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The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery by don Miguel Ruiz and don Jose Ruiz. (Amber-Allen Publishing, $19.95, Hardcover.)

     The bestselling book The Four Agreements helped transform the lives of millions of people around the world with a simple yet profound message. Now don Miguel Ruiz has collaborated with his son, don Jose Ruiz, on its long awaited sequel The Fifth Agreement. This book expands upon the original with fresh insights and empowers us to recover our faith and authenticity with a powerful new agreement: Be skeptical, but learn to listen.

     This fifth agreement uses doubt as a tool to discern the

truth. Doubt takes us behind the words we hear to the underlying real message or intent. By being skeptical, we don’t believe every message we hear, and when we don’t put our faith in lies, we quickly move beyond emotional drama and the feeling of victimization.

     According to the Ruizes, The Fifth Agreement prepares us to return to our innate wisdom, and live our lives based on truth. The truth leads to self-mastery, to a

life that’s very easy; believing in lies leads to needless conflict and human suffering. “The fifth agreement is ultimately about seeing our whole reality through the eyes of truth. The result of practicing this agreement is the complete acceptance of ourselves just the way we are, and the complete acceptance of everybody else just the way they are. The reward is our eternal happiness,” says don Jose Ruiz.

    In this new book, we are reminded to commune with our divine nature, enabling us to create a life of personal freedom and ease.    (Read excerpt)