Wayne Dyer Quotes

It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.

So how can you lose what you've never owned?

I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every route possible, but human beings invest a lot of cleverness trying to cling to past events, real or imagined. And because we can't succeed, we get angry and frustrated and feel guilty. Except the Buddhists.

No man can lose what he never had.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

Everything I have is for sale. Material items are just things that pass through your hands that mean very little or nothing.

If you acquire things, you have to let them go.

So we're in this process of letting go of our own attachments to our physical forms and to the people we love, and... basically everything. Life is like this one big process of letting go.

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature of life, then clinging is stupidity, because your clinging is not going to change the law of life. Your clinging is only going to make you miserable. Things are bound to change; whether you cling or not does not matter. If you cling you become miserable: you cling and they change, you feel frustrated. If you don't cling they still change, but then there is no frustration because you were perfectly aware that they are bound to change. This is how things are, this is the suchness of life.

We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.

The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.

The easiest way to lose something is to want it too badly.

And keep as few things as possible, so that you don't have to fear for them. Give them up without a struggle-because otherwise the humiliation will poison your heart. They will take them away from you in a fight, and trying to hold onto your property will only leave you with a bloodied mouth ... But by owning things and trembling about their fate aren't you forfeiting the rare opportunity of observing and understanding?

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

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

I don't believe there is any point in holding on to too many things in life.

If I make a new bag I love, I don't keep it.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.

I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.

If I change car, I change car. I don't get very fond of things.

I don't hoard things and I don't cling to memories.