Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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Listen to episode 1140 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Change Your Life Around. Adapted from a 1952 lecture by Neville Goddard.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The only work you are called upon to do is work on yourself. Start this work by observing your reactions to life. Remember, your future is not being developed; it already is. The time track is complete, as well as all of the events you can encounter.

As you move up or down the level of your being, changes will occur in your life. You are now resting at a certain level. "Arise, take up your couch and walk," by breaking the threads of life that bind you to the state you are now in. Break these threads by changing your thoughts, for only as you rise within, will you find a corresponding change without.

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Listen to episode 1139 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Worries & Anxious Thoughts. Edited and adapted from: Your Right to Be Happy by Frank & Marion Van Eps.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: About nothing be anxious." THESE words from the Apostle Paul are not in opposition to earnest and determined effort towards a lofty goal; rather they put us in the best frame of mind for effective action, that state which is most conducive to successful endeavors.

“About nothing be anxious” is a statement that is opposed to faintheartedness, whether it arises from the consciousness of our own limitations, from a distrust of ourselves, or from want of trust in the divine. It is fear that leads to anxiety; anxiety, to faint-heartedness; and faint-heartedness, to failure.

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Listen to episode 1138 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Sacred Wisdom from the Kybalion. Adapted from the Kybalion, published in 1912 by the Yogi Publication Society.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is always an action and reaction; an advance and a retreat; a rising and a sinking; manifested in all of the airs and phenomena of the Universe. Suns, worlds, people, animals, plants, minerals, forces, energy, mind and matter, yes, even Spirit, manifests this Principle. The Principle manifests in the creation and destruction of worlds; in the rise and fall of nations; in the life history of all things; and finally in the mental states of men and women.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Our condition largely determines the quality of our thought and action — and it is, therefore, of the first importance in winning success that we keep ourselves well and in the right mental and spiritual mood. If our spiritual philosophy be true we impart something of ourselves to every object we come in contact with. Hence our physical and mental conditions must be imparted to our work — and when we are sick or mentally or spiritually unbalanced, our work must necessarily partake of our imperfection.

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Listen to episode 1137 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Pathway to a Spiritual Life. Edited & adapted from The Way of Peace by James Allen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is the mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace. Without its aid, you cannot grow into the divine state, and the fadeless glories and joys of Truth will remain hidden from you.

Meditation is the intense dwelling, in thought, upon an idea or theme, with the object of thoroughly comprehending it. And whatsoever you constantly meditate upon, you will not only come to understand, but grow more into its likeness, for it will become incorporated into your very being, will become, in fact, your very self.

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Listen to episode 1136 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Achieve Limitless Wealth. Adapted from the work of Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We assume importance and become a power in the world, just as soon as it is found that we stand for something; that we are not for sale; that we will not lease our ideals for salary, for any amount of money or for any influence or position; that we will not lend our name to anything which we cannot endorse.

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Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from 4 Minute Essays by Dr. Frank Crane, published in 1919. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: I can do as I please. And I can always refuse. Hence I know that I am responsible for my actions. I will accept this responsibility and play my role honorably. I will not never seek excuses for my weakness. I know I do not understand all the secret springs of the acts of others, hence I will be charitable in my judgments. I know that what I know is to what I don’t know as the number one is to infinity, hence I will try always to be teachable. I know that the past cannot be changed, hence I will make the best of it; and that I cannot control the future, hence I will not worry about it.

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Listen to episode 1135 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living in the Great Eternal Now. Adapted from How to Stay Young by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is only in the now that you can live. You can live neither in the past nor in the future. You may think of the past or the future, but you can live only in the now. To train the mind to concentrate the whole of attention upon the great eternal now is to develop the consciousness of the "isness" of the now, and to consciously feel that its purpose is to eliminate the consciousness of age completely.

It is not possible for the mind to feel that it is growing old, so long as it feels that it lives in the now, and that the now is. The now is eternal; that is, the now eternally is now. The now never ceases to be now; therefore to live in the now is to continue to be now, what you are now.

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Listen to episode 1134 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living the Optimistic Life. Edited and adapted from Helen Keller’s essay on optimism.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Let it be remembered that the world’s philosophers — the Sayers of the Word — were optimists; so also are the men and women of action and achievement—the Doers of the Word. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

The optimist believes, attempts, achieves. They stand always in the sunlight. Some days the wonderful, the inexpressible, arrives and shines upon them, and they are there to welcome it. The soul of the optimist meets its own and beats a glad march to every new discovery, every fresh victory over difficulties, every addition to human knowledge and happiness.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Each of us stands unique and alone, in a world where we comprehend within ourselves the mysteries of the universe. The riddle of life is not to be found in nature but in your own life. There are no problems without. Every problem that presents itself for solution is to be found in the life of you. Solve the inner problem, and the outer becomes revealed.

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Listen to episode 1133 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Here is Your Key to Success. Edited and adapted from The Keys to Success by B.C. Forbes.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Nobody can hand you a ready-made key to open the door of success. You must fashion your own key and find the combination of the lock for yourself.

No magician can waft you to the heights of fortune and fame. You cannot fly there on the wings of an airplane.

The road, often rocky, has to be traversed on foot. You, and you alone, can supply the motive power. You, and you alone, must put forth the necessary exertion. No one can remove from your shoulders the burden of the effort. You must do your own climbing.

Nor are there any mystic short-cuts. The full distance must be honestly, even painstakingly traveled.

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Listen to episode 1132 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Emotional Forces that Drive Success. Edited and adapted from How to Develop Your Will Power by Clare Tree Major.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Self-control is emotional control. Like all forces inherent in human nature, the emotional forces work equally thoroughly in either direction, as builders or as destroyers. You are, whether you like it or not, dealing with forces, with laws, with energy, which must expend themselves, must carry out their predestined mission — forces as blind and as inevitable as the forces of electricity or the laws of gravitation.

You must either be hurled to destruction by them, or you must control and use them. You cannot escape them. They are part of your nature. The more vital and intense your nature, the greater your possibilities of power. The fact that you are awake enough to be interested in self-development is sufficient proof of your own possibility of superseding in development the masses which make up the great average class of humanity.

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Listen to episode 1131 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Succeed in the Game of Life. Adapted from “If I Were Twenty-One” by Dr. Frank Crane.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:Never forget that anyone can be happy if they choose to be. Happiness does not depend on circumstance, but upon YOU. This is perhaps the greatest truth in the world, and the one most persistently disbelieved.

Happiness, said Thomas Carlyle, is as the value of a common fraction, which results from dividing the numerator by the denominator. The numerator, in life, is What We Have. The denominator is What We Think We Ought to Have. Humankind may be divided into two classes: the Fools and the Wise. The fools are eternally trying to get happiness by multiplying the numerator; the wise divide the denominator.

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Listen to episode 1130 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Cheerfulness. Adapted from The Optimistic Life by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:Joyous people are not only the happiest, but the longest lived, the most useful and the most successful. A sense of humor, the love of fun in human nature, is a normal, natural lubricant which oils life's machinery, makes it run smoothly, and relieves that grinding of the bearings which prematurely wears away so many lives.

The 19th century women’s activist Lydia Maria Child used to say: "I think cheerfulness in every possible way. I hang prisms in my window to fill the room with rainbows." This is the right kind of philosophy, the great medicine of the mind, the best tonic for the body. The habit of looking on the sunny side, the laughter-side or ludicrous side of things, is a fortune in itself. I would rather be a millionaire of cheerfulness and sunshine than of dollars.

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Listen to episode 1129 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be Calm, Cool & Collected. Adapted from a lecture by Dr. George Lincoln Walton.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If we are to change our mental attitudes, we should begin by modifying them by suggestion. In attacking faulty mental habits, suggestion is the most potent agent at our command. There is nothing new or pseudo-scientific about the practical employment of self-suggestion toward achieving poise and equanimity. Lao Tzu urged his followers to guard their vitality by entering into harmony with their environment. And Cicero claimed that to learn to live without tumult is the best training for the fulfillment of a wish.

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Listen to episode 1128 of the Inspirational Living podcast: We Must Strive to do Great Deeds. Edited and adapted from a speech by Teddy Roosevelt.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:It is not the critic who counts; not the one who points out how the strong person has stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the men and women who are actually in the arena, whose faces are marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strive valiantly; who err; who come short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming.

These are the brave souls who actually strive to DO the deeds; who know great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best knows the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if they fail, at least fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is well sometimes to meditate deeply and seriously on the truth of the transitory nature of the things. By meditation we will come to perceive how all compounded things must pass away — how even while they remain they are already in the process of passing away. Such meditation will soften the heart, deepen the understanding, and render one more fully conscious of the sacred nature of life

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Listen to episode 1127 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Life-Changing Power of Habit. Adapted from book The Mind & Its Education by George Herbert Betts.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:Habit is our "best friend or worst enemy." We are "walking bundles of habits." Habit is a "cable which we cannot break." Such are the popular expressions linked with habitual behavior. In other words, let me know your habits of life, and you have revealed your moral standards and conduct. Let me discover your intellectual habits, and I understand your type of mind and methods of thought. In short, our lives are largely a daily round of activities dictated by our habits in this line or that.

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Listen to episode 1126 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Beauty & The Philosophy of Tea. Edited and adapted from The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about humanity and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe. It represents the true spirit of Eastern democracy by making all its votaries aristocrats in taste.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Each one of us possesses, if we but knew it, unlimited Power. This Power is of the Spirit, therefore, it is unconquerable. It is not the power of the ordinary life, or finite will, or human mind. It transcends these, because, being spiritual, it is of a higher order than either physical or even mental. This Power lies dormant, and is hidden within us until we are sufficiently evolved and unfolded to be entrusted with its use.

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Listen to episode 1124 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Words as a Powerful Force. Edited and adapted from The Mental Cure by Warren Felt Evans.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If you find yourself lacking in persistence, this weakness may be remedied by building a stronger fire under your desires. Great fortunes (be they figurative or literal) gravitate to those whose minds have been prepared to "attract" them, just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.

There simply is no substitute for persistence. It cannot be supplanted by any other quality. Remember this, and it will hearten you, in the beginning, when the going may seem difficult and slow. Those who have cultivated the Habit of persistence seem to enjoy insurance against failure. No matter how many times they are defeated, they finally arrive toward the top of the ladder.

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Listen to episode 1124 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Words as a Powerful Force. Edited and adapted from The Mental Cure by Warren Felt Evans.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Your words are charged with the very life of you -- the vital force of your soul. They affect not only the mind, but they sink into the interior depths of our being. They are not like leaves loosened from the trees by an autumn wind, and strewn upon a lake to float upon its surface. They have spiritual gravity, which causes them to sink into the hidden depths of the spirit.

Words are the index of character. They enclose within them our thoughts, and the tone with which they are spoken indicates the state of our affections. The utterance of a single word can reveal the love, fear, or hate that lurks within it, and, as such, our life and character are laid open to public view. By the effect of our words, others can perceive the cause. The heart is the fountain; words are the stream. If the fountain is clear as crystal, the issuing spring will be the water of life.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: In an old pamphlet written by Don Blanding, he tells of a time during the trying years of the Great Depression, when he found himself financially, mentally and physically "broke." He was suffering from insomnia and from a physical lethargy amounting almost to paralysis. Worst of all, he had a bad case of "self-pity," and he felt that the self-pity was fully justified.

He was staying at a small Art Colony, trying to rebuild his wrecked life and wretched body. Among those at the Colony was Mike, a Hawaiian boy. Mike seemed to be always cheerful, always prosperous. And, naturally, Blanding wondered why.

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Listen to episode 1123 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Making the Most of Your Life. Adapted from the book The Art of Being Alive by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: LIFE means action, from the cradle to the grave. There are limitless possibilities in this life to bring into realization whatever hopes or aspirations we desire. If we only but begin…

There is no such thing as inaction during this life. We are continually going forward or backward. You are either stronger or weaker this year than you were last year.

You are braver or more cowardly. You are more hopeful or more pessimistic. You are more capable mentally or less so. You have better or poorer command of your forces. You have more efficiency or not as much. You are nearer your goal or farther from it. You are a better human being or not as good.

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Listen to episode 1122 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Let a Great Purpose Be Your Guiding Star. Edited & adapted from the motivational work of James Allen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Until your thoughts are linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment in life. The majority of us simply allow our thoughts to "drift" aimlessly upon the ocean of life, which is why we so often unexpectedly crash against a rocky shore.

Those who have no central purpose in life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pity, all of which are indications of weakness that lead to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is great power in the words of a wise woman or man, but their silence is more powerful still. The greatest people teach us most effectively when they are purposely silent. The silent attitude of the great teacher (perhaps noted by only one or two disciples) is recorded and preserved through the ages; while the flamboyant words of the merely clever talker — heard by thousands, and at once popularized — are neglected and forgotten in, at most, a few generations.

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Listen to episode 1121 of the Inspirational Living podcast: What Are You Living For? Adapted from New Thought Common Sense and What Life Means to Me by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Do you ever stop and ask yourself for what you are living? Is it for "success" in some undertaking? Then what are you doing to produce success? No matter how hard you may be working, unless you are finding pleasure and pride in your work, and doing it with cheerfulness, you are not moving forward toward real success.

One month of such application of your powers will achieve more for you than a year of grumbling, dogged work, done with unwillingness and dislike of the task. Whatever you are doing, reason yourself into a love of your labor, until you can leave it for something more agreeable.

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Listen to episode 1120 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Dare to Become a Reformer. Edited & adapted from the book The Power of Truth by William George Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The reformers of the world are those men and women of mighty purpose. They are leaders with the courage of individual conviction who dare run counter to the criticism of the crowd. They are the souls who voluntarily bear crosses for what they accept as right, even without the guarantee of redemption. They are the heroes who gladly go down into the depths of silence, darkness and oblivion, only to emerge finally like divers, with pearls in their hands.

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Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1918. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The most beautiful thing on this earth, that which every human being craves most is love. The mere suggestion of life without it is unthinkable — for life is love. Where love is not there is no life. There is only its semblance. The saddest situation in life, one where most of us would be tempted to play the coward, is the feeling that nobody cares what becomes of us — whether we win or lose in the great game of life. As long as there is someone who cares, the motive is not all gone.

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Listen to episode 1119 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Prepare the Mind for Sleep. Edited and Adapted from the book The Victorious Attitude by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Would you not think yourself fortunate to have an assistant of great ability who was available free of charge, day and night, and so susceptible to instructions that even your slightest mental suggestion would be faithfully carried out? If you had such an assistant, and knew that in spite of their great ability they would be able to do what you suggested only in proportion to your belief in their power to do so, would you not be careful to entertain no doubts of their ability to carry out your wishes or suggestions?

Now, just substitute for this personal assistant your subconscious self, that part of you which is below the threshold of your consciousness, and try to realize that this self is actually the sort of assistant I have just described, capable of carrying out all your desires, of executing all your purposes, of realizing all your ambitions, to the exact extent of your belief in its powers, and you will get some idea of what it can accomplish for you.

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Listen to episode 1118 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Thoughts Build Your Destiny. Edited & adapted from the book As a Man Thinketh by James Allen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The world is your kaleidoscope. The varying color combinations are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts. You are literally what you think, your character being the complete sum of all your thoughts.

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every action springs from the hidden seeds of thought and could not have appeared without them. This applies equally to those acts called "spontaneous" and "unpremeditated" as it does to those which are deliberately executed.

The beautiful truth is that you are the master of your thoughts, the molder of your character, and the maker of your condition, environment, and destiny.

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Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from How to Be Happy by Grace Gold, published in 1893. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Never wait for a chance to do good. Never seek for some great thing, but improve each small opportunity as it comes to you, and some day you will be surprised to find that the truly great occasion of your life would have been overlooked had you not been keeping track of the small things. Or to put it another way, the person who overlooks a small opportunity will have lost their eyesight when a great one comes.

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Listen to episode 1117 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Art of Being Alive. Edited & adapted from the book The Art of Being Alive by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Stop wondering why you were born into this world. Stop looking for faults and flaws. Rise up today with joy and say, “I am going to be alive!" In every thousand people who are living on this earth, not more than one is alive.

To be really alive means more than to be a moving, breathing, eating, drinking, and talking human being. Those who are actually alive find the days too short to pursue all the wonderful explorations which life offers them. They find life itself a continual adventure, an unfolding panorama, with opportunities for pleasure and achievement at every turn.

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Listen to episode 1116 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Majesty of Calmness. Adapted from The Majesty of Calmness by William George Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Calmness is the rarest quality in human life. It is the signpost of a great nature, in harmony with itself and its ideals. It is the moral atmosphere of the life self-reliant and the self- controlled. Calmness is singleness of purpose, absolute confidence, and conscious power — ready to be focused in an instant to meet any crisis.

No person lives their life more fully, more intensely and more consciously than the one who is calm. Fatalists are not calm, but coward slaves of their environment, hopelessly surrendering to their present condition, recklessly indifferent to the future.

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Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Making the Most of Life by J. R. Miller, published in 1891. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: According to scripture, we can make the most of our life by losing it. Jesus says that in losing our life we are saving it. There is a lower self that must be trampled down and trampled to death by the higher self. The alabaster vase must be broken, so that the ointment may flow out to fill the house. The grapes must be crushed so that there is wine to drink. The wheat must be bruised before it can become bread to feed the hungry.

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Listen to episode 1115 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Intelligent Union of Body and Mind. Edited & adapted from the book How to Get What You Want by Dr. Orison Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Modern science has proved that intelligence is not confined to the brain cells, but that we think as a whole, that all cell life takes part in the thinking process. Scientists tell us that the individual cells in a piece of flesh and placed near a drug that is harmful to cell life will draw away as far as they can from this harmful substance.

On the other hand, when a substance friendly to cell life is placed near, the cells will draw as close as possible to this friendly substance and apparently try to absorb it. In other words, these cells manifest the power of intelligent selection, or choice.

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Listen to episode 1114 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Hints on Common Politeness. Edited & adapted from a book by the same title by D.C. Colesworthy.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We have fallen on singular times. Who has any true regard for the rights of their neighbor? Where can a really polite person be found? If we do not actually spit in the faces of our friends, we are, every day of our lives, guilty of numberless thoughtless and uncivil acts that greatly displease and annoy them.

Your own pleasure, convenience, and interest should not be taken into consideration when they conflict with the duties you owe your neighbors and society at large. It is a glorious privilege to sacrifice our own selfish interests, if thereby we can promote the well-being of others, and scatter widely and profusely the blessings of life.

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Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas, published in 1917. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There are compensations for everything. Those who have never sorrowed cannot experience the full delights of happiness. A life of continuous pleasure would be hideously monotonous. We would not appreciate our friends, if we did not find them sympathetic and helpful when our dark days came. The very essence of love and friendship is the sharing of sorrows as well as joys. We would never realize the worth of money or the value of success if money and success were easy to come by.

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Listen to episode 1113 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Despite Our Handicaps. Adapted from the book “A Cheerful Philosophy for Thoughtful Invalids” by William Horatio Clarke.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Remember that our journey through life is much like that of a journey across the Atlantic. While we are on the ship, we place our lives in the care of the captain, in the expectation of arriving safely on the other side. We have absolute confidence that our captain understand the nature of the winds, the various currents, and the tides, the shoals and rocks, and how to pilot the vessel through the most violent storms.

We have faith that he knows the strength of the ship, the reliability of the machinery, and that the rudder will obey the wheel. We have no doubt of his caution in running through banks of fog, or in steering clear of icebergs, nor of his skill in avoiding collisions. When darkness settles down over the face of the deep mysterious waters, we retire ourselves to our cabins, and sleep without fear.

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Listen to episode 1112 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Seeing Life as an Artist. Adapted from Practical Ethics by William De Witt Hyde.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Art is creative. The artist is a co-worker with the Divine. To our hands is committed the portion of the world which the universe has left unfinished — the immediate environment of humankind. We cannot live in the fields and woods like the insects and animals do. Art has for its purpose to make the rooms and houses and halls and streets and cities in which civilized people pass their days as beautiful and fair, as elevating and inspiring, as the fields and forests in which nature blooms.

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Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from New Thought Common Sense by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, published in 1908. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: During the early 1900s, Benjamin Mills founded an organization called “Fellowship,” which had no creed save "Trust and Service." What is your idea of trust and service? How would you answer the question contained in the motto?

My own idea of trust is as unbounded as the word indicates: whatever happens, to believe it is part of the divine plan. However unpleasant, however painful, however disagreeable may be the happening or circumstance, to determine upon finding its good meaning, and to turn it to the soul's account, and make it a means of character building.

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Listen to episode 1111 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Succeed in Your Business Startup. Edited and adapted from The Mental Highway by Thomas Parker Boyd.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It does not matter whether you are selling the products of your own hands and imagination, or those of others, or whether you are selling knowledge and expertise, your business must eventually be an expression of you — for you are really selling yourself when you are selling your goods or service. You must believe in your business as you believe in yourself.

Your success in business depends upon your knowledge of the people who are helping you to sell, as well as the people who come to buy. If you have to guess how each person will act under a given condition, success may be an uncertain thing. If you know to what category a person belongs, and know that in a majority of cases that category of people will be interested in a certain class of values, and will be appealed to by a given method of presentation, and will decide and act in a certain way, then you are effectively using psychology in your business.

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Listen to episode 1110 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Please & Fascinate Others. Edited and adapted from The Man Who Pleases and The Woman Who Fascinates by John Albert Cone.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The woman and man who pleases and fascinates is never mean or small in their disputes, never insinuate evil which they dare not say out loud. They have too much good sense to be affronted by insults, and are too busy with enjoying life to remember injuries. They may be right or wrong in their opinions, but they are too clear-headed to be unjust.

They see the truth in Samuel Johnson’s dictum that the habit of looking on the bright side of things is worth far more than a thousand pounds a year. More than half the unhappiness in the world comes from a person’s unwillingness to look on the bright side. We all like the optimist. The bright cheerful, good-natured person, who always looks through the cloud and sees its silver lining, is as good as a tonic to our most pessimistic dispositions.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: God is easy to be found. For example, Walt Whitman says: “Why should I wish to see a God better than this day? I see something of God every hour of the twenty-four. In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass.”

Wherever we are, and whatever our work, no matter how crowded or how shut in we may be, we may find God there. The very atmosphere of whatever place you are in becomes surcharged with life when you are conscious of the presence of God. It all depends on what your soul is seeking.

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Listen to episode 1109 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Art of Listening & Remembering. Adapted from “Memory: How to Develop, Train, and Use It” by William Walker Atkinson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Before the memory can be stored with sight impressions — before the mind can recollect or remember such impressions — the eye must be used under the direction of our attention. We think that we see things when we look at them, but in reality we see but few things, in the sense of registering clear and distinct impressions of them upon the tablets of our conscious mind. We look at them rather than see them.

In other words, we see without truly seeing. The way to train the mind to receive clear sight-impressions, and therefore to retain them in the memory is simply to concentrate the will and attention upon objects of sight, endeavoring to see them plainly and distinctly, and then to practice recalling the details of the object some time afterward.

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Listen to episode 1108 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Your Anxiety & Regrets. Edited and adapted from Nuggets of New Thought by William Walker Atkinson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every bit of pain that has happened to you has brought its experience to you — you are better, wiser and broader for it. Look at it in that way, and you will cease to mourn and wail and wring your hands over the fact that in the past you (quote) "have done those things which you ought not to have done, and have left undone those things which you ought to have done." Nonsense! You have gained the experience and know better now.

If you were placed back in the same old position, and lacked the experience that you have gained by just such things, you would do the same old thing over again, and in the same old way. You couldn't help it, because you would be the same old person. What you would like to do would be to be placed back in the same position, and face the same old temptation or problem, taking with you the experience you have gained by your former mistake.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The voice of the divine life within us calls us to go on to win and possess the fair lands that shine before us. But we think of the river, and say, "If God will open the way through it, then I shall pass over." Then we sit down in our hampered environment to wait for God to take the obstacle away. But he will never do it while we wait. We must rise up in the strength of our faith, and say, "The voice of God is calling me, and the hand of God will make the way for me through these seemingly impassable barriers to the lofty heights beyond."

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Listen to episode 1107 of the Inspirational Living podcast: What is Greatness? | Success Podcasts. Adapted from “A Philosophy of Success” by Henry Wise Wood.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What is greatness? This may seem both commonplace and easily answered, but I assure you that it is neither. I speak from the standpoint of admiration of those who make a practical success of their lives: who address themselves to definite objects; and who, striving unceasingly, finally accomplish them.

I mean those who make success, not those who fall into it or who trick it away from other people, but who conceive a worthy plan and are ably carry it to a successful completion.

