Wisdom of The Ages: 60 Days to Enlightenment
Bestselling author and personal development guru Wayne W. Dyer shows us how to apply the insight of 60 of the world's greatest thinkers to our daily lives, based on a powerful collection of writings, poems and sayings by luminaries of the past twenty-five centuries, including Rumi, Whitman, Jesus, Einstein, Buddha, Shakespeare and many others.In this powerful and inspirational book, Wayne Dyer interprets a collection of writings, poems and sayings by some of the greatest thinkers of the past twenty-five centuries, showing us how to apply their teachings to the here and now to give meaning to our lives.The book is based around 60 extracts of inspirational writing from luminaries of the past, including Buddha, Jesus, Michaelangelo, Rumi and Whitman. Among the contributions are words on the power of prayer by St. Francis of Assisi as well as thoughts on the importance of action by Mother Theresa.Wayne Dyer then goes on to explore fully the meaning of each piece of wisdom and show us how to actively apply them to our modern lives.The book can be used as a 60-day spiritual programme, with one entry being read a day, but has also been designed to be read all together or dipped into for instant wisdom.The writings are arranged thematically, for example: Work; Forgiveness; Laughter; Kindness; Inspiration; Balance; Hope.
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Wayne W. Dyer
WISDOM of the AGES
Eternal Truths for Everyday Lives
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First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 1998. This edition published by Thorsons 1999.
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Grateful acknowledgement is made to the publishers for permission to reprint the following works: ‘For Anne Gregory’ by William Butler Yeats: Reprinted with the permission of Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, from The Collected Works of W B Yeats, Vol. I: The Poems. Revised and edited by Richard J Finneran. Copyright 1933 by Macmillan Publishing Company; copyright renewed © 1961 by Bertha Georgie Yeats. ‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost: From The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1916, © 1969 by Henry Holt & Co. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt & Co. Inc. ‘So That’s Who I Remind Me Of’ by Ogden Nash: From Good Intentions by Ogden Nash. Copyright © 1942 by Ogden Nash. By permission of Little, Brown and Company. ‘On Being a Woman’ by Dorothy Parker: From The Portable Dorothy Parker, edited by Brendan Gill. Copyright 1991 by Viking Penguin. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin.
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When you are dead,seek for your resting placenot in the earth,but in the hearts of men.
RUMI
Lives of great men all remind usWe can make our lives sublime,And, departing, leave behind usFootprints on the sands of time.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Table of Contents
Pythagoras and Blaise Pascal Meditation
Buddha Knowing
Lao-tzu Leadership
Confucius Patience
Patanjali Inspiration
Marcus Tullius Cicero Triumph
Jesus of Nazareth Being Childlike
Epictetus Divinity
Zen Proverb Enlightenment
Omar Khayyám The Now
St. Francis of Assisi Prayer
Jalaluddin Rumi Grief As a Blessing
Leonardo da Vinci Balance
Michelangelo Hope
Sir Edward Dyer Mind Power
William Shakespeare Mercy
John Donne Oneness
John Milton Time
Alexander Pope Humility
John Keats Truth/Beauty
Percy Bysshe Shelley Passion
William Blake Communication
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Boldness/Action
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Imagination
William Wordsworth Nature
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Romantic Love
Henry David Thoreau Nonconformity
Chief Seattle, Oren Lyons, Wolf Song, Walking Buffalo, and Luther Standing Bear Reverence for Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson Judgment
Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance
Henry Wadsworth Emerson Enthusiasm
Emily Dickinson Immortality
Robert Browning Perfection
Herman Melville Soulcenter
John Greenleaf Whittier Regrets
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Fear and Risk-Taking
Walt Whitman Physical Perfection
Lewis Caroll Agelessness
Stephen Crane Kindness
Algernon Charles Swinburne Laughter
William James Visualization
Joyce Kilmer Family and Home
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Solitude
William Jennings Bryan Mystery
Kahlil Gibran Work
Rudyard Kipling Inspiration
William Butler Yeats Soul Love
Rabindranath Tagore Highest Self
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Privacy
George Bernard Shaw Self-Image
Paramha Yogananda Suffering
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Love’s Energy
e.e cummings Individuality
Robert Frost Independence
Dorothy Parker Appreciation
Langston Hughes Forgiveness
Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolence
Ogden Nash, Comparision
Mother Teresa Action/Doing
Wayne W. Dyer Awe
In my mind I can picture what the world was like in other times, and I am fascinated by what those people who lived before us might have felt in their hearts. To imagine that Pythagoras, Buddha, Jesus Christ, Michelangelo, Shelley, Shakespeare, Emerson, and so many of those we revere as our teachers and spiritual leaders actually walked on the same ground, drank the same water, watched the same moon, and were warmed by the same sun as I am today intrigues me considerably. Even more intriguing is what these greatest minds of all time would like us to know.
