New Agreements for Living: Interview with Don Miguel Ruiz Jr

You can say that the individual dream can be explained much simpler than everything I just said. What I just said was the long way. The short way, like my father likes to put it is this:?If I am the one talking inside my mind, who’s listening? Me! I am listening. Well, if you are the one who is listening, who is talking? Well me, I am talking. Right there, that’s the relationship between mind, body and soul. That’s the individual dream and it is the relationship between me and me. Like me as my body [moving his limbs again] and me, my mind, the instrument that I use to perceive work hand in hand to create. Because based on what I perceive I take action. You and I talking right now, we are the smallest piece of the dream of the planet because we are two individual dreams talking to one another, or you can say two individual points of perception. We can say that the bond that brings us together is an agreement to talk to each other and that’s the first bond that we have. The rest of it is the meaning of the minds and what is going to happen between you and I is the mutual agreements you and I create and that’s the relationship between you and I. Now that is the smallest there is. When we expand this to seven billion people (let’s leave out the animals, because they know what they are doing..), we will have the dream of the planet, which is the collective dream between each other. We are all individually perceiving life in our own way. You can say that we are dreaming life in our own unique way. But when we come together we create a ‘dream of us’ and that’s what we call the dream of the planet. So for us the mind’s job is to dream. Basically it is that instrument that we use to not only perceive the other but also communicate with others and it is knowledge that allows us to create our agreements and that’s what I understand as dreaming the dream.