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Listen to episode 1106 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Nature of Friendship & the Spiritual Life. Adapted from the book Friendship by Hugh Black.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is bigger than any relationship, and covers more ground. The circles of life may intersect, and part of each be common to the other, but there will be an area on both sides exclusive to each. And even if it were possible for the circles to be concentric, it could hardly be that the circumference of the two could be the same. One would be, almost without a doubt, of larger radius than the other.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: All life is serious. We are not butterflies, to flutter a little while in the air and then drop into the dust. The words we speak and the things we do are not snowflakes dropping into the water, "a moment white, then gone forever," but are the beginnings of immortalities. We are not done with anything in life as it passes from our hands. Nothing is indifferent. There is a moral character in all that we do. Either we are blessing the world, or sowing the seed of a curse on those around us. It becomes us, therefore, to give conscientious thought to our entire life.

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Listen to episode 1105 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Need for Education Reform. Adapted from the essay “What’s the Matter with Education?” by William George Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Sometime in the years of the future, we shall look back on the education system of the 20th and early 21st century with the same feeling of revulsion as we now regard the superstitions of the Middle Ages. These are hard words, but they are calmly and deliberately chosen. Such words would be insanely foolish and wantonly unjust if not substantiated by proof. They would be incendiary, useless and dangerously unsettling were no better way provided. But there is a better way, there is a new model.

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Listen to episode 1104 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Love is the Great Educator. Adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Love is the great educator, the great unfolder of youth. As the sun is the only thing that will bring out the exquisite beauty of fruits and flowers, so love is the only thing that will develop the sweetness and the beauty of the child. It is the only power that will call out the true, the beautiful side of its nature.

It is only the hard, coarse, and unlovely qualities of the child that are developed by force and repression. How often would a little kindness and forbearance on the part of a parent or guardian, a little better knowledge of a child’s nature, do wonders for a so-called "bad child" who is considered "incorrigible" or “hyperactive,” a fit subject for psychiatric drugs.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Unlike lifeless matter, you are a living, active, intelligent force. By the marvelous powers of your mind you are placed at almost an infinite distance above the rest of the animal kingdom.

You stand in a peculiar relation to the unity of God’s great system. You are an epitome of the universe. In you the seen and unseen meet. Being material and immaterial, you stand as the connecting link between the visible and the invisible world. Being both physical and spiritual, you stand in closest connection with the physical and spiritual universe.

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Listen to episode 1103 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Mastering Your Energy for Success. Edited & adapted from a book of the same title by James Allen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Energy is one of the primary forces: without it nothing can be accomplished. It is the basic element in all forms of action. The entire universe is a manifestation of tireless energy. Energy is, indeed, life, and without it there would be no universe, no life. When a person has ceased to act, when the body lies inert and all the functions have ceased to act, then we say that someone is dead; and in so far as a person fails to act, they are that far dead.

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Listen to episode 1102 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspiration for Building a Successful Business. Adapted from The Power of Mental Demand, and Other Essays by Herbert Edward Law.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The difference between those who achieve mediocre success and those who rise high above it is in this mental resolution, this development of a purpose, this pushing of a business. It is not necessary to the creation of a great business that you understand and realize at the beginning the complicated problems that you will have to meet and master. But it is essential that you recognize the necessity of doing each thing as it arises to be done, and doing that thing well, doing it the best within your power.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: THE essence of all religion is love. If we had perfect and universal love, we would have realized all of the teachings of Jesus. The world would be rid of all evil. St. Paul has given the clearest and most wonderful analysis of love in the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians. Paul at the time of that writing was an old man. He had endured many trials. His soul had passed through the crucible of fire. He had been the author of massacres and tortures. He was present at the stoning of Stephen. His hands were stained with blood when he was converted on the road to Damascus.

We must know then that Paul was fairly inspired when he wrote this letter to the Corinthians, and we must conclude that his definition of love was the result of his own transformative experiences. Paul tells us that love is the combination of nine qualities.....

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Listen to episode 1101 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Success & Spending Money Wisely. Edited and adapted from “On the Threshold” by Theodore Thornton Munger.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Nearly all the virtues play about the use of money: honesty, justice, generosity, charity, frugality, forethought, self-sacrifice. The poor person is called to certain great and strenuous virtues, but they have not the full field of conduct open to them as it is to the man or woman of wealth. The poor may undergo a deep and valuable discipline, but they will not get the full training that a rich person may.

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Listen to episode 1100 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Spiritual Lessons of Nature. Edited and adapted from Thoughts are Things by Prentice Mulford.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: You are fortunate if you love trees, especially the wild ones growing where the Great Creative Force has placed them, independent of human care. For all things we call "wild" or "natural" are nearer the Infinite Mind — and being nearer the Infinite, they have in them the more perfect Infinite Force and Thought. That is why when you are in the midst of what is wild and natural (in the forest or mountains, where every trace of human works are left behind), you feel an indescribable exhilaration and freedom that you do not feel elsewhere.

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Listen to episode 1099 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Letting Divine Love Into Your Life. Adapted from The Way of Peace by James Allen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is said that Michelangelo saw in every rough block of stone a thing of beauty awaiting the master-hand to bring it into reality. Likewise, within each one of us there reposes the Divine Image awaiting the master-hand of Faith and the chisel of Patience to bring it into manifestation. And that Divine Image is revealed and realized as stainless, selfless Love.

Hidden deep in every human heart is the spirit of Divine Love. It is the Truth within us; it is that which is real and immortal. All else changes and passes away; this alone is permanent and imperishable; and to realize this Love by ceaseless diligence in the practice of the highest good, to live in it and to become fully conscious in it, is to enter into immortality here and now, is to become one with Truth, one with spirit, one with the central Heart of all things, and to know our own divine and eternal nature.

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Listen to episode 1098 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Understanding the Art of Persuasion. Edited and adapted from the Psychology of Persuasion by William Macpherson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The starting-point of all persuasion, of ourselves or others, is a belief or wish. Holding a certain belief (or desiring that a certain course of action shall be pursued) we set out to justify our belief and the conduct that it implies. Thus, before a professional speaker begins a speech, he or she (whose aim is persuasion) has already present in their mind a belief or wish, fully formed, from which all their arguments and appeals flow.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: "What is the best education?" someone asked Plato many centuries ago. "It is," he replied, "that which gives to the body and soul all the beauty and perfection of which they are capable."

The life that would be complete; that would be sweet and sane, as well as strong, must be decorated, softened, and enriched by a love of the beautiful.

There is a lack in the make-up of a person who has no appreciation of beauty, who does not thrill before a great picture, or an entrancing sunset, or a glimpse of beauty in nature.

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Listen to episode 1097 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Understanding Success & How to Achieve It. Edited and adapted from “The Power of Concentration” by William Walker Atkinson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There are elements of genius in every man and woman that if awakened and trained will enable them to do something worthwhile. There are stores of energy and ambition in every brain that if unlocked and given expression in action will supply the force necessary to bring things to pass.

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Listen to episode 1096 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be Successful at Selling Anything. Adapted from The Mental Highway by Thomas Parker Boyd.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We each have in ourselves the potential elements of genius. Our business is to find out how to set them free and get them into effective operation. Remember that a one-talent person working at their highest efficiency is worth a hundred undeveloped ten-talent people. While we all may differ in the degree and variety of natural endowments, everyone has the potential elements of success.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Even as the stone of the fruit must break so that the seed may stand in the sun, so we must know pain. But pain is not, like joy, an end in itself. It is often the result of mistakes (conscious or unconscious), and carries with it self-condemnation, regret, and remorse.

When a pain is necessary for some desired end, we can bear it with a degree of resignation. But the futile pain that deprives us of usefulness, breaks our spirit, and renders us a burden to others, is hard to bear. Few of us can rise to the heights of St. Paul and glory in our infirmities.

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Listen to episode 1095 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living a Life of Self-Confidence. Edited and adapted from “You Can. But Will You?” by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Do you know that you will never accomplish anything great unless you not only hold the conviction that victory is your birthright, but also show evidence of it in your face, in your manner and bearing? No person can expect to be a conqueror while they carry the confession of defeat in their face. You must not only feel like a winner, but you must also appear and act like one. You must show victory in your very expression.

It is not difficult to pick out a successful person among a multitude. If you are a leader, a person who relies upon yourself, every step, every movement, will indicate it. You are covered all over with telltale signs. There is assurance, confidence in your face and bearing. You walk like a master and talk like one. Everyone knows that you believe in yourself and in your mission.

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Listen to episode 1094 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspiration for Lovers | Valentine’s Day Podcasts. Adapted from the book “Hints for Lovers” by Arnold Haultain.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: THE beginning, the middle, and the end of love — is a sigh. All things point to the infinite; and love more than all things else.

Complex as is the character of love, there are two things which love always does: always it ..."Refines the thoughts and enlarges the heart."

Nothing stands still in this world, not even love: it must grow or it withers. And, perhaps, the strongest love is that which surmounts the greatest number of obstacles.

Love to some is an intoxicant; to others an ailment. To all it is a necessity.

As is one's character, so is one's love. Perhaps the deepest love is the quietest.

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Podcast Excerpt: Every force in the world works with the woman and man who seeks the good. This is a good world, and only those who fight against the good, face the unconquerable. Yes, we may meet rebuffs, the tides of battle may sweep back and forth, but in the end, we are bound to win. This is as true in the individual life of every fighter, as nature and history show it to be in universal life.

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Listen to episode 1093 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Timeless Wisdom of William Blake. Adapted from “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” by William Blake.

Podcast Transcript: As I was walking among the fires of hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius (which to Angels look like torment and insanity), I collected some of their Proverbs: thinking that as the sayings used in a nation, mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell, show the nature of Infernal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments.

How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way,

Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

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Listen to episode 1092 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Key to Being a Great Leader. Edited & adapted from “Getting On” by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The leaders of the world (be it in business, science, or the arts) have ever been precedent breakers. Timid people, no matter how able, never make leaders. Fearlessness and originality are characteristic of all leaders of progress. They have no reverence for the old simply because it is old; with them it is always a question of pushing forward, of improving on the past, instead of slavishly copying it.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Creative Mind by Ernest Holmes published in 1919. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

Podcast Excerpt: WHAT is true spirituality? Many people have asked this, and just as many have answered it. I do not pretend to know more about this all important topic than others, but it seems to me that there should be a different answer given than the one we ordinarily hear.

Many religious people think that spirituality must manifest in some unnatural way, such as giving up all personal pleasure and becoming resigned to whatever happens; that we must give up most of what life holds here; that in some far-off future perhaps we may attain true bliss.

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Listen to episode 1091 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Character Building & The Law of Reciprocity. Edited and adapted from The Rhythm of Life by Charles Brodie Patterson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We have the power within ourselves to feel, to think, and to act — and it is the use or misuse of this power that makes for character or the lack of it. The ideal person is the individual who is thoroughly rounded out, who has used to the full the attributes of soul, the faculties of mind, and the physical senses — and who through their use has developed soul, and mind, and body to their fullest extent.

When we say that a person has a strong character, we mean that they are living life in a strong, true way — that they have strength of mind and purpose, and that they are able to carry both into their daily work. Such an individual commands the respect of their neighbors and co-workers. But the weak, characterless person (the one who is negative in all their thinking and doing) is neither respected nor trusted by those around them.

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Listen to episode 1090 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Stay Young & Full of Life? Edited and adapted from “The Road to Seventy Years Young or The Unhabitual Way” by Emily Bishop.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The man or woman, who daily lives up to the habit of the unhabitual, will never become dull, uninteresting, prejudiced — nor as old, in any sense, as they otherwise might be. There is an everlasting struggle in every mind between the tendency to keep unchanged, and the tendency to renovate, its ideas.

To wage warfare against this tendency to keep not only our ideas unchanged, but our physical actions, our associations, and to ally ourselves enthusiastically with the new and unexpected, is to take the safest road across the intervening years from Now to Then — to the future kingdom of "Seventy Years Young."

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from A Book of Friendly Thoughts by Nixon Waterman, published in 1919. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

Podcast Manuscript: The richest person is the one who deserves the most friends. Wealth is a matter of the heart and not of the pocket. It is not that which others do for us that makes us possessors of great wealth, but that which we do for others. All true riches are self made. Only when the hand and the heart are put into one’s work does it yield a lasting worth. In the final true analysis, the picture forever belongs to the painter who paints it; the poem to the poet who writes it; the loaf of bread to the worker who earns it. Wealth may acquire these things but it cannot own them.

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Listen to episode 1089 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Importance of Your Inward Life. Adapted from the book “Courage” by Charles Wagner.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We cannot be reminded too often of the necessity of the inward life. Two of the conditions of its development are meditation and solitude. When the noise of the world is stilled, and the dust of the human conflict is dissipated, the inward voice awakes, and the eyes of the soul discern all things more clearly.

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Listen to episode 1088 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Why Choosing the Right Friends Matters. Adapted from the book Friendship by Hugh Black.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is nothing so important as the choice of friendship; for it both reflects character and affects it. We are known by the company we keep. It is an in- fallible test; for our thoughts, and desires, and ambitions, and loves are revealed there. It also affects our character; for it is the atmosphere we breathe. It enters our blood and makes the circuit of our veins. Or as the old saying goes, “All love assimilates to what it loves."

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Live and Grow Young by Arthur Edward Stillwell, published in 1921.. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

Podcast Manuscript: Just like the stars, you have your own atmosphere. It is partly inherited, but mostly made by you yourself. It is this atmosphere that is the life force of the human body. And when it is strong, steady, and unchanging, the body works in perfect harmony.

There are healthy atmospheres and unhealthy ones, just as there is a healthy atmosphere on the mountain tops and unhealthy ones in the swamps. You are master of your thoughts and deeds. You have the power to create a healthy body with a living, vitalizing atmosphere, and thereby lengthen and strengthen your life.

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Listen to episode 1087 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret to Great Accomplishments. Adapted from Beginning Right (How to Succeed) by Nathanial C. Fowler.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: LIFE has three seasons: yesterday, today, and tomorrow. What you did yesterday overlaps into today, and what you do today is carried over into tomorrow. Which is the most important of the three? No single one of them, because any one by itself is incomplete.

If you did your duty yesterday, the work of today becomes easier to accomplish. If you attend to the work of today, tomorrow will be open to you and its duties will not be so difficult to perform. While each day has its place — yesterday, today, and tomorrow — inattention to any one of those days will materially affect the life and action of the remaining two.

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Listen to episode 1086 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Way to True Happiness. Edited and Adapted from Marriage: a Lifelong Honeymoon by Bernarr Macfadden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life, from birth to death, represents an almost continuous struggle for happiness. When the new-born babe first becomes conscious of their surroundings, appropriate food and warmth are about all that are essential to happiness. But as the little one increases in size, their necessities multiply vastly. Happiness begins to mean something more than the satisfying of the appetite and the maintenance of warmth.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Invincible Power by John Henry Remmers, published in 1922. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

Podcast Manuscript: You are the master of your destiny. Why go on living in opposition to Truth and Faith when their adoption will speedily place you on the road to Health, Happiness, and Prosperity. Faith's direct opposite is Doubt, which at all times leads to Worry. One is positive, the other negative. Faith constructs and leads on to progress, while Worry demoralizes the person and eventually leads them to destruction.

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Listen to episode 1085 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Why We Misunderstand Ourselves (and Each Other). Edited and adapted from Ourselves and Others by H. Clay Trumbull.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We do not fully understand ourselves. We do not fully understand others. We think that others do not understand themselves. We are sure that others do not understand us. It seems to us that if we understood others better, we should find it easier to get along with them. It seems to us that if others understood us better, it would be easier for them to get along with us.

Yet, as a matter of fact, most of our troubles with others grow out of our understanding others, and of our being understood by them. Indeed, it is through an understanding of one another that most of what we call our "misunderstandings" with one another come.

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Listen to episode 1084 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Kindness. Edited and adapted from “The Secret of Success; or, Finger Posts on the Highway of Life,” by John Dale.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: ONE of the great needs of the world is more kindness — the pure, natural, unaffected kindness of the heart. There are multitudes of people who are surrounded by all the comforts that wealth can bestow, and yet they carry with them hearts empty and starving for the simple kindnesses of life — persons who would gladly exchange their pretentious grandeur for poverty and its grim bareness, if it could be cheered by the sunshine and kindness of love.

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Podcast Manuscript: There is one spirit, one power, one force in the universe. But its different manifestations or channels of operation are countless. It moves the breeze, the ocean, the avalanche, and the earth in its orbit. It moves the seed to grow, the plant to blossom, the flower to color itself with inimitable hues. It colors the bird's plumage and gives power to its wing. Its highest known expression is in humanity, because in us this force is most concentrated.

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Listen to episode 1083 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Make the Most of Your Time. Edited and adapted from Essays on the Meaning of Life by Carl Hilty.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: “I HAVE no time,” that is not only the most familiar and convenient excuse for not doing something; it is also, one must confess, the excuse which has in it the greatest appearance of truth. Is it a good excuse? I must admit that within certain limits the excuse is reasonable. But I shall try to show how it is that this lack of time occurs, and how one may, at least in some degree, find the time you need.

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Listen to episode 1082 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Conquering Melancholy on New Year’s Eve. Edited and Adapted from an essay by Charles Lamb.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Everyone has two birthdays: two days, at least, in every year, which set us upon reflecting on the lapse of time as it affects our mortal duration. As we grow older, the custom of honoring our proper birthday often passes away and is left to children, who reflect nothing at all about the matter, nor understand anything in it beyond cake and toys.

But the birth of a New Year is of an interest too wide to be ignored. No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common humanity.

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Podcast Manuscript: The world’s attitude towards the birth of every great truth is focused in a single phrase in the simple story of the first Christmas, the greatest birthday since time began. Mary laid the infant Christ in a manger because (quote) —“there was no room for them in the inn.”

For worldly success, fame, social prestige, laurel-crowned triumph, the inn is illuminated; welcoming music fills the air; and the inn doors are thrown wide open. But the struggle towards sublime attainment, heroic effort to better the world, simple consecration of soul to a noble ideal, means the manger — and a lonely pathway lit only by the torch of truth held high in the hand of purpose.

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Listen to episode 1081 of the Inspirational Living podcast: An Inspirational Christmas Sermon. Edited and adapted from All These Things Added by James Allen, published in 1903.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: THE mountain bends not to the fiercest storm, but it shields the fledgling and the lamb; and though all people tread upon it, yet it protects them, and bears them up upon its sturdy bosom. So it is also with the meek among us, who compassionately bend to shield the lowliest creature, and, though they may be despised, lift all others up and lovingly protect them.

As glorious as the mountain in its silence are the divine man and woman in their silent Meekness; like the mountainous form, their loving embrace is expansive and sublime. Truly their body, like the mountain’s base, is fixed in the valleys and the mists; but the summit of their being is eternally bathed in cloudless glory, and lives with the majestic Silence.

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Listen to episode 1080 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Keys to Friendship & Character. Edited and adapted from “On the Threshold” by Theodore Thornton Munger.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There are many turning-points when the question of success or failure is decided again and again. Life is a campaign, in which a series of fortresses are to be taken; all previous victories and advances may be thrown away by failure in the next. Nearly the last of these is companionship; if one wins the victory here, the reward of a prosperous life of character is within his reach.

At the risk of logically inverting my subject, I will speak first of friendship; and I must beg your patience while I put a foundation under my suggestions. If there were but one general truth that I could lodge in the mind of anyone or all men and women, it would be this: that true life consists in the fulfillment of relations. We are born into relations; we never get out of them; all duty consists in meeting them. The family, the community, the humanity at large — these are the sources of our primary and abiding duties, as well as of our happiness — the sum-total of ethics and spirituality.

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Podcast Manuscript: “At sunrise every soul is born anew.” So rise today to a new consciousness of your new life. Let your soul unfold its wings and rise to grander and better things. Give up all unpleasant memories of the past. Yield to the past its own. Give to it all the beliefs in limitation that you have entertained about yourself or others. To the past give all your old thoughts of doubt, hate, fear, and disease. Cast from your mind all thought of age and death.

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Listen to episode 1079 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living in Joy & Without Regrets. Edited and adapted from Thoughts are Things by Prentice Mulford.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: THE tendency of many people after they are a little "advanced in years" is to look backward with regret. The "looking" should be the other way — forward. If you want to go backward in every sense (mental and physical), keep on cultivating the mood of living regretfully in your past life.

It is one chief characteristic of the material mind to hold tenaciously to the past. It likes to recall the past and mourn over it. The material mind has a never-ending series of solemn amusement in recalling past joys, and feeling sad because they are never to come again.

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Listen to episode 1078 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Greatness that Comes from Within. Edited and adapted from The Rhythm of Life by Charles Brodie Patterson.

Podcast Excerpt: Our work tells the story of our inner life. If it is the work of a Michael Angelo, a Leonardo da Vinci, a Beethoven, or a Wagner, then such work must be a true expression of that person’s highest self. There is no way for you to attain lasting greatness save through the development of your own innate powers and possibilities.

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Podcast Manuscript: True Friendship is one of the rare gems of life, and its wonderful influence is known to all who have learned the secret of successful living. True Friendship is a condition between individuals where each is concerned of the other's well-being, where every success, joy, or sorrow is mutual, and because of its great influence for good, creates a state between people which meets with the highest approval of the Divine, and therefore takes the form of a direct blessing.

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Listen to episode 1077 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Create a New, Spiritual Consciousness. Adapted from the book The Rhythm of Life by Charles Brodie Patterson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is a state of consciousness. The visible world is a mirror of what humanity has felt and thought and done; but it is not a prophecy of what you shall be, for what you shall be is written into the soul of you, and only as you learn to express your own soul-life can you enrich the world in which you live and prepare yourself to receive new mysteries from the kingdom that lives within you.

Without consciousness, there would be no meaning to human existence. Our objective consciousness consists largely of material things, and our thoughts and emotions in relation to them. Consciousness consists, then, of what we feel and what we think, and from such feeling and thinking there comes the outward expression of ourselves in what we do; for our work is a natural expression of both thought and feeling.

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Listen to episode 1076 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Key to Happiness. Edited and adapted from The Simple Life by Charles Wagner, published in 1901.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: DO you find life enjoyable these days? For my part, on the whole, it seems rather depressing, and I fear that my opinion is not altogether personal. As I observe the lives of my contemporaries, and listen to their talk, I find myself unhappily confirmed of the opinion that they do not get much pleasure out of things. And certainly it is not from lack of trying; but it must be acknowledged that their success is meager.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks,edited and adapted from Little Builders by Dorothy Grenside, published in 1916.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: I want you to understand that I really mean it when I say that God is everywhere and within you. He is not tucked away in some great far-off Heaven, so that you wonder if your prayers can climb so high. He is not living only in a church, to which the people go to find Him once a week. He does not merely listen to you when you say your prayers, or suddenly keep watch when you do wrong. He is in the very air which now you breathe. He is in every stone or flower or tree. He is in all the fishes, birds, and beasts, and in every person you meet upon the road.

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Listen to episode 1075 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspirational Life Lessons for a Happy Life. Adapted from Adventures in Common Sense by Dr. Frank Crane.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Before you get up, clean out of your mind every feeling of your Rights, and see what kind of a day you will have. Don't try for more than one day, at first, for it will tax your forces. Old habits of thought will bring constant suggestions, that you are being abused, imposed upon, oppressed and devoured. Be patient. Put these ideas away. Try, just one day, to act on the theory that you have no rights at all.

Expect no gratitude when you help the poor. Look for no recognition when you accommodate a friend. Give up your seat in a crowded room. Step back and wait for others at the check-out counter. Require no attention from service staff, your children, or your spouse. Be a door-mat — it's only for one day.

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Listen to episode 1074 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Art of Being a Gentleman. Edited and adapted from “On the Threshold” by Theodore Thornton Munger.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every man should desire above all else to be regarded as a gentleman. There once was a time when the greatest offense you could levy on man was to call him not a gentleman. But today we struggle to even understand what the term gentleman means. So today we will search it with definitions. The word gentleman undoubtedly comes from the Latin gens, meaning tribe or family — hence all the one-sided and incomplete notions that a gentleman is a man of family.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks,edited and adapted from Little Builders by Dorothy Grenside, published in 1916.

Podcast Manuscript: Some people think it strange when I talk about the Joy of Work. They’ve begun to look on work as wearisome and dull, as something to be hurried over, so that they can get back to their games, TV, and relaxation. So, I feel compelled to keep repeating that work IS the Builder of Joy. Why? Because it is the Builder of those qualities which alone can bring you Joy, and therein lies its value.

It is not so much the work you do that is of real importance, as the growth of Spirit that results from it — for whether you grow strong of purpose or feeble of will, depends upon the energy with which you labor, and not upon the kind of work that you may do. Therefore, you shouldn’t judge a person by whether the world has called them great or not, for some of the noblest of the world's great women and men have lived and died unnoticed.

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Listen to episode 1073 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Psychology of Love & Marriage. Adapted from The Mental Highway by Thomas Parker Boyd.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The most vital application of psychology is in the study of the supreme passion of life called Love, because it takes hold essentially of the feeling element of consciousness. Nothing so tones up the body, illuminates the mind and glorifies every object about you, as the influence of love.

