Don Miguel Ruiz - Toltec Wisdom

Great truth is found in Don Miguel Ruiz's books. I can honestly say I'm a happier person because of them. One of my favorite books
The Four Agreementsmade it possible for me to get over those situations in life that seem so big that our life feels out of track , but it's all part of our creation. The key is train our minds to substitute negative thoughts and ways to release that energy in a more positive way. One of the agreements that impacted me the most is:
"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."
Everyone is a universe, no universe is like mine. I learned to detach myself from situations I had no control over. People's behaviors that didn't reflect my personality or what I stand for would create an illusion in which I was the only one with something worthy to say. Reflecting back on my feelings and coming across this book at the perfect time made me realize that everyone has divine timing encoded in their DNA, and focusing on how fast someone else could find their way was draining my energy. Life has a way of bringing into our lives clues that could help our current situation, we just have to look & listen; be present in all you do, our actions lay the tracks to our future. I still care dearly for the opinion of those closest to me and I listen, but I know their world will never be the beautiful dream that is mine.

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Thousands of years ago, the Toltec were known throughout southern Mexico as women and men of knowledge. Anthropologists have spoken of the Toltec as a nation or a race. But the Toltec were scientists and artists who formed a society to explore and conserve the spiritual knowledge and practices of the ancient ones. It may seem peculiar that they combined the secular with the sacred, but the Toltec considered science and spirit to be the same since all energy, whether material or ethereal, is derived from the same source and governed by the same universal laws.

Toltec knowledge arises from the same essential unity of truth as all the sacred esoteric traditions around the world. Though it is not a religion, it honors all the spiritual masters who have taught on the earth. Though it does embrace spirit, it is most accurately described as a way of life. Unlike our familiar experience, this way of life is distinguished by the ready accessibility of happiness and love.