Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
Agreement No. 3 of The Four Agreements
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the Word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your Word in the direction of truth and love.
Agreement No. 2 of The Four Agreements
“Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.”
Agreement No. 1 of The Four Agreements
In the best selling book The Four Agreements Don Miguel Ruiz gives four principles to practice in order to create love and happiness in your life. As you practice living these four practices your life will dramatically change. In the beginning these new habits will be challenging and you will lapse countless times. With practice these agreements become integrated into your being and every area of your life and become easy habits to keep. The Four Agreements are (1) Be Impeccable with your Word, (2) Don’t Take Anything Personally, (3) Don’t Make Assumptions and (4) Always Do Your Best. Continue reading
I want to give you a parable, a metaphor of life, and it goes like this. There is a room we will call the Rainbow Room. In this room, all the colors of the rainbow present themselves linearly, one at a time, and they change every few thousand years. The room needs this to exist, and that’s why it’s called the Rainbow Room. For thousands of years, the room is yellow, then it turns into the blue and the red, the purples, the greens and slowly, the room goes through all the colors of the rainbow. The colors take their turn in the spectrum, one at a time. Continue reading
I was talking to a young friend the other day, 26 years old. He’s not too happy with his new stepdad, who is always talking about what the problem is with everything he sees in the news. He whines about the economy and says there is just no hope for the future. WTF?? Who would ever say that to someone of the next generation? The next generations are the ones who can fix what has been done so far. Never deprive someone of hope, it may be all they have.
In a reading last night, Domino wanted to know if she and her ex were back together again or not. The last time I spoke with her, they’d had a big blow up fight. He shouted at her, “That’s it, we’re over!” and he moved into a buddy’s apartment. Since they’re in business together, they see each other every day and still sit together to chat for meals and breaks. “Now,” she says, “he’s acting all lovey dovey and once again refers to her as his girlfriend, etc.” Domino’s question is “WTF???”
My answer is “Not to worry. This happens a lot.”
At noon Saturday, I wrote on Facebook: “Hmmm, the fan on my central a/c seems to have stopped working. At 77 degrees, it’s cool enough in here without it for right now. I checked the circuit breakers and flipped them. Nothing. In August 2005 I got the new a/c. It has a ten year warranty on the compressor and coils.” Several friends suggested it might be the capacitor, but we checked and the capacitor was fine. I arranged for American Air and Heat (who installed it) to come out at 9:00am on tomorrow morning. In the meantime, I wanted to have everything opened up and ready for the service dude to look at once he got here. I opened up the unit in the hall closet inside the house and the central fan motor thingy on the pc board was not lighting up… I turned the unit and breaker off and unplugged the fuse. Continue reading