Wisdom of the Ages

by Dyer, Wayne W.

• ISBN13: 9780060929695
• ISBN10: 0060929693
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-28
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Bestselling author Wayne W. Dyer has crafted a powerful collection of writings, poems, and sayings by some of the greatest thinkers of the past twentyfive centuries. In succinct original essays, Dyer sets out to explain the meaning and context of each piece of wisdom, and, most important, how we can actively apply these teachings to our modern lives. A beautiful and thoughtful gift, this book shows us a window to wisdom and a door to greatness.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
Meditation	1	(4)
Pythagoras
Blaise Pascal
Knowing	5	(4)
Buddha
Leadership	9	(4)
Lao-tzu
Patience	13	(4)
Confucius
Inspiration	17	(4)
Patanjali
Triumph	21	(6)
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Being Childlike	27	(4)
Jesus of Nazareth
Divinity	31	(4)
Epictetus
Enlightenment	35	(4)
Zen Proverb
The Now	39	(4)
Omar Khayyam
Prayer	43	(4)
St. Francis of Assisi
Grief As a Blessing	47	(4)
Jalaluddin Rumi
Balance	51	(4)
Leonardo da Vinci
Hope	55	(4)
Michelangelo
Mind Power	59	(6)
Sir Edward Dyer
Mercy	65	(4)
William Shakespeare
Oneness	69	(4)
John Donne
Time	73	(4)
John Milton
Humility	77	(6)
Alexander Pope
Truth/Beauty	83	(4)
John Keats
Passion	87	(4)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Communication	91	(4)
William Blake
Boldness/Action	95	(4)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Imagination	99	(4)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nature	103	(4)
William Wordsworth
Romantic Love	107	(4)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Nonconformity	111	(4)
Henry David Thoreau
Reverence for Nature	115	(6)
Chief Seattle, Oren Lyons, Wolf Song, Walking Buffalo, and Luther Standing Bear
Judgment	121	(4)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance	125	(6)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm	131	(6)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Immortality	137	(4)
Emily Dickinson
Perfection	141	(4)
Robert Browning
Soulcenter	145	(4)
Herman Melville
Regrets	149	(4)
John Greenleaf Whittier
Fear and Risk-Taking	153	(4)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Physical Perfection	157	(4)
Walt Whitman
Agelessness	161	(6)
Lewis Carroll
Kindness	167	(6)
Stephen Crane
Laughter	173	(6)
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Visualization	179	(4)
William James
Family and Home	183	(6)
Joyce Kilmer
Solitude	189	(4)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Mystery	193	(4)
William Jennings Bryan
Work	197	(4)
Kahlil Gibran
Inspiration	201	(4)
Rudyard Kipling
Soul Love	205	(6)
William Butler Yeats
Highest Self	211	(4)
Rabindranath Tagore
Privacy	215	(4)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Self-Image	219	(4)
George Bernard Shaw
Suffering	223	(4)
Paramahansa Yogananda
Love's Energy	227	(4)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Individuality	231	(6)
e. e. cummings
Independence	237	(4)
Robert Frost
Appreciation	241	(4)
Dorothy Parker
Forgiveness	245	(6)
Langston Hughes
Nonviolence	251	(4)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Comparison	255	(6)
Ogden Nash
Action/Doing	261	(4)
Mother Teresa
Awe	265
Wayne W. Dyer