Miguel Ruiz

Don Miguel Ruiz is a Mexican author best known for presenting a modern spiritual self-help system under the name Toltec Wisdom. Trained in medicine before turning to teaching and writing, he reached an international audience with The Four Agreements and later books including The Mastery of Love and The Voice of Knowledge. The Four Agreements asks readers to examine the beliefs or 'agreements' learned from family and society, then proposes four practices: speak with integrity, do not take other people's behavior personally, avoid assumptions, and do one's best. The companion book expands these ideas through exercises and reflection. Ruiz's framework is a contemporary interpretation, not a scholarly reconstruction of the many historical Toltec peoples or a substitute for Indigenous historical sources. Its psychological and health claims should not be treated as clinical evidence.