Be the cure. Don't look outside yourself for it.
Interpretation
Self-healing begins within and does not rely on external sources.
This quote emphasizes the importance of personal responsibility in fostering one's own well-being. Wayne Dyer encourages individuals to seek solutions for their problems from within rather than depending on external circumstances or people, thereby asserting the power of self-awareness and inner strength in personal transformation and healing.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges, one might say, 'Remember, be the cure. Don't look outside yourself for it.'
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.
Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'
Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.
Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.
I read somewhere, one, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside of me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, above all, towards life. And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.
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