A Calendar of Wisdom Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul Written and Selected from the World's Sacred Texts
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publish date: 10/01/1997
To Leo Tolstoy A Calendar of Wisdom was the most important project of his life -- a book he proclaimed himself prouder of than War and Peace.
Increasingly consumed by spiritual concerns as he grew older, Tolstoy devoted himself in his last years to creating this guide to right living, a book that in a single volume lays out the foundation of a moral education. He refined it over the course of seven editions, all bestsellers in prerevolutionary Russia.
Banned by Lenin and forgotten under the years of communist rule, the daybook is once again a bestseller in its native land.
For each day of the year, a single theme -- such as humility, faith, kindness, knowledge, sacrifice, love -- is illustrated by a variety of quotations. The selections are astonishingly ecumenical, ranging from the sacred texts of every major world religion to such thinkers as Cicero, Seneca, Rousseau, Gogol, and Emerson.
