- "I am made of light; I am made of stars."
- The dream of the planet is the collective dream of billions of smaller, personal dreams, which together create a dream of family, a dream of a community, a dream of a city, a dream of a country, and finally a dream of the whole humanity.
- To have faith is to believe unconditionally.
- We soon develop a need to hook other people's attention in order to get the reward.
- We rebel because we are defending our freedom.
- Whatever goes against the Book of Law will make you feel a funny sensation in your solar plexus, and it's called fear.
- True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.
- The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake.
- Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies.
- All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty.
- We have the need to be right and to make others wrong.
- That is why humans resist life. To be alive is the biggest fear humans have.
- Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans.
- We cannot forgive ourselves for not being what we wish to be, or rather what we believe we should be.
- Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be.
- In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself.
- The agreements that come from fear require us to expend a lot of energy, but the agreements that come from love help us to conserve energy and even gain extra energy.
- The First Agreement: Be Impeccable with Your Word
- The first agreement is the most important one and also the most difficult one to honor. It is so important that with just this first agreement you will be able to transcend to the level of existence I call heaven on earth.
- Every human is a magician, and we can either put a spell on someone with our word or we can release someone from a spell.
- A sin is anything that you do which goes against yourself.
- When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions, but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself.
- Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.
- That is why we must forgive them; they don't know what they do.
- The only thing that can break a spell is to make a new agreement based on truth.
- Gossip is black magic at its very worst because it is pure poison.
- Fear and suffering are an important part of the dream of the planet; they are how the dream of the planet keeps us down.
- One little piece of misinformation can break down communication between people, causing every person it touches to become infected and contagious to others.
- You will only receive a negative idea if your mind is fertile ground for that idea.
- The Second Agreement: Don't Take Anything Personally
- Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about "me."
- Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.
- Taking things personally makes you easy prey for these predators.
- It does not affect me because I know what I am. I don't have the need to be accepted.
- Whatever you think, whatever you feel, I know is your problem and not my problem.
- It is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said.
- Don't take anything personally. Even if someone got a gun and shot you in the head, it was nothing personal. Even at that extreme.
- Even the opinions you have about yourself are not necessarily true; therefore, you don't need to take whatever you hear in your own mind personally.
- Humans are addicted to suffering at different levels and to different degrees, and we support each other in maintaining these addictions.
- You don't need to trust others as must as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.
- When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life.
- You are never responsible for the actions of others; you are only responsible for you.
- The Third Agreement: Don't Make Assumptions
- Whenever we make assumptions, we're asking for problems.
- It is always better to ask questions than to make an assumption, because assumptions set us up for suffering.
- It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe. This is why we make assumptions.
- We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.
- 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.
- Everybody has the right to tell you no or yes, but you always have the right to ask.
- If all humans could communicate in this way, with impeccability of the word, there would be no wars, no violence, no misunderstandings.
- Becoming aware of these habits and understanding the importance of this agreement is the first step.
- Taking the action over and over again strengthens your will, nurtures the seed, and establishes a solid foundation for the habit to grow.
- The Fourth Agreement: Always Do Your Best
- Under any circumstance, always do your best, no more and no less.
- If you do less than your best, you subject yourself to frustrations, self-judgment, guilt, and regrets.
- Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward.
- 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.
- When you do your best, you don't give the Judge the opportunity to find you guilty or to blame you.
- Learning from your mistakes means you practice, look honestly at the results, and keep practicing.
- Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way the we deny life.
- You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action.
- God is life.
- You have the right to be you. You can only be you when you do your best.
- The knowledge is there; it's just waiting for you to use it.
- Wherever we go we find that our path is full of obstacles. Everyone tries to sabotage our commitment to these new agreements, and everything around us is a setup for us to break them.
- If you fail, do not judge.
- If you break an agreement, begin again tomorrow, and again the next day. It will be difficult at first, but each day will become easier and easier.
- Today is the beginning of a new dream.
- True freedom has to do with the human spirit -- it is the freedom to be who we really are.
- Who really stops us from being free? We stop ourselves.
- Our normal human tendency is to enjoy life, to play, to explore, to be happy, and to love.
- You don't need to blame your parents for teaching you to be like them. What else could they teach you but what they know?
- If you watch children when they are playing adults, you will see their little faces change. "Let's pretend I'm a lawyer," and right away their faces change; the adult face takes over.
- The worst part is that most of us are not even aware that we are not free.
- The belief system that was put inside your mind is based on lies.
- There are three masteries that lead people to become Toltecs. First is the Mastery of Awareness. This is to be aware of who we really are, with all the possibilities. The second is the Mastery of Transformation -- how to change, how to be free of domestication. The third is the Mastery of Intent. Intent from the Toltec point of view is the part of life that makes transformation of energy possible; it is the one living being that seamlessly encompasses all energy, or what we call "God." Intent is life itself; it is unconditional love. The Mastery of Intent is therefore the Mastery of Love.
- From the Toltec point of view, all humans who are domesticated are sick. They are sick because there is a parasite is the negative emotions that come from fear.
- It's up to you to choose what to believe and what not to believe.
- You must become aware that you are dreaming all the time.
- If you have the awareness that the whole drama of your life is the result of what you believe, and what you believe is not real, then you can begin to change it.
- The decision to adopt the Four Agreements is a declaration of war to regain your freedom from the parasite.
- We are addicted to being the way we are.
- Repetition makes the master.
- Every day we awake with a certain amount of mental, emotional, and physical energy that we spend throughout the day. If we allow our emotions to deplete our energy, we have no energy to change our lives or to give to others.
- Forgiveness is the only way to heal.
- When someone can touch what used to be a wound and it no longer hurts you, then you know you have truly forgiven.
- The problem with most people is that they lose control of their emotions. It is the emotions that control the behavior of the human, not the human who controls the emotions.
- 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. The warrior has control.
- What the angel of death can teach us is how to be truly alive.
- The angel of death comes to us and says, "You see everything that exists here is mine; it is not yours. Your house, your spouse, your children, your car, your career, your money -- everything is mine and I can take it away when I want to, but for now you can use it."
- You have the power to create hell, and you have the power to create heaven.
- This way of life is possible, and it's in your hands. Moses called it the Promised Land, Buddha called it Nirvana, Jesus called it Heaven, and the Toltecs call it a New Dream.
- The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
- Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
What are your favorites? If you enjoyed some of these quotes, i strongly encourage you to pick up a copy of the book. It should be available at your local library.
