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Memorial Issue:

WAYNE DYER

Manage Your Money: Sufficiency

And Spiritual Practice

by Wayne Dyer

Dr. Wayne Dyer – Play the Music

within Youby Cheryl Richardson

Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling

By Wayne Dyer

CONTENTSFROM EDITOR

Welcome from Ric Thompson

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02An Inspirational Interview of Wayne Dyer

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Spiritual Practice

Play the Music Within You

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25Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling

Immaculée Ilibigiza – Clean Your Heart

and Let Love Be There

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EDITOR

Ric ThompsonEDITORIAL CONTRIBUTOR Wayne Dyer

EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORMark Victor Hansen

It’s with sadness and regret that we realize the world lost a true treasure with the passing of Wayne Dyer. It’s with great honor and joy that we can reflect on the incredible wisdom and inspiration that he has left us as his legacy. He passed away at age 75 after impacting the lives of millions upon millions of people around the world. And we’re proud to help play a small part in helping his timeless contributions to continue to be spread. We here at Healthy Wealthy nWise are honored to have had a number of interactions with Wayne over a number of years. Interviews with and by him. Articles written by him for submission. Even some excerpts of his landmark books.

All timeless resources that are here to inspire and enlighten you, just as it was mean to be when we first published them.

As you read this issue, we hope it will enlighten, inspire and empower you just as he intended – all over again.

“We are not our bodies, our possessions, or our

careers. Who we are is divine love and that is infinite.”

Dr. Wayne Dyer1940 – 2015

Ric ThompsonCo-FounderHealthy Wealthy nWise

EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTOR

Janet Attwood

EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTOR

Cheryl Richardson

Dear readers,


Wayne Dyerby Mark Victor Hansen

All of us, every single person, everyone who ever has shown up in the world of form, including all of the ancients and all of those who are to come, come from this place that quantum physics tells us is not particles; it’s something beyond particles.

Jesus put it this way-he said it’s the spirit that gives life. All of us have come from this invisible world of spirit or God or soul or consciousness or divine mind-or what-ever you want to call it. It is an invisible energy place, and it’s what we all are – each and every one of us.

I always give the example that if you had an apple pie and you were to take a slice out of that pie and ask someone, What is that slice like? you’d say, Well, it’s got to be just like what it came from.

If you took an ounce of blood out of your veins and it had a cholesterol level of 247, you’d probably suggest that where it came from is also at 247 cholesterol, because you must be what you came from-you must be like the whole you came from.

All of us, including myself, have come from this place called God, and it is that God within each and every one of us that directs our lives, unless we leave it and take on something called the ego, which is really hard to let go of.

Mark Victor Hansen: All right. Now, going way back in your history, tell us the story of how your first major book, Your Erroneous Zones (which is when I came into your life 31 years ago), came to be, and what role passion played in making it and delivering it to best-sellerdom.

Dr. Wayne Dyer: You were a young guy. I think you were in your teens or early 20s at that time.

Our guest this month is a man who has done and continues to do a great deal to help make the world a better place. Dr. Wayne Dyer spent his early years living in foster homes and orphanages, where he had to learn to be self reliant. After serving four years in the Navy, he began his teaching career, receiving his Doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of Michigan and Wayne State University.

Today, he has published more than ten best-selling books, starting with Your Erroneous Zones and continuing with such classics as Real Magic, Wisdom of the Ages, and his most recent, The Power of Intention. His newest book, Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling, will be released by Hay House this month.

Our interview was conducted by another man who is having a massive impact on our world, our great friend, Mark Victor Hansen. He is known to all as the co-creator of the phenomenally successful Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which has sold over 100 million books worldwide.

Mark’s most recent book, Cracking the Millionaire Code, teaches the principles of creating enlight-ened wealth, which not only benefits oneself, but one’s family, community and the world.

Mark Victor Hansen: I’m ecstatic, thank you, Janet. Wayne, what role has passion played in your whole life?

Dr. Wayne Dyer: Well, it is my life. I don’t think there’s any other word that could describe it. Passion is synonymous with enthusiasm, and most of you listening know the word enthusiasm,


working with him and talking to him about how this could be a turning point in his life and it didn’t have to be a disaster, and what he could do with it, and he could turn it into an advantage-and all of these things. That you are what you think about, and if you’re thinking depressing thoughts, you’re going to continue with the depression. When it was over, he was just uplifted.

The next day, Paul called Artie and said, I don’t care what the book is about. I want that man with me on our staff and I would like to publish his book.

It always reminds me of the definition that Thoreau had when he was at Walden Pond back in the 1840s. He was writing about success in an essay called I’m a Necessity of Civil Disobedience.

He defined success this way: If you advance confidently in the direction of your own dreams and endeavor to live the life which you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

It’s like that’s what I was doing. I was just out there doing what I did. I was a therapist at that time and a professor, and it seemed to me that when I met a person who was struggling, it was more important to talk to them about that and to put my own wishes aside, and success chased after me.

After a few months, the book itself wasn’t doing all that well. I was giving some lectures and selling a few hundred here and a few hundred there, but basically [the publisher] had figured it was on the list, and then when the next list came along in March, it would be over and they’d move on. They thought that would be considered a successful book if we sold a few thousand copies.

I decided I wanted to do more with it than that and I bought up the first, second and third printings. I stored them in my garage, took them in a van, went across the United States and began to deliver

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Mark Victor Hansen: Early 20s-thank you, though.

Dr. Wayne Dyer: I wasn’t much older than that, I don’t think. I was teaching at St. John’s University in New York.

Mark Victor Hansen: I used to carry books for you everywhere, including Carnegie Hall.

Dr. Wayne Dyer: Exactly right, and you used to talk to me about what you were going to do, what visions you had, and your goal at that time was to be around people who had those kinds of images and visions. Somehow, you connected yourself with me and we’ve been friends ever since.

I wrote a book called Your Erroneous Zones. I took it to a publisher, who finally decided to accept it. It was very interesting what happened the day I was interviewing with the fellow, at the publishing house. It was Funk & Wagnalls at that time. I walked into his office with my manuscript and was there to really sell my manuscript.

(The man, whose name was Paul) looked like he was very depressed, upset. He had tears in his eyes and just looked like death warmed over. I put my manuscript down and said, Paul, what’s going on? Tell me.

It was 1975, so I was 35 years old. Paul just broke down and told me the night before, he had received some really bad news from his wife, who was asking for a divorce, and there was this long, involved discussion.

We talked for maybe two hours and we never men-tioned my book at all. My agent, Artie Byne, called me the next day and said, How did the interview go? I said, You know, Artie, I forgot to talk about the book. He said, What do you mean you forgot to talk about the book? How can that possibly be?

I said, Well, he just seemed so upset and I was


After working and traveling all over the country and delivering the books myself and taking it all on myself, what Thoreau promised all of us back in 1842 came true. He said: If you advance confidently in the direction of your own dreams and endeavor to live the life which you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

It chased after me and it’s been chasing after me ever since. I’ve just been out there doing what seems to make the most sense to me and letting go of the outcome.

Mark Victor Hansen: What are the biggest challenges that have hit you along the way? Also, a lot of people want to ask how they identify with suc-cess, abundance, prosperity and all the good?

Dr. Wayne Dyer: The obstacles-I don’t ever call them that. I always think of everything that shows up as an opportunity to transcend where I am at any particular moment. I live in a universe and believe like Albert Einstein once said that the most important decision you’ll ever make in your life is to decide, whether you live in a friendly universe or a hostile universe.

I made the decision my entire life that I live in a friendly universe. When you believe you live in a friendly universe, then you’re believing that the universe-or God, soul, spirit or the source, or whatever you want to call it-is something that is going to support you rather than work against you.

If you believe you live in a hostile universe, then you’ll have a lot of hostile thoughts and you’ll have a lot of beliefs that things aren’t going to work out. You’ll have a lot of inner knowings about your luck, and how things haven’t ever been the way that you would like to have them be. You’ll believe there’s no chance for you.

I was sitting on an airplane not too long ago, and

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these books myself, all over the country, to the various bookstores.

I made my own radio shows. There was a publicist in New York named Donna Gould, and she became a big fan of mine and was very supportive of me. I began to attract people who were very helpful to me.

One day, Howard Pappas from The Tonight Show picked up a copy of the book and he called me and asked me if I would be willing to come out and doing a pre-interview.

This was after eight months of traveling all over the country and delivering some 7,000 of these books myself. I did a pre-interview, they put me on The Tonight Show on a Monday night with Sheckie Green, the comedian from Las Vegas.

I think it was August 24, 1976, and it was the same day as the Republican National Convention. Bob Dole, who ran for President at that time, was one of the leaders of the Senate. He gave a talk that night and he went over. The Tonight Show that I had just been on had been pre-empted for the very first time in the history of The Tonight Show.

