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Today. Right now. I am taking the first step: I have decided to start on a journey. A quest. This quest will allow me to be Free. I will fail, but I will also try again. Each time that I fail and try again, I shall to my best to become stronger rather than weaker. I shall always have moments of failure, but so long as I have done my best, I can try again. This is my new promise to myself. My new Agreements. There is nothing you can do to help or hurt me. From this post forward, I will do my best to keep this blog free from personal poison. Each day, I will do my best to keep a log of the good things, the things that I love or am learning to love. This is a learning experience. Through this process, I will do my best to become truly free. To start this new quest, I am posting a reminder to myself of the essential meaning behind my new agreements, and in future instances, I will follow the headings and show instances of learning. The good and bad; but all of it learning. This is the acceptance that I now hold. I welcome my journey to a new Dream.

Be Impeccable With Your Word.
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the Word to speak against yourself and against others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

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.

Do Not Make Assumptions.
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, your life and completely change.

Always Do Your Best.
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under ANY circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgement, self-abuse, and regret.

I have finished reading the first installment of the Toltec Wisdom books and I find myself completely dumbfounded...and yet resolved. In reading the book, The Four Agreements, I feel that my eyes have been opened and I am slowly entering into awareness. I find myself viewing everything, EVERYTHING, write down to the very whispers in my mind, in a new light. And the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. As I was nearing the end of the book, I as the reader, was asked to do something. I was asked to close my eyes and take a deep breath and feel the air as it entered my lungs. To feel the air as nothing but love. And I felt the connection that I had just read about. The connection between the air and the lungs was purely love. I was asked to expand my lungs until the point that my body needed to expel the air. And as I exhaled, I was asked again to feel the pleasure of the air leaving my lungs and THAT connection of love. And as I did this, I felt the most beautiful serenity and pleasurable sensation in my lungs. Then this sensation traveled up my throat and nose as I exhaled. That feeling then spread across my face and my entire body. By simply loving the connection between the air and my lungs, my entire body became affected by it. It was such an unusual....and amazing feeling. "By fulfilling the needs of our body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us pleasure. Just to breathe is reason enough to always be happy and enjoy life. Feel the pleasure of being alive; the pleasure of the feeling of love..."

Please read this book. Everyone.