Wayne Dyer - Wisdom of The Ages - 60 Days to Enlightenment

Eternal Truths for Everyday Lives

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To Our Son

Sands Jay Dyer

Bodhisattva Extraordinaire

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

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Introduction

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

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Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by the Author

About the Publisher

I n 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.

I have come to the conclusion that in order to effect deep inner spiritual change in our world, we need to know and live in our personal lives the wisdom these eminent teachers from our past have left us. Many of these profound teachers were considered troublemakers, and some were even put to death for their beliefs. Their teachings, however, could never be silenced, as evidenced by the variety of topics from differing historical eras that are in this book. Their words live on and their advice for having a deeper and a richer experience of life is here for you to read and apply. This collection is a compendium of the wisdom from those topics and times, and what I feel those wise and creative thinkers are telling us now about how to create deep inner spiritual change.

In a sense, those of us who now occupy Planet Earth are in many ways connected to all those who lived here before us. We may have new technologies and modern conveniences, but we still share the same heart space, and the same energy or life force that flowed through their bodies now flows through ours. It is to this mind picture and shared energy that this book is dedicated. What do those ancestral scholars, whom we consider the wisest and most spiritually advanced, have to say to us today?