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Listen to episode 1072 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Success Through the Way of love. Edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If those of us who are living in conflicts of any kind would only try love's way, even for a short time, we never could be induced to go back to the old way of living. We could never again be satisfied with the old scolding, jealous, anxious, faultfinding, slave-driving, worrying ways.

Why not try the experiment? You who have been tortured and torn to pieces for years with hot tempers, with worry, with fear, with hatred and ill will; you who have already wasted many years of your life, why not turn your back on all this and try love's way?

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from from a popular essay that appeared many times in newspapers during the early 1900s. The author is unknown. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

Podcast Manuscript: I believe in the cheery whistle of the bobwhite. I believe in smiles, even though the heart is heavy; in lending a hand; in stopping in the shade of a tree on the road of life; to chat a while with some neighbors; in saying kind things before it is too late; in keeping my eyes on the stars though I walk in the mud.

I believe that nothing can hurt me save only as I allow it; that each failure brings me nearer the ultimate success; that should I ever reach the topmost rung of the ladder, I should make way for others, stooping to help them up beside me.

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Listen to episode 1071 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Mystery of the Great Writer. Edited and adapted from “Campfires & Guideposts” by Henry van Dyke.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: IT is a curious fact that there is no good guide book to authorship. There are, of course, lots of self-portraits of authors at work. And there are many essays upon the craft of writing in general. The best of these portraits and advice are excellent reading, full of entertainment and instruction for the alert and candid mind, and touched with a special, sympathetic interest for those young persons who have sternly resolved, or fondly dreamed, that they will follow a literary career.

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Listen to episode 1070 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building a Powerful Personality. Edited and adapted from The Keys to Success by B.C. Forbes.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Personality is the sum of what you are. Personality means character— plus. Many persons have a good character, but a personality signifies something other than honesty, truthfulness, industry, and the like. It embodies all these and something more. Personality implies pleasing, winning ways, graciousness, heartiness, enthusiasm, magnetism.

To have a gracious personality we must cultivate graciousness. To have a personality that radiates the right qualities, we must possess the right qualities. We cannot wear the right kind of personality and be the wrong kind of person. We may indeed have brilliant talents and un-selfish natures, and yet fail to cultivate or exhibit the kind of personality that inspires love and admiration.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Concentration: The Road to Success by Henry Harrison Brown, published in 1907. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

Podcast Manuscript: Among the many forms and methods of concentration, prayer is the most common and the most potent. The secret of the religious world has been that prayer at the altar; with a prayer-book; through hymn, ritual, rite, and environment; has led the soul to the contemplation of holy thoughts, and by concentrating upon them, the thought thus sown in the mind has influenced the life for good.

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Listen to episode 1069 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Life Can Change in an Instant. Edited and adapted from New Thought Healing Made Plain by Kate Atkinson Boehme.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: In the forming of an organism, there is a moment when the Quickening comes; and from that moment, the organism becomes a creature of new life and action. Before the Quickening, it has life in a certain sense — that is, it grows and has some functional activities. But after the Quickening, it has a new power: that of independent movement, of acting upon impulses of its own. From being a negative being that is acted upon, it becomes an acting entity, an individual with a will of its own.

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Listen to episode 1068 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Personality and Your Speaking Voice: How to Develop Them by Clare Tree Major.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: You may impress people through your physical poise; your refined voice and charm; the jewels of wisdom you have culled from life; but the real test of your power of personality lies in your command of the art of conversation.

The first rule of good conversation is to have something worth saying, and to say it as briefly and interestingly as possible. Merely pouring out a constant stream of words isn't conversation. No one can be more thoroughly and unforgivably boring than the man or woman whose habit it is to deluge every long suffering acquaintance with an unending flow of speech.

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Listen to episode 1067 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Uplift Instead of Criticize. Adapted from the book: “Success Through Thought Habit” by Benjamin Johnson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When we realize that to attain even a partial control over our own thoughts is a wonderful achievement (while complete self-mastery borders on the miraculous), the absurdity of trying to regulate the behavior of others is made so plain that no one can evade admitting it.

Action is the manifestation of thought. Imagination then may be said to be pictured thought, while personality is the materialization of Imagination. The more active the imagination, the more ingenuity is required to guide it into constructive paths and away from those that lead to criticism and condemnation of others whose conduct does not happen to meet with our approval, or whose example we fear may not be quite what it should be for somebody else.

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Listen to episode 1066 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Science of Being Great. Adapted from a book by the same title by Wallace D. Wattles.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is a Principle of Power in every person. By the intelligent use and direction of this principle, you can develop your own mental faculties. Each one of us has an inherent power by which we may grow in whatsoever direction we please, and there does not appear to be any limit to the possibilities of our growth.

No person has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for someone else to become greater. The possibility is in the Original Substance from which we are made. Genius is Omniscience flowing into humanity.

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Podcast Manuscript: Of the great soul, there are two characteristics: irony and pity. By irony I mean nothing hard or cruel, but only that gentle laughter which arises from the realization that most things don’t matter. Most tempests are in a teapot, much of the world’s ado is about nothing, most frantic medicines are for diseases that would best cure themselves if left alone.

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Listen to episode 1065 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret Power of Work. Edited and adapted from a lecture by Swami Vivekananda.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: One of the greatest lessons I have learned in my life is to pay as much attention to the means of work as to its end. It was from a great person that I learned this principle, and their own life was a practical demonstration of it. I have been always learning great lessons from that one principle, and it appears to me that all the secret of success is there: to pay as much attention to the means as to the end.

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Listen to episode 1064 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Overcome Self-Pity. Adapted from Health Through Will Power by Dr. James J. Walsh.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Aristotle declared that tragedy purges life, that is, that only through the lens of death and misfortune can one see life free from the dross of the sordid and merely material to which it is attached. His meaning was that tragedy lifts us above the selfishness of mere individualism. And by showing us the misfortunes of others, it prepares us to struggle against whatever misfortunes might come, as they almost inevitably will. At the same time, tragedy lifts us above the trifles of daily life into a higher, broader sphere of living, where we better realize our true selves and powers.

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Podcast Manuscript: It is the belief of many that we shall all live forever. This is not a doctrine of Christianity alone. It belongs to the human race. But how did we come by this belief? Our ancestors did not sit down and think it out; never waited till they could prove it by logic and metaphysics; did not delay their belief till a miraculous revelation came to confirm it. It came to them by intuition; by instinctive belief, the belief which comes unavoidably from our nature.

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Listen to episode 1063 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Your Mistakes in Life. Adapted from The Power of Purpose by William George Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Realizing mistakes is good; acting on them is better. When a captain finds his vessel is out of the right channel, carried by negligence, by adverse winds, or by blundering through a fog from the true course, he wastes no time in bemoaning his mistake, but at the first sunburst takes new bearings, changes his course, steers bravely towards his harbor with renewed courage to make up the time he has lost.

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Listen to episode 1062 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Timeless Thoughts on Love. Edited and adapted from Kahlil Gibran’s book The Prophet.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When love beckons to you, follow it — though its ways are hard and steep. And when its wings enfold you, yield to it — though its hidden sword may wound you. And when love speaks to you, believe in it — though its voice may shatter your dreams, as the winter wind lays waste the garden.

For even as love crowns you, so shall it crucify you. Even as it is for your growth, so it is also for your pruning. Even as love ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that shimmer in the sun, so shall it descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Invincible Power by John Henry Remmers, published in 1922. This series has over 200 episodes, and deals with topics related to spirituality. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

Podcast Manuscript: Truth is the basic law of the universe. Truth is the Emancipator of the Soul. In other words, Truth makes us free. Ties which would otherwise bind us to all the false and destructive modes of life, by Truth are broken. We are no longer Slave but Master, and in harmony with the fundamental principle of the Divine plan.

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Listen to episode 1061 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building Integrity & Self-Respect | Building Your Personal Brand. Edited and adapted from The Keys to Success by B.C. Forbes.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Self-respect is one of the basic ingredients that go to make success. If we lose respect for ourselves, we will sooner or later lose the respect of others. Self-respect is not pride. It is not haughtiness. It is that hard-to-define "something" which prevents us from stooping to meanness, pettiness, harshness, bossiness; which resents every form of unfairness; which rebels against injustice; which compels us to have scrupulous regard for the rights and feelings of others.

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Listen to episode 1060 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Be of Good Cheer. Edited and adapted from The Blessing of Cheerfulness by James Russell Miller.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Everyone carries an atmosphere about them. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. It may make a little spot of the world a sweeter, better, safer place to live in. Or it may make it harder for those to live worthily and beautifully who dwell within its circle. We are responsible for this atmosphere.

Our influence may be involuntary in its final effect. We cannot wholly change it from evil to good on any particular day by a mere volition. It is something that belongs to our personality. It is an emanation from our character; and our character is the growth of all our years, what has been built up in us by all the lessons, experiences, impressions, and influences of life, from childhood.

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Podcast Manuscript: I used to think that friendship meant happiness. I have learned that it means discipline. Look around how we may, we shall never find a friend without faults, imperfections, traits that vex, grieve, and annoy us. Strive as we will, we ourselves can never fully fulfill the ideal of us that is in our friend's mind: we inevitably come short of it. Yet let us not give up friendship, though we have found this to be true.

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Listen to episode 1059 of the Inspirational Living podcast: You are Part of the Great Chain of Life. Adapted Edited and adapted from The Mind & Its Education by George Herbert Betts.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Each individual, busied with their own affairs and blinded by their own interests, is likely to take themselves for granted and forget that they are a part of a great, unbroken procession of life, which began at the beginning and will go on till the end. Strange indeed would it be if all the generations who have lived, struggled, and died before us, and whose blood flows in our veins had left no impression upon us.

We are a part of all that has gone before, and all that comes after us will be a part of us. Each generation receives, through heredity, the products of the long experience through which their ancestors have passed. The generation receiving the gift today lives its own brief life, makes its own little contribution to the sum total, and then passes on as millions have done before.

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Listen to episode 1058 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Gospel of Good Living | Agnostic Spirituality. Adapted from “What Must We Do to Be Saved” by Robert G. Ingersoll.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:I believe in the gospel of cheerfulness; the gospel of Good Nature; the gospel of Good Health. Let us pay some attention to our bodies. Take care of our bodies, and our souls will take care of themselves.

I believe the time will come when the public thought will be so great and grand that we will no longer perpetuate disease with our bad habits. I believe the time will come when we will not fill the future with cancer and insanity. I believe the time will come when we will study ourselves, and understand the laws of health and then we will say: “We are under divine obligation to put the flags of health in the cheeks of our children.”

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: How little do the majority of us realize that everything that is desirable is so only because of its cost in effort! Supposing the Creator had provided everything full grown, ready made for our use, and that every human being had been college educated when born; supposing every wish could be gratified without any effort on our part, who would want to live in such a backboneless, jellyfish world, where there was no stamina, no initiative, no grit, no resolution, no incentive to activity, and consequently no stalwart manhood, no strong sweet womanhood, — because you know that all these things would be impossible without the constant struggle to attain.

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Listen to episode 1057 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The World is Calling You | Uplifting Podcasts. Adapted from Beginning Right (How to Succeed) by Nathanial C. Fowler.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The monument of success is but a collection of little successes, a gathering together of small things well done. If you stand in the majesty, and dignity, and glory of your personality, with your feet planted upon the material earth and your eyes looking into the sky of opportunity, fail not to realize that (so long as the sun shines or the rain descends, so long as there is day or night) you, not others, are in command of your wonderful majesty.

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Listen to episode 1056 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The True Meaning & Power of Freedom. Edited and adapted from Where Dwells the Soul Serene by Stanton Davis Kirkham.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To explore the unknown regions of the mind, to seek that shining land where dwells the Soul, serene — here is a work worthy of the true explorer's mettle. Let us explore this world of thought; let us blaze a path and wear a trail up over the mountains; let us recount our escape from the wilderness, and leave a record of our journey from bondage to freedom.

It is the royal privilege of every person to so live that their life and example shall be an inspiration; to so walk erect and free that others shall be obliged to inquire as to the means of our freedom.

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Podcast Excerpt: Rabindranath Tagore stresses throughout his teachings the necessity of knowing the soul apart from the self. He goes so far as to say that sin is the defeat of your soul by your own sense of Self. Now this Self, which we think we know so well, is really a mysterious thing, beguiling us with its importance, deluding us into the belief that it is the ultimate goal of our desires.

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Listen to episode 1055 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Cheerfulness. Edited and adapted from A Gentle Heart by James Russell Miller.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Cheerfulness is a prime secret of health. It keeps one well. It keeps one young. It is one of the secrets of youth.

The philosopher Swedenborg once said that in heaven the oldest angels are the youngest. All life there is toward youth. One reason must be that all life there is cheerful and joyous. If the people in heaven still fretted, and complained, and got discouraged, and went about with heavy hearts and long faces (cheerless and despondent, as so many people do here) — they would get very old by the time they had been a few millenniums in heaven. But being always of good cheer, they keep always young, growing ever towards youth.

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Listen to episode 1054 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation for a Beautiful Life. Edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life by T.L. Haines & L.W. Yaggy.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Beautiful lives have blossomed in the darkest places, just as pure white lilies full of fragrance do on the slimy, stagnant waters. No possession is so productive of real influence as a highly cultivated intellect. Wealth, birth, and official station may (and do) secure to their possessors an external, superficial courtesy; but they never did, and never can, command the reverence of the heart. It is only the men and women of large and noble soul (who blend a cultivated mind with an upright heart) who earn the tribute of deep and genuine respect.

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Podcast Excerpt: Religion in its highest and most intense manifestation results in the spiritual enlightenment we call mysticism. It is an emotional perception and personal experience of the immediate presence of God. As the heights of poetry and the other arts have been reached by a Shakespeare, a Beethoven, a Michelangelo, so have the heights of communion with God been attained by geniuses of the spiritual realm.

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Listen to episode 1053 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Art of Public Speaking | Success Talks. Edited and adapted from the book Self-Investment by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1911.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It does not matter whether you want to be a public speaker or not. A person should have such complete control of themselves, should be so self-reliant and self-poised, that they can get up in front of any audience, no matter how large or formidable, and express their thoughts clearly and distinctly.

Self-expression in some manner is the only means of developing mental power. It may be in music; it may be on canvas; it may be through oratory; it may come through selling goods or writing a book; but it must come through self-expression. Self-expression in any legitimate form tends to call out what is in us, our resourcefulness and inventiveness. But no other form of self-expression develops us so thoroughly and so effectively, and so quickly unfolds all of our powers, as speaking before an audience.

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Listen to episode 1052 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Master Mind | Napoleon Hill’s Keys to Success. Edited and adapted from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: POWER is essential for success in the accumulation of wealth—in any form. PLANS are inert and useless, without sufficient power to translate them into ACTION. Today I will describe the method by which any individual may attain and apply power.

Power maybe defined as "organized and intelligently directed KNOWLEDGE." Power, as the term is here used, refers to ORGANIZED effort, sufficient to enable an individual to transmute DESIRE into wealth (whatever that may be).

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Podcast Excerpt: One of the first human laws was "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," but as time went on and we developed mentally, our animal instincts were subordinated and the law was changed, and the new law was this: "return good for evil."

Nearly every person who has an injury done to them tries to repay the injury. They must either repay it with good or with evil. If you repay it with evil you do not get satisfaction. If you repay it with good, you get happiness. It is certain that payment of evil with good can satisfy someone who is looking for revenge, while it has always been a question whether there is any satisfaction in paying evil with evil.

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Listen to episode 1051 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Life is the Great School. Edited & adapted from “The School of Life” by Henry van Dyke.

Uplifting Podcast Excerpt: Life itself is the great school. Facts are teachers. Experiences are lessons. Friends are guides. Work is a master. Love is an interpreter. Teaching itself is a method of learning. Joy carries a divining rod and discovers fountains. Sorrow is an astronomer and shows us the stars. What I have lived I really know, and what I really know I partly own; and so beginning with what I know and what I own, I move through my curriculum, elective and required, gaining nothing but what I learn, at once instructed by every duty and every pleasure.

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Listen to episode 1041 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building Your Self-Confidence. Edited from adapted from “Success Through Thought Habit” by Benjamin Johnson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Have confidence in yourself. Believe in your ability to do big things. Only by having faith in yourself, can you compel others to have faith in you. Think big thoughts and back them up with big deeds. You can, if you will. And you will.

Many a little seed has longed to develop and send a little shoot up toward the sunshine. But growth has always been delayed until suddenly the outer wall that limited its growth is burst apart! Many lives are in the same condition: the wall of thought that limits them must be burst before real growth can occur.

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Podcast Excerpt: Make life happier and you will make it holier. Make it full of pleasure (and not that of a fool's paradise). Make it that of peace with heaven's plans, with the joy of knowing that over all is infinite love, with the strength that comes from knowing right is invincible, with the tender and sweet joys that spring up at the touch of human love. Go your own way to make them paths of gladness, to show love shining through sorrow, to give love generously to all, and yours shall be a religious life of service indeed.

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Listen to episode 1040 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Concentration and Meditation. Edited and adapted from Concentration and Meditation by Swami Paramananda.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: WE all possess the faculty of concentration, but with the majority it is instinctive and automatic, not conscious. Even among the animals, we see how a lion or tiger will gather their strength by a moment of absolute stillness before they spring upon their prey. That automatic, instinctive power of concentration is embedded in every living creature. But until we can gain conscious command over our mental and spiritual forces, we can never have complete concentration.

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Listen to episode 1039 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Timeless Wisdom to Meditate Upon. Edited and adapted from Adventures in Common Sense by Dr. Frank Crane.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: You want to know you can get the most out of life? How you can keep from having that sense of dissatisfaction when going to bed at night? How you can have, instead, that feeling of contentment, that the past twenty-four hours were worthwhile? Well, this hint may help: The Secret of Permanent Pleasure Lies in Cultivating Ever Higher Forms of Pleasure...

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Podcast Excerpt: Do you have a friend who has been a great help and comfort to you? I have such a friend. Tonight I am in the mood to think of that friend and write them a letter like this....

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Listen to episode 1038 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Inspirational Wisdom of Aristotle. Edited and adapted from a classic book of essays by Stephen Paget.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: This much I remember of Aristotle, that he calls Wonder the beginning of the love of Wisdom. To have a right judgment of our surroundings, we must wonder at them, and be surprised that they and we are met together. So long as we exercise this quickening sense of wonder, there is hope for us, and some justification of our presence here on earth---because we all are on the road that leads toward wisdom: and they alone are incorrigible fools to whom Nature comes natural.

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Listen to episode 1037 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Success & The True Test of Character. Adapted from The Power of Purpose by William George Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The great test of individual character is not struggle, but attainment; not failure, but success; not adversity, but prosperity. When Nature wants to put you through the third degree, she places near you the laurel wreaths of victory. She megaphones to you the world's plaudits of success. She parades stacks of newspaper clippings and magazine articles with your portrait. She clinks money-bags in your ears, and she tells you confidentially of the world-changing power of your influence.

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Podcast Excerpt: What shall we do when we have prayed for a time and our prayer appears to be unanswered? Shall we cease to call upon God? Shall we let it go?

Some people pray for a time and then accept whatever comes to them or happens as a result of their prayer. They accept misfortune or adversity, if it comes after they have prayed, as an answer to their prayer. They believe that if they have prayed in some fashion or other, whatever comes to them is God's will, even though that which comes is obviously evil.

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Listen to episode 1036 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Life. Adapted from work by Elbert Hubbard that appears in The American Bible by Alice Hubbard.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The secret, which I am about to tell you, is the most valuable and far-reaching of any known to human kind. It is the key to health, happiness, wealth, power, success. It is the open sesame to Paradise, here and now. A secret is something known only to a few. But often the best way to retain a secret is to let others help you to keep it. Just as the only way to retain love is to give it away — art and religion the same.

This secret, which I am about to impart, will cause no thrill, save in the hearts of those who already know it. And all I can do for you, anyway, is to tell you the things you know, but which possibly you do not know you know until I tell you.

So, here, then, is the secret.......

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Listen to episode 1035 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Becoming the Person You are Meant to Be. Adapted from the book Your Forces and How to Use Them by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is growth and the object of right thinking is to promote that growth. Give less time trying to change the opinions of others, and more time trying to improve your own life. Life becomes the way it is lived; and we may live the way we want to live when we learn to think what we want to think.

Create your own thought and you become what you want to become because your thought creates you. We all know that we are as we think. Then we must think only such thoughts as tend to make us what we wish to be. The secret of right thinking is found in always keeping the mind's eye fixed upon the greater and the better in all things.

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Podcast Excerpt: The concept of a process of development carries with it the idea, not of a finished but of an unfinished world. It interprets history not as a record of people and events separate from the stage upon which they appear, but as the story of the influence of an unfinished world upon an undeveloped people, and of the marvelous unfolding through which the hidden powers and qualities of the material, and the worker, are brought into play. Work becomes, therefore, not only a continuation of the divine activity in the world, but a process entwined with the very constitution of that world.

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Listen to episode 1034 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Successful Artists & Writers. Adapted from the book “Work” by Hugh Black.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpts: The place of habit in life can hardly be overestimated. Habit works a groove for us into which we fall easily, and in which we move swiftly, so that the great bulk of our actions are done automatically, and the whole trend of our life is established. Habit cuts a pathway from the brain through the nerve-centers, until after a time a thing is done almost mechanically.

We do not stop to think how we will walk when we want to go anywhere. We have laboriously acquired the art of walking, till it is done without any conscious attention. This law extends its sway over every region of life. We have gone on doing acts and making judgments along a certain line till it could be foretold what we will do on any.

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Listen to episode 1033 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Courage to Be Successful. The Power of Mental Demand, and Other Essays by Herbert Edward Law.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: COURAGE is the fundamental fact of success. It makes us strong in doing what we have resolved upon. Courage gives persistence, banishes weakness, displaces vacillation with steadiness of purpose, resolves doubt. It makes hesitancy and irresolution impossible. It sends us armed with confidence on our road to success.

Confidence and the expectation of success draw to us all the qualities and mental forces which contribute to success. Courage, therefore, is the vital element of success. A lack of courage creates mental difficulties; it constructs obstacles and barriers; it makes that seem impossible which, with the exercise of courage, will be entirely possible.

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Podcast Excerpt: We are living in a world where a constant readjustment is required. The demands of today are inadequate for tomorrow. It is through meeting new difficulties that we develop new powers — through overcoming that we grow strong. It is only through the facing and fighting of perplexities and troubles that we come to know life as it really is — that we truly learn the lessons of life.

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Listen to episode 1032 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Conquering Your Self-Doubt. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Doctors say that the human frame is never called upon to suffer more pain than it can bear. If the pain grows beyond the limit of human endurance, we lapse into unconsciousness. The same is true of the mind. Nothing is asked of us in this world that we are not capable of giving.

As the mind will feed upon doubt, so it will feed upon hope. When doubt comes into the mind, throw it out. Do not admit any consideration other than that it has no business there. Say, “I can do this — I will do it,” and you will succeed. But so long as you admit the slightest possibility of failure, just so long will there be an influence in your mind that is preventing you from putting all your energies into your task.

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Listen to episode 1031 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Power of Purpose. Edited and adapted from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The woman and man who knows one thing, and can do it better than anybody else (even if it only be the art of raising turnips), receives the crown they merit. If they raise the best turnips by reason of concentrating all their energy to that end, they are a benefactor to the race and are recognized as such.

If a salamander be cut in two, the front part will run forward and the other backward. Such is the progress of those who divide their purpose. Success is jealous of scattered energies. No one can pursue a worthy object steadily and persistently with all the powers of their mind and yet make their life a failure.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from “In Tune with the Infinite” by Ralph Waldo Trine.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: THE great truth we are considering is the fundamental principle running through all religions. We find it in every one. In regard to it, all agree. It is, moreover, a great truth upon which all peoplecan agree, whether they belong to the same or to different religions.

People always quarrel about the trifles, about their personal views of minor insignificant points. But they always come together in the presence of great fundamental truths, the threads of which run through all. The quarrels are in connection with the lower self, the agreements are in connection with the higher self.

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Listen to episode 1030 of the Inspirational Living podcast: A Great Life is Beckoning You. Edited and adapted from Out Into Life by Douglas Horton.

Inspirational Podcasts: At school you have studied sections of life — its literature, its science, its history, etc. — but now you must look at life as a whole. You must ask yourself the colossal question which marks the entrance into true adulthood: ‘‘How can I live a really great life?”

This life toward which you look — what an amazing, splendid sight it is! Its thousand motions, lights, and colors fascinate the dullest eye. It is full of loves, hates, and prides; crime, guilt, and cunning; arresting heroism, beauty, and temptations — all the virtues and all the vices.

