He said something that day that typifies my feelings. Recently, my feelings were put into words when I had the opportunity to visit with author Wayne Dyer. In 1991 another prominent motivational author Anthony Robbins employed the saying, and he credited Dyer: 1992 (Copyright 1991), Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins, Chapter 18: Identity: The Key to Expansion, Quote, A Fireside Book: Simon and Schuster, New York. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” In the words of Teilhard de Chardin, “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. To the degree to which we align ourselves with correct principles, divine endowments will be released within our nature in enabling us to fulfill the measure of our creation. Covey, Part 4: Renewal, Chapter: Inside-Out Again, Section: A Personal Note, Quote, Simon & … Continue reading Covey presented an instance of the saying and credited Chardin, but he did not provide a citation: 1989, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic by Stephen R. Covey published the influential work “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”. Currently, QI believes he is the leading candidate for creator of the saying.ĭyer did attribute an unrelated quotation about love to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin within the 1989 book, but he did not link Chardin to the target quotation.Īlso, in 1989 educator and motivational author Stephen R. Dyer did not attribute the words to anyone else in 1988 or 1989. This above statement also appeared as the epigraph of chapter two within the book. You are a spiritual being having a human experience. You are not a human being having a spiritual experience.
Dyer, The saying occurs three times, Back cover of book Chapter: Introduction, Quote, (Also … Continue reading The second principle was: 1989, You’ll See It When You Believe It: The Way to Your Personal Transformation by Wayne W. The back cover listed seven items described as: “The universal principles that lead to your self-realization”. In 1989 Dyer published “You’ll See It When You Believe It: The Way to Your Personal Transformation”. Dyer suggested that the father and daughter were spiritual beings.īelow are additional selected citations in chronological order. He highlighted the importance of her beautiful thoughts and feelings which were also invisible. She was expressing her love and caring for her father via invisible substances. Dyer, Start, Quote, Times Inc, New … Continue readingĬan you see yourselves as spiritual beings having a human experience, rather than human beings who may be having a spiritual experience?ĭyer elaborated on the question by discussing his three-year-old daughter who served him make believe food on toy dishes. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI: 1988 October 17, Time, Volume 132, Number 16, Section: Special Advertising Section for Volkswagen, A Letter to the Next Generation From Dr. Dyer to craft “A Letter to the Next Generation”, and Dyer included the following rhetorical question aimed at people of the future. The automobile company Volkswagen invited the bestselling motivational author Wayne W. The earliest close match located by QI appeared in an advertisement in “Time” magazine in 1988. Quote Investigator: Researchers have not found this quotation in the works of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin who died 1955. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.įrench philosopher and priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin has received credit for this remark, but I have been unable to find a citation.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. A popular statement about spirituality uses this strategy: Covey? Georges Gurdjieff? Anonymous?ĭear Quote Investigator: Antimetabole is a powerful rhetorical technique in which a phrase is repeated, but key elements are reordered.
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