After I had done this great show-we had two wonderful segments-it wasn’t going to be airing. It turns out, as it always does, that the next day, Johnny Carson came in and he heard about the show that had been on the night before, and he said, Well, if this new guy seems to be that good, why don’t we fly him back out here and do the show with him myself on Wednesday before that pre-empted show airs?

So Johnny called me up, and I flew all the way back out to Los Angeles, did the show, and while we were on, he asked me if I would stay over and do it again on Friday because we didn’t have enough time. Then on Monday, the pre-empted show aired.


to propel myself over the bar. That’s a metaphor for what I’m talking about.

Every little obstacle-every fall you have-is an opportuni-ty. The addictions I’ve overcome in my life-I look back upon all of them as wonderful blessings that showed up at particular times in my life, that allowed me to reach a place where I understood I came from a place of well being and purity, and therefore, I can get there.

Nikos Kazantzakis, who wrote Zorba the Greek, once said, By passionately believing in what doesn’t exist, we create it; and that which we call the nonexistent has just not been sufficiently desired.

It’s not determined on the basis of the economy or by whom I happen to have in my family, or with whom I’m working. This is a universal, absolute knowing that what I desire is on its way because it’s consistent with spiritual energy, and every thought I have is going to be in harmony with that desire.

So I never would have a thought that I would like to be able to attract prosperity in my life and think about the lack or the shortages in my life. If you think about shortages, you’re going to attract more shortage! If you think about what’s missing, you’re going to attract more of what’s missing in your life.

If you think about what always has been and you’re always talking to everybody about what is missing and what you don’t have, you shouldn’t be surprised if that’s what you continue to attract into your life.

But if you put your thoughts on what’s on its way, then you’ll start looking for every little clue, and every person walking into your life becomes someone who is a messenger or a deliverer of something that is going to help you deliver what you have an intention about. That’s the long answer, but if you want to know about passion, you just heard it. That’s what I believe.

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the woman sitting next to me was a photographer. We got to talking and I said, Do you like what you’re doing? She said, Yes. I really love it. I said, How do you do it? She said, and this was her exact answer, I’ll never get rich at it.

I said, Would you like to get rich? She said, Well, who wouldn’t? Of course I would like to be able to have a lot of prosperity and more money. Here’s a woman who had the desire to have prosperity and wealth show up in her life, and a belief system she carries around with her.

A belief system is nothing more than a thought you’ve thought over and over again. It’s just a repeated thought, like a habit is a repeated piece of behavior. This was a woman in her 40s or so and the repeated thought, the belief she has had for her entire adult life, is that she’s never going to get rich at what she’s doing.

Then she becomes a vibrational match to that and attracts that. By the time the plane conversation was over, I had convinced her she should be saying to herself that wealth is something that is on its way, and, If it’s on its way, and I live in a friendly universe that supports me, then everything that shows up in my life-I look upon it as an opportunity for me to reinforce the idea it’s on its way.

That includes all of the obstacles and all of the things we call struggles because virtually all of us struggle, and all of the difficulties we have in our life are really things that are stepping stones to higher and higher places. In the Kabbalah, it teaches that in order to transcend a level in your life, it’s almost always preceded by a fall.

When I was in high school. I was the high jumper on the track team. In the process of running up to the bar to get over this high level, I would get down way low and run up really fast. In the process of getting down low, I would generate the energy


one. Every thought you have that excludes anyone takes you away from your source.

Every thought you have that is not of love, that is not of beauty or abundance, or that is of shortage, fear or shame-all of these kinds of thoughts are those that are out of vibrational harmony-or they’re not inrapport-with the field of intention from which you came.

If you want the power of intention, if you want the power of this field you were intended from in the first place-if you really want that power-then you have to be like it, think like it and act like it. It’s called thinking like God, which is what Einstein said. He said all the rest is just detail.

I just want to know how God thinks. How does the source think? How does it create? That’s what I tried to do in The Power of Intention-teach people to be careful and cautious about every thought you have, because once you know that what you think about is what expands, then you start getting really careful about what you think about.

You get a little sniffle and you don’t expect it to get worse, because if you do, then you’re attracting that. Mark, you know-I think you can get a parking place with what I’m talking about.

Most people are looking for no place to park. They’ll say, There’s just no place to park here, and of course they get that tunnel vision, whereas the person who is focused on this the way I’m talking about, they see a parking place and everybody walking out of every building, and they’re just anticipating and looking for it, and sure enough, there it will be. It’ll be there consistently.

Mark Victor Hansen: So you have this great, new book coming out in March called Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling. What’s the premise of this new book?

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Mark Victor Hansen: In The Power of Intention, you talk about a universal field of intention responsible for everything in creation. How does that all work?

Dr. Wayne Dyer: Most people think of intention as something I’m going to do-that I’m going to make happen. Even based on what I’ve been speaking about for the last few moments, you might get that interpretation, that it’s really a hard kind of determi-nation and something I’m going to make happen, like a pit-bull attitude and nothing can stop me.

That isn’t how I wrote The Power of Intention and that isn’t what the PBS special is about, and that’s not how I look at intention at all because that’s ego. You get to a place in your life, ultimately-I’m now 65 years of age-and I know at this time in my life God writes all the books, delivers all the speeches and builds all the bridges and literally creates everything.

There’s a process in which we have to surrender to something. As I said earlier, we all came from something and we must be like what we came from. The problems we create for ourselves in our lives are that we left this place I call intention, which has the faces of intention, which are things like kindness, love and the idea that no one is left out-all inclusive. We all come from a place of well being. We come from a place of endless abundance and love and so on.

This is like, if you had a pair of magical binoculars and you could put them on, turn them and focus them in such a way that they shone brightly on the source from which you came-not your parents, not the particles-but where the original particle came from.

In quantum physics, it’s that place where something magically, all-of-a-sudden happens where we go from formless to form and life begins. The formless part-if we could focus on that-we would see that this field of energy excludes no


and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. So I took those six ideas from Patanjali and created a new PBS special that’s going to start airing March 6th all across North America.

When we talk about motivation, it goes back to this concept we have of intention. A motivated person is generally thought of as someone who has goals and objectives and is trying to get someplace else, and has an inner vision of where they would like to be. They work hard, they get up early and leave a little bit late and have all kinds of good work habits.

They’re said to be highly motivated. That’s not inspira-tion. Motivation is when you get hold of an idea and you take it with you and carry it through to its logical conclusion. That’s a motivated person. Inspiration is the exact opposite. Inspiration is, not where you get hold of an idea and take it where you want to go, it’s where an idea gets hold of you and it takes you where you were intended to go in the first place.

You remember Arthur Miller? He died about a year ago. He was a great playwright. Most of us had to read Death of a Salesman or The Crucible. He was 88 years old. He was interviewed in the New York Times and they asked him a question-he had a play on Broadway at 88.

They said, Are you working on another play? Here was this man who was soon to be 90, who said, I don’t know, but I probably am. Reading that was one of the great, inspirational moments in my life. It was one of the things that motivated me to write a book about inspiration, from this perspective there are things that get hold of you.

Mozart was described this way. He would have what they called lively dreams. He said these symphonies would present themselves to him and it was almost as if they were already written and he would have to get them out and record them.

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Dr. Wayne Dyer: Lots of people have called me The Father of Motivation for all these years. Some-body laid that tag on me in an interview they did somewhere and I’ve been called this. I said, I’ve got eight kids, I don’t need to be the father of anything else! I’m having enough trouble with that!

There’s a major difference between motivation and inspiration, and this is really about living an inspired life. I’ve been a student of Patanjali, who lived about 300 years before the birth of Christ, and he was considered to be this divine, spiritual man.

He was teaching people about things like levitating and bi-location and some of the things we think of as sort of new age, weird things and so on. Thousands of years ago…

Mark Victor Hansen: He did all of them?

Dr. Wayne Dyer: Yes! He was able to teach people, through these various sutras, how to literally leave your body and have it elevate. He taught the Japa meditation, the meditation I’ve been teaching for years, using as a mantra the repetition of the sound of the name of God.

It’s like in the Book of John in the New Testament, it says, In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. In the beginning of all creation, you repeat this sound, the sound of Ahhh, the sound that’s in the name of creation.

Patanjali also talked about inspiration. He had this observation and said that when you’re inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world.

Then he said, Dormant forces, that is forces you thought were dead and inaccessible, come alive


Your thoughts begin to break their bonds. In other words, when you’re inspired-that is when you’re in spirit-you don’t know how to think in terms of limitations. You don’t know how to think in terms of shortages. You stop thinking about what’s missing in your life. It’s not a possibility for you any longer.

Your thoughts break their bonds. Your mind begins to transcend the limitations you’ve had before in your life. You stop seeing yourself as a human being. You begin to see yourself as a spiritual being-the spiritual essence of who you are.

