10 Powerful don Miguel Ruiz Quotes from The Four Agreements For Better Living

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Excerpt: 10 Quotes from The Four Agreements to help you stop living with self-limiting beliefs so that you may experience more joy, love, and freedom.

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Introduction: It’s Time To Take Your Life Back

Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, don Miguel Ruiz presents the readers with a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform lives for the better—The Four Agreements.

With all of the innumerable media influences, peer pressure, and conformity institutions—it’s far too easy to forget who we are, to lose touch with the root of our being, and to become a product of a toxic environment. Ruiz shows us how we can take our lives back.  

Each agreement focuses on the idea of developing ourselves first and training our minds so that we may see the world in new a light. He argues that by doing so, we may resultantly interact with it in a more optimal, honest, and fulfilling way.

Below is a summery of each of The Four Agreements followed by our list of 10 quotes from his book. Take note of any quote that makes you think and take some extra time to integrate his ideas into your life. Enjoy!

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The Four Agreements Summary:

1)  Be Impeccable With Your Word: Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

2)  Don’t Take Anything Personally: Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

3)  Don’t Make Assumptions: Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

4)  Always Do Your Best: Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgement, self-abuse, and regret.

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The List: 10 Powerful don Miguel Ruiz Quotes from The Four Agreements For Better Living

“Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years because you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action.”

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

“Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you’re expecting a reward. Most people do the exact opposite: They only take action when they expect a reward, and they don’t enjoy the action. And that’s the reason why they don’t do their best.”

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

“If I love myself I will express that love in my interactions with you, and then I am being impeccable with the word, because that action will produce a like reaction. If I love you, then you will love me. If I insult you, you will insult me. If I have gratitude for you, you will have gratitude for me.  If I’m selfish with you, you will be selfish with me.”

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

“We don’t need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them. If we try to change them, this means we don’t really like them.”

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

“Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do. There is an old expression that says, ‘Misery likes company,’ and people who are suffering in hell don’t want to be all alone.”

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

“Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one 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.  What they say, what they do, and the opinions they give are according to the agreements that they have in their own minds.”

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

“You can only be you when you do your best. When you don’t do your best you are denying yourself the right to be you. That’s a seed that you should really nurture in your mind. You don’t need knowledge or great philosophical concepts. You don’t need the acceptance of others. You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.”

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

“We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal.  Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves; it is why we don’t accept ourselves the way we are, and why we don’t accept others the way they are.”

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

“The world is very beautiful and very wonderful.  Life can be very easy when love is your way of life.  You can be loving all the time.  This is your choice.  You may not have a reason to love, but you can love because to love makes you so happy. Love in action only produces happiness. Love will give you inner peace. It will change your perception of everything.”

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

“When you feel good, everything around you is good, when everything around you is great, everything makes you happy. You are loving everything that is around you, because you are loving yourself. Because you like the way you are. Because you are happy with your life. You are happy with the movie that you are producing, happy with your agreements with life. You are at peace, and you are happy. You live in that state of bliss where everything is so wonderful, and everything is so beautiful.  In that state of bliss you are making love all the time with everything that you perceive.”

don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

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If you enjoyed these quotes from The Four Agreements, you should read don Miguel Ruiz’s book in full. It comes highly recommended: