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I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.
- Wayne Dyer
#Form
#I Am
#Know
#Meditation
#Works
I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.
- Wayne Dyer
#Comfortable
#Machine
#Me
#Paper
#Pen
When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.
- Wayne Dyer
#Father
#Important
#Life
#My Life
#Time
I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
- Wayne Dyer
#Down
#Know
#Reading
#Us
#Writing
In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
- Wayne Dyer
#Come
#God
#Myriad
#Need
#Times
I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
- Wayne Dyer
#Love
#Myself
#Never
#Way
#Yourself
Whenever you're going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.
- Wayne Dyer
#God
#Spiritual
#Time
#Tough
#Yourself
Your body has space within you that cannot die.
- Wayne Dyer
#Body
#Cannot
#Die
#Space
#Your Body
When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'
- Wayne Dyer
#Chance
#Fun
#God
#Love
#Opportunity
Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they're between you and God.
- Wayne Dyer
#God
#Know
#Own
#Thoughts
#Yourself
It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
- Wayne Dyer
#Agree
#Fight
#God
#Religions
#World
What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.
- Wayne Dyer
#Being
#Birth
#China
#Existence
#Nature
I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.
- Wayne Dyer
#Consciousness
#Feel
#People
#Pressure
Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.
- Wayne Dyer
#Genius
#Human Being
#Human
#Potential
Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
- Wayne Dyer
#Imagine
#Never
#People
#Reality
#Wish
As the father of eight children, I'm quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries - it's the I that's in the ever-changing body.
- Wayne Dyer
#Body
#Children
#Father
#Own
#Personality
One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.
- Wayne Dyer
#Anger
#Family
#God
#Learning
#Life
#Love
Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.
- Wayne Dyer
#Anything
#Better
#Happen
#More
#Right
My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.
- Wayne Dyer
#Age
#Big
#Father
#Money
#Time
Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
- Wayne Dyer
#Comfort
#Ego
#Life
#Luxury
#Priorities
I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
- Wayne Dyer
#Care
#Great
#Money
#Parents
#Poverty
I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.
- Wayne Dyer
#Celebrate
#Dad
#Day
#Great
#Love
The fact is that since you're a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect... and so are you!
- Wayne Dyer
#Divine
#Earth
#Perfect
#Spirit
#World
In my entire life, any time I've ever lost something, I've gotten something even better going around the next corner. It's like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they're going to throw away, I know I can be fine.
- Wayne Dyer
#Life
#Long
#Lost
#Time
#Walk
If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
- Wayne Dyer
#Amazing
#Game
#Life Is A
#Life
#Moving
#Us
The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.
- Wayne Dyer
#Future
#God
#Mind
#Past
#Truth
One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.
- Wayne Dyer
#Daily
#Life
#Living
#Way
#Yourself
Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
- Wayne Dyer
#Easy
#Flow
#Head
#Want
#Work
My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
- Wayne Dyer
#Family
#Feel
#Me
#Way
#World
I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
- Wayne Dyer
#Beat
#Culture
#Family
#My Own
#Own
Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
- Wayne Dyer
#Difficult
#Go
#People
#Place
#Thoughts
Dream and you shall become.
- Wayne Dyer
#Become
#Dream
#Shall
#You
If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.
- Wayne Dyer
#Life
#Peace
#Permanent
#Voice
#World
You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.
- Wayne Dyer
#Experience
#Future
#Now
#Peace
#Thoughts
A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
- Wayne Dyer
#Audience
#Enthusiasm
#Person
#Spirit
By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I'm worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.
- Wayne Dyer
#Create
#Keep
#Me
#Prosperity
#Universe
Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.
- Wayne Dyer
#Genius
#Life
#Open
#Rules
#Within
Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
- Wayne Dyer
#Excitement
#Lifetime
#Me
#Never
#Soul
When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.
- Wayne Dyer
#Enjoy
#Everything
#Life
#Passion
#Spirit
I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
- Wayne Dyer
#Healing
#Life
#Look
#Spiritual
#Wrong
We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
- Wayne Dyer
#Advertising
#Internet
#Live
#Will
#World
My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
- Wayne Dyer
#Focus
#God
#History
#Problems
#Self
Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.
- Wayne Dyer
#After
#Anything
#Go
#Really
#Want
The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
- Wayne Dyer
#Better
#Children
#Laugh
#Laughter
#Life
My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
- Wayne Dyer
#Children
#Choices
#Honor
#Music
#Way
The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
- Wayne Dyer
#Ability
#Dessert
#Eating
#Live
#People
The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.
- Wayne Dyer
#Children
#Humanity
#Personality
#Service
The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
- Wayne Dyer
#Fine
#Say
#Understand
#Understanding
As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
- Wayne Dyer
#Dream
#Life
#Money
#More
#My Life
I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
- Wayne Dyer
#Always
#Expression
#I Am
#Me
#Talk
I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
- Wayne Dyer
#Always
#Dead
#Honor
#Living
#Society
Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
- Wayne Dyer
#Life
#Live
#Mistake
#Moment
#Mystery
Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.