Literally, Mark, you step outside of your body and you begin to observe it. You begin to laugh at all of the folly of it and the foibles of it and the worries it has. You begin to see yourself as an infinite being-not restricted by your birth, by your death, by your height, your weight, your looks and all those things you’ve achieved in your life and your acquisitions.

You don’t define yourself that way anymore. You let go of what Patanjali called the false self, the illusionary self, the maya. That’s not who you are. Who you are is that from which you came. As you get back into that place from which you came, you absolutely know that in harmony with God, all things are possible.

It’s right out of the scriptures, With God, all things are possible. What does that leave out? It literally leaves out nothing. There’s no thing at all that is not possible if you can conceive of it and have that knowing and stay in spirit and do it from that place of passion.

Passion is just love. God is love, that’s also from the scriptures. He that believeth in love, believeth in me. Love and God are synonymous. God and good are one. They’re the same thing. There’s no difference between the two of them.

Mark Victor Hansen: Why do you call inspiration your ultimate calling?

Dr. Wayne Dyer: That’s a good question. It is ultimately

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You probably have experienced this. Most creative people, who have done a lot of particular-ly creative work, understand this.

If you could understand that it’s a wake-up call for you to be able to do what it is that you were designated to do-what you signed up to do, what your spirit is telling you to do. Inspiration is just about being in spirit.

When I’m writing, I get up between three and four o’clock in the morning and I go out onto my writing space where I live on Maui. I sit there and I wonder what’s coming next. Oftentimes, I’ll read it and I’ll think, I didn’t even know I knew that.

Then if I get stuck on something or if I’m just not quite sure about something, I’ll just reach over and sure enough, there it will be, in a book I just grabbed off of the bookshelf. I’ll just pick it up and exactly what I needed will be in there.

It’s like when Patanjali said, Dormant forces come alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. What happens is that when you get yourself into that spirit and you allow it to flow through you, and to work with you, and for you, and support you-it’s taking you where you were destined to go.

Mark Victor Hansen: What’s the relationship between passion and inspiration, seeing as we’re doing this interview for HealthyWealthyn-Wise’s Passion Series?

Dr. Wayne Dyer: Well, they’re the same. Inspira-tion means in spirit. Passion means the God within. It’s just moving yourself back to spirit. When you move into spirit, you’re allowing yourself to think, act, and behave like God.

The way I organize this PBS television special and the book is around this idea that there are certain benefits that come to you from living an inspired life.


you do, then when you can’t, then you aren’t. You don’t exist anymore. Then you start believing that, I am what I collect and what I have.

So you start collecting achievements and you get a lot of trophies. You believe you are how much money you make. Then, all of a sudden, that stuff starts to disappear and you don’t have it.

Then you realize your value goes out the window. If you are what you have, when you don’t have, then you aren’t either. You take on all of these things.

We’re just talking about enlightenment, about reaching a higher, higher, and higher level of consciousness. You know that while you’re in this world of form, you step outside and you watch what’s happening to your body.

I hold a hair up on the pillow and I say to my wife in the morning, What held it in yesterday? It’s a complete and total mystery. We all know that while we’re in this little parentheses in eternity called our lifetime, we’re headed back to nowhere. We go from nowhere, we show up in now here, which is exactly the same. It’s just a little question of spacing.

Everybody listening on this conference call is in now here. You know you’re all headed back to nowhere. It’s your ultimate calling.

In India, my teacher, Nisargadatta Maharaj, was teaching us about how do die while you’re alive. In other words, how to get to a place where you can let go of this body of yours and your attachment to it and all of your beliefs about what it is and who you are.

Let go of all of that and die, but you don’t have to literally die and leave your body. You just get outside your body and then start living from this world of spirit which is your ultimate calling. Your ultimate calling is to return back to the place that you’re going anyway.

I’m 65. It’s hard for me to even say those words. I can’t even think of it. I used to think 65 was old. When I turned

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where you’re headed. Look around. Where do you think you came from?

If we were doing this interview about three centu-ries ago, we’d be studying Newtonian Physics. Newtonian Physics where we believed that the building blocks of nature were atoms and that these were the tiniest particles in the universe.

Now, with Quantum Physics, atoms are like huge buildings compared to a sub-atomic particle like a quark. Then when you go to the ultimate, smallest, tiniest particles-ultimately you break that one down with what they call particle accelerators-you open them up and you find there is nothing there. It is just all energy. We came from this field of energy called spirit.

Now we are here, in this world, and we began. For the first nine months you were here-inside your mother-you didn’t worry about anything. You had everything you needed-one day you had a fingernail, the next day the fingernail was a little bit longer.

You were just allowing. You were in a state of pure allowing. You would just grow and everything would be just fine. You completely surrendered to this spiritual energy that was allowing you to form into the perfect being you are-the most beautiful, perfect being you could possibly be.

Then you emerged into this world and you get sur-rounded by people, all of a sudden, you start getting convinced that who you are is not this per-fection from which you emanated, that is going to take care of you, that’s going to provide for you, that’s always going to be there, that’s always going to work with you as long as you stay in harmony with it. You start believing that, Hey, I am what I do.

So now you have to go through a whole lot of things. Then you get to a point in your life where you can’t do them anymore. Now, if you are what

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turned 64, and they sent me a copy of that recording. I opened up that card and it said, Inside of this card, is a beautiful, perfect message from God. I thought, You know what, I think I may have finally reached them. Isn’t that nice? I opened up the card and it said, See you soon.

In this inspiring new book, Wisdom of the Ages, bestselling author Dr. Wayne W. Dyer poses the question: “What do our ancestral scholars, whom we consider the wisest and most spiritually advanced, have to say to us today?”

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64 last year, I got a birthday card. I was speaking in Durham, North Carolina and my kids sent me a birthday card. It was really nice.

Do you remember the Beatles song, Will you still want me, will you still love me, when I’m 64? Well, I

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Manage Your Money: Sufficiency And Spiritual Practice

by Wayne Dyer

Pam, a friend who read an early version of this manuscript, said, “I don’t think that the chapter [in Everyday Enlightenment], Manage Your Money, is as important as the chapters about taming our mind or facing our fears-” Abruptly, she looked at her watch. “Oh, my gosh, look what time it is! The bank’s closing in ten minutes!” Wondering about why money was so important, Pam had to run to the bank.

On the way to the bank, Pam later told me that she realized how much of her time, thoughts, and attention revolved around money-paying the bills, balancing checkbooks, discussing costs of the room addition for their growing family. After the bank, she went food shopping, then stopped by the furniture store to check prices on a new bed for one of her children. All activities dealing with money. Like Pam, most of us have money concerns of one kind or another-striving

In the context of personal growth, money is more than a means of exchange or ready cash. Although most of us have experienced periods of financial scarcity, our relationship to money reflects our relationship to energy and service and spirit, our ability to function in society, our openness to pleasure and abundance, our reality check. Money mirrors the quality of our interactions with other people, our ability to receive and to give. Money represents survival, security, safety, shelter, food, family, livelihood.

More complex, it turns out, than balancing your checkbook.

If spiritual life begins on the ground, money forms a foundation on which to build. Shivapuri Baba, an Indian Saint and yogi who walked around the world on a pilgrimage when he was nearly 120 years old, was once asked about the best way to begin a spiritual life. He advised, “first build a foundation-manage your money.” (He had acquired a small bag of gems in his younger years, through hard work and simple living; he drew upon these gems as needed.)

Everyday Enlightenment by Dan Millman

Money in Everyday Life

Money is neither god nor devil, but a form of energy. Like love or fear, it can serve you or bind you, depending

upon how you manage it. By clarifying your goals and using your gifts, you can make good money, doing what

you enjoy, while serving the highest calling of your soul. Using money wisely, and well, you share your material

and spiritual wealth with the world.

Road Map: The Flow of Money


I don’t like money but it calms my nerves.

-Joe Louis

Managing your money begins by acknowledging any mixed feelings, guilt, or negativity you may have about money and about those who possess it in abundance. If you associate voluntary poverty with humility, goodness, and spirituality, then with what do you associate wealth? It is worth pondering, because what you believe about money will determine, in large part, your effectiveness in acquiring it.

What Money Cannot Buy

Money cannot buy security, because security is a psychological state. To some, it means having enough food to eat, clothing on your back, a shelter over your head, or someone who loves you. To others, security requires millions of dollars in tax-free accounts around the world.

Money can’t buy love and happiness either. In one telephone survey, 275 people in the San Francisco Bay area were asked if they believed that they would be significantly happier and more loving if they had a million dollars. Seventy-six percent of the respondents replied, “Yes. Absolutely.” Then the research company contacted ten millionaires, and asked them, “Did making your first million dollars make you a happier or more loving person?” The response was unanimous: “No.”