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Listen to episode 1029 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Say Goodbye to Procrastination. Edited and adapted from A Book of Cheerful Counsel by Nixon Waterman.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: "If I had the time!" That is the sorry cry coming from the lips of tens of thousands unhappy persons of all classes and ages. But the saddest feature of it all is, that they have the time and do not know it. Or, if they do know it, they still go on trying to deceive themselves and others by repeating the same old, threadbare excuse the world has always offered as the reason why it has not made the progress it should have.

Now, stop for a moment, and honestly think it over. Haven't you the time? Isn't it the desire to make the most of your opportunities that is lacking? How much time did you waste yesterday? How much time are you going to waste today?

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Working with God by Gardner Hunting.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Today I would like to talk with you about a spiritual law. The law is that what you give out comes back to you multiplied. Therefore, the way to success of any kind (as you may convince yourself by experience) is to begin giving out what you want to have come back. If you have no money, obviously you cannot give money. But money is the mere symbol of service, and you can always give service of some kind.

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Listen to episode 1028 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Qualities of Genius | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from A Book of Cheerful Counsel by Nixon Waterman, published in 1909.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Helvetius, the famous French philosopher, says: "Genius is nothing but a continued attention," and Buffon tells us that "genius is only a protracted patience." William Turner, the great landscape painter, when asked how he had achieved his great success, replied: "I have no secret but hard work. This is a secret that many never learn, and they do not succeed because they do not learn it. Labor is the genius that changes the world from ugliness to beauty."

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Listen to episode 1027 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Supreme Value of Skeptics & Free Thinkers. Edited and adapted from All’s Right with the World by Charles B. Newcomb.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The word "skeptic" is from the Greek. Its root meaning is "one who is looking for the truth," "who is thoughtful," "who considers," "an inquirer after facts." Yet we are often warned against falling prey to "skepticism," just as long ago the skeptic was viewed as a criminal because they would persist in declining to accept as truth, without inquiry, what the public considered facts, embodied in religious dogmas — which today have been replaced by social dogmas.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from All’s Right with the World by Charles B. Newcomb.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We are just beginning to recognize as a scientific fact that "all action is in mind." So far, we have dealt mainly with the external expressions rather than with true causes. The science of thought has not been included in our studies. All our life as yet is "miracle." All its processes are complex and inexplicable. Who can pretend that it is otherwise?

Our universal discontent is an admission that as individuals we have failed to understand and control life’s conditions. Where then is the intelligence that has controlled it? Are we ready to assert that life is governed by accident and is chaotic? Cannot we extend the faith of which we have such constant illustration in our relation to the body, to include the "circumstances" of our life as well?

If we do the thing that lies at hand, we cannot fail to find our place in the system of humanity. We will fulfill our destiny at every point. Life is an intelligent design. We may not yet see the right side of the pattern that is being woven. The looms seem often cruel. But as Emerson says, we lie in the lap of an immense intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth.

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Listen to episode 1026 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Develop Your Memory to Achieve Success. Edited and adapted from Secrets of Mental Supremacy by W. R. C. LATSON.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: THE value of any person to themselves and to the world at large depends in great degree upon their memory — upon your ability to recall and to use at any desired moment the recollection of what you have seen, heard, experienced, or thought. Memory is really the stock in trade of our mental life. Our perceptions bring to us a vast mass of experiences — things that we have seen, heard, touched, tasted, and smelled — our thoughts and experiences. But these things are valuable only when they are held in the memory. For, unless they are remembered they cannot be used.

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Listen to episode 1025 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Albert Einstein: Inspirational Wisdom and Quotes. Edited and adapted from the writings of Albert Einstein.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: “A human being is a part of the whole called by us the universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of our consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from The Gift of the Spirit by Prentice Mulford..

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What is the aim of life? To get the most happiness out of it; to learn to live so that every coming day will be looked for in the assurance that it will be as full of pleasure as the day which we now live in; to banish even the recollection that time can hang heavily on our hands; to be thankful that we live; to rise superior to sickness or pain; to gain in power so that the spirit shall ever recuperate, reinvigorate, and rejuvenate the body, so long as we desire to use it; to make ourselves so full of happiness and use for others that our presence may ever be welcome to them.

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Listen to episode 1024 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Our Duty to Be Happy. Edited and adapted from the book Happiness by Hugh Black, published in 1911.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful countenance, and it is the cheerful countenance that spreads cheer to make other hearts merry. The sunny soul brings sunshine everywhere. A bright and happy temperament is a great social asset, adding to the happiness of the world.

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Listen to episode 1023 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Life Hacks: Turning Bad News Into Good. Edited and adapted from Working With God by Gardner Hunting.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Bad news is what seems to upset us most in our efforts to live a triumphant life. We try to fulfill the conditions of what we think is our destiny, and then we begin to look forward to receiving the fruits of our labors. When the particular thing we hope for does not materialize at the particular time we hope to get it, we get disappointed and disheartened, rebellious or frightened, and in a panic we turn away from our faith and grasp at doubt — as if doubt were a refuge when faith fails!

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks. Edited and adapted from edited and adapted from Discovery of a Lost Trail by Charles B. Newcomb.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We exhaust our strength in our impatience at our work and the conditions that surround us. There is nothing that comes to us which we could not do easily if we adjusted our energies, but we waste our forces in our worries. It is our leverage that is at fault. When that is changed, we will find the heaviest weights are easily raised.

The mechanism of our existence is simpler than we think. None of its cog-wheels are misplaced. If we will only permit them to work into each other where they belong, we will discover that there is no superfluous friction, and the adjustment of experience to need is truly marvelous.

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Listen to episode 1022 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Rewire Your Brain for Optimism and Success. Adapted from the book Success is For You by Dorothy Quigley.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Try to see how the laws of nature work and be an optimist. Be a liberal, tolerant one. The jokester says, “A pessimist is one who has met an optimist.” That's a fine hint not to make your optimism too ill-advised, too belligerent. You will hear the unreflecting say, “The optimist is a fool. The pessimist understands life; gets below the surface of things; hears the ceaseless murmur of woe through all the immemorial years.” Sing back to them: “No, the optimist is the wise person. The pessimist is the fool.”

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Listen to episode 1022 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Your Pain & Sorrow. Edited & adapted from The Path to Prosperity by James Allen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Is there no way of escape from pain and sorrow? Are there no means by which bonds of evil may be broken? Is permanent happiness, secure prosperity, and abiding peace a foolish dream?

No, there is a way, and I speak it with gladness, by which evil can be slain forever; there is a process by which disease, poverty, or any adverse condition or circumstance can be overcome; there is a method by which a permanent prosperity can be secured, free from all fear of the return of adversity, and there is a practice by which unbroken and unending peace and bliss can be partaken of and realized.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks. Edited and adapted from “What is Worth While?” by Anna Robertson Brown.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Thinking is a spiritual activity, and consists of the reaction of the Individual against the Universal Mind. “I think, therefore I am,” when “I cease to think, I cease to exist.”

Thinking is the only activity which spirit possesses. Spirit is creative. Thinking therefore is a creative process, but as the larger part of our thinking processes are subjective rather than objective, most of our creative work is carried on subjectively. But because this work is spiritual work, it is none the less real — for we know that all the great eternal forces of Nature are invisible rather than visible, spiritual rather than material, subjective rather than objective.

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Listen to episode 1021 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Spirituality and The Art of Living. Adapted from the book Method of New Thought by Abel Allen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To know the art of living, we must know much of Nature. Until we catch its deeper meanings, until it kindles in us a sense of beauty, of order, of proportion and sublimity, the valuable ideals of life have evaded us.

When we can recognize an intelligence behind the rose, possessing a spirit of sense and beauty; when we can discern the symmetry and proportion of the tree, the grandeur of the landscape, the splendor of the sunset, as the expression and handiwork of a divine intelligence, we recognize a kinship with the grass blade and flower and feel the touch of the universal soul.

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Listen to episode 1020 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The World as Looking Glass. Edited and adapted from The Palace of Mirrors and Other Essays by Joseph Frank Thompson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The world is full of looking-glasses in which we behold our own reflection. Any given mirror may be cracked or otherwise defective (so that the image fails to do us justice), but, more or less, the thing reflected is the thing that is.

The material world abounds in such mirrors....

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Listen to episode 1019 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Success Habits of Money & Time. Edited and Adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The vast majority of people who have risen from obscurity to power, and from power to affluence, have done so by careful and systematic improvement of the spare moments of their lives. "Time is money," it is said. But this very inadequately expresses the truth. Time is infinitely more than money. Time is, when improved: education, knowledge, enjoyment, skill, talent, and character.

The way you spend your spare hours shows the world what you are.

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Listen to an episode of Our Sunday Talks. Edited and adapted from “What is Worth While?” by Anna Robertson Brown.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The question of life is not, “How much time have we?” — for in each day, each of us has exactly the same amount: we have "all there is." The question is, “What shall we do with it?” Shall we let this priceless gift slip away from us in haphazard deeds, or shall we adopt some plan of saving, and of systematic doing, in our lives? What shall this plan be? How shall we determine what things are worth giving time to? Let us think about this question.

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Listen to episode 1018 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Million Dollar Lecture Pt. 3 | Success Habits & Incentives. Edited and adapted from The Million Dollar Lecture by Professor Erwin Haskell Schell.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When it comes to building good habits, don’t overlook the habit of success. Yes, there is such a thing. Make it a customary habit to surmount difficulties, even in little things. Perhaps the winning, in itself, will not be worth the effort, but in the strengthening of the habit, its value is immeasurable.

The world has a place for the women and men who finish that which they undertake. I wish that I could burn that point into your minds so that it would always be before you.

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Listen to episode 1017 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Million Dollar Lecture Pt. 2 | MIT Lectures. Edited and adapted from The Million Dollar Lecture by Professor Erwin Haskell Schell, delivered to the 1920 graduating class of MIT.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Having talked with you about the importance of finding, making, and keeping friends, the next resource that I want to see upon the asset side of your personal balance sheet is ability in the art of cooperation. This is a characteristic in which the technically trained person is often found to be lamentably weak. But I think that the weakness may be readily explained and improved upon.

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Listen to an episode of Our Sunday Talks. Edited and adapted from “What is Worth While?” by Anna Robertson Brown.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We only have one life to live! We all want to do our best with it. We all want to make the most of it. How can we best get hold of it? How can we accomplish the most with the energies and powers at our command? What is worthwhile?

We all ask ourselves this question. It is especially common upon graduating from university. But our first years out of college are apt to be anxious, unsatisfactory, disappointing. Time slips away in further preparation, in experiment, in useless or misdirected efforts. The world does not prove to be the same that it seemed to be in the quiet college surroundings. Duty is not so clear as then, nor work so well-defined. Life is harder to handle than we thought.

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Listen to episode 1016 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Million Dollar Lecture Pt.. Edited and adapted from The Million Dollar Lecture by Professor Erwin Haskell Schell, delivered to the 1920 graduating class of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We should also cultivate in ourselves a heightened taste for the pleasure which results from kindness. Someone has said, “The more you put into life, the more you get out of it,” and we may paraphrase this by saying, “The more you invest in kindness, the more you will gain in friends.”

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Listen to episode 1015 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Science of Being Great. Edited and adapted from a book by the same title by Wallace D. Wattles.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind. The hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.

Whenever you fall into a mental state of hurry, you may know that you have lost the right viewpoint; you are beginning to look upon the world, or some part of it, as going wrong. At such times, consider the fact that nothing is going wrong; nothing can be wrong. Be poised, be calm, be cheerful....

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. Today's episode was Nuggets of New Thought by William Walker Atkinson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is a great school — we but tiny children, learning our little lessons, performing our little tasks, playing our little games, enjoying our little pleasures, suffering our little pains, disappointments, trials and sorrows.

I feel that we are in but the kindergarten stage of existence, learning the first lessons of Life — fitting ourselves for the grander, broader, fuller life in store for us. And I feel that this little kindergarten experience will.....

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Listen to episode 1014 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Meditation: The Qualities of Great Leaders | Leadership Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Broadly speaking, there are two types of people in the world. One type is known as a leader and the other are followers. Decide at the outset whether you intend to become a leader in your chosen calling, or remain a follower. The difference in compensation is vast. The follower cannot reasonably expect the compensation to which a leader is entitled, although many followers make the mistake of expecting such pay.

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Listen to episode 1013 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Unlock the Heart | Life Lessons. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Our own mind is for our own use. We cannot exert any of its power without affecting ourselves. Feelings of anger affect us physically. Indeed, they hurt us, and do not harm the object of our displeasure.

There are what may be termed positive and negative forces of mind. Active sympathy is a positive quality. Indifference is negative. When we exercise a benevolent feeling of mind it has some practical use, and this is clearly understood in the case of sympathy.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. Today's episode was edited an adapted from Nuggets of New Thought by William Walker Atkinson, published in 1902.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is plenty of sunshine in life, if you only look for it. And there is plenty of shadow in life, if you only look for it. But in the things that seem all shadow to others, you will find the sunshine if you but train yourself to always look for it.

It is true that what may seem bright sunshine to you, others will find nothing but shade — for they are afflicted with a mental cataract that shuts out all the rays of the sunshine of life. But when you learn to love the sunshine and look forward to seeing it always, you seem to draw it to you....

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Listen to episode 1012 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret Power of Habit. Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Wonders of Life by Ida Lyon.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: A habit is a dominating power which, when in full control, is master of the situation, and so subtly does it gain control of us that we do not realize what a tremendous power it is, until we try to loose ourselves from its grasp. Even then, we do not stop to think what this power is, or the extent to which we are controlled by it. If anyone cares to take an inventory of their habits, they will be amazed at their number and variety.

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Listen to episode 1011 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Discovering Your Hidden Talents. Adapted from The College and The Higher Life by Elmer Hewitt Capen.

Inspirational Podcast Transcript:Let me remind you that your talent, your endowment of intellect and moral perception, is a gift. This is what you brought with you into the world. It affords no ground for vanity, nor even of self-congratulation. You have no more right to pride yourself upon it than people have to pride themselves upon inherited wealth.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. Today's episode was edited an adapted from Week-day Religion by James Russell Miller, published in 1880

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is very critical. Any word may be our last. Any farewell, even amid glee and merriment, may be forever. If this truth were but burned into our consciousness, if it ruled as a deep conviction, and had real power in our lives, would it not give a new meaning to all our human relationships?

Would it not make us far more tender than we sometime are? Would it not oftentimes put a rein upon our rash and impetuous speech? Would we carry in our hearts the miserable suspicions and jealousies that now so often embitter the fountains of our loves? Would we be so impatient of the faults of others?

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Listen to episode 1010 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Magic Voice Within You | Creative Power. Edited and adapted from Working With God by Gardner Hunting.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: As Emerson says in that very essay, the creative urge within you is stirring for expression. And that very urge — in the man or woman who pays attention to it — is the source of achievement, and fortune, and fame, and usefulness (and the only source), because it is the voice of the Spirit offering guidance, just as much and just as truly as conscience (rebuking our mistakes) is the same voice dealing with another theme.

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Listen to episode 1009 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Your Fears. Edited and adapted from “Thoughts Are Things” by Prentice Mulford.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: You can cultivate courage and increase it at every minute and hour of the day. You can have the satisfaction of knowing that in everything you do, you have accomplished two things -- namely, the doing of the thing itself and (by the manner of its doing), adding eternally to yourself another atom of the quality of courage.

You can do this by the cultivation of deliberation — deliberation of speech, of walk, of writing, of eating — deliberation in everything.....

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode includes prayers from the Sioux, Lakota, Cherokee, Chinook, and Aztec.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:

Oh, Great Mystery,

teach me how to trust

my heart,

my mind,

my intuition,

my inner knowing:

the senses of my body,

the blessings of my spirit.....

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Listen to episode 1008 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Positive Affirmations | Building Right Thinking. Edited and adapted from How to Stay Well by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If we would overcome the habit of wrong thinking, we must cultivate the habit of right thinking; and for this purpose there is no method that is superior to that of concentrating the mind upon positive affirmations and constructive statements of truth.

I advise all of you to use this method extensively, regardless of your current condition or circumstances. If used properly, no one can fail to obtain excellent results. I shall share with you now with a number of positive statements which may be employed with great profit....

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Listen to episode 1007 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Using the Law of Attraction. Adapted from The Creative Mind & Success by Ernest Holmes.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: In the presence of some people, we feel as though nothing were too great to undertake. We are uplifted. We are inspired to do great things, to accomplish. We feel strong, steady, sure. What a power we feel in the presence of big souls, strong and noble men and women!

Did you ever stop to inquire why it is that such persons have this kind of an effect over you, while others seem to depress, to drag you down, and in their presence you feel as though life were a heavy load to carry?

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from Working with God by Gardner Hunting.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It ought to be easy for me to give to God. To give Him my troubles, for instance; to give Him the responsibility for the result of my efforts; to give Him the care of my interests; to put my fortunes into His hands; to entrust Him with my health, and with my hopes.

But I find it hard to leave to God the responsibility of paying me for the work I do. I am afraid, perhaps, that somebody else besides God is going to have a good deal to say about the pay I get for what I do.

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Listen to episode 1006 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Law that Governs the World. Adapted from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Compensation.”

Inspirational Living Podcast: Nature hates monopolies, and exceptions. The waves of the sea do not more speedily seek a level from their loftiest tossing, than the varieties of a condition tend to equalize themselves. There is always some leveling circumstance that puts down the overbearing, the strong, the rich, the fortunate, substantially on the same ground with all others.

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Listen to episode 1005 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be a Genius in Business. Edited and adapted from The Book of Business by Elbert Hubbard.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The great 21st century retailer must be a leader in taste. They are an educator. They stand for economy, color, proportion, harmony and increased happiness. They inspire the imagination by bringing from the far comers of the earth the products of the loom, work-shop, farm, mine, and studio. They display these goods so that the public may examine them — compare, weigh, analyze, sift, decide and make them their own if they wish.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from The Vedic Way of Blessedness, edited and adapted from a lecture by Swami Abhedananda.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When we understand the true meaning of life, we know that life is opposed to death, as light is opposed to darkness. Life, in its most abstract sense, means being, and death means non-being, or non-existence. Where life is, death cannot exist.

If life be a reality, then what we call death must be unreal. That which lives or exists can never die or become non-existent. And that which does not live in any form whatever, can never become existent. Existence can never become non-existence, and non-existence can never become existence. This is the law of nature. Whatever exists will continue to exist.

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Listen to episode 1004 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Making Your Ideals Real. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christopher D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The belief that it is impossible to make real the ideal has no foundation whatever in truth. It is simply an illusion produced by fear and has no place in the exact science of life. When you discern an ideal you discover something that lies in your own onward path. Move forward and you simply cannot fail to reach it — but when you are to reach the coveted goal depends upon how rapidly you are moving now.

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Listen to episode 1003 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Words of Power. Adapted from Your Forces and How to Use Them by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every word that is spoken exercises a power in your personal life, and that power will work either for or against you, depending upon the nature of the word. You can talk yourself into trouble, poverty, or disease. And you can talk yourself into harmony, health, and prosperity. In brief, you can talk yourself into almost any condition, desirable or undesirable.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from Working With God by Gardner Hunting, published in 1934.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What do you suppose those people got out of contact with you? Do you know? Of course you don't. You think that they forget you. Well, they don't. They are just like you. They wake up in the night and think. Their hearts go down or their spirits rise because of something you did or said or looked, just as your courage ebbs or flows because of something they gave you.

A word, an act, a glance, an attitude, a sigh, a laugh, a sob, a mean trick, an act of self-sacrifice (one of yours) was stamped upon their hearts and souls. Something you did, something you said, something you were, now makes them set their teeth and clench their hands, or shrug and laugh, or cower and shrink, or give and give. Do you not think so? Well, then, you are much more important than you know.

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Listen to episode 1002 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Circles of Life & Success. Edited and adapted from the essay "Circles" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Old age should not creep upon a human mind. In nature every moment is new; the past is always swallowed and forgotten; the coming only is sacred. Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth is so sublime but it may be trivial tomorrow in the light of new thoughts. People wish to besettled: but only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

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Listen to episode 1001 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Happiness. Adapted from The Wonders of Life by Ida Luella Rettinghouse Lyon.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life holds for everyone some different meaning. Out of its great storehouse of treasures, every person endeavors to secure that which, for them, means happiness.

Many people early give up the struggle to acquire more than they find necessary for a mere existence, and never penetrate far into the mysterious labyrinths of this wonderful storehouse. Others waste their energies in accumulating a variety of tawdry trappings, which in no way represent happiness, but whose glittering spectacle blinds them to the less glaring things of real worth.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is no surer indication of confusion and decadence in spiritual matters than the severance of morality from religion. "He is a highly moral man, but he is not religious"; "She is exceptionally good and virtuous, but is not at all spiritual," are common expressions on the lips of many people who regard religion as something quite distinct from goodness, purity, and right-living.

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Listen to the 1000th episode of the Inspirational Living podcast: Essay on Self-Reliance – 1000th Episode w/ Free eBook Giveaway. Edited and adapted from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essay on Self-Reliance.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The power that resides in you is new in nature, and no one but you knows what you can do, nor will you know until you have tried. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place that divine providence has found for you in the society of your contemporaries.

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Listen to episode 999 of the Inspirational Living podcast: You Can Develop a Powerful Concentration. Adapted from Thought Force in Business & Every Day Life by William Walker Atkinson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The individual who can concentrate has a sure remedy for the "blues." How so? Why, just by shutting off the unpleasant thoughts and concentrating on a brighter subject. Thousands of people have found this plan a specific remedy for the "blues," discouragement, worry, fear, and the rest.

Try it, and you will find that life will appear entirely different to you. Try it, and you will begin to feel the thrill of life again, and will thank God that you are alive, instead of cursing the day when you were born. You will do your work better; you will feel better; you will BE better. Is it not worth trying it out?

Take up the exercises I am about to share with you, and go over them until you can do anything whatsoever, without your thoughts wandering....

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was Edited and adapted from Working With God by Gardner Hunting.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: People suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for you to be cheated by anyone but yourself, as it is for a thing to be and not be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss.

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Listen to episode 998 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living an Authentic Life | Originality vs. Conformity. Edited and adapted from Working with God by Gardner Hunting.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Isn't it pitiful, how we so often conform: conform to style, to custom, to mode, to trend. And if we think about it, we come upon a curious anomaly. The world is actually crying out for originality (for something new under the sun) yet it slaps at it instantly when it raises its head. No person is so unpopular as the one who begins to be unlike the rest. However, no person receives such rewards as the one who persists in it!

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Listen to episode 997 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Great Power of Perseverance. Edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life by T.L. Haines & L.W. Yaggy.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: "Continual drops wear out the stone." So persevering labor gains our objectives. Perseverance is the virtue wanted — a lion-hearted purpose of victory. It is this that builds; constructs; accomplishes whatever is great, good, and valuable.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from Every man a King by Orison Swett Marden and Ernest Holmes.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When the soul once tastes its native food, once feels the thrill of the infinite pulse, it no longer is content to grovel. When you realize that you are divine, when you see that you are a part of the everlasting principle which is the very essence of reality, nothing can throw you off your physical or mental balance.

You are centered in the ever-lasting truth — entrenched there in infinite power from the taint of fear, or anxiety, or worry, or accident — because you are conscious that you are the principle yourself, a part of the eternal verity.

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Listen to episode 996 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Earning Your Wisdom and Happiness. Edited & adapted from a speech by David Starr Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The greatest source of failure in life comes from this. It is easier to be almost right than to be right; to wish, than to gain. In default of gold, there is always something almost as good, and which glitters equally. In default of possession, illusion can be had, and more cheaply. It is possession only which costs. Illusion can be had on easy terms, though the final end of deception is failure and misery.

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Listen to episode 995 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Self-Reliance: The Key to Successful Living. Edited and adapted from The Keys to Success by B.C. Forbes.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Without self-reliance no one can succeed in the largest way. Self-reliance breeds courage, faith, determination, never-say-dieness. Self-reliance inspires a person to do the best that is in them. Without self-reliance, the difficulties that are common to forging ahead cannot be fought and overmatched.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from Vedanta Philosophy: Five Lectures on Reincarnation by Swami Abhedananda, published in 1896.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Our spiritual nature expresses itself in various ways, but on a higher plane. Love of truth, mastery over passion, control of the senses, disinterested self-sacrifice, mercy and kindness to all creatures, desire to help the distressed, forgiveness, faith in a Supreme Being and devotion; all these are the expressions of that higher moral and spiritual nature.

Such qualities cannot be explained as developed from animal nature by means of the struggle for material existence. For they are not to be found in lower animals, although the struggle for existence is there. The moral and spiritual nature of human beings thus cannot be traced as the outgrowth or gradual development of the animal nature.

