New Agreements for Living: Interview with Don Miguel Ruiz Jr
New Agreements for Living: Interview with Don Miguel Ruiz Jr
OMTimes is pleased to provide you with a glimpse into the teachings of this father/son team.
Please first read New Agreements for Living: Interview with Don Miguel Ruiz Sr
An Interview with Don Miguel Ruiz, Jr.
Author of The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for a Modern World
Interview by Dirk Terpstra of Supersouls.com
Super Souls: What makes your family so successful that millions of people are drawn to your messages?
Don Miguel Ruiz Jr: What we have learned from my dad is to put the Toltec wisdom into words we can all understand. There is a lot of symbology in the Toltec tradition and my dad shifted it, he stripped it down to the bare basics to what he understands as common sense and you can see that in the book ‘Beyond Fear’, written by Mary Carroll Nelson, where he stripped it down to the basics and developed ‘The Four Agreements’ from it. He basically writes down all the lessons in words we can all understand. It goes deeper and it allows us to expand more because if we stay in that certain language then only a certain group of people would be into it. You know, the people who want that kind of symbology in their lives. But when you broaden it up in a language everyone can relate to then the lessons go beyond that limitation. In this way the lessons become alive and we can see it as something functional in our everyday lives.
SS: Your father is the author of many NY Times bestsellers including The Four Agreements? What made you decide to follow in his footsteps?