The best things in life-the sun in the morning and the moon at night-are free. And money doesn’t guarantee happiness. But financial abundance does offer a number of practical benefits. Sleep, for one thing-very few affluent people stay up late worrying about having too much money. Money also buys privacy, space, and silence.

Three things help me

to make more, or make do with less-learning to live simply, comfortably, spiritually.

Poor people may be forced to think about money a lot of the time, related to food, shelter, subsistence, and survival. Rich people may also think about money a lot of the time, related to status, travel, freedom, influence, and options. But managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency-a balanced flow of monetary energy through your life. This kind of management liberates you from survival issues, so that money concerns no longer occupy your mind or monopolize your attention. When money flows in, you spend it in a matter-of-fact way where it needs to go, where it will do the most good. You pay bills gladly, knowing that your money helps to support other people who in turn provide services for you. If something breaks, you write a check and get it fixed without further concern. Free from cycles of scarcity, your attention can ascend to higher levels of awareness and experience.

Money is like sex; you think a lot about it when you don’t have it, and think of other things when you do.

-James Baldwin

Spiritual Stereotypes

You can probably conjure up images of pure and holy people quite easily-monks with begging bowls, Indian ascetics, priests and nuns from every tradition who have renounced money in order to live a more spiritual life free of worldly distractions. Images of Jesus expelling money changers from the temple and quotations about money being the root of all evil and rich men having a tough time entering heaven and the meek inheriting the earth are quite familiar. Such images and ideas help create stereotypes that equate poverty and spirituality in the minds of many


Money is so easy to spend that an alarming number of us have put away little or nothing toward our later years. Applying fiscal discipline is a central part of managing your money. Most affluent people become and stay that way due not to extraordinary incomes, but to an unassuming lifestyle and the self-discipline to spend less than they earn, while investing the rest.

Pay Yourself First

Make it an ironclad rule to pay yourself by putting away ten cents of every dollar you ever earn until you are seventy years old, and teach your children to do the same. Before you pay the bills, before you pay the IRS, before you give to charity, put that money away as if it never existed and learn to live on the rest, no matter what. Put that ten percent aside in a safe nest-egg account or very conservative investment and let com-pound interest work for you all day and all night over the years. Never mind the fancy investment strategies, schemes, and experts. If you do have money to experi-ment with, that’s icing on the cake. In a true emergency, give yourself a few days to decide if you really need to draw out any of the principal to spend. Never draw out more than half of the principal. At the age of sixty-five or seventy, it is yours to do with as you wish.

Earmark Your Money

Whether your income is derived from a salary with taxes withheld, or whether you are self-employed, one of the most practical steps you can take in managing your money is to create a budget, clearly earmarking your money for distinct categories. Once you’ve creat-ed the budget, then stick with it. While this is not a radical idea, few of us put it into practice, given the level of credit card debt in this country. Unless you already have tax withholding at your work, divide any income as follows: For every $1,000 you make-

Immediately put away $100 (10%) in your savings.

If you are self-employed, put aside whatever

get through life successfully:

an understanding husband,

an extremely good analyst,

and millions and millions of dollars.

-Mary Tyler Moore

Wealthy people do have problems, but they have less to do with survival. There may be some forlorn rich people and some delighted poor people, but on the whole, managing your money certainly gives you a leg up.

Simple Principles for Sufficiency

In Walden Henry David Thoreau described how by living frugally, growing his own food, building a hut with scrap lumber he’d found on some land near Walden Pond, he would only have to work for six weeks a year to earn enough to live a quiet, contemplative life. There is much to admire about his experiment (which lasted a season or two), but such a life is not for everyone. You may not want to follow Thoreau to Walden Pond, but here are some simple principles that you can follow:

Live Below Your Means

Many of us believe our main money problem is how to make more of it, but how we spend it is in fact more important. Because as our income increases, so do desires and expenses. It’s all a matter of scale. Many wealthy people end up in debt.

No matter how much money you make, if

you spend more than you earn you shall be

eternally poor.

-Noah Webster


pay attention to the following principle).

Second, be good at promoting what you do. There is no telling how many exceptional, gifted people exist in every field who are not successful because they were unwilling to promote themselves. I know extraordinary musicians whose songs will never be heard by more than a few people, while the top forty charts include many forgettable but well-promoted clichés. It’s a sad irony that those most dedicated to their art or craft, who most love what they do, understandably want to spend their time getting better at what they do but fail to grasp the need to promote themselves.

Ask yourself: Am I good at what I do? Do I provide a valuable service? If the answer is no, then stay out of sight and work at improving what you do. But if your answer is yes, then blow your horn! You can’t help anyone if they don’t know you exist. Whether or not you have any innate interest in promotion and market-ing-whether or not you enjoy it-it has to become at least half of your job, your energy, and your attention at the beginning stages of a new venture. Promoting your business helps you to help others and provide a valuable service in the world as only you can do it.

The service you render others is the rent you pay for your room on earth. -Wilfred Grenfell

The Soul of Money

It is easy to get lost in the practical details of managing money and forget the higher purpose of this gateway: to provide a foundation for spiritual practice and to free your attention from the task of survival. Lynne Twist, co-founder of The Hunger Project, put it this way to Michael Toms on New Dimensions Radio:

Money is an inanimate object [but] we can assign to it a spiritual meaning and voice and power if we choose to, and give it some soul. Money doesn’t have any soul, but we do, and we’re the people through whom money flows and with which money

percentage of your gross income that goes to state and federal taxes.

If you are committed to donating a share of your income to charities, earmark that fund next; don’t wait until the end of the year to see if there’s anything left. If you decide to donate five percent of your gross income to charities, that would be $50 out of each thousand.

Put $50 into a rainy-day fund.

Put $50 into an account for Christmas, Hanukkah, or other holidays.

Put $50 into a vacation account.

That’s a total of $450, leaving $550 (out of every $1,000 you make) for household expenses: the mortgage or rent, food, utilities, medical care, etc. The exact percentages may vary from household to household, depending upon the makeup and age range of its members, but the principle is the same -earmark and budget your money. Exerting this financial discipline will eliminate a great deal of pre-tax as well as post-retirement stress. You gain self-reliance and self-respect by taking responsibili-ty for managing your money in this way.

THE TWO ESSENTIALS OF BUSINESS SUCCESS

In order to succeed in nearly any business enterprise, whether you work for a large corpora-tion or are self-employed, you must operate on these two principles:

First, be good at what you do. That means ongoing study, practice, innovation, and refinement. Treat your work as a form of skill training. Never believe that you are as good as you can get. Each day, each year, strive to master your work. No matter what you do, if you become one of the best in your field, you will do well (if you also


From that point of awareness, we turn now to the source of all beliefs-to the mind. It serves as a prison for some, but for you can also hold the key to freedom.

From the book “EVERYDAY ENLIGHTENMENT: The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth” (Warner Books, 1998). Reprinted by permission.

speaks . . . And when our spirit is unleashed, what’s unleashed is the prosperity of the soul, of the heart. . . and in that truth, the whole world belongs to you.

When I became committed to teaching whatever I learned, more information poured in. In the same way, as you contact the joy of sharing your abundant spirit, more spiritual wealth pours down from the heavens, bathing you in its light. Managing your money is provides another arena of practicing everyday enlightenment.

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Immaculée Ilibigiza – Clean Your Heart and Let Love Be There

by Wayne Dyer

Immaculée Ilibigiza: Okay, good! You understand Kinyarwanda anyway!.

Wayne Dyer: Every time I can't understand anything she says to me, I always tell Immaculée, "Come on, don't speak Kinyarwanda to me," which is her native language. I give her a hard time about it all the time.

Actually, English is her third language. Her first language is Kinyarwanda. Her second language is French. She literally taught herself English by herself in the bathroom while she was hiding from this horrible genocide that was taking place back at the same time as the O.J. Simpson trial was on.

That's where the world's attention seemed to be-espe-cially America's attention-focused at that time. This little country in Central Africa, which is about the size of the state of Maryland, has approximately 10 million people who live there.

In the course of a 90-day period of time, almost one million of those people where slaughtered. The country is divided into two tribal groups. One is called the Hutus, which represented about 90% of the population. The other is called the Tutsis, which represented about 10% of the population.

There was, literally, a systematic effort at something called ethnic cleansing, a term we don't like to hear about after the Holocaust of World War II and what happened to the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, and so on, back in the Balkans in the late 1990s.

But this was perhaps the worst genocide of all. Immaculée was a young college student. She was in

We're interviewing a woman who has endured

some of the most trying conditions imaginable.

For more than 90 days, Immaculée Ilibigiza

survived certain death during the Rwandan

genocide in 1994 only by hiding in a bathroom

with seven other women.

Immaculée emerged from a world where atrocities

were a daily occurrence with a new relationship

to God and her fellow man. She is the author of

Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan

Holocaust, which she wrote in the hopes that

her experience will help everyone who

faces unbearable challenges in their life. .

