10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace: Second Secret
February 23, 2010 by dr. lam
Second Secret : “Don’t Die with the Music Still In You”
I have listened, read, and watched a lot of Wayne Dyer. He has often recited a story of when he was about to go on a long journey overseas and his uncle handed him a copy of Leo Tolstoy’s short stories with one of the tales being The Death of Ivan Ilyich in which the protagonist announces at the end of his life, “What if my whole life has been wrong?”, a profound sentiment indeed. If we live our lives to the beat of someone else’s drums, we will end that life without much satisfaction and a lot of questions about how our meager existence transpired (and expired) on this earth. Should we wait until we are near death to question why we are alive? That is probably a bit too late.
It is funny because I have for many years pictured myself on my deathbed, and I have always wanted to die in peace. I wanted to know that my life had substance, passion, and that the music I created was a melodious tune. I am innately a right-brained individual who follows his own emotions and intuition more than anything strongly analytical or left brained. Dyer asks all of us to follow our right brains, i.e., our intuitions, and our hearts.
When our life is extinguished, I hope all of us can say that we did not let the music die within us.
(By the way, I just learned on Friday that Dyer was diagnosed with leukemia. Please keep him in your prayers. He is at the Chopra Center receiving spiritual healing for his illness.)
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Oh, that’s sad for Dyer. I hope he is doing okay!
he supposedly has CLL, which is not life-threatening. it is a chronic disease, but i hope he overcomes it.