On this inspiring audiocassette, Dr. Wayne Dyer poses thr question -- What do our ancestral scholars, whom we consider the wisest and most spiritually advanced, have to say to us today?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, Michaelangelo, Rumi, Whitman, Jesus, Emily Dickinson, and Emerson, among others -- Dr. Dyer shares their passages, sharing wisdom on a variety of subjects, including solitude, time, and passion.