Structure

“The Four Agreements – A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom” by Don Miguel Ruiz has seven chapters that lay out the guideline to self-identity and freedom in an orderly and logical manner. This structure makes for easy understanding of the tenets that Ruiz poses to the reader. He first explains what the “Dream of the Planet” or society’s idea of what is acceptable and then provides a remedy to a system that produces sad, confused and fearful individuals.

Ruiz’s pathway to freedom and bliss discards the “Dream of the Planet” and replaces it with agreements that will replace poisonous emotions with custom agreements that will meet the need of the individual and allow the real person who had been lost and nearly forgotten to emerge. In the end the new agreements will lead to a communion with God and the chance to live in bliss in...