What he calls an out-of-body experience transformed his worldview. Against all logic he was physically unscathed emotionally, however, he would never be the same. But in his final year he was in a car accident. Although Ruiz's grandfather and mother both practiced Toltec healing and teaching, Ruiz rejected the tradition and went to medical school. The Toltecs, Ruiz explains, were artists and spiritual seekers who thrived in Mexico hundreds of years ago, before they were forced to hide their ancestral wisdom from European conquerors. These days Ruiz lectures nonstop and has a newer book, The Mastery of Love, based on the same Toltec wisdom as the first. The Four Agreements, published in 1997 by tiny Amber-Allen Publishing, has sold more than 1.5 million copies. Oprah read the book that night, bought 500 more copies for her friends and colleagues, and then suggested to 10 million or so people that they consider giving it as a holiday gift. So wowed was DeGeneres by The Four Agreements that she recommended it to Oprah on the air. He claimed his book, based on wisdom he'd learned from his elders in Mexico, could change lives-and it did, including, in rather short order, his own. Two years ago, Ellen Degeneres picked up a slim volume by an unknown writer named don Miguel Ruiz. (1) Be fabulously successful actress Ellen DeGeneres, (2) Stumble upon a book that changes your life, (3) Tell the whole world about it, (4) Sit down with author don Miguel Ruiz and chat about love, freedom, and doing your best no matter what.
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