There are NO Justified Resentments - Wayne Dyer | After Skool

Oct 9, 2025

Wayne Dyer, a renowned self-help author and motivational speaker, dives deep into the consequences of resentment and the power of love. He explains how holding onto grudges harms the individual, comparing it to a venomous bite. Dyer emphasizes the importance of taking responsibility for one's own life in order to heal and grow. He shares profound insights from Patanjali on responding to hate with love and tells a heartwarming story about a teacher's transformative compassion that changed a child's life. Dyer inspires listeners to commit to sending only love.

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ADVICE

Stop Blaming; Own Your Life

Do remove blame and justified resentments from your life to stop harming yourself.
Take responsibility for your situation so you can change it rather than waiting for others to change.

INSIGHT

Resentment Is Self-Poisoning

Resentment acts like ongoing venom that continues to damage you after the original hurt.
Holding justified resentments creates despair and prevents healing and growth.

INSIGHT

Respond To Hate With Love

Higher spiritual work means abstaining from thoughts of harm toward others and responding to hate with love.
Cultivating loving responses shifts your energy and dissolves enmity around you.

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There are NO Justified Resentments - Wayne Dyer Wayne Walter Dyer (May 10, 1940 – August 29, 2015) was an American self-help author and a motivational speaker. Dyer completed a Ed.D. In guidance and counseling at Wayne State University in 1970. Early in his career, he worked as a high school guidance counselor, and went on to run a successful private therapy practice. He became a popular professor of counselor education at St. John's University, where he was approached by a literary agent to put his ideas into book form. The result was his first book, Your Erroneous Zones (1976), one of the best-selling books of all time, with an estimated 100 million copies sold.This launched Dyer's career as a motivational speaker and self-help author, during which he published 20 more best-selling books and produced a number of popular specials for PBS. Influenced by thinkers such as Abraham Maslow and Albert Ellis, Dyer's early work focused on psychological themes such as motivation, self actualization and assertiveness.Please support After Skool on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AfterSkool To get in touch visit https://www.afterskool.net/Thank you. Follow the podcast for new episodes. We cannot change the world. But we can change ourselves...and that will change the world. The goal of this podcast is to empower the individual and deliver profound ideas through art. Find After Skool on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AfterSkool/videos Disclaimer: This podcast is an independent initiative inspired by the thought-provoking content of After Skool. It is created by a viewer who appreciates the depth of the ideas shared and wants to make them more accessible in an audio format. While every effort is made to preserve the essence of the original content, this is not an official After Skool production, nor is it affiliated with or endorsed by After Skool. All rights to the original material belong to After Skool. If you have any concerns regarding this podcast, please feel free to reach out.

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