https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:09:33 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/dyer-wayne/52767/ https://wist.info/dyer-wayne/52767/#respond Tue, 19 Apr 2022 19:34:42 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=52767 You are not a human being having a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being having a human experience.

Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American self-help author, motivational speaker
You’ll See It When You Believe It: The Way to Your Personal Transformation, ch. 2, epigraph (1989)

A variant of the phrase is also included in the Introduction to the book: "That you are not a human being having a spiritual experience, but rather a spiritual being having a human experience."

Dyer originally used a variation of this ("Can you see yourselves as spiritual beings having a human experience, rather than human beings who may be having a spiritual experience?") the previous year in "A Letter to the Next Generation," an advertisement by Volkswagen.

Also attributed, without citation to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (incorrectly) and Georges I. Gurdjieff.

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