Wayne W. Dyer
WISDOM of the AGES
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
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