The Four Agreements – Summarized for Busy People: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom: A Toltec Wisdom Book

We hide our true selves by putting on social masks so that others won’t judge us based on their idea of perfection

Words are often used to blame, curse, and destroy others; they’re used to express hate, anger, resentment, and jealousy. We create chaos through words and breed hatred among nations, races, people, and families. We drag others down with us upon falling and remain in this fearful state. But when we listen to others’ opinions and trust their word, we create an agreement that can add to our established beliefs. People throwing negative words usually are not aware of what they’re doing, that’s why it’s important to forgive them.

the agreements you created with yourself are the most important ones since they would create your personality.

tend to reject ourselves when we realize our striving for perfection is futile.

We create in our minds a perfect image which we try to live up to and this image would be acceptable to society, but that can never be attained because we can never be perfect. No one is perfect.

We can’t see the real us and we don’t realize that we are imprisoned in our own minds.

Because of this belief system, we begin to fear whatever is against it and when our beliefs are questioned, we feel a sense of insecurity which is why we constantly have to raise our courage in fighting for our beliefs.

true justice arises from every mistake committed and true injustice arises from how many times we make a mistake

Speak up when you’re asking for what you want.

loving someone will mean accepting them without forcing them to change.