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Listen to episode 994 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation to Keep Learning & Growing. Edited and adapted from a lecture by Ralph Albert Parlette.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Let me not hear you complain about growing old. We are not growing old; we are growing eternally young. All our life up to today has been merely preparation for today. This is the greatest, wisest, happiest day in all our lives.

As we overcome, we ascend the Mountain of Life. We rise above the legacy of our limitations. We rise above troubles and storms into the sunshine. We rise to life's mountain summit and see the night below us.

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Listen to episode 993 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Energy, Authenticity & Character | Mind Power. Adapted from The Positive Psychology of Success by Newton N. Riddle.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Before anything can be accomplished we must have power. It takes power to work, to do business, to enjoy, to think, to live. Mental energy backs all action. If we lack it, we cannot expect to accomplish much until we have developed the elements that supply force.

Even in good health, energy is sometimes deficient, leaving one tame, inert, constitutionally tired, and averse to activity and strenuous effort. Whatever the cause of this tendency, whether hereditary or acquired, it can be overcome by proper training.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from the Ancient Mexican Code of Moral Precepts

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The individual who offends their Divine spark will die miserable, and it will be their own fault. Honor and salute the aged. Console the poor and afflicted by thy words and thy good works. Revere, love, and serve thy father and mother; listen to them; for the child who does not so conduct themselves will regret it.

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Listen to episode 992 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Advice to Young Adults | Life Coach Lessons. Edited and adapted from Increasing Personal Efficiency by Russell H. Conwell.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A life is divine when duty is a joy. The best work we ever do is the work we get pleasure from doing. And the work we are likeliest to enjoy most is the work we are best fitted to do with our talent. There is nothing in the world except marriage that we should be slower to take upon ourselves than our life-work; therefore, think much, read much, inquire much before you assume any life career.

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Listen to episode 991 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Make Your Life Count | Motivational Speeches. Edited and adapted from “Ambition and Success” by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Everywhere we see men and women doing the lower, the commoner things, seemingly satisfied to do them all their lives, when they have the ability to do the higher. Many people do not start out with ambition enough to spur them to do big things. They make a large career practically impossible at the very outset, because they expect so little of themselves. They have a narrow, stingy view of life and of themselves which limits their ambition to a little, rutty, repetitive groove.

If I could give you but one word of advice, it would be .....

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from the work of Neville Goddard.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When the walls are being rebuilt, it is easy to imagine that the foundations are being destroyed. Old creeds pass away, but truth remains. If they were true in their day, they but give place to the larger truth of the new day. We need to distinguish between the turmoil attendant to the process of building and the beauty of the new temple that arises.

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Listen to episode 990 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Becoming a Creative Writer | Learning to See Again. Adapted from Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The genius keeps, for all their days, the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in its expanding world. Many of US keep this wide-eyed interest well into adolescence; but very few mature men and women are fortunate enough to preserve it in their routine lives.

Most of us are only intermittently aware, even in youth, and the occasions on which adults see and feel and hear (with every sense alert) become rarer and rarer with the passage of the years.

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Listen to episode 989 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Creating the Best Attitude of Mind. Adapted from Thinking for Results by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every moment therefore should be filled with contentment and perfect satisfaction. And every moment should also be filled with a strong desire for still greater achievements. In such a mental state (where contentment and aspiration are combined), we shall find life to be a continual feast, each course being more delicious than the last. We shall also find such a life to be the path to perpetual growth and continuous joy.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from the work of Neville Goddard.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Prayer is an art and requires practice. The first requirement is a controlled imagination. Ostentation and vain repetitions are foreign to prayer. Its exercise requires tranquility and peace of mind.

The ceremonies that are customarily used in prayer are mere superstitions and have been invented to give prayer an air of solemnity. Those who do practice the art of prayer are often ignorant of the laws that control it. They attribute the results obtained to the ceremonies and mistake the letter for the spirit.

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Listen to episode 988 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Have Success at Any Age. Edited and adapted from “Self-Control: It’s Kingship & Majesty” by William George Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If we honestly seek to live our best at all times, that determination is visible in every moment of our living, and no trifle in our lives can be too insignificant to reflect this principle of living. The sun illuminates a fallen leaf by the roadside as impartially as a towering mountain peak in the Alps. Every drop of water in the ocean is an epitome of the chemistry of the whole ocean; every drop is subject to precisely the same laws as dominate the united infinity of billions of drops that make that miracle of Nature we call the Sea.

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Listen to episode 987 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building Greatness from Little Things. Edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life by T.L. Haines & L.W. Yaggy.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The little things in life are not to be dismissed. Every day is a little life; and our whole life is but a day repeated. Those who dare lose a day, are dangerously profligate; those who dare misspend a day, are desperate.

Springs are little things, but they are sources of large streams. Nails and pegs are little things, but they hold parts of large buildings together. Zeros and ones are little things, but without them we would have no computers. A word, a look, a frown, all are little things, but powerful for good or evil.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What question has been asked a greater number of times; what idea has sent people more to search the universe for an answer; what question is nearer and dearer to the human heart; what question is more inseparably connected with our existence, than this one, the immortality of the human soul?

It has been the theme of poets, and of sages, of priests and of prophets; kings on the throne have discussed it; beggars in the street have dreamt of it. The best of human kind have approached it, and the worst of human kind have always hoped for it. The interest in the theme has not died yet, nor will it die, so long as human nature exists.

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Listen to episode 986 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Getting Started with a Purpose Driven Life. Edited and adapted from “On the Threshold” by Theodore Thornton Munger.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Individuals may be divided in many ways, but there is no clearer cut division than between those who have a purpose and those who are without one. It is the character of the purpose that at last determines the character of the person — for a purpose may be good or bad, high or low. It is the strength and definiteness of the purpose that determines the measure of success.

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Listen to episode 985 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation to Make Your Life Extraordinary. Adapted from Concentration: The Road To Success by Henry Harrison Brown.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Remember to always mind your own business. Any argument or antagonism, is minding another person’s business. All persons have an equal right as you to think and act as prompted from within. In giving them this right in your thought, you cannot resist anything they do. You will think and act your thought freely. And since Goodness, Truth, and Love, are realities and are all, when you affirm these you will be powerful.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: You ask, "What is the aim of life?" In a sense, you cannot aim your own life. There is a destiny that aims it -- a law which governs and carries it. To what? To an ever-increasing and boundless capacity for happiness as your power increases, and increase it must. You cannot stop growing, despite all appearances to the contrary.

The pain you have suffered has been through that same growth of the spirit pressing you harder and harder against what caused you misery, so that at last you should take that pain as a proof that you were on some wrong path, which you must leave behind as soon as possible.

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Listen to episode 985 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Cultivating the Power of Imagination. Edited and adapted from Secrets of Mental Supremacy by W. R. C. LATSON, published in 1913.

Inspirational Podcast Transcript:The imagination requires more than mere perception. The things perceived must be remembered. A thing that we have forgotten — lost out of the conscious mind — cannot be used as material for an act of imagination.

The things perceived and remembered must be grouped and associated into clusters; so that when we wish to imagine a certain picture, we will have a vast amount of material in our mind from which to select materials for that picture.

In cultivating the power of imagination, then, we must begin by educating perception, memory, and association — for (and here is my definition of imagination) imagination is merely a combination of perception, memory, and association with initiative: with will.

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Listen to episode 984 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Conquering Anxiety, and Worry. Adapted from the book Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The monster of worry dogs us from the cradle to the grave. There is no occasion so sacred but it is there. Unbidden it comes to the wedding and the funeral alike. It is at every reception, every banquet; it occupies a seat at every table.

No human mind can estimate the havoc and ruin wrought by worry. It has ever forced genius to do the work of mediocrity; it has caused more failures, more broken hearts, more blasted hopes, than any other one cause since the dawn of the world.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy, published in 1908.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What the mystics know as "the Law of Paradox" is an aspect of the Principle of Polarity. Mystical writings are filled with references to Paradox in the consideration of the problems of Life and Being. Hermetic teachers are constantly warning their students against the error of omitting the (quote) "other side" of any question.

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Listen to episode 983 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Gaining the Youthful Edge (At Any Age). Edited and Adapted from Turn Back the Years by Harry J. Gardener.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Spontaneity is one of the prime points in being youthful. The minute you settle permanently into the same easy chair to watch the same TV show, wearing the same pajamas and pair of slippers, the same lamp over your shoulder, from that moment on you are doomed to old age just as surely as if all your friends had uttered the sentence themselves and as if Time were your executioner.

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Listen to episode 982 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Get a Real Education (Individuality). Edited & adapted from Every Man His Own University by Russell H. Conwell.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A distinct university walks about under each person’s hat. The only men and women who achieve success in the other universities of the world, and in the larger university of life, are those who have first taken graduate courses and post-graduate courses in the university under their hat.

It is in this traveling university that observation furnishes a daily change in the curriculum. Books are not the original sources of power. It is observation (which may bring to us wide experiences, deep thinking, fine feeling, and the ability to act for oneself) that is the true dynamo of power.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from An Eternal Career by Frank and Lydia Hammer, published in 1947, published in 1916.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A Hindu child once said to his playmate: "If you can tell me where God is, I will give you a mango." The playmate replied: "If you can tell me where God is not, I will give you two mangos."

Yes, where is God not? While most religions teach that God is omnipresent, the majority of people have difficulty in ....

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Listen to episode 981 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Grief, Sorrow & Pain | Finding Faith. Edited and adapted from Comfort by Hugh Black.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: THE world is full of men and women who are carrying burdens of work or care or sorrow, and the burden often seems too heavy for them to bear. The sorest part of the trouble is that it appears meaningless, with no evident relation to life. The result is that there is only a dull bending of the neck for the load, or a listless doing of the duty.

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Listen to episode 980 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Spiritual Power of Words. Edited and adapted from The Mental Cure by Warren Felt Evans.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: One of the principal mediums through which mind acts upon mind, is that of words, spoken or written. Words are the representatives of ideas; the outward manifestation of thought; the symbols of our hidden spiritual power. They are things that have life in them, which is communicated by them. They are not mere empty sounds, like the sighing of the wind or the noise of a waterfall. If this were the case, they would be of no more consequence than the breath expended in producing them.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from Steps in Human Progress by Christian D. Larson, published in 1916.

Podcast Excerpt: THE first essential in giving scientific attention to the study of the spiritual world is to realize that what we speak of as the spiritual world is not necessarily synonymous with the invisible world.

And here we find one of the chief obstacles to spiritual advancement; that is, that we have (in too many instances) made the terms " spiritual' ' and "invisible" synonymous, and accordingly have come to the conclusion that an experience in the invisible is also a spiritual experience, or that a gain made in our understanding of the invisible would also imply a gain in our understanding of the spiritual.

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Listen to episode 979 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building a Prosperity Mindset. Edited and adapted from a lecture that was delivered by Harriet Hale Rix, at the Hotel Brighton, Washington, D. C., in 1914.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: I would like to make a statement here at the very beginning and have you plant this statement, this idea, in your heart as you would a seed: to grow. My statement is this: That the more difficult the situation is, the higher you will rise if you think correctly about it.

Let us make a familiar and close communication with the heart of the affairs, so that in the future (when we may need to be strong under great pressure or temptation) we may, through this correct thinking about it, be buoyed up and comforted.

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Listen to episode 978 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Breaking from What Holds You Down. Adapted Stepping-Stones to Success by Horace D. Hitchcock.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is a fight, a worthwhile battle, but mainly with the elements in one's own self. An understanding of self (with all its moods, possibilities and powers), is the first step towards self-achievement. But more than this is the self-driving power which must be generated and put to use if maximum results are desired.

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Listen to episode 976 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living Life No Regrets. Adapted from The Power of Purpose by William George Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Let us be glad of the dignity of our privilege to make mistakes, glad of the wisdom that enables us to recognize them, glad of the power that permits us to turn their light as a glowing illumination along the pathway of our future. Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom, the assessments we pay on our stock of experience, the raw material of error to be transformed into higher living.

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Listen to episode 975 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Getting Your Day Started Right. Edited and adapted from Byways of Blessedness by James Allen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is full of beginnings. They are presented every day and every hour to every person. Most beginnings are small, and appear trivial and insignificant, but in reality they are the most important things in life.

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Listen to episode 974 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of the Generous Nature. Edited and adapted from Our Sunday Talks by James J. Owen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: One source of almost unlimited trouble in this world is in not knowing when we are well off. Our happiness depends too much on what we suppose others may think of us, and too little on what we really think of ourselves. We carry the spirit of rivalry and emulation to an extreme. In our efforts to excel our neighbors, we often overdo it and make ourselves miserable.

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Listen to episode 973 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Key to Happiness Every Day. Edited and adapted from Just Be Glad by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The real truth is that this world is nothing less than a limitless sea of happiness, the vastness and glory of which we are just beginning to know. And life itself is a song, while time is one eternal symphony. To be in tune with life, therefore, and to be in harmony with the endless music of time, we must of necessity be glad. But after we have learned to be glad, under every circumstance, it is no longer a necessity. It is a privilege, and has become a part of our active, living, thinking self.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from the Creative Mind, by Ernest S. Holmes, published in 1923.

Podcast Excerpt: Be expectant. Expect the best to happen. Don't sit around waiting for trouble — have absolutely nothing to do with it. It is no part of the divine plan. It is an illusion of the material sense. One who has learned to trust will not be surprised even when they find things coming from the most unexpected sources.

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Listen to episode 972 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Timeless Secrets of Success. Edited & adapted from the lecture Self-Made Men by Frederick Douglass.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Today, I would like to talk with you about success and the industrious spirit. Industry is the superficial and visible cause of success, but what is the cause of industry? When answering this question one element is easily pointed out, and that element is necessity...

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Listen to episode 971 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living a Magical Life. Adapted from the book Concentration: The Key to Constructive Thought by C. W. Kyle.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The supreme lesson of life is that of self-realization. You are living in a world of magic. You have more power within you than that of any wizard whom you have read or dreamed about. Wake up! Learn who you are before you condemn yourself to a further life of inaction and inefficiency. To come to recognize yourself is the best elixir of life you will ever know.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, first discovered in an ancient Egyptian cave in 1945.

Podcast Excerpt: "When you make the two into one, and make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and so make the male and the female a single one so that the male won't be male nor the female female; when you make eyes in the place of an eye, a hand in the place of a hand, a foot in the place of a foot, and an image in the place of an image; then you'll enter [the kingdom]."

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Listen to episode 970 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Create Your Ideal Life. Edited and Adapted from the book Joy Philosophy by Elizabeth Towne.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: You and I are artists. But we are prone to look too long and often at our canvas (the results of our efforts) and too little at our Ideals, which are the source of all effort and accomplishment.

Let us take special times every day for gazing upon our Ideals. The first thing in the morning, and the last thing at night, should be daily given to special gazing upon what we desire. Then several times a day, we should pause in our efforts, for a few moments’ study of the Ideal.

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Listen to episode 969 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Inspirational Wisdom of the Dalai Lama.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: “Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, “I am of no value”, is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought — so what are you lacking? If you have willpower, then you can change anything. As it is often said, you are your own master.”

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from Creed of the Dauntless by Frank B. Whitney, published in 1931.

Podcast Excerpt: Is the kingdom of heaven right here, right now? Is it right where you are? Yes and no. It is not the world of fog and shadow, pain and disease, arguments and misunderstandings, bitterness and war, in which you sometimes find yourself engulfed. It’s a place of heavenly rest and peace that exists back of all this world of turmoil. Let me give you an illustration from the natural world.

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Listen to episode 968 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Joy of Doing | Happiness Podcasts. Edited and adapted from A Book of Friendly Thoughts by Nixon Waterman.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Half-way, half-hearted doings never amount to much. Battles are not won with flags at half-mast — they are run up to the very top and waved as far toward the heavens as possible.

If we lack enthusiasm, we are almost as certain to fail of achieving an end. A listless, lackadaisical spirit may get on all right, so long as the path of life is all on a level or down grade, but when it comes to hill-climbing, and the real experiences of life that develop character, we are likely to give up the contest and surrender the prize.

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Listen to episode 967 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Christmas & the Secret of Happiness. Adapted from a book by the same title by Arnold Bennett.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Children divide their adult acquaintances into two categories — those who sympathize with them in this bizarre and trying adventure called life; and those who don't. The second category is the much larger of the two. Very many people belong to it who think that they belong to the first. They may deceive themselves, but they cannot deceive a child.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan, published in 1909.

Podcast Excerpt: For worldly success, fame, social prestige, laurel-crowned triumph, the inn is illuminated; welcoming music fills the air; and the inn doors are thrown wide open. But the struggle towards sublime attainment, heroic effort to better the world, simple consecration of soul to a noble ideal, means the manger — and a lonely pathway lit only by the torch of truth held high in the hand of purpose.

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Listen to episode 966 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Originality & Living Up to Your Potential. Edited and adapted from Stepping-Stones to Success by Horace D. Hitchcock.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: In each of us there should be developed a liking for some one thing that brings us the thrill of enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is, indeed, a great tonic. You may drive yourself to do good things by sheer force of will, concentration, and so forth, but enthusiasm is a power which makes things seem easy, when in reality they are not. Enthusiasm in work is inspiration, joy, and gladness. Nothing great is ever achieved without it. Enthusiasm is the root of original creation.

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Listen to episode 965 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Sincerity and Authenticity. Adapted from The Eight Pillars of Prosperity by James Allen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The works, words, and deeds of great men and women are the heirlooms of the human race, and the world is not careless of their value. A thousand authors write a book — one only is a work of original genius.

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Listen to episode 964 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Simple Secret to Increased Vitality. Edited & adapted from Vitality Supreme by Bernarr Macfadden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The great need of today is the same as it ever was. We need stronger, more capable men; healthier, superior women. Force is supreme — the driver of all humankind. And it is force that stands back of efficiency, for efficiency, first of all, means power. It comes from power, and power either comes directly from inheritance or it is developed by an intelligent application of the laws that control the culture of the physical body.

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Listen to episode 963 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Key to Love | Spirituality & Mystical Wisdom. Adapted from The Key to Health, Wealth & Love by Julia Seton.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: THE reason we do not have love is because we do not know how to get it. Everyone in this world does exactly the best as he or she knows how. When we know better, we will do better.

Life as an initiation requires us to learn how to live alone and not be lonely. But it should not take anyone a lifetime to get this lesson; the whole lesson of life may be in one hour's passing — not dragged through endless years of effort and strife.

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Listen to episode 962 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Today is a New Day | Uplifting Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Growth in Silence, the Undertone of Life by Susanna Cocroft.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What a breeze of pure exhilaration there is when we open the eastern windows of the morning to the new day! The new day! Its surface is unruffled! Yesterday has gone into the west — only the thoughts of that day which make for eternity have been traced upon its pages. The mantle of rest and silence has tenderly covered it, while the night has borne it hours away! The soft night wind has lulled it to dreamless, lasting sleep.

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Listen to episode 961of the Inspirational Living podcast: What You Need to Succeed. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Many people give up their work if they are told they can't succeed. Confront them with a difficulty and they seek the path of least resistance. It is the doing of things by half that is the ruination of millions. The world is crowded with people who don't do all they can. Half-hearted success is whole-hearted failure. Half-hearted work gives us half-hearted people who can neither live half a life nor make half a success.

The individual who puts only half their energy into their work finds that it is the other half that counts. The one who knows only half the things about their business finds that all the profits are in the other half. The one who only half tries (no matter what they are doing), also finds, when it is too late, that everything worthwhile is in the other half.

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Listen to episode 960 of the Inspirational Living podcast: A Thanksgiving of Gratitude, Hope, Charity and Joy. Edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life by T.L. Haines & L.W. Yaggy.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Nothing tenders the heart, and opens the gushing fountain of love, more than the exercise of gratitude. Like the showers of spring that cause flowers to rise from seeds that have long lain dormant, tears of gratitude awaken pleasurable sensations unknown to those who have never been forced from the sunshine of prosperity into the cold shade of adversity — where no warmth is felt but that of kindness; no light enjoyed but that of charity.

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Listen to episode 959 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Self-Control: The Key to Success & Achievement. Edited and adapted from The Kingship of Self-Control by William George Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every person has two creators — their God and themselves. Our first creator furnishes us with the raw material of our lives and the laws in conformity with which we can make that life what we will. The second creator — ourselves — has marvelous powers we rarely realize. It is what we make of ourselves that counts.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from The Open Door by Hugh Black, published in 1914.

Podcast Excerpt: Death is the greatest adventure in life, and to have faced it and settled how it must be met is the largest part of our total attitude. A good deal of our neglect of the subject in ordinary life is really due to the distaste and fear we have for it. And because of this, life is really weakened and maimed.

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Listen to episode 958 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Maintain Everlasting Joy. Edited and adapted from The Springs of Joy by Robert F. Horton.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is a higher truth. There is a realm of reality which is lifted above the things perceived by our senses and the experiences of human life. There is a joy and light and music in the waters, which do not rise within the city but come from the eternal hills beyond. It is that kind of everlasting joy which I would like to talk about today...

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Listen to episode 957 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Building the Endurance to Succeed. Edited and adapted from Making the Grade by C.V. Mosby.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Success in life depends largely on endurance. And endurance is dependent upon a sound body and a determined will. There are many flabby wills housed in a physically sound body. When this happens, there is little endurance; and, as a consequence, there is not much hill climbing for the individual.

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Listen to episode 956 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Great Lesson of Seeing Possibilities. Edited and adapted from Leadership by George H. Knox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: One great lesson we should all learn is to see possibilities — in ourselves and in others. It is a great satisfaction to see other people climb through our assistance. It is better to cultivate the attitude of a helper than of a person who has to be helped. Better to be a burst of sunshine than a sponge.

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Listen to episode 955 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How Does One Conquer Life? Edited and adapted from Gaining the Round Above by Gustavus S. Kimball.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A more modern definition says that the ideal life, the life of success, is the well-rounded life with broad views, broad culture, broad sympathies, and broad purposes for good. True success by this measure means putting our best muscle, brain, and heart into our work — though the returns may not come tomorrow, next month, or next year. However, rest assured ....

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from Volume IV of Harper's magazine, published in 1852.

Podcast Excerpt: There is an aim which all Nature seeks. The flower that opens from the bud (the light that breaks the cloud into a thousand forms of beauty) is calmly striving to assume the perfect glory of its power. And the child, whose proud laugh heralds the mastery of a new lesson, unconsciously develops the same life-impulse, so as to prove the power it has felt as its own.

This is the real goal of life shining dimly from afar — for our fullest power has never yet been attained. It is a treasure which must be sought (its extent and distance being unknown).

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Listen to episode 954 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Fate is in Your Hands. Adapted from the book Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There come times in person's life when they move heaven and earth (figuratively speaking); pray until they can pray no more; sacrifice, perhaps, their money, their health, their prospects, and do everything that is in their power, in a vain attempt to stave off a threatened disaster.

But, in spite of all their efforts, in spite of their cries to a pitiless heaven, the relentless march of fate cannot be stayed. It moves forward like a huge juggernaut and crushes their hopes, their dearest idols, their very life itself (or all that then makes their life worth living) — and leaves them desolate.

So, what then can be done? ........

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Listen to episode 953 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Succeed & Get What You Want. Edited and adapted from “How to Develop Your Will Power” by Clare Tree Major.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Humanity is the supreme creation. All life, all power, is available to you. The first essential, then, is to realize that you are an invisible, immaterial being, with the innate power to harness all the forces of this world. You do not currently take advantage of these forces because you have not conquered the physical, emotional, and mental limitations which have persuaded you that they are more powerful than you.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast.This episode is edited and adapted from a lecture delivered by Neville Goddard in the 1950s.

Podcast Excerpt: Your own wonderful human imagination is the actual creative power of God within you. It is your savior. If you were thirsty, water would be your savior. If you needed a job, employment would be your savior. Your imagination is the power to save you from whatever circumstances you now find yourself.

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Listen to episode 952 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspirational Life Lessons in Gratitude. Edited and adapted from “The Power of Truth” by William George Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Gratitude is being thankful, and then turning that feeling into action. It is the instinctive radiation of justice — giving new life and energy to the individual from whom it emanates. It is the heart's recognition of kindness that the lips cannot repay. Gratitude never counts its payments. It realizes that no debt of kindness can ever be outlawed, ever be cancelled, ever paid in full.

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Listen to episode 951 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Great Power of Forgiveness. Edited & adapted from “The Ideal Made Real” by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The person who finds it easier to forgive than to condemn is on the verge of superior wisdom and higher spiritual power. They have entered the path to real greatness and may rapidly rise on the scale by applying the laws of true human development. Instead of producing weakness and indifference, the act of absolute forgiveness will produce a more powerful character, a more brilliant mind, and a greater soul.

