The Mastery of Life: A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom by don Miguel Ruiz Jr.

Don Miguel Ruiz Jr. draws on his family’s oral tradition and visits to Teotihuacan in The Mastery of Life. Its pyramids and plazas become symbolic stages in an inward journey toward personal freedom.

Exercises and reflections address fear, self-judgment and the habits Ruiz calls domestication. The emphasis is on applying his teachings in daily life; the book is not a travel guide to the archaeological site or a claim to settled scholarship about its ancient inhabitants.