The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom is a fabulous book by bestselling author Don Miguel Ruiz with Janet Mills. I first read this book in 1997. It immediately resonated with me. It’s one of those books that doesn’t contain much information that you haven’t heard before, but when you hear it presented like this, its like a light bulb turns on and you see everything in a fresh and meaningful context.

The book offers a code of conduct based on ancient Toltec wisdom that advocates freedom from self-limiting beliefs that may cause suffering and limitation in a person’s life. Order this book if you’re ready to free yourself from limitations imposed by others, and by your own blindness or self-defeating beliefs. It will change the way you see the world and your place in it.

“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