"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. Conflict cannot survive without your participation. You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way. Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. "
- Wayne Dyer
I will never forget that late spring day in 2001 when a colleague (and fellow graduate student in my conflict studies program) loaned me a copy of Wayne's seminal work, "Change Your Thoughts-Change Your Life." It was the end of my first semester in graduate school and I thought I could not hack the program anymore. I wanted to quit.
Moreover I was generally pissed off at myself for not having enough focus, drive, and chutzpah to give a second go at my old career in pharmaceutical marketing like my successful peers.
I was also angry at G-d for blessing me with a brilliant yet terribly hyperactive and obsessive mind that (despite graduating with a good GPA) made school and learning in general a brutally torturous and exhausting exercise (for my teachers and parents as well) as I had to work 100x harder than my peers just to complete any assignment. So I had that going for me.
I initially scoffed at Dr. Dyer for being just another slick and schlocky Tony Robbins-esque motivational speaker that regurgitated 1970's rhetoric from the positivism movement.
But feel good regurgitated schlock is exactly what the world needs. Because in the end recycling Buddhist principles and the dharma is not what sells out lecture halls and creates bestsellers. Dr. Dyer (beautifully flawed like all of us) taught us to use the pain, past trauma, and personal and professional failures in life as the rocket fuel for positive change. Because Wayne Dyer is living proof that sappy positivism create worlds.
Wayne took the chaos and heartbreak of being orphaned as a child (on top of being schlepped around from orphanage to orphanage) to his fierce battle with addiction as powerful rocket fuel that launched his own personal success. In the end does it really if Dr. Dyer copied from other great thinkers (everybody does it)? Absolutely not.
It was how Wayne Dyer made you feel. Dr. Dyer had a wonderful ability to make you feel loved. And that is what being a change agent and healer is all about. Dyer's sugar coated positivism and wonderfully soothing voice gave tens of millions of people the greatest gift a human being could give to another: the power of FAITH and HOPE.
Thank you Dr. Dyer for helping me believe (in myself). You will be missed.
-Coach Sam
- Wayne Dyer
I will never forget that late spring day in 2001 when a colleague (and fellow graduate student in my conflict studies program) loaned me a copy of Wayne's seminal work, "Change Your Thoughts-Change Your Life." It was the end of my first semester in graduate school and I thought I could not hack the program anymore. I wanted to quit.
Moreover I was generally pissed off at myself for not having enough focus, drive, and chutzpah to give a second go at my old career in pharmaceutical marketing like my successful peers.
I was also angry at G-d for blessing me with a brilliant yet terribly hyperactive and obsessive mind that (despite graduating with a good GPA) made school and learning in general a brutally torturous and exhausting exercise (for my teachers and parents as well) as I had to work 100x harder than my peers just to complete any assignment. So I had that going for me.
I initially scoffed at Dr. Dyer for being just another slick and schlocky Tony Robbins-esque motivational speaker that regurgitated 1970's rhetoric from the positivism movement.
But feel good regurgitated schlock is exactly what the world needs. Because in the end recycling Buddhist principles and the dharma is not what sells out lecture halls and creates bestsellers. Dr. Dyer (beautifully flawed like all of us) taught us to use the pain, past trauma, and personal and professional failures in life as the rocket fuel for positive change. Because Wayne Dyer is living proof that sappy positivism create worlds.
Wayne took the chaos and heartbreak of being orphaned as a child (on top of being schlepped around from orphanage to orphanage) to his fierce battle with addiction as powerful rocket fuel that launched his own personal success. In the end does it really if Dr. Dyer copied from other great thinkers (everybody does it)? Absolutely not.
It was how Wayne Dyer made you feel. Dr. Dyer had a wonderful ability to make you feel loved. And that is what being a change agent and healer is all about. Dyer's sugar coated positivism and wonderfully soothing voice gave tens of millions of people the greatest gift a human being could give to another: the power of FAITH and HOPE.
Thank you Dr. Dyer for helping me believe (in myself). You will be missed.
-Coach Sam