"....Great teachers only offer choices on the menu of life. They can make them sound very appealing, and ultimately they may help you to try those items on the menu. They can even write the menu. But the menu can never be the meal." Wayne W Dyer from his book 'Wisdom of the Ages'.
Mr Dyer's Appetizer Menu
~Inventory as many of your beliefs as you can think of. Include such things as your attitude toward religion, capital punishment, minority rights, reincarnation, young people, old people, nontraditional medicine, what happens at death, your cultural biases, the ability to perform miracles.
~From this inventory be honest about how many of your firmly held beliefs are the result of your own life experiences, and how many have been handed to you. Make an effort to open your mind to experiencing things directly before proclaiming them as true and living by them.
~Expose yourself to belief systems that are in opposition to those you are familiar with. Experience what it is life to walk in the shoes of those who are different form you. The more of these "contrary" experiences you allow yourself, the more you will know your truth.
~Refuse to be seduced into arguments on the basis of ideas that have been foist upon you by well-meaning others. In other words, stop giving energy to the things you don't believe in, or know to be inapplicable to you.
Do not believe what you have heard.
Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations.
Do not believe in anything that has been spoken of many times.
Do not believe because the written statements come from some old sage.
Do not believe in conjecture.
Do not believe in authority or teachers or elders.
But after careful observation and analysis, when it agrees wit reason
and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it. ~Buddha
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