The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

The four agreements by don Miguel Ruiz is a book of self realization. Its an eye opener for everyone of us who have made peace with the suffering imposed on them by their surrounding environment. This book claims to be imparting Toltec wisdom of ancient Mexico. The author was raised in a family of healers and later choose to become a medical surgeon.

The book emphasizes on how we are surrounded by a wall of fog made from dreams of humans. Since our birth we are controlled by people around us who make us believe what they perceive. We are born free but as soon as we enter the societies dream, our behavior and thought process is controlled by our society and we grow up believing them.

The four agreements which the author teaches us lets us to be free from self imposed sufferings and offer true love, joy and happiness. The book not only teaches us the new code of conduct or the four agreements we make with ourselves but also teaches us how to break free from the older one’s imposed by our society.