Wisdom of the Ages: 60 Days to Enlightenment Hardcover – October 7, 1998

Being an avid advocate of ancient wisdom, I immediately felt a connection with Wayne Dyer. I first saw his videos on Public Television. His relaxed manner and deep wise voice immediately had my attention. When I heard about his new book: Wisdom of the Ages, I knew this was a book I would want to own.Ancient wisdom is fascinating to me. It can teach us as much as it taught our ancestors so long ago. When I find a quote or a poem I feel a connection to, I collect it like a treasure. You know that you are learning something wise, something which is lost in the hurried twenty-first century.Wayne Dyer has captured the wisdom from sixty great teachers. They come from various backgrounds, cultures and religions, yet their writings hold truth. These are the writings of highly imaginative, productive and perceptive individuals. If you appreciate poetry, quotes, and prose selections which inspire; you will thrive for sixty days as your soul grows in a new garden of awareness.The words from our ancestral scholars hold keys to our own spiritual advancement. Wayne takes each portion of writing and unfolds the cocoon for us. He sets the butterflies of truth free to circle in our minds as we gaze on their beauty. He puts each piece of wisdom in the context of our lives today and gives a practical application.These short essays will speak to your heart. Each section begins with a selection and the explanation follows. Wayne Dyer is a natural teacher who so effortlessly draws on his own collected wisdom and the experiences in his life that most fully represent his new lesson. He challenges the reader to make his book a two-month project in which you read one section a day and try to apply the principles you have absorbed.As you read this great work, you will feel as though you have entered a unity of consciousness with the writers. Their world suddenly becomes yours, their lessons become a gift of enlightenment. Can pain in our lives help us to accent to a higher plane of acceptance? Can someone really make you unhappy without your consent? Can we turn anger over a situation in life into a peaceful and fulfilling solution? What are the six mistakes we all make?Here you will learn how to stop giving your precious energy to things you don't believe in, how to find a quite place, or how to become more aware of that feeling of peace you so desire. While I don't believe I am God, I do believe God can show his love through us and his son can live in us. The voices I heard through the words of the sixty writers did not conflict with my own beliefs. They reinforced some of the wisdom I knew to be truth and taught me more about who I want to be. I have just taken the first few steps in the long journey into eternity.If enlightenment means an immersion in and a surrounding of peace, you might just find it by applying the principles in this book.A Sample Poem included in Wisdom of the Ages:Lives of great men all remind usWe can make our lives sublime,And, departing, leave behind usFootprints on the sands of time.-Henry Wadsworth LongfellowYou will also find the works of Pythagoras and Blaise Pascal, Buddha, Lao-tzu, Confucius, Patanjali, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Jesus of Nazareth, Epictetus, Omar Khayyam, St. Francis of Assisi, Jalaluddin Rumi, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Sir Edward Dyer, William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton, Kahlil Gibran, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Blake, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Hentry David Thoreau, Chief Seattle, Oren Lyons, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Frost, Mother Teresa, Lewis Carroll and many, many more wise teachers.~The Rebecca Review

If you would like to backfill the knowledge gaps in your spiritual view of the world, Dr. Dyer built the perfect book. He takes wisdom from writers he admired and expands on the author's view of what his takeaways were and how they might influence us. Each chapter comes in small doses you can read while eating breakfast each morning. Dr. Dyer has always been great at seeing the world as a spiritual adventure.

Wisdom of the Ages is another great read from Wayne Dyer!The author picks 60 well-known wise historical figures, presents a poem or excerpt from their work, briefly describes their major accomplishments, interprets their message, character, trait, or contribution in 3 or 4 pages, and then shows us how we can apply those gifts and messages in our lives.I enjoy all of Wayne's books, but this is his best to date. I usually take my time and savor his books, but this time I just could not put the book down.This is not only a self-help book that we can use to emulate the character and traits of great people, but also a collection of interesting short biographical and historical sketches of brilliant people whose thoughts and ideas shape the thinking of our brightest leaders.Read this book! You'll be glad you did.

Wayne Dyer cleverly takes 60 philosophical and poetic gems, explains the significance of each and discusses ways to apply to everyday situations. Each gem is discussed in 4-6 pages, making this daily reading experience easy to work into the busiest of schedules. A nice sample of various thoughts that may inspire further readings. Regardless, a thought provoking book.

When i read this book of Wayne, i really feel my soul touching the authors that he named. I usually read it slowly, a chapter per night. Most of the chapters i read them with my closest friend Adriana shareing my reading by phone. Oh Gosh! Those phone calls! I'll never forget them. You can literaly change your life if you change your thoughts (as i explain in my book: "The force of the thoughts"), and you can change your thoughts by changing the information you choose for your mind. This book is a GREAT INFORMATION FOR YOUR MIND, that shurely, without any doubt, is gonna change your thoughts and then your life. Consecuently. This book is one of a kind, a book that you can read an enjoy it with a wonderful cup of coffe and a friend. You will love it.

Enjoyed reading, so inspirational.

I have been a fan of Wayne Dyer for a long time.This book is easy to read and has quotes from well known people.Each chapter is only a few pages long and goes fast.So much wisdom is in this book.I would recommend this book to all that seek higher wisdom.

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