If you want to live a life of joy and fulfillment, you have to find the courage to break those agreements [with yourself] that are fear-based and claim your personal power. The agreements that come from fear require us to expend a lot of energy, but the agreements that come from love help us to conserve energy and even gain extra energy. Our personal power is dissipated by all the agreements we have created, and the result is that we feel powerless. Page 21-22, Don Miguel Ruiz- The Four Agreements