Welcome to the Dr. Wayne Dyer radio podcast, discover the wisdom and remarkable insights

of Dr. Dyer, world renowned spiritual teacher and foremost authority on how the power of

your mind creates your world.

What do you have to say to all the listeners, do you know, do you have any kind of message

of pleasure? I mean, it just seems like there's a lot of anxiety and stress. I was watching

the news over the weekend. I mean, people punching and shoving each other at these sales, you

know, the Black Friday sales after Thanksgiving and, you know, getting in knife fights and parking

lots. I mean, there's a lot of anchor.

It's, you know, I just, I can't even identify with it. It's interesting because I just spent

a month on the mainland. And, you know, I have a home in the mainland and I'm a resident

of Florida. But being on the mainland, after being on an island for months and months and

months, I just noticed, I noticed the frenetic pace that everybody lives under. And, you

know, how fast everything is and how loud everything is and how much inner hurry everybody

seems to be. And I think living on an island has for me, you know, I always love that

quote of Melville from Moby Dick. He said, for as this appalling ocean surrounds the

burden land, so in the soul of man lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but

encompassed by all of the horrors of the half-lived life. And it's that, that life of, of always

trying to get someplace else and being in competition with and trying to get ahead. See,

when I was a kid, the person that I always liked the best at Christmas was the one who gave me

money. You know, whether it was a quarter or a dollar or whatever it might be, it was never

more than a dollar. But, you know, we used to cut a birthday cake open and there would be a

dime in one piece in there, you know, and I used to think a dime, my goodness, that's like

...