don Miguel Ruiz – Exclusive Interview
JVM: Can you tell me about your latest project: The Agreements for Life?
don Miguel Ruiz: It is a program to help people to become more and more authentic. I created the program because most people say the five agreements are very simple; but difficult to apply. The Agreements for Life is taking everyone step-by-step to their own authenticity. It consists of 30 short videos with a prayer included and homework assignments.
JVM: How do you define authentic?
don Miguel Ruiz: What is truth, everything that is true is authentic. When we were born we did not have knowledge, as soon as we have language we learned to describe everything through that language and we learned to be like everyone our family, parents, school, etc… Society teaches us conditional love i.e. “I love you if you are the way I want you to be.” Then we love ourselves with conditions. We need opinions, we need approval, and we create an image of ourselves that is not what we are…this how we lose our authenticity …we create masks, we become “domesticated”. The real “Judgment Day” is the day we stop judging ourselves and judging others.
JVM: What makes you happy?
Don Miguel Ruiz: What makes me the happiest are the times I get together with my family. Those times when I am with my children, grandchildren, my brothers and sisters and my very close friends, as well as, when I am with my extended family in each one of my lectures and power journeys. My greatest joy is just to be alive! don Miguel Ruiz, M.D. is author of The Four Agreements®, published in 1997, it was a New York Times bestseller for more than 7 years and the 36th bestselling book of the decade. His other internationally, bestselling books that have followed include: The Mastery of Love, The Voice of Knowledge, Prayers, and The Fifth Agreement, a collaboration with his son don Jose Ruiz. His highly anticipated new on-line program The Agreements for Life™ is now available at miguelruiz.com
