Sunday, December 22, 2013

The Four Agreements selected quotes I

-I am made of light, I am made of stars.
-The real us is pure love, pure light.
-Everyone is a mirror.
-The process of domestication: children believe everything adults say. We agree with them, and our faith is so strong that the belief system controls our whole dream of life. We did not choose these beliefs, and we may have rebelled against them, but we were not strong enough to win the rebellion. The result is surrender to the beliefs with our agreement. We train our children whom we love so much the same way that we train any domesticated animal: with a system of punishment and reward. The reward feels good, and we keep doing what others want us to do in order to get the reward. With that fear of being punished and that fear of not getting the reward, we start pretending to be what we are not, just to please others, just to be good enough for someone else.
-How many times do we make our spouse, our children, or our parents pay for the same mistake? Every time we remember the mistake, we blame them and send them all the emotional poison we feel at the injustice , and then we make them pay again for the same mistake. Is that justice?
-Ninety five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lie, and we suffer because we believe all these lies.
-We have the need to be right and to make others wrong.
-To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggest fear we have. Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive. We have learned to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.
-We dishonor ourselves just to please other people.
-The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse.
-The most important agreements are the ones you made with yourself

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