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought, and it grows. The word is like a seed.
By hooking our attention, the word can enter our mind and change a whole belief for better or for worse.
There is an old expression which says, "misery likes company" and people who are suffering in hell don't want to be all alone.
You can measure the impeccabality of your word by your own level of self love. How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word.
With the impeccability of the word, you can transcend the dream of fear and live a different life. You can live in heaven in the middle of thousands of people living in hell because you are immune to that hell.
The second agreement - don't take anything personally
Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally. If I see you on the street and I say, "hey, you are so stupid, " it's not about you, it's about me. As soon as you agree with what I am saying, the poison goes through you, and you are trapped in the dream of hell. Personal importance is the maximum level of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about 'me'.
All people live in their own dreams, in their own mind. They are in a completely different world from the ones we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view comes from all the programming they received during domestication. If someone says something mean to you, don't take it persoany because the truth is, this person is dealing with their own feelings, beliefs and opinions. That person tried to send you poison and if you take it personally, then you take that poison and it becomes yours. Taking poison makes you easy prey for predators, who will feed you with whatever poison they want. If you don't eat all their emotional garbage, you are immune right in the middle of hell. Immunity to poision in the middle of is the gift of this agreement.
Don't take things personally, because if start taking things personally then you are setting yoursf up to suffer for nothing. When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do.
When you make it a strong habit to not take things personally, you avoid many upsets in life. Your anger, jeaolousy, envy will disappear and even your sadness wl disappeae if you don't take things personally.
The third agreement - don't make assumptions
That is why whenever we make assumptions, we're asking for problems. We make an assumption, we misunderdtand, we take it personally, and we end up creating a whole big drama for nothing. All the sadness and drama you have rooted in your life was rooted in making assumptipns and taking things personally.
We create a lot of emotional poison just by making assumptions and taking it personally, because usually we start gossipping about our assumptions.
It is always better to ask questions than to make assumptions, because assumptions set us up for suffering.
It you don't understand something, it is better for you to ask and be clear, instead of making an assumption. The day you stop making assumptions you will communicate cleanly and clearly, free of emotional poision.
The fourth agreement - always do your best
Under any circumstances, always do your best, no more no less. But keep in mind that your best is never going to be the same from one moment to the next. Everything is alive and changing all the time, so your best will sometimes be high quality, and other times it will not be as good. When you wake up refreshed and energized in the morning, your best will be better than when you are tired at night. Your best will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick, or sober as opposed to drunk. Your best will depend on whether you are feeling wonderful and happy, or upset, angry or jealous. In your everyday moods, your best can change from one moment to another, from one hour to the next, from one day to another.
On the other hand, if you take action just for the sake of doing it, without expecting a reward, you will find that you enjoy every action you do. Rewards will come, but you are not attached to the reward. You can even get more than you would have imagined for yourself without expecting a reward. If we like what we do, if we always do our best, then we are really enjoying life. We are having fun, we don't get bored, we don't have frustrations.
Expressing what you are is taking action. You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results and no reward. A good example of this comes from the sorry of Forrest Gump. He didn't have great ideas, but he took action. He was happy because he always did his best at what ever he did. He was richly rewarded without expecting any reward at all. Taking action is being alive. It's taking the risk to go out and express your dream.
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That is why in all the shamanic traditions in America, from Canada to Argentina, people call themselves warriors, because they are in a war against the parasite in the mind. That is the real meaning of a warrior. The warrior is the one who rebels against the invasion of the parasite. The warrior rebels and declares a war. But to be a warrior doesn't mean we always win the war, we may win or we may lose, but we always do our best and at least we have a chance to be free again. Choosing this path gives us, at the very least, the dignity of rebellion, and ensures that we will not be the helpless victim of our own whimsical emotions or the poisonous emotions of others. Even if we succumb to the enemy - the parasite - we will not be among those victims who would not fight back.
If we want to be free, we have to destroy the parasite. One solution is to attack the parasite head by head, which means we face each of our fears, one by one. This is a slow process, but it works. Every time we face one of the fears we are a little more free. A second approach is to stop feeding the parasite. If we don't give the parasite any food, we kill the parasite by starvation. To do this we have to gain control of our emotions, we have to refrain from fuelling the emotion that comes from fear.
How are we to become a warrior? There are certain characteristics of the warrior that are nearly the same around the world. The warrior has awareness. That's very important. We are aware that we are at war, and the war in our minds requires discipline. Not the discipline of a soldier, but the discipline of a warrior. Not the discipline from the outside to tell us what to do and what not to do, but the discipline to be ourselves, no matter what. The warrior has control. Not control over another human, but control over one's own emotions, control over one's own self. It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control. The big difference between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains.
But there is really no reason to suffer. The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer. If you look at your life you will find many excuses to suffer, but a good reason you will not find. The same is true for happiness. The only reason you are happy is because you chose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering. Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice : to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny. To suffer, or to love and be happy. To live in hell, or to live in heaven. My choice is to live in heaven. What is yours?
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