Hello all!

My name is Tom and I am in love with The Four Agreements! I recently divorced, most part due to my nasty attitude about life. I was in a really bad space. I pretty much lived the opposite of the four agreements.

I was fortunate enough to be able to "head off into the wilderness" and meditate on my life. For some reason I grabbed The Four Agreement books which I had already read and they did not affect me. I guess timing is everything because they have truly changed my outlook on life after picking them up and reading them again. I am currently working through the Companion Book.

I believe the information in the books this time around for some reason. I think I believed it the first time too but I was either too deep in depression or not deep enough, not sure which but probably not deep enough. I work at these agreements everyday now. I am even believe in me and my ability to live an authentic life.

The thing that had the biggest effect on me was reading that humans are the only creatures that punish themselves more than once for a mistake, that guilt is a sin against ourselves for no reason whatsoever. We made a mistake and we paid a price for it. That is enough, once is enough. It is time to let it go and move on. I was able to forgive myself for the pain I know I caused my wife. Now I can move on from this situation knowing that yes, I made a mistake and it hurt someone I love very deeply but it does not honor my authentic self or my ex-wifes authentic self by being miserable forever about these things. I have moved on and I am working to break old agreements that I dont like and I am discovering my authentic self.

I am appreciative that this group is here and I hope others are having as powerful of experiences as I am from the gift given to us by Ruiz and the Toltecs. If you have, perhaps you could share with me and the group what most affected you.

Love and Peace,
--Tom