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.

Simply appreciate being alive and be grateful for every opportunity.

Seeing people the way they truly are will make it easier not to be upset about what they say.

Grabbing someone’s attention with an opinion can create negative judgment so it would be a gift to become immune to this bitterness

In truth, most things that people do has nothing to do with you. E

Sin begins only when you reject yourself and this is the major sin you could commit—self-rejection can only lead to destruction, but impeccability promotes life.

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.