She has devoted her life to sharing the importance

of the virtues of understanding and forgiveness.

Immaculée is now a member of the United Nations

Development Program, and has established

the Left To Tell Foundation to help the children of

Africa build better lives. Immaculée, it's truly an

honor and a privilege to have you as our guest.

It's also such a great honor to have Dr. Wayne

Dyer, the man who has written some of the

most moving books of our time, to conduct this

interview. Wayne, I'll turn it over to you now to invite

Immaculée to share her story and her passion

Wayne Dyer: How are you, my dear?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: I'm good, thank you.

Wayne Dyer: I want to make one thing clear at the beginning here. We're going to conduct this one in English, not Kinyarwanda.

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Immaculée Ilibigiza: I was in school and I was going home for Easter holiday. My father called me and he wanted me to come. I told him that I wanted to stay in school because I had a really important exam. But I told myself, "Let me go since he's insisting that he doesn't see us because we stay too long in school."

I was living in school. So I went home. On the same day of the Easter holiday, I remember one morning, my brother came to me and gave me the bad news that the president's plane was shot down and he died.

From that minute they started to kill Tutsis, saying that we are the ones who have shot down the plane with the president.

Wayne Dyer: Was the president a Hutu?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: He was a Hutu.

Wayne Dyer: Was there any evidence at all that this was some kind of a conspiracy or that perhaps it had been planned in advance?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: Definitely. It was planned because this man, Romeo Dallaire, he wrote a book and he has a documentary. He's a Canadian. He was the head of the UN military in Rwanda.

He had been sending messages to the UN headquar-ters and to the White House that thousands of machetes had been delivered to Rwanda from China, and they had been planning to kill Tutsis, but they didn't listen to him.

If you go to Rwanda, you will see them in the Memorial places, the same messages he was sending to the UN right before the genocide.

Wayne Dyer: Within hours of the time that the president's plane was shot down-and people were not sure whether the Hutus did it themselves in order to get this genocide going-machetes were being issued in hundreds of thousands to everybody who was Hutu over the age of approximately 14. Is that correct?

school in Kigali, which is the capital of Rwanda,and she came home for Easter vacation at the urging of her father. I want to fast-forward about 11 or 12 years.

I met Immaculée about a year ago this time. I met her in New York City at a conference that I was speaking at. I knew in just the minute or two when I met her [that I wanted to help her]. I want to make it clear that Immaculée never asked me to write a foreword for her book, which I did, or to help her get it published and all of those things.

I went after her and helped her to see the impor-tance of getting her story out, because she's such a profound, moving woman. I know I'm speaking to you Immaculée, but to the hundreds or thousands of you listening, I really believe in the next hour you're going to be listening to a woman whom I consider to be a saint who walks among us.

She literally lives at a place that I call God-realiza-tion. In the presence of the God-realized, the material laws of the world do not apply. So Immaculée, it was 1994. You were 23 or 24 years old. You were a senior in college.

You were studying engineering, you were going to come home, and you were debating about coming home. Why don't you just tell everyone what happened when your father called and what took place.

Let's let people know what this incredible story is that is all detailed in wonderful, personal, beautiful, page-turning depth in a book called Left To Tell, which I encourage everyone out there to read.

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Immaculée Ilibigiza: We were about 1,500, but most of them had gone for the holiday.

Wayne Dyer: Okay, but how many of them went home, and how many of them stayed?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: About 500 went home and 1,000 stayed at the school.

Wayne Dyer: What happened to the 1,000 who stayed at the school?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: We heard that they killed about 900 Hutu and Tutsi; they didn't care.

Wayne Dyer: They just killed all of the students.

Immaculée Ilibigiza: All of the students who were in the school at that time. They just attacked the residence where we slept, and they just bombed up everything.

Wayne Dyer: How did they kill them?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: Most of them, they used grenades and they shot everyone who was coming out.

Wayne Dyer: This was the next day after you left?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: I know. Yes. A few days after I left.

Wayne Dyer: Had you not gone home-even though you didn't want to-you would have been one of those people?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: Definitely. All my friends, Hutus and Tutsis, everyone was killed.

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There was hatred, of course, between Tutsis and Hutus. You saw people who were discriminative against Tutsis, but somehow I think that people were hiding that kind of hatred inside their hearts. Once they were given the permission, they just acted upon it.

Immaculée Ilibigiza: That is right. They started to kill 15 minutes after the plane crashed. Right after, they distributed machetes, they distributed guns to almost all the Hutu families and to boys.

Wayne Dyer: So the killing began. I'm sure a lot of readers saw the movie "Hotel Rwanda." Was the radio what was used to get the entire masses into this frenzy of killing? Is that how they did it?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: It was the radio and the TV. A few people, of course, had a TV at home, but it was the radio, especially because it was ministers of the government. The government was encour-aging people to kill. "If you are a good citizen, you have to go and kill Tutsis." It was something that was really a duty [in this time].

Wayne Dyer: So all the Hutus in the country thought it was their duty and their obligation because over the radio, they were hearing their government officials saying, "It is your job to eliminate everybody." Grand-mothers, babies-was everyone to be eliminated?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: That's right. I remember one minister who was actually the father of one of my friends, and he was saying openly on the radio, "A snake of a snake is a snake, so we have to go ahead and kill everyone, even children. We cannot wait anymore to kill just a few of them. These are enemies of the country. We have to start with children to old people."

* * * * *Wayne Dyer: How many students were in your college there at that time?

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I used to stand when she stood because she was my friend; I thought she was the same. Actually, the teacher told me, "No, you are Tutsi."

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vive. You're a very, very, very tiny, minute percentage of the Tutsis who survived because less than 1% of all the Tutsis survived.

All the rest-over 99% of all the Tutsi people-have been slaughtered. You get out, and what is your first day like out of there? You're no longer sleeping in a bathroom. You weigh 65 pounds. What does it feel like to sit down on the ground with every bone exposed? What was that first night like?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: This was the night we came out because it was the French troops who took us from where we were. They had us in a camp. I remem-ber I was sleeping on the ground. It was a paradise, of course, because I was able to sleep having machine guns, guards guarding me so I knew, even if they see me, they're not going to kill me.

Wayne Dyer: So you still had to get to the compound after that, and there was this group of people who were called the Interahamwe, which were really the thugs and the killers. These were the killer groups that allowed no one freedom.

You were 100 yards or so from the entrance to the French camp as this began to unfold, and as this genocide became more evident as to what had happened. You were confronted by a group of Intera-hamwe and a man with a machete, who was a Hutu.

Wayne Dyer: Let's fast-forward now. Day in, day out, day in, day out, and finally, the French come. It's in July. It's now been 90, 91 days, and you are being told that you're going to be able to leave the bathroom the next day. You get out. The others that are in the bathroom sur-

I think that can happen anywhere, especially when the media or the authorities give permission and they tell them no one is going to be punished. Then people just reveal what they have in their hearts.

Wayne Dyer: So if they have hatred in their heart, the possibility of a genocide taking place could happen anywhere. Is that correct?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: That is what I feel. They were people I had lived with all my life.

Wayne Dyer: Wasn't one of your best girlfriends a Hutu?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: My best girlfriend who turned me away, actually, the first day of the genocide.

Wayne Dyer: What did she say to you?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: I went to her, and I was so happy when I met her by the pastor where I was going to hide, and I told her, "Oh, my God, I am coming in your home." And she just looked at me and told me, "You know what? We don't hide Tutsis in my home." And she took her bag and left without even saying goodbye.

Wayne Dyer: And this was your best friend in the world for how long?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: She was my best friend for 20 years. I went with her to primary school when we were eight years old. We were always standing up together. The first time I was confused.

I didn't even know which was my tribe. I remember

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I held my head up. I looked at him also, and I started to call God inside. I said, "I know this person is a human being. I know it is evil that is in him." It was almost like I didn't say a word, but I was pushing out the bad spirit in him.

I was like, "God, help me. This is a beautiful person. He can be okay. He's perfect, he is this." And I was looking at him really straight in the eye, and after two minutes I started to feel like he was dropping his eyes.

I was happy inside. I said, "Yes! God is here. He will work with this. He is stronger than the Devil." And after a few minutes, he looked down, he looked up at me, and I could feel the anger was disappearing. Then he turned back and he dropped his machete on the ground.

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Wayne Dyer: When I say that you're inspired, your consciousness expands in every direction. You actually went into the future almost knowing that you had to learn the English language because you were going to be doing interviews such as this.

You were going to be telling people all over the world in a language that you didn't even speak yet. Miracles began to happen for you. And then we met; it was about a year ago in April of last year, of 2005. In just a minute or two, just tell them what has happened since then.

