Wayne Dyer Quotes

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.

It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Time means nothing to me.

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

One thing I like about Zen. It doesn't believe in achievement.

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.