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Listen to episode 950 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Great Power of Honest Labor. Edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life by T.L. Haines and L.W. Yaggy.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Don't live in hope with your arms folded. Fortune smiles on those who roll up their sleeves, and put their shoulders to the wheel. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. To love and to labor is the sum of living, and yet how many think they live who neither labor nor love.

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Listen to episode 949 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Being Happy & Successful in Any Career. Edited and adapted from How to Get On by Bernard Feeney.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is but one prize worth all the energy of a human soul; and that is a prize which does not depend on the world's favor, and which death cannot snatch from us. The ideal life to which we ought to aspire is one that must make our homes bright and cheerful; it must make everyone depending on it as happy as lies in its power to do.

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Listen to episode 948 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Nothing Happens By Chance. Edited and adapted from The Kybalion.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The Principle of Cause and Effect embodies the truth that Law pervades the Universe; that nothing happens by Chance; that Chance is merely a term indicating a cause that exists but not readily recognized or perceived; that phenomena is continuous, without break or exception.

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Listen to episode 946 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Courtesy. Edited and adapted from How to be Happy Though Civil by E.J. Hardy.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: How seldom does one see the well-rounded man, the well-rounded woman, what the ancient Greeks called the harmonious one — that is, someone developed equally in all parts of their nature. In our modern age, one of the areas most often overlooked is that of good manners.

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Listen to episode 945 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Key to Health, Wealth & Love. Edited and adapted from The Key to Health, Wealth & Love by Julia Seton.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: At some time or another in our lives, we all come to a place where two or more paths open up for us, and we stand at the cross-roads undecided which way to go. There is no friend near to whom we can seek advice. It is here, that the person who has developed the power of meditation (of inner communion), can rest awhile and find within themselves the solution to all difficulties.

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Listen to episode 944 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Feel Younger Again. Edited and adapted from Turn Back the Years by Harry J. Gardener.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If most human beings only knew it, the actual price of youth is the lowest of any "bargain" in all the markets of the world. The purchase price is merely self- analysis and self-change. Why then, one asks, is youth so often missed, so often hungrily yearned for, when it can be so easily obtained?

Well, the fault lies in the state of mind of this age — the hurry, the pell-mell rush for success and a thousand other goals. The purpose of today’s talk is therefore to make you stop and think. For intelligent, concentrated thought, and consideration of one's self are the finest helps obtainable.

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Listen to episode 943 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Karma & The Ultimate Goal of Life. Edited and adapted from a lecture by Swami Vivekenanda.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Ultimately, we find that misery and happiness are equal factors in the formation of character. Good and evil have an equal share, and in some instances misery is a greater teacher than happiness. In studying the great characters that the world has produced, I dare say that (in the vast majority of cases), it was misery that taught more than happiness; it was poverty that taught more than wealth; and it was blows that brought out the inner fire, more than praise.

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Listen to episode 942 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Being the Best at Anything. Edited and adapted from Up and Doing by C. P. McDonald.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Try enthusiasm on your job. It is the greatest of all pre-requisites of Success. It leads to better things — to the coveted, attainable prizes we strive for.

It is enthusiasm that makes us win — achieve — advance — become doers — take the initiative — the bold play. It makes the gray day a good day — the dull day a happy day. It points the way to opportunity — of fresh, new inspiration.

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Podcast Excerpt: Why am I here? Where am I going? What’s the point of it all? These are eternal questions asked by every man and woman who has ever lived. The true destination of human kind, the proper end of our being and life, lies beyond the present world in an order of things which are supernatural; and it is absolutely necessary that you should know this, and have supreme regard for this fact, in order that you may not live in vain.

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Listen to episode 941 of the Inspirational Living podcast: A Key to the Life Worthwhile. Edited and adapted from “The Message of New Thought” by Abel Allen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is not built to any fixed plan. One ideal will not suffice for all lives. Individuals cannot follow the same guide, because all persons differ and the orbits of their respective lives cannot be the same. Each person is endowed with some distinct and superior quality. The real purpose of your life should be to develop that gift and bring it into activity and expression.

We must, therefore, begin with the proposition that life is an individual function, a problem for each person to work out in the manner best suited to their own individuality. Your life must be shaped by your own ideal. It must follow your own line of cleavage.

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Listen to episode 940 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Sleep Deep & Well. Edited and adapted from Peace, Power, and Plenty by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is a great art to be able to shut the gates of the mind on retiring to bed, to control oneself, to put oneself in tune with the Infinite, in sympathy with those about you, and in harmony with the world; to expel from the mind everything which jars or irritates (all malice, envy, and jealousy, the enemies of our peace and happiness) before you go to sleep.

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Podcast Excerpt: We are searching for pathways to a beautiful life. But often we don’t know where to begin, and what guideposts we should use to navigate our journey. The first thing to do is to recognize the great truth that every individual can live their own life exactly as they wish to. You are the real master of your own existence, and it is you who may determine how perfect and how beautiful that existence is to be.

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Listen to episode 939 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Life is a Mission - What is Yours?. Edited & adapted from The Aim of Life by Philip Stafford Moxom.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is a mission. Every other definition of life is false, and leads all who accept it astray. Religion, science, philosophy, though still at variance upon many points, all agree on this: that every existence is an aim.

It is the high distinction of humanity that we are capable of living with an aim — that is, with a purpose which, reaching through all our lives, unifies it, and gives it directness and force.

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Listen to episode 938 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Truth (The Simple Truth About Life). Edited and adapted from The Power of Truth by William George Jordan.

Podcast Excerpt: Truth is the rock foundation of every great character. It is loyalty to what is right, as we see it. It is the courageous living of our lives in harmony with our ideals. It is always — power. Truth ever defies a full definition. Like electricity, it can only be explained by noting its manifestation. It is the compass of the soul, the guardian of conscience, the final touchstone of right. Truth is the revelation of an ideal; but it is also an inspiration to REALIZE that ideal, a constant impulse to live it.

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Listen to episode 937 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Follow these Rules and Wealth is Guaranteed. Edited and Adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: No one has success until they have an abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold activity of energy, enthusiasm, and gladness. It is to spring up to meet the day with a thrill at being alive. It is to go forth to meet the morning in an ecstasy of joy. It is to realize the oneness of humanity in true spiritual sympathy. It is, indeed, that which one IS; not that which you do or which you have.

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Listen to episode 936 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Develop a Powerful Personality. Edited and adapted from How to Develop Your Personality by Clare Tree Major.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Review the life of any great individual. You will find that their success was the result, not only of careful study and of perseverance, but, more than all, of the subtle influence of personal magnetism. They succeeded because their personality convinced people that they were sincere, that they were strong, someone who could be relied upon. Without a well-developed personality, their good qualities would have lain unnoticed, and they would have been only another in the struggling, discouraged thousands.

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Listen to episode 935 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Mind Controls Your Destiny. Edited and adapted from How the Mind Works by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Your destiny is being created hourly by you. And that something that determines what you are to create at any particular period in time is the sum total of your ideals.

Your future is not preordained by some external power, nor is fate controlled by some strange and mysterious force that master minds can alone comprehend and apply. It is our ideals that control and determine our fate. And we all have ideals, whether we be aware of the fact or not.

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Listen to episode 934 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Live a Better & Larger Life. Edited and adapted from Right Living by Susan H. Wixon.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: "Living will teach you how to live better than any preacher or book," says Goethe. But what is it to live? Is it simply to eat, drink, and be merry? Is it to learn a little, here and there; to laugh and play; to sleep, weep, toil, and battle from day to day, and from year to year for food and shelter?

Life is more than that. It has larger uses. It contains greater and grander results. It holds loftier and nobler aspirations....

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Listen to episode 933 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Character that Powers Success in Life. Edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It has been said that "Nothing Succeeds Like Success." But what is Success? If we consult the dictionaries, they will give us the etymology of this much used word, and in general terms, the meaning will be (quote) "the accomplishment of a purpose." But as the goals in nearly every life differ, success cannot mean the same thing to all people. The artist's idea of success is very different from that of the business person, and the scientist differs from both, as does the politician from all three.

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Listen to episode 932 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Choose Your Vocation in Life. Edited and adapted from Getting a Start: First Aids to Success by Nathaniel C. Fowler.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:To feel the flush of success is to do what you most want to do, and what you can best do. Unless you can do well what you want to do, the fullness of result is impossible. Conversely, unless you want to do what you can do well, a small result is likely to follow.

While what you want to do appears to be subordinate to what you can do, so much do I believe in the assistance of co-operation and the value of desire, that I would place "want to do" ahead of "can do"....

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Listen to episode 931 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How Proportion Helps Create Happiness. Edited and adapted from The Pursuit of Happiness by George Hodges.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Proportion ministers to happiness because it preserves us from pessimism. Pessimism is an exaggeration of the evil of the world. It is the easiest of fallacies. Evil impresses the imagination deeper than good. It is commonly more dramatic, more interesting. That is why the first page of the morning paper is filled with the stories of yesterday's crimes and murders.

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Listen to episode 930 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Go Beyond Ordinary Success | Motivation Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Getting a Start: First Aids to Success by Nathaniel C. Fowler.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: IF you are faithful, ordinary success is yours. If you do what you are told to do, or what you have to do, you can't become a failure.

But more than ordinary success, more than normal accomplishment, is due, not wholly to faithfulness, not entirely to your interest in your work, but to the fact that you do not only what you are told to do and have to do, but what you are not told to do and don't have to do.

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Listen to episode 929 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Become Strong in Spirit and Life. Edited and adapted from Divine Adjustment by Henry Thomas Hamblin, published in 1930.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is necessary for us to develop strength and individuality. We have to become so strong that no dominating ego can have any power or influence over us. We have to maintain our liberty, and be free, individualized beings.

If we do not maintain our freedom, we not only become weak people without individuality or character, but we also are liable to find ourselves dominated by some strong ego to such an extent that our life ceases to be our own.

Now, many of us may recognize the necessity of being strongly individualistic and capable of resisting suggestion, but how are we to develop such strength?

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Listen to episode 928 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Creating a True Success Mindset. Edited and adapted from Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin, published in 1921.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is important to recognize that there are varying degrees of successful thinking. For instance, the lowest form of "success" thought is: "I can succeed." You may have thought all your life that you could not succeed. You may have thought that others succeeded because they were exceptionally talented or had better opportunities, or were blessed with "luck". But you being neither greatly talented, nor lucky, nor presented with opportunities, cannot succeed.

Then one day, let us imagine, you read an....

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Listen to episode 927 of the Inspirational Living podcast: You Can Start Living a Larger Life. Edited and adapted from The Open Door by Hugh Black.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A new experience should open the way to a larger life. It should bring fresh insight, wider interest, and keener sympathy. Many people do not use their new experiences, but only enjoy them.

A great happiness will sometimes come to a person and they will rejoice in it, but yet they may not let it enlarge their life. Strangely enough, we sometimes find it only narrows the person. So a sorrow, which we would expect to soften and deepen them, will often only harden and embitter.

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Listen to episode 926 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Incredible Power of Character. Edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Character is human nature in its best form. It is moral order embodied in the individual. People of character are not only the conscience of society, but in every well-governed state, they are its best motive power — for it is moral qualities in the main which rule the world. Even in war, Napoleon said, the moral is to the physical as ten to one.

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Listen to episode 925 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Use Money the Successful Way. Edited and adapted from Youth and Opportunity by Thomas Tapper.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Up to the present moment, you have, perhaps, saved nothing. The rule of your life may have been a variation of "easy come, easy go." But it has not put you forward. You are no better off — have nothing in hand. You are, in fact, a little older and a little nearer the time when your efficiency may be less than it is today.

If you can succeed in seeing yourself in this light, you will begin to be a student of money. And the first thing you must do is to study (in order) the following subjects: ....

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Listen to episode 924 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Create Good Luck for Success. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: An old proverb says that "Good courage breaks ill luck.” In other words, mental power, rightly directed, is the only force that creates good luck. Hard work alone will not make you lucky. You must be ready to seize your good luck when it comes, and you must search for it until you find it.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall, published in 1911.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The master-key to success, in every realm of human life, is Faith. Faith has inspired every truly great career that has blessed the World. Faith has made possible every great Institution that has enriched the life of humanity. Faith is the scarlet thread running through all the religions of the world, and revealing their essential unity. It is Faith that lifts humanity above the level of the brute, and makes us master over the physical world.

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Listen to episode 923 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Overcome Stagnation & Start Growing | Self-Development. Edited and adapted from Growth in Silence, the Undertone of Life by Susanna Cocroft.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is easy to be content, to remain at a standstill, to make no effort to reach out beyond an easy environment. But it is stagnation. The soul must be the master; and circumstances its stepping stones.

No judgment, no decision, no attitude toward life can be final....

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Listen to episode 921 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Growing Power of Nature Within You. Edited and adapted from The Power of Repose by Annie Payson Call.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Within all of us there is an exquisite sense of growing power that comes from Nature. In studying Nature, we not only realize the strength that comes from following her lead, but we discover her within ourselves gently moving us onward.

We all believe that we look to Nature; but it is surprising how often we are mistaken. We all would profit much if we....

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from Through the Gates of Good by James Allen, published in 1903.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The Gospel of Jesus is a Gospel of living and doing. If it were not this, it would not voice the Eternal Truth. There is one characteristic in the teachings of all Great Souls, and that is that they bring to light (and appeal directly to)the simple facts and truths of the soul and of life.

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Listen to episode 920 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Think | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Keys to Success by B.C. Forbes.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Thought is the parent of progress. Thought creates all. Everything springs from thought. Human beings are distinguished from other animals by this one power: the power of thought. The immortals of this world are they who thought deeper or more brilliantly than their fellow citizens.

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Listen to episode 919 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Getting Over Your Fear of Death. Edited and adapted from Growth in Silence, the Undertone of Life by Susanna Cocroft.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The fear of death is one of the greatest restraints to life, to growth. We do not realize how our lives are hampered by fear of it. The opposite is true when we realize that there is no death.

If the spirits linger near, it is pleasant to feel that they are ever helping and impressing for good those whose lives were knitted to theirs in the past. They may or may not commune with us (so that we can see or hear them with our physical senses), but have we not all, in some receptive mood, when lifted above the petty cares of the day, felt a sweet influence pervading the very air?

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from What All the World is a-Seeking by Ralph Waldo Trine, published in 1920.

Podcast Excerpt: I often talk about the principle of love and service, and how this principle should be the foundation of your personality. In turn, I often hear someone say, “But love and service really doesn’t come easily for me. What should I do?”

My reply is this: Forget self, get out of it for a little while, and, as it comes your way, do something for someone, some kind service, some loving favor; it makes no difference how small it may appear. But a kind look or word to one weary with care, a helping hand or little lift to one discouraged, may just change their life or their destiny.

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Listen to episode 918 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Magic Door to a Wonderful Life. Edited and adapted from The Open Door by Hugh Black.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We need more non-conformists, more people ready to protest, because their eyes have seen a nobler vision. It would be a poor thing to have youth prudent with the selfish calculating prudence of worldly wisdom. Life stretches out at the feet of youth to be made what it will. It can be as rich and beautiful as youth likes to have it — for that is the Magic Door that ushers to the very land of our dreams....

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Listen to episode 917 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Even Insurmountable Difficulties. Edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Courage, combined with energy and perseverance, will overcome difficulties apparently insurmountable. It gives force and impulse to effort and does not permit it to retreat. Tyndall said of Faraday, that (quote) "in his warm moments he formed a resolution, and in his cool ones he made that resolution good."

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast.This episode is edited and adapted from Studies in Thought World by Henry Wood, published in 1896.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Poverty is a condition of soul. This is even true on the material plane. The millionaire who feelspoor ispoor, and nothing but a mental revolution can make them otherwise. On the other hand, the humblest task, and the simplest gift, may be transmuted into a pleasure and privilege.

The world is full of poor people who are rich, but they are utterly unaware of it. There are boundless deposits of virtue and love, goodness and beauty, health and happiness, waiting to be withdrawn. But ....

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Listen to episode 916 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Driving Your Ambition to Success. Edited and adapted from How to Develop Your Personality by Clare Tree Major.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Ambition is desire, the desire for self-expression along the line of least resistance. Desire is a thing to be cultivated. Feed it with your imagination. But do not desire to have things. Greed and envy, and a host of other uglinesses, owe their birth to the desire to have. Desire to BE, and the things will come of themselves.

To be a great success, a master in your chosen business or profession....

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Listen to episode 915 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret Power of Tolerance. Edited and adapted from The Power of Truth by William George Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Tolerance is a calm, generous respect for the opinions of others, even one's enemies. It recognizes the right of every person to think their own thoughts, to live their own life, to be themselves in all things, so long as it does not run counter to the rights of others. It means giving to others the same freedom that we ourselves crave.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from Creed of The Dauntless by Frank B. Whitney, published in 1931.

Podcast Excerpt: Here is the way to get along with people: Get out of personal consciousness! If you are in the attitude of mind where you think of people as working against you, as misunderstanding you, as being inconsiderate of what you do, then the first step must be that of getting a right perspective on life.

Here is an astounding fact: The person with ...

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Listen to episode 914 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Become Rich in Love & Happiness. Edited and adapted from A Man Worthwhile by John Phillips Meakin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: I would like to talk with you today about the subject of success. But first let us understand each other. My idea of success may not be yours. I do not mean success in the narrow sense of gaining some petty victory — the success of wealth, power, or glory. I do not mean to tell you how to become a great captain of industry, nor a brilliant entrepreneur; neither would I instruct you in the art of diplomacy or statesmanship; the mysteries of religion nor the intricacies of politics. A person may be great in all these, and yet be ....

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Listen to episode 913 of the Inspirational Living podcast: You Can Be the Master of Your Fate. Edited and Adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every weight carried lessens the chances of victory; every weight discarded increases the prospects of success. Yet how many people enter life's great arena loaded down with weights, careless if not utterly oblivious of the handicap under which they struggle for fame and fortune and the higher success of character.

Let me point out a few of the loads that many people are carrying in the great race of life, and see if any of them are a part of your unnecessary burden.....

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from Creative Mind by Ernest Holmes, published in 1919..

Podcast Excerpt: How often it is true of our spoken prayers, that we have said words over and over again, and yet our prayers have apparently yielded us nothing, simply because we have not really desired the things asked for. The thing actually desired is the thing we pray for, not the petition that may be expressed in words.

The deepest prayers cannot be put into words. True prayer is the intense inner desire of the heart, deeper than any human speech can express; so profound, so vital and spiritual, that it must wing its way silently to the Eternal.

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Listen to episode 912 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Art & Power of Conversation. Edited and adapted from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To be a good conversationalist — to able to interest people, rivet their attention, draw them to you naturally by the very superiority of your conversational ability — is a great accomplishment, one that is superior to all others.

It not only helps you to make a good impression upon strangers, it also helps you to make and keep friends. It opens doors and softens hearts. It makes you interesting in all sorts of company. It helps you to get on in the world. It sends you clients, patients, customers.

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Listen to episode 912 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Turning Time & Money Into Success Habits of Personal Power. Edited and Adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Economy is a much broader word than most people imagine. It applies to time, strength, talent, influence and effort, as well as to the prudent and saving use of money. The rule of life should be: Avoid all waste.

When it comes to time, how important it is that we should learn how to make the best use of "spare moments," the "odds and ends" of our lives, and make them contribute their full share to life's grand purpose and attainment.

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Listen to episode 912 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How the Successful Use & Value Money. Edited and adapted from Youth and Opportunity by Thomas Tapper.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When discussing the Factors of Success, comparatively few people would fail to insist that the one thing above all others in desirability and importance, is money. We give precedence to money because we believe in its power, and yet, at the same time, it is the most impotent of our many servants.

Rightly regarded, money is a wholesome possession. The amount of good it can be made to do is so astounding that it is no wonder we regard it as the greatest thing in the world. Yet it is not the greatest thing in the world. It is merely one essentially important thing, and about its importance everyone should rightly inform themselves.

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Listen to episode 911 of the Inspirational Living podcast: We Really Do Get What We Ask For. Edited and adapted from The Open Door by Hugh Black.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Always remember that what you request is given to you, and what you really will in your heart you attain. Life comes and says calmly and confidently, "Ask what I shall give you," and the door opens out into the place of your asking.

I know that this may seem at first an absurd statement that what we seek we find, and where we knock it is opened to us, but if you think a little you will see that it is true. We may not get the exact thing we most desire. The particular object on which we have set our hearts may....

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting, published in 1903.

Podcast Excerpt: The great truth of life — that which we may well hold as its central and controlling and dominating truth — is that "our best moments are not departures from ourselves, but are really the only moments in which we have truly been ourselves." These moments flash upon the horizon of the soul and vanish. They appear before us as in vision, and fade; but the fact of their appearance is its own proof of their deep reality.

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Listen to episode 910 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Go Through Life With Perfect Poise. Edited and Adapted from Poise: How to Attain It by D. Starke.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Poise is a quality which enables us to judge of our own value, and which (in revealing to us the knowledge of the things of which we are really capable) gives us at the same time the desire to accomplish them.

It is not a singular quality. On the contrary, it is a composite of many qualities, all of which take part in the molding of that totality which bears the name of poise.

The principal qualities of which poise is composed are as follows:

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Listen to episode 909 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Success is No Accident | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Michelangelo was one day explaining to a visitor at his studio what he had been doing to a statue since a previous visit. "I have retouched this part—polished that—softened this feature—brought out that muscle— given some expression to this lip, and more energy to that limb."

"But those are trifles," said the visitor.

"It may be so," replied Michelangelo, "but recollect that trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from Power Through Repose by Annie Payson Call, published in 1900.

Podcast Excerpt: It is with life as it is with art. What we do must be done with love, or it will have no force. Without the living spark of love, we may have the appearance (but never the spirit) of useful work or quiet contentment. Stagnation is not peace, and there can be no life, and thus no living peace, without happy relations with those about us.

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Listen to episode 908 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Taking Control of Your Mind & Body | Health Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Youth and Opportunity by Thomas Tapper.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Most people are very content with the world they live in. Even the poor are often happy because what they have and what they think are equal. But the moment a person realizes that being poor limits them in many ways, they are no longer happy. They want other things; they wish to live on a better street; to know people who are doing well. In other words, they want to be (quote) "better off," as the saying goes.....

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Listen to episode 907 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Be the Master of Your Circumstances. Edited and adapted from The Freedom of Life by Annie Payson Call.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: IT is not the circumstances of life that trouble or weigh upon us. It is the way we take them. If a person is playing a difficult game of chess, the more intricate the moves, the more thoughtfully they look over their own and their opponent's pieces, and the more fully they are aroused to make the right move toward a checkmate.

If, when the game became difficult, the player stopped to be depressed and disheartened, their opponent would probably always checkmate them. However, in most cases, the more difficult the game, the more....

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from The Shining Gateway by James Allen, published in 1915.

Podcast Excerpt: Every dog can bark and fight, and every foolish person can rail and abuse with hard words, and give way to fits of bad temper. These things are easy and natural to us, and require no effort and no strength. But the wise person puts away all such follies, and trains themselves in self-control — trains themselves to act unerringly from fixed principles, and not from the fleeting impulses of an unstable nature.

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Listen to episode 906 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Patience & Perseverance are Your Keys to Success. Edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The soldier who begins the battle in doubt is half beaten in advance. The entrepreneur who loses heart after one failure is a fool to have even started. There is a great deal in good preparation, but there is a great deal more in heroic perseverance. The person who declines to make a start until everything they think they need is ready at hand is very apt to fail.

The greatest things have been achieved by ...

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Listen to episode 905 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Getting Rid of Your Fear of Failure | Success Talks. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is a big thing, and your mind is a big thing. There ought to be nothing mean or small in your thoughts. Your imagination is bounded only by the measureless space of the universe. After all, you can comprehend the heavens stretching away to the uttermost bounds of the horizon, can’t you? You should, therefore, not confine your thoughts to the measure of small streets.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. The Will to be Well by Charles Brodie Patterson, published in 1901.

Podcast Excerpt: Day by day we are writing the record of life's journey. Day by day our minds are becoming filled with the pictures of life that are hourly occurring. Thoughts enter the mind and then seem to fade. But do they pass away? By no means. We have a great storehouse wherein all incidents (both great and small) are stored. They all go to ...

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Listen to episode 904 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Focusing Your Attention. Edited and adapted from Stepping-Stones to Success by Horace D. Hitchcock, published in 1916.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The achievement of focusing the mind on one thing at a time involves not only the energy in striving to do that one thing, but also the ability to put aside other things to make a clear channel for the desired end.

The power to focus attention has been the inseparable adjunct to all achievements in business, politics, art, literature, and science. Through this power, women and men of very ordinary ability have risen from poverty to great affluence.

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Listen to episode 903 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Getting Started On Your Road to Success. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Are you disheartened? Are you afraid to make a start for fear that you will fail, and your subsequent condition be worse than your first? Such feelings are common to all successful women and men, for they have all had their misgivings at times.