Immaculée Ilibigiza: Oh, my gosh. Since then, when we met, Wayne, you know you have been an angel in my life. I remember I still have tell it because of this. When we met, it was three days after I had just finished. I had written my last letter on this book, and I was writing the letters to God, which I still have, asking him, please send me somebody.

Do something for me to publish this book, because I never knew anybody in my life who had written a book. Then when I met you, you were passionate like a brother to my soul, just passionate to help me to publish this book.

He recognized you or he saw you there, and you only had a few yards to go before you were going to be free. Tell everybody listening what you did and what happened to him, because I think this is one of the most astounding things that happened in this story.

Immaculée Ilibigiza: We were going actually to the new government, the Hutu and Tutsi modera-tors who have captured the country. And the French left us in the middle of the killers. Many of them were all around us. They left us right in the middle of the killers.

I told myself, "I'm not going to die today. It has been four months fighting with death. I'm not going to die today. I didn't come here to die." They called me, they called my father to say that I was the only one missing in my family.

The Interahamwe came to me and was looking so angry. His eyes were really angry, and he had a machete. He looked at me. I just faced him up. I said, "I'm not going to look down." I could see he was really pushing me down with his energy inside.

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you can think of him and see what he went through, then you will see that what you are going through is less than what he did. So then it can help you to forgive. Once you forgive you let go, and you let only love in your heart. Every single thing is possible.

I described how I got a job and how so many things have happened in my life. They would not have happened in the way they did if I did not live this experience. The lesson, really, is that simple, just to clean your heart and to let love be there.

And the rest, God is caring for that. Another thing I want to suggest is that, really, life is short, this life on earth anyways, but there is eternal life if you can only just keep love and remind people you lovethat you love them because it is short and there is nothing better than telling people.

I wish I had my parents here today. I wish I had my brothers. One thing I would change. I would just remind them more often that I love them. I would forgive them. I would want only the best that they were in my life. I would cherish every moment.

Wayne Dyer: When you were going off to Rwanda, I got two books for you. Once was by Anne Frank, and one, of course, was the classic book about forgive-ness and about finding peace in our hearts. What was the comment that Anne Frank made?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: She said, and I actually believe it, she still believed that people are good at heart, and I do definitely, too. We people are struggling to know what makes us happy. People are struggling to do well, and I still think that every one is capable of doing well. Most of the time, I find that people are more at their best when they are appreciated.

Wayne Dyer: So you still believe people are good.

Immaculée Ilibigiza: Of course, of course.

Wayne Dyer: And what about Viktor Frankl's

After this moment, I still can't believe it, that real angels exist in the world and can just show up and help you out. I can't even believe it. I definitely feel that this experience and the genocide have given me a way of trusting in God and trusting in his work.

And when I met you I knew it is not easy to trust someone you never knew in your life, but there was something like, "Just let it go. This is your time. You have been praying for me to help you. Here I am." And I'll cherish that day for the rest of my life.

Wayne Dyer: I do, too. It's been much more for me than it is for you. So can you just share with the listeners two or three things that they might do in the coming weeks to really apply the lessons that you've shared here with them in this last hour or so. What can the people out there, all of our readers, do now, based upon what you learned?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: Definitely say that what they have learned is really what I [still feel] from my experience, to learn, to apply the lessons I have learned. And most of it, really, is that I know whatever you want from God, whatever you want in life, it is possible.

And one thing I have found is that the best way to go there, to find it, to be sure, is to clean your heart, to let go of the unforgiveness and just to love. Then you are able to send love to anybody, everybody in your life. If you can think about the life of another person who has suffered so, they can help you to let go.

Think, for example, about Jesus, our Lord. If

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Wayne Dyer: You met a woman at one of the audiences you spoke to in, I think it was, Atlanta, who was a Holocaust survivor. What did she say to you?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: She told me-it was two of them, actually, I met there. One of them was an elderly person, she was about 90. She had been waiting to see somebody like me. I don't even know what she meant really, but I know she said, "I wanted to know that this exists so that maybe I can let go, so I can go in peace."

It touched my heart so much. She was crying. She was shaking, and she told me, "I was waiting for you, to see someone like you able to do it, so that maybe I can be at peace. And if I die, then I can die in peace." It was so good.

Another lady who wasn't too old, she told me she was also a Holocaust survivor, and then she told me, "Now I can live in peace. I have been struggling. My parents went through it. And I have been struggling to forgive, to let go, to move on in my life, but now I think I have got my solution, my answer. I am going to live my life." And it just makes you feel so good, so good.

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Wayne Dyer: Is there any one, single idea that you think is the most important thing that everybodyout there could apply?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: Love, love and love. I think the question was asked of Jesus: "What is the greatest commandment?" And I have seen it in reality. I

book, Man's Search for Meaning, which was the other book that I asked you to read?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: One thing I found in that book was that the best way is to find the meaning of everything happening to you. After today, I really feel that I was left to prepare my story. And I tried to find the meaning of me going through what I went through.

Anytime I talked to a crowd and people tell me it has changed their lives, I know my people are not lost. They are in heaven, and I will go at the end. But if I can go through what I went through, if I can still live and go through that pain for life on earth to change for the best, let it be. God knows that I had to go through it because we are on our journey to eternal life.

Wayne Dyer: You quote Viktor Frankl at the beginning of your book, and said "When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." If you can't change what's going on around you, then you have to change within you.

Healthy Wealthy nWise believes really strongly in the power of intention-which is a great title for a book; maybe I'll use it-to manifest our destiny. There's another great title. Immaculée, what is your current, most important project, and what intention would you like all of us to hold for you? What's going on now for you, at this time?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: I am just enjoying, really, helping people to let God, to forgive.

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Wayne Dyer: So it's really not something that you do then, as much as it's something that you are.

Immaculée Ilibigiza: Definitely. Oh, yes. It is a place of your heart, of flowers in your heart. And you feel them and you just spread it. You don't see what people are doing, because we are not supposed to judge. And when we judge, we do it wrong. You just love, really.

That's one thing I can tell everyone. If you make a decision in your heart, just see if it is coming from a loving heart because most of the time, we make decisions from a heart that is angry, and then we realize that we have made a mistake.

But once you make a decision, just check if you have enough love in your heart, and then you will never regret it.

have seen it applied. Really, there is nothing that matters in life more than love, love, love.

Wayne Dyer: And the idea of loving even those who are doing hateful things?

Immaculée Ilibigiza: Yes. You love because you have it in your heart. You don't love because people deserve it. You love because they are human beings, because they are the creations of God. It is love you apply from what you have inside your heart.

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from the heavens into your lap won’t work either! Clearly, if you want to be inspired, you must be willing to offer inspiration. You’ve got to act on a desire to inspire others, thus becoming a person of inspiring action yourself. So in this section I’d like to share two beautiful examples of inspiration in action with you, along with suggestions for applying them to your life.

Example #1

I was inspired by a short documentary called Ryan’s

Well, about a young Canadian boy whose actions made a huge difference in the lives of some people in Uganda. You see, as a first grader in the small town of Kemptville, Ontario, Ryan Hreljac learned that there were people in Africa who didn’t have clean drinking water—yet it would cost just $70 to build a well that could provide pure, potable water for an entire village. This six-year-old boy began a campaign to earnthe necessary money, only to discover that the cost was actually several thousand dollars. His reaction was, “I’ll do more chores” . . . and he did.

In the film we see Ryan travel to Africa with his parents a few years later. The villagers greet him with enthusiasm and declare a day of commemoration that they call “Ryan’s Day,” in appreciation of his commitment to helping his fellow human beings on the other side of the world. It turns out that Ryan was instrumental in helping to raise what eventually grew to be more than a million dollars! His inspiration had motivated other schools in Canada to get behind his project; after the national news media picked up on the story, the television networks climbed on board, too.

Here was one small boy who decided to act on his strong inner calling to help others. He had no money or

Inspiration in Action

“In our era, the road to holiness necessarily

passes through the world of action.”

— Dag Hammarskjold

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing

is not enough; we must do . . .”

— Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

When we feel inspired, we’re on the “road to holi-ness” that Dag Hammarskjold refers to above. Yet that road can only be paved with actions that mirror the intention of our originating Spirit—actions that we’re capable of choosing consciously, if we’re aware of the duality of giving and receiving.

Like two sides of the same coin, giving and receiving are inseparable. Other examples of our duality abound: Before we can take a breath, we must give a breath; in order to give anything away, we must first have been willing to receive it; and our ability to feed others is linked to being able to accept food ourselves. Who has ever seen a person with a front but no back? How about an inside without an outside? Or a magnet with a north pole but no south pole? So, just as the Prayer of St. Francis reminds us that it is in giving that we eceive, in order to receive inspiration we must be willing to give it away, and vice versa.

