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    The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)

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    Heav­en on Earth

    I WANT YOU TO FORGET EVERYTHING YOU HAVE learned in your whole life. This is the begin­ning of a new under­stand­ing, a new dream.

    The dream you are liv­ing is your cre­ation. It is your per­cep­tion of real­i­ty that you can change at any time. You have the pow­er to cre­ate hell, and you have the pow­er to cre­ate heav­en. Why not dream a dif­fer­ent dream? Why not use your mind, your imag­i­na­tion, and your emo­tions to dream heav­en?

    Just use your imag­i­na­tion and a tremen­dous thing will hap­pen. Imag­ine that you have the abil­i­ty to see the world with dif­fer­ent eyes, when­ev­er you choose. Each time you open your eyes, you see the world around you in a dif­fer­ent way.

    Close your eyes now, and then open them and look out­side. What you will see is love com­ing out of the trees, love com­ing out of the sky, love com­ing out of the light. You will per­ceive love from every­thing around you. This is the state of bliss. You per­ceive love direct­ly from every­thing, includ­ing your­self and oth­er humans. Even when humans are sad or angry, behind these feel­ings you can see that they are also send­ing love.

    Using your imag­i­na­tion and your new eyes of per­cep­tion, I want you to see your­self liv­ing a new life, a new dream, a life where you don’t need to jus­ti­fy your exis­tence and you are free to be who you real­ly are.

    Imag­ine that you have per­mis­sion to be hap­py and to real­ly enjoy your life. Your life is free of con­flict with your­self and with oth­ers. Imag­ine liv­ing your life with­out fear of express­ing your dreams. You know what you want, what you don’t want, and when you want it. You are free to change your life the way you real­ly want to. You are not afraid to ask for what you need, to say yes or no to any­thing or any­one.

    Imag­ine liv­ing your life with­out the fear of being judged by oth­ers. You no longer rule your behav­ior accord­ing to what oth­ers may think about you. You are no longer respon­si­ble for anyone’s opin­ion. You have no need to con­trol any­one, and no one con­trols you, either.

    Imag­ine liv­ing your life with­out judg­ing oth­ers. You can eas­i­ly for­give oth­ers and let go of any judg­ments that you have. You don’t have the need to be right, and you don’t need to make any­one else wrong. You respect your­self and every­one else, and they respect you in return.

    Imag­ine liv­ing with­out the fear of lov­ing and not being loved. You are no longer afraid to be reject­ed, and you don’t have the need to be accept­ed. You can say “I love you” with no shame or jus­ti­fi­ca­tion. You can walk in the world with your heart com­plete­ly open, and not be afraid to be hurt.

    Imag­ine liv­ing your life with­out being afraid to take a risk and to explore life. You are not afraid to lose any­thing. You are not afraid to be alive in the world, and you are not afraid to die.

    Imag­ine that you love your­self just the way you are. You love your body just the way it is, and you love your emo­tions just the way they are. You know that you are per­fect just as you are.

    The rea­son I ask you to imag­ine these things is because they are all entire­ly pos­si­ble! You can live in the state of grace, the state of bliss, the dream of heav­en. But in order to expe­ri­ence this dream, you must first under­stand what it is.

    Only love has the abil­i­ty to put you in that state of bliss. Being in bliss is like being in love. Being in love is like being in bliss. You are float­ing in the clouds. You are per­ceiv­ing love wher­ev­er you go. It is entire­ly pos­si­ble to live this way all the time. It is pos­si­ble because oth­ers have done it and they are no dif­fer­ent from you. They live in bliss because they have changed their agree­ments and are dream­ing a dif­fer­ent dream.

    Once you feel what it means to live in a state of bliss, you will love it. You will know that heav­en on earth is truth — that heav­en tru­ly exists. Once you know that heav­en exists, once you know it is pos­si­ble to stay there, it’s up to you to make the effort to do it. Two thou­sand years ago, Jesus told us about the king­dom of heav­en, the king­dom of love, but hard­ly any­one was ready to hear this. They said, “What are you talk­ing about? My heart is emp­ty, I don’t feel the love that you are talk­ing about; I don’t feel the peace that you have.”

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