But every person has success within themselves, and to start is to win half the battle. A start toward usefulness is a start that no one has ever yet made in vain. Every person and every genius in all history started before they could actually do the thing. We learn by doing, and we learn in no other way.

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Today's episode was edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall, published in 1911.

Inspirational Podcast Transcript: The great seers, the great poets, the great prophets in every age, have simply been those more deeply conscious of their oneness with God, who have learned how to open their lives more fully to the incoming of the Divine Spirit than the average woman and man.....

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Listen to episode 902 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Mastering the Game of Life. Edited and adapted from C’mon Up by Franklin Fillmore Farrington.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Some people have called life a voyage, where we steer for a certain port. Some say it is a climb from the valleys of labor to some great mountain peak of rest. Others call it a journey down a sunlit road that now and then has a shadow. I do not disagree with any of this, but I call life a game. It is a wonderful game. And we all want to win, and we all may win.

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Listen to episode 901 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Benefits of Forgiveness | Inspiring Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Today, I would like to talk about forgiveness. There are people who say they have forgiven, but they have not forgotten. This really means that their forgiveness is incomplete; something is wanting in it; it is defective; it is not free and generous; it is lame and weak. In so far as an injury is not forgotten and entirely overlooked, it is not forgiven, and there is still resentment in your breast.

Now, you are not required to forget the injury and blot it out entirely from your memory. You may recall it to mind, just as you do....

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks. Edited and adapted from The Call of the Upper Road by Kathrine Ross Logan, published in 1924.

Inspirational Podcast Transcript: No road is forced upon you. You travel whatever road you are on because you willed to do so. Your will is yourself in action. Your will is your soul exercising self direction. Your will, your own free will, makes you responsible for whatever you choose, and holds you accountable all through life for that which you choose to do.

Your will is a wonderful divine gift. You will yourself to be whatever you are. By exercising your will aright, you can accomplish great things, overcome great difficulties within and without. “All that life needs for life,” says Tennyson, “is possible to will.”

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Listen to episode 900 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Hard Times | Inspirational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Don't be overcautious. The person who never risks anything will never have anything. If you are working for someone, do more for them than they expect. That is the only way you can give satisfaction.

Don't be shrewd. Don't try to look out for number one, and make little sharp deals. You may win in every one of them. You may get all the concessions you ask for, but in getting them you take on a handicap that is hard to overcome.

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Listen to episode 899 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Failure is Always the First Step. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It’s been said that most business owners fail. Even if this were true, it doesn't mean that they fail absolutely. It simply means that they failed to make a success of the business in which they started, and are now trying something else. A person should never consider themselves a failure so long as there is an opportunity or life to make one.

When failing in any profession, the worst thing you can say is....

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Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from the works of Emmet Fox.

Podcast Excerpt: As for the actual method of prayer, like all fundamental things, it is simplicity itself. All that you have to do is this: Stop thinking about the difficulty, whatever it is, and think about God instead. That is the complete rule, and if only you will do this, the trouble, whatever it is, will presently disappear.

It makes no difference what kind of trouble it is. It may be a big thing or a little thing. It may concern health, finance, or a lawsuit; a quarrel, an accident, or anything else conceivable; but whatever it is, just....

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Listen to episode 898 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Build a Happy Life. Edited and adapted from Life Lessons by Joseph Frank Thompson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Let us make the most of our one chance, and not spoil it by any folly or cruelty. How pleasant it will be, as we draw near the goal, if we can look back and realize that though the way was very steep and rough for us in some places, and though it traversed at times a landscape that was all devoid of loveliness, yet, as we passed along, we scattered the seeds of tender words, and helpful deeds, that even now have grown into a carpet of greenery to soften the path for others, and a border of blossoms to cheer them with its beauty.

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Listen to episode 897 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Important Thoughts to Contemplate. Edited and adapted from Morning Thoughts for Every Day in the Year by JR Miller.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Remember that we are all both sowers and fields. Our words, our acts, our influence, as we touch other lives, become the seeds. This is true not only of the good things that our lives scatter, but also the bad. Each life of ours is a little patch of ground on which other sowers are forever dropping seeds. Every person we talk with, every friendship we cherish, every book we read, sows seeds which will grow and become the harvest of life.

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Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Little Builders by Dorothy Grenside, published in 1916.

Podcast Excerpt:Do you understand that you have two separate selves within you — one Self that urges you to do all that you can to bring happiness and joy to others, and another that seems petty and small in its desires, wrapped up in its own pleasures and pains? The self that thinks nobly and purely is your Higher Self, who is a part of.....

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Listen to episode 896 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Character & Happiness | Self-Development Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: If you and I are not changing ourselves constantly, we are not fulfilling the character of our potential. It is a persistent and destructive heresy to say that our characters are fixed by influences outside ourselves. The weak person excuses themselves by saying that this or that unfortunate characteristic comes naturally to them. But it is all the more a discredit to them, that being conscious of some particular natural tendency to bad conduct, they have not gained a victory over their primitive self.

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Listen to episode 895 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Recovering Your Happiness & Joy. Edited and adapted from The Joy that No Man Taketh from You by Lilian Whiting.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is true that many troubles are inevitable. They are a component part of life. Death is the universal human experience. Illness is largely so (in slight or serious degree). Misfortunes are, practically, universal, in some form or other. There can be no woman or man who is so great, or so good, or so distinguished, or so rich, or so fortunately placed in this world, who is not liable to almost any kind of misfortune.

And yet.....

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Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from New Thought Common Sense and What Life Means to Me by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, published in 1908.

Podcast Excerpt: A MOST beautiful calendar opens with the lines: "I'll not easily offend, Nor be easily offended; What's amiss I'll try to mend, And endure what can't be mended."

One could hardly start the day with a better resolution than what is contained in those lines. To not easily offend is to be continually considerate. We should all strive to think before speaking; to restrain the careless word and the useless criticism; to forego the pleasure of a laugh when it would fall as ridicule on sensitive ears, and to avoid the little sins of omission which mar friendship: the unanswered letter, the unpaid call, the unspoken word of approval or congratulation for achievements, and the unoffered word of sympathy for trouble or loss.

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Listen to episode 894 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Evidence of the Spiritual Life | Uplifting Podcast. Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The first question to be faced frankly, and if possible, honestly answered, is this: “Is there a normal spiritual life possible to all people — to be lived not in some distant heaven, but here and now in this present world? And if so, of what does it consist, and how is it to be attained?"

Let’s think briefly of the deeper meaning of life as we know it, and consider its development. The most wonderful, and altogether most significant thing to be said about life is this: ....

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Listen to episode 893 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Start Living the Inspiring Life Meant for You. Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It’s been said that character is practically fixed for most people when they reach the age of 25. I suspect this is true — for how many of us rigorously and systematically take ourselves in hand every day, and work on overcoming our imperfections, our weaknesses?

Instead, we often excuse and attempt to justify ourselves, saying things like, "I can’t help it. It’s my temperament," or "My parents are the same way," or, "I am what I am." And, then, we go on spending our time in search of wealth or happiness, discharging more or less faithfully the duties of daily life, while spending little effort each day on eradicating our weaknesses and bettering ourselves.

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Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Culture and Reform by Anna Robertson Brown, published in 1896.

Podcast Excerpt: In this world of ours, there is often talk about reform. There are lots of things in need of reform: the government, education, the media, pretty much all of our institutions. But such talk of reform always leads us back to the individual. That is why I say, to carry it through, reform must be adequate to deal with the mysteries and powers of life — for out of the mystery were we born, and into the mystery do we return. And everything in between is a mystery, as well!

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Listen to episode 892 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Avoid Certain Failure | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Fundamentals of Success by Hiram Abiff Boaz.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: No normal person wants to fail. Failure takes the sparkle from the eye, the color from the cheek, the edge from the intellect, and the nerve from the arm. The sense of failure depresses and dejects. It takes the sunshine out of life and brings the shadow. It takes joy from the heart, and spreads sorrow and gloom. To fail utterly robs life of all satisfaction and contentment, and fills it with misery and disappointment.

And yet many do fail...

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Listen to episode 891 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Real You is Waiting to Come Alive. Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The old materialistic idea of the universe, as a machine made up of physical matter, and run simply in accordance with certain physical laws, is gone. We live in a universe alive throughout, surcharged with vital energy, throbbing and pulsating with powers of mind from its very center to its farthest circumference; not a dead world, not a mechanical world, but an Organism which is living, breathing, and pulsating constantly, with infinite energy, infinite life, infinite power.

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Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Invincible Power by John Henry Remmers, published in 1922.

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Listen to episode 890 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Living a Successful Life. Edited and adapted from The World Beautiful by Lilian Whiting.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Success in life is too largely attributed to special gifts or exceptional good fortune, or of some combination of the two, rather than to simple duty and the obligation of all aspiring people. That is to say, it should be held as the normal and not the abnormal condition.

To achieve success is not merely.....

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Listen to episode 889 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Succeed in the Battle of Life. Edited and adapted from A Book of Friendly Thoughts by Nixon Waterman.

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Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Life in Its Fullness by Charles Thomas Parnell, published in 1922.

Podcast Excerpt: We all live, move, and have our being in an ocean of life. It is said that a single person has enough life to heal a nation. Health and longevity are from within. Old age is but a crystallization of habits. Birth is not only a thing of the past. Every day is a birthday. Every moment is one of creation and renewal, unfoldment and development in conscious evolution.

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Listen to episode 888 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Self-Knowledge to a Higher Plane of Living. Edited and adapted from As Ithers (Others) See Us by John Thomas Huddle.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: As a general rule, we are as ignorant of our power as a horse tied to a post is of its strength. Under the influence of passion or fear, the horse snaps the rein like a thread. In its newly- awakened strength it breaks the trappings of man as easily as Samson did the cords of the Philistines.

So it is with us. Stirred by some great emergency, stimulated by some powerful emotion, we can perform feats of strength and daring that in sober moments seem almost impossible.

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Listen to episode 887 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Multiple Your Mental Power. Edited and adapted from Be Good to Yourself by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: No life is really happy until it is helpful, is really successful, until it is radiant with joy and gladness, the gladness of good cheer, of goodwill toward everybody, of the spirit of camaraderie toward all people. Only by giving ourselves can we hold what we have, can we grow.

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Listen to episode 886 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Discouragement | Inspirational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Things to Live For by James Russell Miller.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Many people throw away their chance in life because of discouragement. But, I hear some of you asking, “Okay, so how can we keep from being discouraged? When the way is hard, when the burdens are heavy, when even our family makes life harder for us, how can we help but being discouraged?”

The answer is this. We need only to ...

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Listen to episode 885 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Live Up to Your Full Potential. Edited and adapted from Be Good to Yourself by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is a rare thing to find a person who is really masterful in their personality, masterful in what they undertake; who approaches their task with the assurance of a conqueror; who is able to grapple vigorously with their life problems; who always keeps themselves in condition to do their best and biggest thing easily, without strain; who seizes with the grip of a master the precious opportunities which come to them.

In order to keep yourself at top condition, to obtain complete mastery of all your powers and possibilities, you must ....

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Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest S. Holmes, published in 1923.

Podcast Excerpt:ALL outer success first takes place within ourselves. Creation is eternally flowing through all things. Reality is always working from that inner pattern. We do not struggle with conditions, we use principles which create conditions. What we can mentally encompass we can accomplish, no matter how hard it may seem from the outside.

All external things are but the outer rim of inner thought activity. You can easily prove this for yourself. If you are in business, say, running an ice cream stand, and are not doing good business, look carefully into...

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Listen to episode 884 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Master Your Fate. Edited and adapted from Mastery of Fate by Christian D. Larson.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: What you are, and what you do, determines in what conditions, circumstances, and environments you shall be placed. And since you can change yourself and your actions, you can determine what your fate is to be.

To change yourself, you must change your thought, because you are as you think; and to change your actions, you must change the purpose of your life, because every action is consciously or unconsciously inspired by the purpose you hold in view.

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Listen to episode 883 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Begin to Make Your Life Interesting | Inspirational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When you become conscious of your talents, and have begun to develop them, you begin to discover the pleasure of using them. To the person who is mentally active, everything in life is interesting. You derive pleasure from the sight of the countryside, because you can see its wonders, as well as its beauties. All the world is full of marvels to you, and when you....

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Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Man Limitless by Floyd B. Wilson, published in 1905.

Podcast Excerpt:Among all people and cultures, you will find that those who are bewailing their fate, or as they put it, the way the world has treated them, feel in their hearts they have not received, and are not receiving, the just rewards for their toil and effort.

It seems that many become professional growlers because they compare their work with the work of others and their rewards with the rewards of others, and feel themselves overshadowed. Were these people to look back over their lives and trace again....

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Listen to episode 882 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Understanding What Success Really Is. Edited and adapted from Successward by Edward W. Bok.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: In this age of big things, we are inclined to regard success as synonymous only with the higher walks of life, with great achievements. Success (in the minds of some people) is something which is only given for the fortunate to achieve — while others think that if we cannot do something that sets people talking or wondering about us (if our heads do not tower above those of our fellow beings), our lives, if not altogether negative, are still not successful.

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Listen to episode 881 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Success Never Comes Without This. Edited and adapted from Successward by Edward W. Bok.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every woman and man in this world is created differently. No two are alike. Therefore, the nature, the thoughts, the character, and the capacity of one person is utterly unlike that of another. What one person can understand, another cannot. The success of one individual indicates nothing to a second person. What one is capable of doing is beyond the power of another. Hence it is important that, first of all, you should.....

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Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life by T.L Haines & L.W. Yaggy, published in 1882.

Podcast Excerpt: My friends, life is a "Royal Path”. Decide at once upon a noble purpose, then take it up bravely, bear it joyfully, lay it down triumphantly. Life is not mean. It is grand. If it is mean to any, they make it so themselves....

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Listen to episode 880 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Best Ways to Stay Happy. Edited and adapted from Keep Happy by Eustace Miles.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is so easy to say to others, or to ourselves, “Keep happy”. But how do we keep happy? Here are a few of many helps.

People will sometimes ask, "What about trying circumstances? How can we keep happy in them, whether they be past, present, or future?"

Well, a good piece of general advice is to .....

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Listen to episode 879 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Say Goodbye to Fear | Uplifting Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Joy Philosophy by Elizabeth Towne.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Fear makes you feel paralyzed. Ignore it. Rise up and ACT, and you will see how little power your fears really have. Fear is but a paltry stage-trick hypnotist. You cannot be hypnotized if you refuse to look at fear. ACT and fear flees into the bottomless pit whence it came — into nothingness.

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Listen to episode 879 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Work, Play & Keeping a Youthful Spirit. Edited and adapted from Invincible Power by John Henry Remmers.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Your life must be organized. The very planets in the heavens demonstrate this law, and thereby prove that the universe could not be sustained if it were not for the potent principle of Order.

In the Divine plan there is no confusion. All things move deliberately for the purpose of growth. Likewise it must be in your every-day life if you desire to live on and develop. It is your choice to govern yourself in an orderly way according to the laws of progress, or in an indifferent manner, which leads you ever deeper and deeper into a maze of doubt and confusion.

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Listen to episode 878 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Achieving the Right Kind of Success in Life. Edited and adapted from Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The person who would be successful in the battle of life, must be prepared to be tested and tried in every possible way. The one who survives them all is built up in character in almost every direction. However, even in their success, they will be tempted and tried. If you are engaged in the harsh struggle of business or politics, and do not watch yourself carefully, you can become ...

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Listen to episode 877 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Quality that Makes or Breaks You. Edited and adapted from The Making of the Man by Edward Ward Carmack.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Trust me, my friends; there is one person whose honest good opinion is worth more to your peace of mind than all the world. That person is yourself. So, while you are striving honorably to win and to retain the good opinion of all good people, remember, after all, that your reputation is only what others think you to be. Your character is what God knowsyou to be. And remember that you cannot for long pass a counterfeit character for the genuine coin; and that if you have the character, you cannot for long miss the reputation.

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Listen to episode 876 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Making the Days of Our Life Great. Edited and adapted from As Natural as Life by Charles Gordon Ames.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The years of a tree's life can be counted by the rings in its woody trunk. And, by looking at how these annual growths differ in thickness, we can tell or guess what years were friendly or backward, warm or cold, wet or dry. Thus the tree writes in itself the history of its life and the record of all passing seasons.

To an eye that sees all things as they are, each person’s inner being must contain the stored-up results of all the ......

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Listen to episode 875 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Be the Best and Receive the Best. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The first essential is to create a cheerful world in the imagination. Picture in your mind the brightest states of existence that you can think of, and impress joy upon your mind at all times. Feel joy, think joy, and make every action of mind and body thrill with joy — before long you will have created the subconscious foundation of joy, and when this is done cheerfulness and brightness will become permanent elements within yourself.

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Listen to episode 874 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Attract the Good Things of Life. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When things are not to your liking, like them as they are. In other words, while you are working for greater things, make friends with the lesser things, and they will help you to reach your goal.

The person who is dissatisfied with things as they are, and discontented because things are not to their liking, is standing in their own way. We cannot get away from present conditions so long as we antagonize those conditions — because we are held in bondage to that which we resist.

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Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from How to Be Happy by Grace Gold, published in 1893.

Podcast Excerpt: There is a phrase we often hear when standing up for what is right: "Consider the consequences!" That is the devil's argument. Leave consequences to God, but do the right. Even if friends abandon you, do the right. Be genuine, real, sincere, and up-right.

The world's maxim is to trim your sails and yield to circumstances. But if you would do any good for the world, you must be made of sterner stuff, and help make your times rather than be made bythem.

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Listen to episode 873 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Amazing Power of Your Sub-Conscious Mind. Edited and adapted from Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A good way of starting the use of the sub-conscious mind is to hold the problem in your mind just as you are going to sleep. There must not be any attempt made to solve the problem or worry over it.

Instead, the main facts of the issue, on both sides, must be organized, and the case presented to the sub-conscious mind in much the same way as you would place it before a lawyer. Having done this...

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Listen to episode 872 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Use Your Inner Power. Edited and adapted from Find and Use Your Inner Power by Emmet Fox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The moment you catch yourself thinking a negative thought, you should reject it instantly. Immediately switch your attention to something positive, something rejuvenating. Do not stop to say “good- bye” to the error thought, but break the connection instantly, and occupy your mind with good; you will be surprised how many difficulties will begin to melt away out of your life.

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Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from On the Heights by Christian D. Larson, published in 1908.

Podcast Excerpt: When we transcend the world of things, and begin to live on the borderland of the splendor and immensity of the cosmic world, we discover that the vision of our soul was true. Those lofty realms that we have dreamed of so often, and so long, are dreams no more. We find those realms to be real. The prophetic visions of our sublime moments are fulfilled. And our joy is great beyond measure.

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Listen to episode 871 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Sure Cure for Unhappiness. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Blessed is the woman and man who really knows what they want, and who bravely sets themselves on a course to get it. You will be surprised to discover (when you consider the matter) that there are many good things in the world that you can very well do without. Every time you cross off something that you consider not essential to your happiness, your chance of happiness increases.

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Listen to episode 870 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Say Goodbye to Your Fears. Edited and adapted from Peace, Power, and Plenty by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The worst waste of energy in human life is caused by that fatal habit of anticipating evil, of fearing what the future has in store for us. And under no circumstances can the fear or worry be justified by the situation, for it is always an imaginary one, utterly groundless and without foundation. What we fear is invariably something that has not yet happened. It does not exist; hence is not a reality.

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Listen to a sample episode Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from All’s Right with the World by Charles B. Newcomb.

Podcast Excerpt: We have heard much of the so called "conflict" between science and religion. But there can be no disharmony between true science and true religion. The conflict is always between false science and religion, or between science and "superstition," which is false religion.

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Listen to episode 869 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Make the Most Your Opportunities. Edited and adapted from As Others (Ithers) See Us by John Thomas Huddle.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Some people seem to be preordained to be lucky and successful, regardless of what they do, and others preordained to be failures, no matter how hard they try. This is all wrong. There is no such thing as luck. The law of every kingdom of the universe is "as we sow, so shall we reap."

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Listen to episode 868 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Secret of the Great Life | Spiritual Podcasts. Edited and adapted from In the Light of the Spirit by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We are not here to drift with the stream or to fold our arms passively and say that we will let the best come to pass. The truth is, that if there be anything we want, we must work for it. If we wish to make life ideal, we must make it so ourselves.

The things we desire do not come to us simply through mere passivity or expectation. We are living in an imperfect world, a world which is in the process of growth; therefore, we meet undeveloped conditions on every side...

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Growth in Silence, the Undertone of Life by Susanna Cocroft, published in 1917.

Podcast Excerpt: There can be no true harmony of existence unless we have poise — unless our physical, mental, and moral forces are in proper balance. There are latent possibilities in every nature which become potent with new thoughts, new aspirations, new ideals — when we meet the emergencies in life with a sense of power within, of capability to grapple with difficulties and overcome them.

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Listen to episode 867 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Winning the Challenge of Life. Edited and adapted from The Challenge of Life by Charles Forrest Moore.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When I look back over the years of my eventful, if yet unprofitable, life, I believe that not a single day nor hour of it has been lived in strict accordance with my original intent. I have not only been surprised by the repeated changes in my plans, but I have been startled as well by the swiftness and completeness of their reversals. It has been the exception, rather than the rule, when I actually have been able to accomplish the things I set out to do, and at the time and in the manner I meant to.

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Listen to episode 866 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Best of Your Life is Yet to Be! Edited and adapted from Life’s Byways and Waysides by J.R. Miller.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The best of life is yet to be! And the way to reach the better things is by forgetting the things that are behind us, and to always reach forward to the things which are ahead.

Of course, there is a proper use to be made of our past. We should remember the lessons we have learned from past experience, so as to profit by our mistakes, and avoid repeating them.

The true science of living is ...

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from The Heart of New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, published in 1902.

Podcast Excerpt: NEVER say that you wish your situation were different! Never wish you had some other person's life, troubles, or worries. Accept your own as a working basis, the life that is best for you. Then go ahead and change whatever displeases you. Remember that you are the maker and molder of your own destiny. You do not recall the fact, but you brought about the present conditions of your destiny in .....

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Listen to episode 865 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Choose Your Life’s Road. Edited and adapted from The Call of the Upper Road by Kathrine Ross Logan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: All roads start from where you are. They run in all directions, and you may wonder which is the best road to take. All have a way of their own of inviting you, and each has its own particular enticements. Roads seem to know you and expect you. They keep open for you both day and night. But there is a big difference in the roads, and it is most important that you choose the best.

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Listen to episode 864 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Live a Life Worthy of Immortality. Edited and adapted from Making a Life by Cortland Myers.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A noble purpose is life's guarding, guiding angel. It alone can take us safely through a lion's den. In one hand it holds safety, and in the other success. A high ideal is a lever under your life, and means the elevation of your character. The person who is satisfied with their first effort, or their first step, or their first attainment, never reaches greatness.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Evening Round Up by William Crosbie Hunter.

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It’s a useful reminder that one of the greatest gifts that we can give to a friend, family member, or loved one is a few words (be it in a letter or face to face) expressing how much that other person means to you. It was edited and adapted from Evening Round Up by William Crosbie Hunter, published in 1915.....

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Listen to episode 863 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Embracing Change & A Joyful Future. Edited & adapted from The Wonders of Life by Ida Luella Rettinghouse Lyon.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When you begin to help yourself by doing what you can in your own way, you will find help as you progresses — help that will come in unexpected ways, and as you need it. Disasters must, necessarily, overtake us. There are storms in the psychological, as well as in the physical, life. But there is a purpose in the intensity of feeling which such mental disturbances awaken. They serve to prepare the soul for the happiness which is to follow.

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Listen to episode 862 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Financial Success. Edited and Adapted from Three lectures on "The Laws of Financial Success" by B.F. Austin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Financial success is won by those who dare to think big. Little thoughts, plans, and ideals beget little interest, little effort, little enthusiasm in the individual, and awaken little or no interest in the minds of others.

The radical difference between the pop-corn vendor at the fair and the next Steve Jobs is in the size of their ideas and concepts. Popcorn ideas beget a popcorn life. Great ideas, projects, and enterprises rouse the soul of the individual to the effort, courage, and daring that is commensurate with grand ideas.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from The Soul of the Indian, which was written by the Native American author and physician Charles Eastman in 1911.

Podcast Excerpt: THE original attitude of Native Americans toward the Eternal, the "Great Mystery" that surrounds and embraces us, was as simple as it was exalted. To them it was the supreme conception, bringing with it the fullest measure of joy and satisfaction possible in this life.

The worship of the "Great Mystery" was silent, solitary, free from all self-seeking. It was silent, because all speech is of necessity feeble and imperfect; therefore the souls of my ancestors ascended to .....

