The Fifth Agreement

Yesterday, I had a great lunch with Mr. WM. Good food, good company and great conversation… and we started discussing personal growth and how I’ve taken this experience of mine and turned it into, not only a lesson in self-discovery, but also into an act of empowerment to share my lesson and knowledge gained through this experience, with others.

WM then told me about his personal experience with life and love and everything in between, and told me about a book called “The Fifth Agreement” by Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz.

A follow-up on the New York Times bestseller “The Four Agreements”, the book reveals how the process of our “domestication” can make us forget the wisdom we’re born with.

On the back-page it says “Throughout our lives, we make many agreements that go against ourselves and create needless suffering. The Four Agreements help us to break these self-limiting agreements and replace them with agreements that can bring us personal freedom, happiness and love”.

The three things we all strive for in life, but very few of us ever experience all at the same time. What’s really stopping us for experiencing all three at once?

With the follow-up, “The Fifth Agreement”, it takes us to a “deeper level of awareness of the power of the Self, and returns us to the authenticity we were born with.”

“The freedom to be who we really are. “

I’ve written before about how we need to find OURSELVES, be accepting of ourselves, and connect with the REAL you.

I started reading this book yesterday and I’d like to share the outline thereof with you – because I find this quite valuable.

BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORD
Speak with integrity. Say only wht you mean. Avoid using word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

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 options and actions of others, you oth be the victim of needless suffering.

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.

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 suck. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-adjustment, self-abuse and regret.

BE SCEPTICAL BUT LEARN TO LISTEN
Don’t believe yourself or anybody else. Use the power of doubt to question everything you year: Is it REALLY the truth? Listen to the intent behind words and you ill understand the real message.

Share the knowledge but break free from that what enslaves us!