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Summary: a great book that truly helps you know peace...
Review: I really respect Wayne Dyer's works and it has made a tremendous impact in my personal life. Unlike many other self help authers, I respect the fact that Wayne Dyer doesn't seem to be worried about what others think. Rather, he truly states what he feels from the heart and he is definitely a man who is independent of the good opinion of others. This is definitely a profound book and I especially like the overall summary of the book. It basically explains to the reader that in essence, we are spiritual beings having this tiny human experience. Thus, those so called "problems" that we become worried about is nothing more than just an illusion created by the ego and when we go into silence and meditate, we no longer become caught up by these problems but rather experience true blissful peace from the soul. So beginning from today, let's all choose peace. Peace is what you are seeking. You are a spirit and the only thing a spirit seeks with intention is peace. Let's all choose peace.
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Summary: Great teachers can speak to us if we listen...
Review: 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 us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow You 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.
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Summary: Great to Study with Friends Along the Journey
Review: I picked up this book early last year for my friend and I to go through together and discuss our insights and lessons learned from the readings. We have not been disappointed. Some of the readings appear to have been written in a hurry, with less deep thought.... But for the most part the readings are high quality, thought evoking, and focus on fairly familiar passages from wise people from across belief systems and traveling through time. It was my first time realizing there really WAS an "Omar the Tentmaker" (I thought my brothers made him up to taunt me!) and I enjoyed remembering and reading Dyer's perspectives on St. Francis of Assisi, Patanjali, William Blake, Rumi and many others we admire in common. I also suggest reading this title with at least one friend if not more. It is a great conversation starter and can easily drive an intentional, spiritual growth oriented discussion.
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Summary: An Enjoyable Read!
Review: The person who titled their review "This Book Left Me Baffled" dated March 28, 2000, is being a bit unfair to Mr. Dyer. His exact statement from the introduction to this book reads as follows: "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." I personally don't see anything at all occult about this approach. Mr. Dyer did thorough research for each article, as he explains in the text of the book, and, in my opinion is simply stating that he was seeking inspiration before writing each essay. I highly recommend this book. Mr. Dyer has done a remarkable job of extracting gems of wisdom from 60 of the really great minds who came before us and explaining usually in 3-4 pages what he thinks they were trying to tell us. Buy the book. It's easy to read and worth the investment in time and money. I don't agree with everything he says, but he has certainly made me rethink some of my opinions.
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Summary: Otay book
Review: I go back to this book from time to time because of the way it names its chapters. For instance, my girlfriend just broke up with me and I'm so angry I never want to speak to her again - I would go to the chapter "Forgiveness" and it really helps to calm me down. Some bad points are the poems; do people really understand them? I don't! I just jump right to the discussion part. The summary at the end of each chapter don't really summarize the chapter and sometimes adds new thoughts from the author! I am also not satisfied with the spiritual or god explanation because I'm not religious. For anyone thinking of buying this book, definitely get the hard cover, I did, and happily, I was able to remove the cheesy cover and have just a nice plain blue cover.
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Summary: Secrets of the ages
Review: Wayne Dyer one of the masters of transformational wisdom reveals the Wisdom of the Ages from the greatest masters in history.This is a great work by Dr. Dyer and a must read for anyone interested in transformation.
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Summary: I didn't like it, maybe you do?!
Review: It depends if you are interested in reading about important people from the past and what they have teached the world. I just ignored that, because I wanted to know Dyer his ideas, although it was the main reason of writing this book for Dyer. Anywayz I consider it's a summary and/or rehash of all his ealier books and/ or ideas. Next to it almost every page is about God this and God that and I'm not that religious, so it quite bothered me. The main thing in this book is: mediate, do yoga or something like that, don't be afraid to be yourself and do not let anyone manipulate you etc. Just borrow it from someone like I did and get the info you want and need....
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Summary: so far wrong it borders on evil
Review: The kinds of ideas put forth by this guy and his peers--Chopra, Wilber, etc.-- are so misleading...The thing called "enlightenmet" is immediate, or it isn't the real thing. There is no such thing as a 60-day program to "enlightenment", and anyone who says that there is is probably only trying to get into your pocketbook and can lead you only to total chaos. I don't think writers like this start out to intentionally to bilk people, but their incredibly phony and grandiose ideas about themselves inevitably lead down that road. Please go read something by Krishnamurti or some such before you fall victim to this kind of madness.
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Summary: Ridiculous and pathetic
Review: This work sets a new low in the exploration of the nonsensical (and fallacious) "All religions teach the same thing" idea. It's empty headed blather, full of misrepresentation, error and confusion. I cannot speak to the Zen, Hindu and some other references, but the discussion of the Christian, Jewish and Moslem traditions are utterly without merit. If you're looking for a cheap emotional high typical of the so-called "new age" genre, this book is for you. If you want real insight and thoughtful, scholarly interpretation and comparison, look elsewhere. At best this book is a waste of time, at worst it's spiritual cyanide. Dyer got off to such a good start with "Erroneous Zones", but his material since then continues to plumb new depths of pseudo-spiritual tripe.
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Summary: The masters are talking to you, shurely.
Review: 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.
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