Great Thoughts of Great People

Daily wisdom for modern times The Buddha • Mahatma Gandhi • Ramana Maharshi • Swami Vivekananda • Bhagavad Gita • Sri Ramakrishna • Saint Matthew • Meher Baba • George Bernard Shaw • Mother Teresa • William Wordsworth • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Benjamin Franklin • Anne Frank • Mark Twain • Rabindranath Tagore • Spinoza • Rumi • Oscar Wilde • Lao Tzu • Kabir • Mira Bai • Omar Khayyam Words have exceptional power. They can transform lives. In Great Thoughts of Great People, Eknath Easwaran frames the words of brilliant philosophers, poets and sages, with insights that make the age-old wisdom relevant to the contemporary world. This book provides an easy way for those seeking a spiritual path to get on track. Each day’s reading is thought-provoking and focused. Consult it every morning to plant an idea that can act as a touchstone for the day’s events, or refer to it each evening as a way to quieten the mind. Change your life, one day at a time. Eknath Easwaran is respected around the world as one of the great spiritual teachers. He was a professor of English Literature at the University of Nagpur and an established writer. He was Founder and Director of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation and the Nilgiri Press, and taught the classics of world mysticism and the practice of meditation from 1960 till his death in 1999.