Wayne W. Dyer - The Shift: Taking Your Life from Ambition to Meaning

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"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."

- from The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

For Reid Tracy. I'm so grateful that we shared this vision together...

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I recently had the pleasure of viewing an inspiring documentary titled Hasten Slowly: The Journey of Sir Laurens van der Post. Sir Laurens spent a great deal of time with the Kalahari Bushmen, collecting their stories. For me, his extraordinary insights sum up in a few short paragraphs the essential wish that virtually all human beings harbor:

(Sir Laurens van der Post from Hasten Slowly, a film by Mickey Lemle)

As is related so eloquently, "the Great Hunger, the greatest hunger of all, is the hunger for meaning." The Shift is an invitation-both in this book and in the film of the same name-to explore the process of moving away from an aimless life to one filled with meaning and purpose.

I've been engaged for many years in helping people (including myself) reach their highest potential. I have now made almost 70 trips around our sun, and the one thing that stands out very clearly is that all of us want our lives to have purpose and meaning. In this book, I elucidate what seems to be required to reach a state of conscious, enlightened awareness that nurtures a life of purpose and meaning.

When the movie that this book is derived from was first released, it was titled Ambition to Meaning, yet many people were unclear about what those words meant or what the film was about. It seems that the title was a bit misleading, perhaps indicating that I'd made a documentary or just captured one of my lectures on film.

During the inaugural national tour when the movie was introduced to select audiences, I expressed my view about the title's confusion to the director and the executive producer. I said, "I love this movie; however, if I were doing it over, I'd give it a different title. I'd call it The Shift, because this term is referred to throughout the picture and is what has to take place for a person to move From Ambition To Meaning." To my delightand to the credit of the director and producer-within a week the film had a new title. Even so, this notion of From Ambition To Meaning wouldn't go away.

As I contemplated how to present this essential message in a companion book to the movie, a deep meditation led me to use these four words as the book's organizational format. This is precisely what you now hold in your hands (or have on your book reader).