- Wayne Dyer
#Alone
#Imagination
#Reality
#Remember
Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.
- Wayne Dyer
#Everything
#Heaven
#Mind
#Spirit
#State
Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
- Wayne Dyer
#Always
#Choice
#Life
#Peace
#Right
#Yourself
There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
- Wayne Dyer
#Meditation
#Practice
#Substitute
There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.
- Wayne Dyer
#Feel
#Nothing
#Peace
#Universe
#World
The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
- Wayne Dyer
#Gift
#Greatest Gift
#Passion
#Treat
#You
Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
- Wayne Dyer
#Access
#Meditation
#Practice
#Self
#Your
'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.
- Wayne Dyer
#Because
#Book
#Simply
#Top
#Your
An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.
- Wayne Dyer
#Artist
#Path
#Person
#Soul
#Work
Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.
- Wayne Dyer
#Children
#Help
#Remember
#Step
#Universe
In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.
- Wayne Dyer
#I Am
#Life
#Moment
#Spirit
#Spiritual
There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
- Wayne Dyer
#God
#Intelligence
#Person
#Through
#Universal
#Us
Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
- Wayne Dyer
#Feel Good
#Feel
#God
#Good
#Wanting
I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
- Wayne Dyer
#Alone
#Grateful
#I Am
#Life
#Me
#Positive
#World
You can't choose up sides on a round world.
- Wayne Dyer
#Choose
#Round
#Sides
#Up
#World
Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
- Wayne Dyer
#Fashion
#Intelligence
#Purpose
#Universe
Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.
- Wayne Dyer
#Life
#Mind
#Problems
#View
#Way
Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.
- Wayne Dyer
#Love
#More
#Privacy
#Rejection
#Yourself
One of the most important decisions you'll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.
- Wayne Dyer
#Divine
#Important
#Life
#Live
#Universe
Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.
- Wayne Dyer
#Feel
#Force
#Love
#Negative
#Thoughts
Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
- Wayne Dyer
#Great
#Ideas
#Imagination
#Mean
#Never
The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you'll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don't use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.
- Wayne Dyer
#Clothes
#Find
#Nothing
#People
#World
Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
- Wayne Dyer
#Feeling
#Find
#Joy
#Simple
#Space
Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.
- Wayne Dyer
#Eternity
#Life
#Self
#Spiritual
#Way
I implore you to see the universe as a warm and supportive one because you'll look for evidence to support this view. When you anticipate that the universe is friendly, you see friendly people. You look for circumstances to work in your favor. You anticipate good fortune flowing into your life.
- Wayne Dyer
#Good
#Life
#Universe
#View
#Work
Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
#Believe
#Make
#People
#Unhappy
#Yourself
When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.
- Wayne Dyer
#Complaining
#Follow
#Orphan
#People
#Two
Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.
- Wayne Dyer
#Journey
#Life
#Practice
#Quiet
#Sickness
Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
- Wayne Dyer
#God
#Nature
#Trust
#Value
#Work
Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.
- Wayne Dyer
#Age
#Fear
#Future
#No Fear
#Practice
#Self
A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
- Wayne Dyer
#Government
#People
#Responsibility
#Why
I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
- Wayne Dyer
#Books
#God
#Speeches
#Write
#Writes
In a universe that's an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.
- Wayne Dyer
#Divine
#Go
#Today
#Tough
#Universe
I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.
- Wayne Dyer
#Me
#Passion
#Place
#Project
#Universe
The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
- Wayne Dyer
#Alone
#Interfere
#Leave
#Love
#People
#Us
I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, 'I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me.'
- Wayne Dyer
#Me
#Orphan
#Poor
#Poverty
#Today
People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.
- Wayne Dyer
#Ethics
#Live
#People
#Rules
#Understand
What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.
- Wayne Dyer
#Anger
#Fear
#Life
#Pain
#Someone
Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.
- Wayne Dyer
#Better
#Defeat
#Judge
#Peace
#Self
There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
- Wayne Dyer
#Prosperity
#Way
Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
- Wayne Dyer
#Crazy
#Imagination
#Impossible
#Thoughts
My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!
- Wayne Dyer
#Car
#Down
#Feel
#Good
#Home
#Need
Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
- Wayne Dyer
#Frustration
#Perfect
#Way
#Yourself
The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
- Wayne Dyer
#Anger
#Fear
#Stress
#Talk
#World
If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.
- Wayne Dyer
#Enthusiasm
#Negative
#Passion
#Up
#Will
Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
- Wayne Dyer
#Age
#House
#See
#Thoughts
#Time
#Yourself
My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.
- Wayne Dyer
#Humanity
#Look
#Purpose
#Religion
#World
I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
- Wayne Dyer
#Always
#Cannot
#Control
#I Can
#Outside
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