Wisdom of the Ages: A Modern Master Brings Eternal Truths into Everyday Life

National BestsellerThis inspiring book by Wayne Dyer | author of the bestselling classics Your Erroneous Zones and Pulling Your Own Strings | delves into the teachings of intellectuals of our past to mine values and wisdom for the present.   What do our ancestral scholars | whom we consider the wisest and most spiritually advanced | have to say to us today? asks Dyer. The answer lies in this powerful collection of writings | poems | and sayings by some of the greatest thinkers of the past twenty-five centuries. In succinct original essays | Dyer sets out to explain the meaning and context of each piece of wisdom | and | most important | to explain how we can actively apply these teachings to our modern lives. From sixty ancestral masters – Buddha | Michelangelo | Rumi | Whitman | Jesus | Emily Dickinson | and Emerson | among others – here are treasured passages on a variety of subjects | including solitude | time | and passion. Among the contributions are words on inspiration from Pantanjali | author of the Hindu classic Yoga Sutras; teachings about the power of prayer from 13th-century monk St. Francis of Assisi; and thoughts about the importance of action written by Mother Teresa.The voices collected here cut across a wide range of historical eras and cultures | yet they communicate universal truths about the human experience. Wisdom of the Ages provides us with a marvelous dual opportunity: to receive guidance from our great ancestors and to recognize our own potential for greatness