I Can See Clearly Now
About This Book
For many years, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer’s fans have wondered when he would write a memoir. Well, after four decades as a teacher of self-empowerment and the best-selling author of more than 40 books, Wayne has finally done just that! However, he has written it in a way that only he can—with a remarkable take-home message for his longtime followers and new readers alike—and the result is an exciting new twist on the old format. Rather than a plain old memoir, Wayne has gathered together quantum-moment recollections. In this revealing and engaging book, Wayne shares dozens of events from his life, from the time he was a little boy in Detroit up to present day. In unflinching detail, he relates his vivid impressions of encountering many forks in the road, taking readers with him into these formative experiences. Yet then he views the events from his current perspective, noting what lessons he ultimately learned, as well as how he has made the resulting wisdom available to millions via his lifelong dedication to service. As a reader, you will feel as if you are right there with Wayne, perusing his personal photo album and hearing about his family, his time in the service, how he writes his best-selling books, and so much more.In the process, you’ll be inspired to look back at your own life to see how everything you have experienced has led you to where you are right now. Wayne has discovered that there are no accidents. Although we may not be aware of who or what is"moving the checkers," life has a purpose, and each step of our journey has something to teach us. As he says, "I wasn’t aware of all of the future implications that these early experiences were to offer me. Now, from a position of being able to see much more clearly, I know that every single encounter, every challenge, and every situation are all spectacular threads in the tapestry that represents and defines my life, and I am deeply grateful for all of it." I Can See Clearly Now is an intimate look at an amazing teacher, but it also holds the key for seekers on a personal path of enlightenment. Wayne offers up his own life as an example of how we can all recognize the hand of the Divine steering our individual courses, helping us accomplish the mission we came here to fulfill.
What You'll Learn
• Understand the hindsight spiritual perspective: how I Can See Clearly Now models the specific form of understanding that comes when the whole arc of a life is available for reflection — the capacity to see what each experience was actually doing, what each difficulty was actually preparing, and what the apparently random or painful events of a life reveal, from sufficient distance, as a coherent and purposeful journey
• Grasp the forgiveness teaching: how Dyer's account of finding his father's grave and choosing forgiveness — one of the pivotal events of his spiritual development — illustrates the specific mechanism of forgiveness as liberation (from the accumulated resentment that has been poisoning the present) rather than merely as moral virtue, and why he regards this act of forgiveness as the single most important spiritual choice of his life
• Recognise the career-as-spiritual-path dimension: how I Can See Clearly Now reads Dyer's career as a writer and teacher not as a separately spiritual endeavour but as the specific form that his spiritual path took — and how the specific books he wrote, the specific audiences he reached, and the specific challenges his career presented were all elements of a guidance system that was leading him progressively toward his deepest purpose
• Learn the spiritual evolution trajectory: how Dyer's understanding developed from the secular humanistic self-help orientation of Your Erroneous Zones through the Taoist influence of The Tao of Physics, to the Christianised spirituality of A Course in Miracles, to the explicitly devotional orientation of his final books — and what the specific experiences and encounters that drove each development reveal about how genuine spiritual deepening actually occurs
• Appreciate the testimony quality: how I Can See Clearly Now, as a genuine spiritual autobiography written near the end of a fully lived life, provides something that no theoretical spiritual text can offer — the specific weight of genuine personal testimony, the authentic uncertainty of retrospective understanding, and the quality of a consciousness that has genuinely found what it was looking for and is giving an honest account of how
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