Wisdom of The Ages: 60 Days to Enlightenment. Wayne Dyer W.

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СКАЧАТЬ 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?

      Their observations of life’s greatest lessons are in the prose, poetry, and speeches that they left for us to read and listen to. Though they lived in a separate time with quite different living conditions, they still speak to you and to me. In essence, these brilliant minds of our past are still with us through their words.

      I have chosen to highlight sixty of our ancestral teachers, all of whom command my admiration and respect. They are a diverse group, representing ancient, medieval, Renaissance, early modern, and modern times, from all around our world. Some lived into their nineties and others died in their early twenties. Male, female; black, white, Native American, Far Eastern, Middle Eastern; scholars, soldiers, scientists, philosophers, poets, and statesmen, they are here, and they have something to say to you personally.

      The choice of these sixty people in no way infers that those who are not in this book are any less significant. Each selection and each contributor were simply my choices to illuminate these subjects. It is as simple as that. Had I included all the great teachers of the past, you would need to rent a trailer and a crane just to lift this book, so prodigious are the offerings of our ancestors!

      I have written each piece in a way that explains how these noble masters’ works might benefit you directly, here and now. Each contribution is designed to speak to you personally, with specific suggestions at the end of each short essay explaining how you can implement the lessons in your life. I want to provide you with insights that you can apply from some of our most esteemed teachers, rather than have you learn their poetry and prose and passively conclude, “Well, that’s nice for a literature or humanities class, but that was then and this is now.” I recommend that you read each selection with an openness to the idea that these towering minds share the same divinity and life force as you do and are talking to you directly in their own unique language and art form, and that you are going to apply their wisdom to your life beginning today!

      As I wrote each of these essays, I looked at a portrait or photograph of the teacher I was highlighting and I would literally ask the individual, “What would you like those of us here today to know?”—and I would listen and surrender. I allowed myself to experience their guidance and my writing became almost automatic. It may sound strange, but I actually felt the presence of those writers and poets with me as I wrote each of these sixty pieces.

      Many of the selections in this book are poems. I view poetry as a language of the heart-not just a form of entertainment or a subject to get past in school, but another way to transform our lives by communicating our wisdom to one another. Here are three examples from my own life of how poetry, the language of the heart, has touched me.

      Many years ago, when I received my doctorate, I was at a festive celebration where I was given many nice gifts. The gift that touched me most deeply was a poem written by my mother, which still hangs in my office almost thirty years later. I reproduce it here to illustrate how poetry, which doesn’t have to originate in the minds of renowned celebrities, can touch us where we live.

      A mother can but guide …

      then step aside—I knew

      I could not say, “This is the way

      that you should go.”

      For I could not foresee

      what paths might beckon you

      to unimagined heights

      that I might never know.

      Yet, always in my heart

      I realized

      That you would touch a star …

      I’m not surprised!

      When my oldest daughter, Tracy, was just a toddler of five or six, she sent me a picture she had drawn in school along with a poem that expressed from her tender heart how she felt. Her mother and I had separated, and she knew the pain that I felt in not living with her every day. This too has been framed and hangs on the wall next to my desk.

      Even if the sun stops shining,

      Even if the sky is never blue

      It won’t matter

      Because I’ll always love you.

      Reading those precious thoughts expressed poetically from my daughter never fails to tug at my heart and produce tears of gratitude in my eyes.

      Finally, our daughter Sommer wrote this poem as a Christmas gift for her mother. It sits, framed, beside her bed for her to read every night.

       What Your Love Means to Me

      Knowing your smile greets

      Me at the door

      And your kind words leave

      Me with no worries.

      Every time I slip a step

      You help me to my feet

      And when you and I laugh

      Together I only feel complete.

      Your love for us shines through

      On every cloudy day

      To think you’d ever abandon

      Us isn’t possible in any way.

      A Mom like you is impossible

      The kind you’ll never see

      That’s why I love you

      That’s what your love means to me.

      As I said, poetry is the language of the heart, and you are about to have your heart touched by sixty majestic souls who wrote directly to you from another place and another time. This book will serve you best if you think of it as a way of reconnecting to those great souls who have left our material world in body form but are still very much with us in a spiritual sense.

      I encourage you to make this book a two-month renovation project of your soul in which you read only one selection each day and then make a conscious effort to apply the suggestions that day. When you have completed the sixty days, use this as a reference book. Look at the sixty subjects in the table of contents, and if you need a boost in patience, mercy, kindness, meditation, forgiveness, humility, leadership, prayer, or anything else covered by our ancestral masters, then read that contribution. Review the essay and work on applying the specific recommendations. Let your life be guided by greatness!

      To me, this is the way to teach poetry, prose, and literature; let it come alive, let it shimmer in your mind and then take that inner awakening and put it to work. All of us are deeply grateful to those who make life throb to a swifter, stronger beat. These great teachers from the past have done that for me, and I encourage you to apply this language of the heart from the wisdom of the ages to your life.

      God bless you,

      Wayne W. СКАЧАТЬ