Two Examples of Inspiring Action

As Goethe instructs, reading a book about inspira-tion isn’t enough, and certainly waiting for it to fall

The following excerpt is taken from “Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling,” by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer. It is published by Hay House (March 2006) and available at all stores or online at www.hayhouse.com

Inspiration: Your Ultimate CallingBy Wayne Dyer


others . . . while becoming more inspired ourselves.

Ryan’s story represents our true nature, and our ability to be purposefully in-Spirit. He found a way to give to others the inspiration he wanted for himself, and all those who observed this boy in action responded in kind. To that end, whatever we’d like in our life that would provide us with inspiration is there—we just need to find a way to offer to others what we desire, and we’ll solve the riddle of how to feel inspired and give inspiration away at the same time.

Example #2

On a recent airing of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Cassie, a young cancer patient, was given a surprise by the show’s producers: They built a beautiful mansion where the tiny bungalow that housed the little girl and her large family once stood. But Cassie hadn’t written to the show to ask for a more impressive home for her family; instead, she wanted the producers to consider making over the children’s cancer ward in the hospital where she spent a large portion of her young life. She felt that the surroundings were far too dreary—the walls were bare, and the entire place was disheartening—and she felt that a makeover would help uplift and inspire everyone, including her young friends who were also patients. The show agreed to finance and re-create the children’s cancer ward, and they also got all the kids involved in the project.

When it was completed, the ward looked like a fairyland that any child would love: Playrooms replaced old storage closets, the walls came alive with creative artwork, and the sleeping facilities were redone so that they no longer even resembled hospital beds. The entire ward turned into a place of inspiration . . . all thanks to the dreams of a very young child who listened to Spirit and took action. But I haven’t even gotten to the most inspiring part of the story yet!

Without exception, all of the children in the cancer ward who participated in the renovation had their white cells

other resources at his disposal, but he did have a burning desire to reach out and serve people in need. He was willing to do the chores necessary to fulfill his call to be a vibrational match with his Creator and serve others. In turn, his actions created an immense wellspring of inspiration for all who contributed and got involved in Ryan’s foundation. He inspired the children in Uganda (and even the government and school officials in that country), who all paid tribute to the spirit within Ryan that did so much good (God) in a remote village far away from his small community in Ontario. Ryan himself was the recipient of even more inspiration than he gave away.

When I watched the film, I was so moved that I insisted that all of my children see it, and they became inspired as well. In fact, I’m writing these words with the admitted intention of inspiring others to take action, too. Ryan’s Well Foundation has a Website (www.ryanswell.ca), and with some inspired action, everyone reading these words can find their way to it and contribute to making clean drinking water, something most of us take for granted, available for others.

One person’s inspiring actions will ultimately lead to many, many others. In the duality of inspired actions, giving and receiving inspiration is a never-ending circle of living more and more in-Spirit.

Applying This Example: The moral of Ryan Hreljac’s story is that none of us has an excuse for not being a person of inspiration. We don’t need money or the help of any government or bank—all we need is an internal commitment to be more like God, and then to act on that desire. Everything else that we need will begin to arrive when we’re in-Spirit: The right people will show up, the financing will materialize, those around us will be attracted to our enthusiasm and commitment, and we’ll be a source of inspiration to


ly, which I interpret to mean “in collaboration with our essential spiritual essence.” By taking action from that place of Spirit, we become whole again, and all darkness dissolves.

Cassie and Ryan’s examples are not out of our range, no matter who we are or what our place in life is. We all have the capacity to become inspired, to act in a more God-realized fashion— we just need to take the time to seek out the opportunities to do so.

How I’ve Practiced Inspiration in Action

In this section, I’d like to present some examples of my own deliberate efforts to put the duality of inspiration in action into practice. I work at this every single day of my life: Every human encounter represents a moment of truth for me, one in which I choose to be reconnected to Spirit and offer to others what I genuinely want for myself. The opportunities present themselves in the form of a smile or a greeting or an extension of kindness, even if it’s just a silent blessing to a person begging on a street corner or a prayer said quietly to myself when I hear a siren. (The siren is a reminder to me to offer my thoughts of comfort to whomever is in need of assistance.) These are habits that I’ve developed over a lifetime.

Then there are the days when I go out on a premeditated odyssey of inspiration, without any fanfare or need for recognition. Here’s the result of one such inspiration excursion—and keep in mind that this all happened in one afternoon!

I reside on west Maui while I’m writing, and on this particular day I decided to make the 20-mile trek to Costco to load up with supplies for two weeks of uninterrupted writing. As usual, someone was standing by the roadside looking for a lift to “the other side.” This is a commonplace occurrence here on Maui, and it’s my regular practice to pick up whoever’s seeking a ride—usually a young person with a surfboard or a couple with luggage needing transportation to the

increase in the direction of well-being and away from the damaging cancer in their bodies. Imagine—by moving more into harmony with Spirit and using this newfound inspiration to take action in the service of other children, the actual process of returning to perfect health was activated. The healing power within these young people somehow miraculously responded to the results and actions of Cassie’s inspiration by increasing their white cells!

Applying This Example: There’s so much to ponder in the story of Cassie’s actions—above all, how taking action to inspire others may activate something that reconnects us (and them) to a stream of well-being and perfect health. Additional-ly, there’s the inspiration that we receive by giving. Consider these powerful words of Robert Frost, one of America’s most illustrious poets: “Something we were withholding made us weak. Until we found out that it was ourselves.” Our weaknesses, including our illnesses, may come to us because we’re withholding something— which could very well be our healthy, conscious connection to Spirit. By taking action to inspire others in any way, we gain the opportunity to convert a weakness to a strength.

If a child of five or six who’s living with cancer in a ward with other kids in similar circumstances can find a way to take action that inspires others, then surely we can go within and find our way to inspiring action. Little Cassie was acting more like God than ego when she wrote to the Extreme

Makeover: Home Edition show. And she also behaved in a more God-realized way when she got involved in the cancer-ward renovation to make it a more healing and good- feeling place. As one of my greatest mentors and teachers, Carl Jung, once observed: “Whatever you do, if you do it sincerely, will eventually become a bridge to your wholeness, a good ship that carries you through the darkness.” Dr. Jung’s key advice centers on the word sincere-


I headed back to Costco for one of my favorite activities. I love the opportunity to purchase large amounts of goodies of all description in the store’s open, warehouse atmosphere, among lots of local people doing the same thing.

At the back of the store on this day, a gentleman who recognized me from my PBS appearances approached me and wanted an appointment to discuss a problem he was having. I informed him that I was writing a book, so a scheduled meeting would be impossible. But knowing that some force had brought us together in the midst of all this delightful chaos, I asked, “What’s the problem?”

The man told me that he was a diabetic who’d developed a fail-safe method for delivering insulin, in a manner that would leave no one out. “So what’s the problem?” I once again asked. “Why not implement your plan?”

He went on to explain how he’d been unable to get the necessary government agencies to meet with him—various layers of bureaucracy were impeding his progress. On and on he went with a litany of obstacles that he felt were being placed before him, until I finally stopped him. “I sense that you know exactly what’s needed, since you’re a diabetic, too,” I said. “And you know exactly what needs to be done to implement your idea.”

He lit up like a Christmas tree. Giving me a knowing smile, he said, “Exactly, but I can’t—”

I stopped him cold, reminding him that when we focus on what we don’t want, then that’s what we’ll get. We get what we think about, whether we want it or not. I then asked him to consider staying out of the “system of obstacles” altogether; he should go ahead with his plan, forget about what couldn’t be done, and just do it without the assistance or resistance of anyone else. “If your plan is viable, then they’ll ultimately come along,” I reminded him. “Just do it, and stop trying to get the

airport. I always view giving rides as an opportunity to serve another person, and I get to feel good as well. If you’re thinking about how dangerous this practice might be, I simply don’t ever entertain such thoughts, and I never attract people or events into my life that cause me harm. It’s just not my way of being in the world.

On this day I picked up a 41-year-old man from Canada named Raven (Maui tends to attract people with names like that) who needed to get to the airport. As we talked, it turned out that my passenger hadn’t spoken to his father in 17 years, distancing himself out of respect for his mother and sister, who had their own unresolved conflicts with the man. Raven admitted that he felt distressed and incomplete; moreover, he found himself repeating some of the behavioral patterns of his father’s that had caused this family rift in the first place.

I brought up the subject of forgiveness, mentioning this quote from A Course in Miracles: “Certain it is that all distress does not appear to be but un-forgiveness.” I related the story of my experience at my own father’s grave in l974, and how that one single act of forgiveness turned my life around and headed me back in the direction of Spirit.

As I dropped Raven off at the airport, he hugged me. With tears in his eyes, he said, “I can’t believe how much this one trip has changed my life. I feel that you were sent here by God to remove this sword that’s been hanging over my head. I know what I have to do, and I will do it soon.” It was a moment of inspiration for both of us.

