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Name: The Fifth Agreement
Rating: 4.5 (171 reviews)
Author: Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz

Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz

A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

4.5 (171 Bewertungen)

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What’s in it for me? Discover your true self by committing to five agreements.

Do you live your life freely and in accordance with the real truth about yourself and your surroundings? Or as you grew up did you gradually lose the ability to explore and create without judging yourself and others? If you agree to let go of the self-limiting habits that prevent you from seeing the real truth, you can recover this power.

In these blinks you’ll learn how to regain your normal human tendencies by committing to the five simple agreements that should guide your everyday life.

You’ll also learn

how should can be used to judge and punish;
that opinions are only relative truths; and
why assumptions can lead to unnecessary dramas.

We lose our natural human tendencies thanks to the process of domestication and the symbology we’re taught.

Every day our mind is influenced by society and the people around us. Our parents and our environment teach us what they’ve learned and what they believe, and when we take on these beliefs, we become domesticated.

But prior to domestication, we go about our normal tendencies without self-consciousness or self-judgment. That is, from the moment we are born, we have tendencies to explore, create, eat, and so on, and we act on these tendencies without question.

When we reach toddlerhood, we frolick around naked and carefree without thinking I’m too fat, and express our creativity without thinking I painted with the wrong colors. We seek to fulfill our needs and instincts, simply because it makes us happy.

Gradually, though, we’re introduced to symbology, and use the symbols that we’re taught during our upbringing to judge and punish ourselves and each other.

But we do need symbology – it’s how we express ourselves. That means that the words we use are graphical symbols that we’ve given a certain meaning in order to communicate through sound and writing.

However, the symbology we’re exposed to and taught when growing up is loaded with cultural and social values and norms.

In this way, we also learn how we ought to be, in accordance with particular values and norms, and we use abstract notions of wrong and right, fat and skinny, beautiful and ugly and so forth to gauge these norms.

For instance, we might learn that we should go to church every Sunday to be a good Christian, or we should be skinny, smart and beautiful in order to experience a happy life.

Unfortunately, many of us judge and punish ourselves and others for not fulfilling the different shoulds of symbology, and over time, we lose the ability to behave in line with our normal human tendencies – the unselfconscious toddler in all of us.

Our knowledge and truth become relative through symbology.

As we grow up we make agreements with one another and with ourselves. One agreement is to share certain symbologies through which we can communicate, like language, as we learned in the last blink. You’re only able to comprehend what you are reading or hearing now because you agree with the writer on the meaning of the words.

But here, the key word is “agree”– it’s not about universal truth. The symbology we’re taught feels true because we agree that the symbols hold a certain value or meaning, not because it’s the absolute truth.

The first agreement: be impeccable in your use of words.

Words are a powerful creation tool – we use them all the time. But many of us don’t fully fathom just how much words matter.

When you use words charged with self-judgment and self-rejection, you’re using words against yourself.

The second agreement: stop taking everything personally.

Remember a time when a family member or friend didn’t understand your way of thinking, and how hurt or angry you felt about it? We’ve all experienced this. But there’s really no use in taking misunderstandings or negative opinions to heart.

It’s vital to remember that the opinions that people hold about you only concern their personal image of you. What they think about you isn’t the real you.

The third agreement: stop making assumptions and you can focus your energy on the actual truth.

Have you ever made a false assumption about why someone was late or didn’t show up to your meeting or date? Most people make assumptions that turn out to be false, and this can create unnecessary worry and drama.

As humans, we have a need to predict, explain and justify events that happen in our lives, and when we’re uncertain about something, we fill in the gaps by imagining what people are thinking, doing, and feeling.

The fourth agreement: do your best and incorporate the agreements into your life.

You’ve now learned about three agreements: be impeccable with words, don’t take anything personally, and don’t make assumptions. But how can you integrate these into your life? By dedicating yourself to the fourth agreement: always doing your best.

When you do your best, you’ll find that the first three agreements will manifest far more easily in your life.

The fifth agreement: be skeptical, but learn to listen.

Everyone wants to express their point of view by telling stories about their experience of the world. But how do you know which of the stories are true? By committing to the fifth agreement of being skeptical.

To thoroughly explore what symbology people are using in their storytelling, you have to be skeptical of what is being communicated. This means agreeing with yourself to not naively buy into everything you hear, and to look behind the symbols.

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Worum geht es in The Fifth Agreement?

Our perceptions of our true selves are clouded by the society we live in and the people around us. The Fifth Agreement (2010) introduces five pacts that will help you strip away those misconceptions and uncover the truth about who you really are – without running off to a mountain top to be a hermit.

Wer The Fifth Agreement lesen sollte

Anyone who wants to feel freer.
People who feel discouraged about their life.
Anyone searching for a deeper understanding of themselves

Über den Autor

Don Miguel Ruiz is the author of The Four Agreements, which remained a New York Times bestseller for over seven years. His other books include The Mastery of Love and The Voice of Knowledge. He draws on the philosophies of the Toltec culture, which flourished in Mexico over a thousand years ago.

Don Jose Ruiz is the son of Don Miguel Ruiz. Don Jose Ruiz teaches and lectures both in the United States and internationally, helping to spread the wisdom and teachings of Toltec culture.

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