We have all made a number of ‘agreements’ about how we will go about life. Don Miguel Ruiz dug back through civilisation to extract the core wisdom and the guiding principles from their way of living. It’s not a religion but more of a spiritual way of living. They were scientists and artists who formed a society to explore and conserve the spiritual knowledge and practices of the ancients. The Toltecs were an ancient civilisation from Mexico, known as ‘the women and men of knowledge’. Replacing our old agreements with these new four won’t be easy, but it may be an important personal shift you can make. This book presents us with four agreements that we should make with ourselves in order to live a good life.
These agreements guide our behaviour – they act as an internal compass by which we decide what we do and don’t do. As we’ve grown up, we’ve subconsciously made a bunch of agreements (not too dissimilar to the four agreements) with ourselves.