It would have been just as easy for me to maintain silence on that 20-mile ride along the ocean, but I knew that on this day, I was on a pilgrimage of inspiration, and Raven was one of my co- conspirators.


song: “Breathe In, Breathe Out, Life Is Good.”

I handed Andy a $50 bill, which inspired him to cry out in appreciation, and off I drove. It was a double dose of inspiration: Andy was aligned with Spirit by being a cre-ator of his own music and feeling purposeful and confi-dent, and I was experiencing heaven on Earth for being able to extend love and assistance to another person. And it was my third such gift in the past two hours!

Next I proceeded to a grocery store to pick up a few items in smaller quantities than were available at Costco. As I stood in the check-out line, I struck up a conversation with the woman behind me on the subject of raspberries. I was purchasing two half-pints of these precious little jewels to put on my morning bowl of cereal, and the lady asked about the price, which I hadn’t noticed. She went on and on about how much she loved raspberries, but their cost was so outrageous—she’d never spend that kind of money, even for something she loved so much.

I responded by telling her about my happy memories of growing up in Michigan and picking berries as a young boy. To this day, raspberries are one of my very favorite foods, and I buy them whenever they’re available. The woman could relate to my memories, since she grew up in Pennsylvania and used to pick the berries herself, coming home with red stains on her fingers and all around her mouth.

At the register, we saw that the baskets of berries came up as $7.99 each. My new friend almost collapsed, but told me to “savor each and every one of those little treasures.” As I walked away, I reached into my bag and placed one of the containers in her hands and told her to enjoy them as a gift from me. This lady, who was counting out her change to pay for a single container of yogurt, was stunned. I finally convinced her that if she wouldn’t accept them as a gift from me, she’d be depriving me of my own treat in knowing how much pleasure she was going to have relishing and savoring these little gems.

approval of a bureaucracy.” And then I asked, “You know what to do and how to do it, don’t you?”

“Yes, I do,” he replied, “and I will. I feel as if this little meeting was arranged by God just for me today.” After getting my second hug from a “stranger” in the past 30 minutes, the man pushed his shopping cart away with a newfound sense of inspiration. He’d returned to Spirit, where the idea of anything being impossible is . . . impossible! And I’d been able to extend some Spirit offerings to another.

Continuing on my way back to west Maui, I picked up a young fellow named Andy who was on his way to the Hard Rock Café. Fancying himself a Rasta-farian rap artist, Andy had long dreadlocks and a strong inclination toward using marijuana as a stimulus for his music. As it turned out, he simply wanted to approach the manager at the Hard Rock to see if he could perform there on weekends. He was out of funds and without a plan—even his upcoming spontaneous audition had been purely a fantasy, since he hadn’t contacted anyone at the restaurant for an appointment.

As we talked, I told him a story that my daughter Sommer had recently related to me. She has a little dog named Joey that she takes with her every day as she trains horses and gives riding lessons. Her friend Mimi had told her that Joey was a perfect example of a being at peace with God, and my daughter agreed. “Joey’s mantra is: Breathe in,

breathe out, life is good,” she said. “That’s Joey all day, every day: Breathe in, breathe out, life

is good!” Andy loved this story . . . so I asked him to give me a song using this theme as the primary lyric.

My car was suddenly filled with the sounds of a Rastafarian rapper pounding out a fast-paced lyric. It was sensational, and Andy was in heaven. By the time I dropped him off at the restaurant, he had his audition all planned, and he’d written his very first


As you can see, the opportunities to reach into the lives of others in an inspiring way arise in countless ways, every single day. We can either act on these momen-tary impulses and feel inspired, or we can ignore them and stay in our ego-dominated world. I choose to act, for it makes me feel creatively alive, connected to good (God) and everyone else in the world.

Taking action is how we increase our connectedness to Spirit. If we’re heeding our ultimate calling, we must be willing to act on that mission. We may believe that inspiration is something that arrives in some mysterious way that’s beyond our control—or perhaps we’re waiting for God to send us motivational signs—but it’s clearly best to rely exclusively on our decisions to act in ways that will intensify our awareness of Spirit.

Try this action plan for a few weeks and see if you don’t feel more inspired than you’ve ever felt before.

Some Suggestions for Putting the Ideas in This Chapter to Work for You

Before beginning your day, spend a few moments with God during the early morning. When you awaken, remind yourself, “These are my few moments with God.” During those precious seconds, ask, reflect, feel the peace, and most important, extend your gratitude. I end my few moments with God every morning with this: “Thank You, thank You, thank You!”

Upon awakening, decide to do something, anything, that will improve the quality of life for someone, without seeking any credit for yourself. (If you can do it before breakfast, great!) A letter, some flowers, a contribution, an unexpected plan to visit someone later in the day—do anything at all that will make someone else feel good (God).

Overcome your inertia. Since to be inert is to be without action, agree to become a being of movement: Plan to exercise, make that call you’ve been avoiding, or write that letter. Just as the key to Spirit is movement, the key

My new friend was obviously inspired by this unex-pected expression of kindness to a “stranger.” I could see the gratitude and love in her eyes as she tucked the berries in her straw bag. I, of course, was right on track, enjoying my fourth occurrence of inspiration in action on the same afternoon. And much to my surprise, number five was evolving right in front of my eyes. . . .

In almost every aisle of the grocery store, I’d seen the same woman, dressed in flowery slacks and a bright orange blouse. As I approached the bakery to buy a loaf of olive bread for my daughter Sere-na’s arrival the following day (she loves this bread!), the woman in the colorful outfit talked to me about a multigrain bread that she absolutely loved. “It’s the best I’ve ever tasted,” she said in a heavy foreign accent. As I approached the cashier, there she was again, ahead of me, asking if I’d hold her place while she picked up some item she’d forgotten. Then in the parking lot, she stopped her car to allow me to enter the exit ramp. Finally, as I was driving home, I spotted her again! Her car was sitting by the side of a putting green—with the door open and the engine running—and she and a man were hitting golf balls on the green.

To me, this was more that a series of accidental encounters, so I decided to turn my car around and deliver a present to her. I pulled up behind the auto-mobile and approached with an autographed copy of The Power of Intention in my hand. It turned out that this lady was originally from Poland and was on her honeymoon. She introduced me to her hus-band, and I gave them the surprise wedding present, for which they were most grateful. I have no idea what took place in their lives after I drove off—I can’t tell you why she kept appearing over and over again, or if the book I gave them made any kind of a difference in their lives—all I can say for certain is that these newlyweds were very touched by my gesture, and I had my fifth gift of feeling connected to Spirit in one afternoon!


to act in-Spirit. It was my choice. I was seeking those situations, and if they hadn’t transpired, I would have made them happen. Once you get proficient at manufacturing circumstances that allow you to be inspirational, you’ll begin to see these situations materializing all around you every day.

Finally, don’t ever quit. Never give up on yourself or feel shame as a result of not fulfilling your objectives to be a being of inspiration. Every fall that you take is a gift, and every relapse is a glorious opportunity—after all, without them you can’t manifest the energy to get to a higher place.

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There it is—a blueprint for taking action to live from inspiration. These strategies, as simple as they may seem, will bring you to a new level of inspiration if they’re just adopted one day at a time. But reconnecting to Spirit can all happen in one day—this day. As one of my favorite Chinese proverbs reminds us:

I hear and I forgetI see and I remember I do and I understand.

If you want to understand inspiration, it will require some doing. So remember what the Dalai Lama says: “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

I close Part III of this book with the simple yet profound words of Shakespeare: “Action is eloquence.”

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to health is circulation. Spirit is always in a state of creation, so commit to less lying or sitting around and more movement.

Listen to your inner voice and promise that you’ll take corrective action. For example, if you’ve been addicted to alcohol or drugs, overeating, or being a doormat, listen to that inner voice that begs you to be big rather than small, and take one corrective step. Just for today, throw the cigarettes away, pass on the sweets, walk around the block, or stand up for yourself. That inner voice is God pleading with you to rejoin Him in-Spirit by being pure, strong, and an instrument of well-being.

Accept no excuses: Stop with the BS and be truthful with yourself, admit your flaws rather than defending them, and look in the mirror and talk to yourself honestly. Affirm: I am a creation of God,

and I am Divine. I’ve forgotten this, but now I’m not

accepting excuses. I’m going to stop fooling myself

and work at being all that I was destined to be.

Experience the apprehension and do it anyway! It’s the doing that brings you to a new level of inspira-tion, so don’t deny your fear. Allow the panic to come, and then move in the direction of facing it. Visualize the fear right in front of you. Stare it down and tell it how you truly feel and what you intend to become: “I’m stronger than you. I have my Creator here with me as a Senior Consultant, so I’m no longer willing to allow you to have dominance in my life. I’m scared, but I’m also taking action.”

Look for opportunities that you’re going to create to feel inspired. In my afternoon of inspiration described in this chapter, I made a specific decision

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