However, I found the book difficult at times because it frequently seemed to fall into the realm of over simplification. A baby animal watches his mother to learn the techniques of hunting, because he is doomed to be himself a good hunter, or die in hunger. You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Pues yo dudo de todo lo que dice porque sus bases parecen ser empíricas, y no es que quite mérito a la experiencia, pero siento que es simplemente un libro de opinión y motivacional que te lleva a quererte a ti, para luego querer a los demás (mensaje bueno), pero varias analogías me parecieron fuera de lugar, o no aplicables, así como algunos conceptos. Beginning today and gradually overtime, help us to increase the power of our love so that we may create amasterpiece of art - our own life.

The concepts occasionally seemed worth a bit of thought yet by the time the author finished beating them into the ground through repetitive poor sentences I disregarded the ideas in disgust. because i really do appreciate a lot of the wisdom from the book, it was an easy and fast read (yes it took me months but it's because i completely stopped reading for a while LOL) for someone who is not the best or most experienced reader, and i do feel happier and more centered after reading it. On the positive side, this book contains some healthy and true messages about how we love, and why we fail, and how so many of our actions and reactions are based on fear. You know the times, those short breaks, when you need to take some time out to try and make sense of the world, and where you fit into it.We give control of our happiness to others as soon as we have expectations from others, and end up setting ourselves for failure. When you are aware that no one else can make you happy, and that happiness is the result of your love, this becomes the greatest mastery of the Toltec: the Mastery of Love. Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in.

there were certain comments and even certain phrasing that did not sit right with me and made me question who the author was and what he was really trying to preach. There were some messages in this book that I needed to hear, but I could have removed a lot of fluff of the analogies and stories. In the meantime, I will tote it around with me at the bottom of my backpack for the next two months, so obviously I think there is some value in it.Miguel has touched a number of basic but important aspects like the negative effect of other people's opinions, low self-esteem lead to the need for constant validation, healthy relation with oneself helps to have a healthy relation with others, maximizing happiness, defining love, belief system.

Your truth is not the truth for anyone else, and that includes your own children or your own parents". A child is the prove that we have to unlearn what our awareness is made of through our years of living. If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. The art of relationship is also a whole mastery, and the only way to reach mastery is with practice.it definitely felt like a spiritual experience just reading it, and ruiz's storytelling made for a fresh and magical read, making this book different from the average self help book. Overall I would rate this a 5 star read, this isn’t your traditional book of fiction or nonfiction but this book is a good book to read if you are in need of guidance. He is the author of The Four Agreements, The Mastery of Love, The Four Agreements Companion Book, and THE TOLTEC ART OF LIFE AND DEATH (COMING OCTOBER 27TH, 2015, FROM HARPERELIXIR). What you are is a force--a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream. If we deprive Hell from the everlasting-fire idea, the one that poets and painters created to describe its monstrosity, what would be left?