Relief: Grabbing my own attention

I have waited my whole life to meet this book "The four agreements: A Toltec wisdom book".  I have been waiting to meet someone who thinks the way that I do.  Could it be that the author of this book, Don Miguel Ruiz is one of many.  The notion that this book has been read my many and they may have connected to it's content the way I have would be phenomenal.

"I am the Smoky Mirror, because I am looking at myself in all of you, but we don't recognize each other because of the smoke in-between us.  That smoke is the Dream, and the mirror is you, the dreamer." - the protagonist of humanity by Don Miguel Ruiz

"We are born with the capacity to learn how to dream, and the humans who live before us teach us how to dream the way society dreams.  The outside dream has so many rules that when a new human is born, we hook the child's attention and introduce these rules into his or her mind.  The outside dream uses Mom and Dad, the schools, and religion to teach us how to dream.

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.  We can perceive millions of thing simultaneously, but using our attention, we can hold whatever we want to perceive in the foreground of our mind.  The adults around us hooked our attention and put information into our minds through repetition.  That is the way we learned everything we know.

By using our attention we learned a whole reality, a whole dream.  We learned how to behave in society: what to believe and what not to believe; what is acceptable and what is not acceptable; what is good and what is bad; what is beautiful and what is ugly; what is right and what is wrong.  It was all there already -- all that knowledge, all those rules and concepts about how to behave in the world." (Ruiz, 1997)