New Agreements for Living: Interview with Don Miguel Ruiz Jr

We are now becoming aware of this system and everything in our mind at the very root of it is a ‘yes’, an agreement. There is nothing in our mind where we say ‘no’ to. We will only see where we once said ‘yes’ to. We can also see it in our mind. Everything in our mind is what we said ‘yes’ to. It might be a negative, but if we become aware of this, we can change our ‘yes’ into a ‘no’, because we have the capacity to change our mind, which means I am not this mind. Just as I am not this body, I am not this mind, which means at the very root of it, knowledge exists because I exist, which means I am alive.

Now we become aware of that ‘I am alive’ and we will automatically be going into level 1 because level 2 is the ability we have to attach and detach. So we can say that we are going up and down the levels of attachment by opening and closing the awareness of self, and go to unconditionally love for myself. It’s all the same energy, but it’s more how we apply the intensity of this energy. We are talking about being able to let our energy flow in a way that allows us to engage life. Life moves and it goes up and down. I like this expression: “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans” and John Lennon said it best: “Life happens when we are busy making other plans”.