The Mastery of Love

A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship

By: don Miguel Ruiz

Narrated by: Jill Eikenberry, Michael Tucker

Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins

Publisher's summary

In The Mastery of Love, don Miguel Ruiz illuminates the fear-based beliefs and assumptions that undermine love and lead to suffering and drama in our relationships. Using insightful stories to bring his message to life, Ruiz shows us how to heal our emotional wounds, recover the freedom and joy that are our birthright, and restore the spirit of playfulness that is vital to loving relationships.

In the Toltec tradition, three fundamental masteries guide us to our true nature, which is happiness, freedom, and love.

The first is the Mastery of Awareness. This mastery teaches us to be aware of what we really are. It is the first step toward freedom because we cannot be free if we don't know what we are, or what kind of freedom we are looking for. The Toltecs said, "Let us see ourselves with truth", and they created a mastery just for awareness.

The second is the Mastery of Transformation, which teaches us how to become spiritual warriors and stalk our actions and reactions so we can break free of the knowledge that enslaves us. This mastery shows us how to change the dream of our life by changing our agreements and beliefs.

The Mastery of Love is the result of the first two masteries. From the Toltec perspective, everything is made of Love. Love is Life itself. When we master Love, we align with the Spirit of Life passing through us. We are no longer the body, or the mind, or the soul; we are Love. Then every action we take is an expression of Love, and Love in action can only produce happiness.

When we master Awareness, Transformation, and Love, we reclaim our divinity and become one with God. This is the goal of the Toltec.

©1999 Migeul Angel Ruiz (P)2002 Amber-Allen Publishing

Love love loved it!!!!!

Great book!!! I’m going to read it again and again lol. Tells you how to forgive, hpw to love yourself and other people as in family, friends, children. Opens your mind to alot. Makes you see things differently after reading this.

loved everything about the book

loved it, helped me make sense of a lot of things that seemed unclear about why we do the things we do in these relationships

my thoughts

loved it. it helped me with my metamorphosis. along with yhe 4 agreements good mentally

Deep, heady, thought provoking...a little painful

Except for the references to god/gods and contradiction that invoked, it was very helpful to listen and learn how we become who we become. I am learning to understand and use the thought provoking lessons from this book.

Soothing and real

Made me peaceful. I enjoyed this very much it opened my mind up to the reality of what I “think” love is in my mind. The truth will set you free!

I believe 80% of the book

some of it went to close to religion for me and a little too hippy but 80% was spot on

a book everyone should read

this is a life changing book. not easy to implement but worth the effort.

Love is all you need. Freedom is a part of love.

The new dream is freedom. The freedom to let your partner be herself, and for her to let you be yourself is a big part of that. If you believe in the four agreements, you can not try to change anyone. Heaven is happiness. Heaven is a place on earth. Ignore the Toltec truths at your own risk. Any need for love isn’t love, it’s fear. I have grown because of this book. Thank you. My favorite part of this book is the analogies of dogs to love, obviously you either know the love a dog or you don’t :)

Love it

really worth the read and worth implementing the idea in my life. a must read

Insightful

I loved it! The explanation of relationships made so much sense and made point to some of the thoughts I've had. I definitely recommend.