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Written by Dan England
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Friday, 09 November 2007 |
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Wayne Dyer has a typical rags-to-riches story, so bear with us for a second. We know you’ve heard it before.
He was a child of the Depression, and though his parents wanted him and his brother, they could not afford to care for them, and the two bounced around orphanages and foster homes for years. He shoveled snow and cut grass and carried ashes out of furnaces for scraps of change. When he figured out he could get 2 cents for soda pop bottles, he thought he’d died and gone to heaven.
But here’s what you may not have heard: Dyer is grateful for the rags part of his life.
“I remember it as a wonderful place,” Dyer said in a phone interview. “There were no parents. It taught me about self-reliance, and it was the best preparation for my whole life.”
That’s the kind of positive talk you might expect from Dyer. After all, thinking that way helped lead to the riches part, as a best-selling author of 29 books, including the latest, “Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life.” He is lecturing across the country in support of the book, and he’ll appear Monday, Nov. 12 at the Budweiser Events Center in Loveland.
Dyer was financially independent by age 30, but the past never left him. He has eight children and still digs in the trash for tubes of toothpaste they throw away or searches for a cheaper price on gas.
“I can brush my teeth for a month on what they throw away,” he said. “I can’t ever stop myself from doing that.”
He began his career writing books about living from what he calls a common-sense perspective, a life he was forced to live from his childhood, but lately he’s moved into spirituality. His latest book drew heavily on the “Tao Te Ching,” called the ancient Chinese Book of the Way.
Dyer was turned on to the Tao after a friend who was a severe alcoholic and drug addict became sober after reading the lessons. Dyer had read the Tao before, but it didn’t connect with him.
“But I thought if a book could do that for my friend, I should give it another look,” he said. “I spent all of 2006 immersing myself in it after that.”
The Tao made him more flexible in life, more content and made him think small, he said. He plans to talk about other ways the Tao can change your life as well.
“You really can live it,” Dyer said. “It really can change your life.”
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TO GO
• An Evening with Wayne Dyer takes place at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12
• Budweiser Events Center, Loveland
• Tickets start at $50 and are available by calling 877.544.TIXX, or go to
www.comcasttix.com or at the center box office, the Colorado Eagles office in Windsor or Woody’s Newsstand and Cafe in Greeley. | |
FIFTY - 75 BUCKS !!??
Written by BriansBLog on 2007-11-09 19:07:25
His message is so inspiring, so powerful, so helpful. I am EXTREMELY disappointed that he prices his show so that only the elite can afford to go. A man who was so poor should understand how helpful this seminar would be to lower income folks and not be so greedy. |
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