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Listen to episode 861 of the Inspirational Living podcast: When to Do When Things Go Wrong. Edited and adapted from Success Through Thought Habit by Benjamin Johnson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Once in a while, we may be placed in the trying position of not being able to blame anyone for our plight, and, as we think things over, we are forced to admit that were circumstances to be again arranged as they had been, we would do the same things all over again.

Then, perhaps, we grow a little sorry for ourselves and we say — beneath our breaths — "What is the use of trying. I was just as good as I could have been for days, weeks, and months, and then this awful thing had to happen for no reason at all."

Next, we may get angry, or possibly disgusted, and just in proportion to our own state of mind, does the outlook continue to look worse and worse until soon dull despair settles down in great chunks of gloom.

"What is the remedy?" you ask. There is only one....

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Listen to episode 860 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of a Joyful Heart | Happiness Podcasts. Edited and adapted from A Book of Friendly Thoughts by Nixon Waterman.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Many centuries ago that wise and admirable philosopher, Epictetus, discovered that "happiness is not in strength, or wealth, or power; or all three. It lies in ourselves, in true freedom, in the conquest of every ignoble fear, in perfect self-government, in a power of contentment and peace, and the even flow of life — even in poverty, exile, disease and the very valley of the shadow."

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Listen to episode 859 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Eternal Wisdom of Henry Ward Beecher. Edited from the works of Henry Ward Beecher.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: “‎Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard taskmaster to yourself — and be lenient to everybody else.”

“No person can tell whether they are rich or poor by turning to their bank book. It is in the heart that riches lie. You are rich according to what you are, not according to what he have.”

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Listen to episode 858 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Transformative Power of Love & Service. Edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We must touch other lives or lose power. We are so constituted that a thousand relations with our community are necessary for our largest development, our completest life. When we cut ourselves off from the common life, we cut off a great many currents of power, close many avenues of interrelation which bring strength and rich experience.

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Listen to episode 857 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Power of Being Thorough. Edited and adapted from The Mastery of Destiny by James Allen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: THOROUGHNESS consists in doing little things as though they were the greatest things in the world. That the little things of life are of primary importance, is a truth not generally understood. And the thought that little things can be neglected and thrown aside is at the root of that lack of thoroughness which is so common and results in imperfect work and unhappy lives.

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Listen to episode 856 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Start the Day for Success. Edited and adapted from Nerve Control and How to Gain It by H.Addington Bruce.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Most people take it for granted that it doesn’t matter how they get out of bed. Actually, getting out of bed can greatly aid both your health and efficiency. Recently this has been rightly emphasized by Doctor L. F. Fuld, a celebrated promoter of healthy living for business people. Here is his formula for getting out of bed to best advantage....

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Listen to episode 855 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Optimism to Transform Your Life. Adapted from the essay Optimism by Helen Keller.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free. Once I knew only darkness and stillness. Now I know hope and joy. Once I fretted and beat myself against the wall that shut me in. Now I rejoice in the consciousness that I can think, act, and attain heaven here on earth.

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Listen to episode 854 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Turning Solitude Into Abundance. Edited and adapted from Happiness Road by Alice Hegan Rice.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Each of us rules over an uncharted kingdom of untold possibilities, which has but one subject: that is you, yourself. Yet in this vast solitude we are never alone, for through it all the wisdom of the world has passed. Here poets have glimpsed dreams of immortal beauty; musicians have first heard divine harmonies; painters have conceived their loftiest compositions.

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Listen to episode 853 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be Truly Free & Happy. Edited and adapted from Youth and Opportunity by Thomas Tapper.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When our tongues are tied we cannot speak; when our hands are tied we cannot labor; when our feet are tied we cannot travel. If we lived under a tyrant who, with little warning, tied our tongue, hands, and feet, and made us helpless, we should rebel and fight for freedom. And yet we live under just such a tyrant; or, rather, a family of tyrants, who not only tie our tongues, hands, and feet, but our ability, perseverance, happiness, and pleasures of life.

These tyrants are Fear, Worry, Suspicion, Hatred & Co.....

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Listen to episode 852 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Finding Your Place in the World. Edited and adapted from Concentration: The Key to Constructive Thought by C. W. Kyle.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is a place for every human being in the world — a special place and a special work for each one of us to do; a work which no other person can do; a work that is essentially and wholly connected with every woman and man. To find this place in the world and to come to know the lessons that are best for you to learn, is a necessary step toward making a success of your life.

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Listen to episode 851 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Start Living a Joyful Life Today. Adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Whatever comes, or whatever you meet, or whatever you are called upon to do, proceed with peace and joy. Be glad that you have the opportunity to prove your own power, and thus elevate yourself thereby. Be supremely happy to know that you may change many things for the better through this attitude, and thus bless the lives of many.

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Listen to episode 850 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Keys to a Noble and Successful Life. Edited and adapted from Gaining the Round Above by Gustavus S. Kimball.

Inspirational Podcast Transcript: Remember that it is OPPORTUNITY that makes you and your fortune, provided you have learned how to take advantage of the opportunity.

Opportunity comes sooner or later to everyone, but rare is the person who is ready to seize it. It is not luck or natural brilliancy which puts one individual so far ahead in places of trust and honor. You will find they achieved their success by educated and well-directed energy.

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Listen to episode 849 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Build a Real Heroic Life | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Work by Hugh Black.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life, after all, is largely a matter of detail. It is filled up to all of us with its routine of small duties and usual tasks and trivial acts. An hour is made up of moments; a day is made up of hours; life is made up of days. The number of our days is the extent of our life; and the character of our days is the character of our life.

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Listen to episode 848 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How Your Thoughts Create Your Life. Edited and adapted from “The Message of New Thought” by Abel Allen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Thoughts of health, thoughts of joy, thoughts of kindness, bring joy and health to the one who entertains them and sends them forth. If we think ourselves inherently bad, we shall reap the fruits of that thought.

If we conceive of ourselves as weak and unworthy, we shall develop those qualities and actualize them in our daily lives. If we recognize divine attributes as our inheritance, we shall grow into the likeness of those attributes.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, How to Stay Well by Christian D. Larson, published in 1912.

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Podcast Excerpt: We generally say "I have a soul” although the correct statement is "I am a soul." The cause of this mistake is found in the fact that the ordinary person is only conscious of the surface.

To them the outer person is the only real person, because they are not conscious of the deeper and more permanent principles of their being. They, therefore, think of the objective person as the true self. But when the mind begins to....

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Listen to episode 847 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living a Life of Inspiration, Happiness & Consequence. Edited and adapted from Right Living by Susan H. Wixon.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What is it to live? Is it simply to eat, drink, and be merry? Is it to learn a little, here and there; to laugh and play; to sleep, weep, toil, and battle from day to day, and from year to year for food and shelter? Is it to bend every energy to the acquirement of wealth, fame, or position?

Life is more than that. It has larger uses. It contains greater and grander results. It holds.....

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Listen to episode 846 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Most Inspiring Words of C.S. Lewis. Edited and adapted from the works of C.S. Lewis.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: “Reality is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect… You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

“Do not dare not to dare… Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.”

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Listen to episode 845 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Keep Young, Energetic & Growing. Edited and adapted from The Road to Seventy Years Young, or The Unhabitual Way by Emily Mulkin Bishop.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Remember that our years, rightly lived, should bring a multiplication, not a relinquishment, of interests. Even that which is very familiar contains something new for us if our senses are not dimmed.

The musical scale has only eight fundamental notes. Yet every piece of music illustrates a new use of the old — from new combinations arise new harmonies. Surely, this world (and its wonders and mysteries) are sufficient to hold our interest for a lifetime....

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Listen to episode 844 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building the Powerful Habit of Positive Thinking. Edited and adapted from “Success Through Thought Habit” by Benjamin Johnson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To build and maintain desirable qualities of mind, you must begin right now, this minute, to use every constructive faculty you have and to check carelessness in your speech, as well as in your thought — for in fact, you could not express yourself at all unless the brain first gave the signal.

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Listen to episode 843 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How the Law of Attraction Really Works. Adapted from the book Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There has been a lot of nonsense written and spoken about the Law of Attraction. People have been taught that all they need to do is to adopt a certain mental attitude, think thoughts of success and abundance, and then sit and wait for the abundance of all good things to drop from the skies at their feet.

The folly of it is seen when we find that these teachers of "abundance" and "opulence" have to work for a living — by teaching the very thing which, if true, would save them from all the necessity of working.

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Listen to episode 842 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Law that Guarantees Success | Inspiring Podcasts. Edited and adapted from the work of Gardner Hunting.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Anything we ever achieve is accomplished by our knowledge of some kind of law. Health, wealth, happiness, success, prosperity, freedom! Anything you want literally will come to you if you will obey its laws just as literally as you obey the law of gravitation.

The secret of getting what you want lies in obeying the law governing getting what you want. What is that law? ...

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Listen to episode 841 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret to Getting What You Want From Life. Edited and adapted from the writings of Gardner Hunting.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Why not have what you want? Have you settled down with a notion that you can't get it? Are you accepting a disappointment as something you must suffer through? Do you look at the thing that you really desire as being far beyond your reach?

Well, before you give it all up as hopeless, won't you just hear me out a little way to see if ....

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Listen to episode 840 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Finding the Best Within Yourself. Edited and adapted from Self-Investment by Orison Swett Marden.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: There is nothing so valuable in this world as your own self-respect; and you cannot keep this if you go from one person to another trying to get help.You will be an infinitely stronger man or woman if you will just make up your mind that you are going to rely upon yourself, that you will put yourself in a position of independence.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from the words of Gautama Buddha.

Podcast Excerpt: “Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”

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Listen to episode 839 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Love is the Secret Power of the Universe. Edited and adapted from Man Limitless by Floyd B. Wilson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: My studies in psychology and philosophy, regarding the unfolding of the human being, have led to many experiments, proving the attractive power of Love to bring about one’s desires, hence I select this for a theme, as I feel it has been proven to be the secret force of the Universal — the light on the path to the attainment of every longing of the human heart.

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Listen to episode 838 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Mindset that Guarantees Success in Life. Edited and adapted from Thinking for Results by Christian D. Larson, published in 1912.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every moment should be filled with contentment and perfect satisfaction. And every moment should ALSO be filled with a strong desire for still greater achievements.

In such a mental state (where contentment and aspiration are combined), we shall find life to be a continual feast, each course being more delicious than the last. We shall also find such a life to be the path to perpetual growth and continuous joy....

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from the works of Osho.

Podcast Excerpt: “Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny, something to fulfill, some message that has to be delivered, some work that has to be completed. You are not here accidentally — you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The universe intends to do something through you.”

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Listen to episode 837 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Accomplishing Your Purpose in Life. Edited and adapted from Ambition and Success by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To hold the conviction that you are in the world for a purpose is a powerful tonic — to know that you are here to help, that you have a part to perform which no one else can play, because everyone else has their own part to fill in the great drama of life. If you do not play your role, there will thus be something lacking in the world.

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Listen to episode 836 of the Inspirational Living podcast: You Were Made to Climb Higher | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Ambition and Success by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: No matter in what business you may be, or what your profession is, your prime ambition should be to attain a high-water mark in it. The love of excellence is the lodestar that leads the world onward. It is what makes not only the successful business person or professional, but also the all-round successful person in any line of endeavor.

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Listen to episode 835 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Smile at Life | Happiness Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Creed of the Dauntless by Frank B. Whitney.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Do you know those who smile at life? Have you wondered how they do it? Have you wanted to be one of them?

How refreshing it is (after listening to those who believe that the world is growing worse) to find the person who rejoices to be alive! ....

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Listen to episode 834 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Thoughts Have Great Power | Success Talks. Edited and adapted from Making the Grade by C.V. Mosby.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Individual thinking makes for progress. I do not believe in fatalism. We are always the master of our destiny. We are what we are by our own acts. And by our own acts we change our environment and our condition in life. We rise or fall, win or lose, overcome difficulties or succumb to them, just as we choose.

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Listen to episode 833 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Proven Way to Truth, Success & Happiness. Edited and adapted from A Way of Life by Sir William Osler.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: I simply wish to point out a path in which the wayfaring soul, though a fool, cannot err. Not a system to be worked out painfully, only to be discarded; not a formal scheme; simply a habit as easy or as hard to adopt as any other habit, good or bad. For life IS a habit: a succession of actions that become more or less automatic.

This great truth, which lies at the basis of all actions, is the keystone of the teaching of .....

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Listen to episode 832 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Taking a Heroic Attitude Towards Life. Edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Never was there a greater mistake than to think that heroism, courage, and daring, are confined to the field of battle. It doesn't matter what post we are assigned to in the battle of life, we have an opportunity to do heroic things every day.

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Listen to episode 831 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Start Elevating Your Ambitions. Edited and adapted from Ambition and Success by Orison Swett Marden.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is little hope for the person who feels satisfied with themselves, who does not know, “the noble discontent that stirs the acorn to become an oak.”

It is our ambition to improve something somewhere every day, to get a little further on and a little higher up than we were the day before — an insatiable passion for bettering things all along the line — that is the secret of human progress.

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Listen to episode 830 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Art of Eloquence | Speaking Powerfully. Edited and adapted from Personal Efficiency by James Samuel Knox.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Very few people have ever been taught how to talk well, how to express themselves effectively. Yet every person would greatly profit by a good course of instruction in public speaking — for as Elbert Hubbard once said: “Truth badly spoken dies and dries and blows away, while a lie well launched sometimes lives for ages."

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Message of New Thought by Abel Allen, published in 1914.

Podcast Excerpt: No individual can convey their thoughts, ideas, and impressions entire to another. Language, either written or spoken, is but a symbol, and at best an imperfect vehicle to convey thought. The meaning of truth is deflected in its transmission. “Thought is deeper than speech; feeling deeper than thought; souls to souls can never teach what to themselves is taught.”

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Listen to episode 829 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of the Midas Touch (Good Fortune). Edited and adapted from Mightier than Circumstance by Frank B. Whitney, published in 1939.

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Podcast Excerpt: Do you know people who have the habit of succeeding in whatever they undertake? Don’t they seem to cultivate the habit of success, just as others seem to cultivate the habit of failure? And yet, have you ever thought of success as a habit that YOU can acquire?

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Listen to episode 828 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The One Sure Cure for All Bad Habits. Edited and adapted from How to Develop Your Will Power by Clare Tree Major, published in 1920.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Never fear failure.To fear it is to invite it. Continually assert your own real mastery over any habit you wish to change. The belief in your own powers will correspondingly lessen your faith in the strength of the habit you are overcoming.

There is but one sure and general cure for all bad habits: that is ...

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Dollars and Sense by William Crosbie Hunter, published in 1907.

Podcast Excerpt: Remember that doing good is planting seeds.The harvest may not show at present but in the future you are going to reap it. You are paid back precisely in the same coin you pay out. If you plant weeds or mean impulses the harvest will be weeds and mean impulses. If you plant seeds of good deeds you will harvest good deeds.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Dollars and Sense by William Crosbie Hunter, published in 1907.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Are you scared of your own best ideas? One of the things that often prevents us from seizing the NOW is a certain timidity in the face of our own inspiration. We're often a little bit afraid of our ideas when they first occur to us. They may seem novel or farfetched. There's no doubt about it: It does take a certain boldness to step out on an untested idea. Yet it's exactly this kind of boldness that often produces the most spectacular results.

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Listen to episode 826 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The ambitious Determination to Succeed. Edited and adapted from Stepping Stones to Success by Horace D. Hitchcock.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: "It's the last straw that breaks the camel's back," but each straw helps. Your success may seem a long way off, but each step forward (and none backward) will help to bring you nearer. Your goal, whatever your ambition, may seem as a giant mountain, to the top of which seems as an endless climb; but when it is reached how sweet is the rest, and what a pleasure it is to look back over the long, winding road up the steep incline!

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from essays of James J. Owen, published in 1883.

Our Sunday Talks Excerpt: Those of us who would like to make rapid progress in the direction of truth must keep out of the ruts. We occasionally need to revise our opinions — politically, socially, religiously, and otherwise, just as we need, from time to time, to reset our watches, or adjust the variation of our magnetic needles.

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Listen to episode 825 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Uplift Others and Ourselves. Edited and adapted from A Life of Character by J.R. Miller, published in 1894.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is better to have eyes for beauty — than for blemish. It is better to be able to see the roses — than the thorns. It is better to have learned to look for things to commend in others — than for things to condemn. Of course other people have faults, and we are not blind. But then we have faults of our own, and this should make us charitable.

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Listen to episode 824 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The 5 Principles of a Truly Happy & Successful Life. Edited and adapted from Foundation Stones to Happiness and Success.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is wise to know what comes first, and what to do first. To begin anything in the middle or at the end is to make a muddle of it. The athlete who begins by breaking the tape would not receive the prize. They must begin by facing the starter and toeing the mark — and even then a good start is important if they are to win.

The first things in a sound life (and therefore in a truly happy and successful life) are right principles....

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Working with God by Gardner Hunting, published in 1936.

Our Sunday Talks Excerpt: All my life I have known in a vague way that getting money is the result of earning it, but I have never had a perfect vision of that fact till recently. If I give to anybody service of a kind that they want, I shall get back the benefit myself. If I give more service, I shall get more benefit. If I give a great deal more, I shall get a great deal more. I shall get back more than I give.

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Listen to episode 823 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Strength & Poise to Handle Any Situation. Edited and adapted from Making the Grade by C.V. Mosby.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every person is the pilot on their ship down the River of Time. You must steer carefully and be at the wheel constantly. Indecision, impatience, cowardice means loss of control, and then you are on the rocks. Perfect balance, careful judgment, and an understanding of values gives one poise and enables the voyage to be made without mishap. Training for poise is one of the great businesses of life.

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Listen to episode 822 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Imagination Rules the World | Habits of Mind. Edited and adapted from Stepping Stones to Success by Horace D. Hitchcock.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: "Imagination rules the world,” said Napoleon, and it is true that this quality of mind has been a notable factor in the success of all great men and women. Each one of us possesses the quality in some degree, and it should be cultivated.

A common understanding of imagination implies its relation to something fanciful, unreal, impossible — as in the case of the imagination of a novelist. But all imagination is based on actualities. Exaggerated imaginations often produce improbabilities, but they are never wholly lacking in possibilities.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Creed of the Dauntless by Frank B. Whitney, published in 1931.

Our Sunday Talks Excerpt: Have you gained the right perspective on life? Are you able to take the right mental view of a situation? Can you look at the little circumstances of the day and see all things in their right proportion?

The word "perspective" is defined as (quote) "the interrelation of parts in a subject being viewed; the aspect of an object from a particular standpoint." We gain the right perspective when we reach that point of view in which we see all things in their true proportion. With this point of view, we do not exaggerate the importance of insignificant matters; we do not see persons and things out of proportion in their relation to ourselves.

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Listen to episode 821 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Overcome Fatigue & Refresh Your Life. Edited and adapted from Nerve Control and How to Gain It by H. Addington Bruce.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If you have work to do — as I trust you to — do your work in the right spirit. That is, do it gladly, recognizing work for what it really is, one of the greatest blessings of existence.

Often we hear people say, "I wish I did not have to work at all." If they had their wish, they soon would regret it. For they would discover, as thousands have done, that entirely to abstain from work means mental and physical ill-health. People must work if they would keep well.

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Listen to episode 820 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The 4 Ways to Power Your Ambition. Edited and adapted from Stepping Stones to Success by Horace D. Hitchcock.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The world is a world of variation and change. Each stone, plant, animal, and human being is a unit in itself. But human beings (with our physical, mental, and moral qualities) are a world in ourselves, capable of mastering the things of nature in a manner that will bring us health, happiness, and contentment.

How can you cultivate your ambition? The same way you would cultivate a plant — by giving it nourishment and forcing it to grow up as destined by its own nature. The methods of cultivation you can use may be outlined as follows....

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Mightier than Circumstance by Frank B. Whitney, published in 1939.

Our Sunday Talks Excerpt:What is the method of praying most effectively? How can I pray and always be sure of being answered? How can I be confident, when I pray, that it is God’s will for my prayer to be answered?

How many times these questions come to us and how simple are the answers! The most effective prayer is ....

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Listen to episode 819 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Live a Larger, More Abundant Life. Edited an adapted Thinking for Results by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The attitude of kindness is one of the greatest states of mind. Kindness enlarges our inner awareness, thus promoting the enlargement and expression of life.

It also creates the tendency to give one's best, and there is nothing that brings forth greater life and power so quickly and completely as giving your best in all things and at all times.

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Listen to episode 818 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Self-Reliance & Self-Respect: Better than Fame or Gold. Edited and adapted from Right Living by Susan H. Wixon.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: One of the finest qualities of such a person is self-control. To be able, under the most trying circumstances, to command one's self, to be always able to say to the rising passions of anger, jealousy, fear, or any emotion, "Peace, be still," is a great power.

We are in the world to make the most of ourselves, and our opportunities. And in order to do this, we should acquire as early as possible, control over ourselves.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Love's Way by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1918.

Our Sunday Talks Excerpt: Many of us do not realize the great value and importance of even the most trifling service unselfishly rendered a fellow being. We do not realize that the habit of kindness, of unselfishly serving another whenever we can, will not only benefit those we serve, but it will help ourselves even more. It will make our own lives richer, fuller, stronger, than the lives of the self-centered ever can be.

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Listen to episode 817 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Making the Most of Your Personal Power. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The golden rule, therefore, is to keep your strong qualities in front of your eyes, so to speak, and ignore your weak ones. Do not pander to these latter ones. Treat them as if they were sources of strength, too. That is what Shakespeare means when he says, "Assume a virtue if you have it not.”

Every now and then you will ask yourself how your weak faculties are improving (and if you have done your best to develop your mind and character); and you will have the satisfaction of noting an extraordinary development of strength which you never dreamed of.

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Listen to episode 816 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Making the Most Out of Your Day. Edited and adapted from Youth and Opportunity by Thomas Tapper.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When Alexander Pope wrote the line, "Hope springs eternal in the human breast," he expressed a truth that (considered in the fullness of its suggestion) is electrifying. With the coming of the inspiring impulse of hope, we find again open to us the doors that have shut us in. We look out over a vast field of possibility.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from The Spirit of Helpfulness and Good Cheer - How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun published in 1895.

Our Sunday Talks Excerpt: No person gives themselves up to the spirit of helpfulness without strengthening their own life too. This spirit of self-forgetfulness and cheerful helpfulness is an essential quality of the true heroic soul — the soul that is not disturbed by circumstances, but goes on its way, strong and imparting strength.

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Listen to episode 815 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Build Wealth Within and Without. Edited and adapted from The Power of Mental Demand by Herbert Edward Law.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: RICHES that are obtained under proper conditions represent not merely an accumulation of money. They develop and broaden our mental and moral forces. The love of money that is the root of all evil is the covetousness of avarice: the love of money for its own sake. When acquiring money from this motive there is no growth of larger and better power, no uplift, no rising to a wider vision.

Everything that is of value as a force is capable of benefit or harm. The force of the mind can be directed either for evil or for good. Reverie and rest can easily degenerate into laziness and dreamy longings. Or they can be directed and utilized to build upon present forces and draw to us those that are beneficial.

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Listen to episode 814 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Increase Your Mental Power. Edited and adapted from The Power of Mental Demand by Herbert Edward Law.

Podcast Transcript: It is safe to say that the average man or woman could increase their mental power thirty percent by the elimination of friction. The mere statement of this fact proves that very thoughtful, systematic, and thorough effort should be made to avoid friction in every area of life.

The effort should be first to avoid it in one's self. Never permit anything to worry or irritate you. Simply make it a principle that you will not be worried, that you will not be irritated, that you will not fret nor worry, and above all, that you will not allow fear, anger, malice, or hatred to enter your mind.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted Nature & The Call of the Upper Road by Kathrine Ross Logan.

Podcast Excerpt: Nature has a wonderful meaning when we see God in it. It is to a life of freedom and greatness that the voices in nature call us. The soul longs to extend itself, and like a bird soar high and free. God has great things in store for the soul if we but seek Him and listen for His voice. He enables us to see beyond — a beyond without limit. He sends us in every place some whispers of encouragement.

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Listen to episode 813 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Taking Control of Your Destiny. Edited and adapted from Realization by Elkanah M. Gibson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Cheerful, positive thoughts invigorate both the mind and body. They are a better tonic than any medicine. Good, pure thoughts strengthen the will, increase courage, give vitality to the brain, health to the body, and love to the heart.

There are two roads open to every person. One leads to health, strength, beauty, long life, honor, and happiness; the other to sickness, sorrow, gloom, disease, and death. The allurements and temptations are many, and it requires courage and will-power to resist them....

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Listen to episode 812 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Stay in the Sunshine of Life. Edited and adapted from Invincible Power by John Henry Remmers, published in 1922.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: An old man once said, "I have had many troubles in my life, but most of them never happened." Remember that. Yes, life presents its problems. It would not be worthwhile otherwise. But an overdose of seriousness magnifies them, and in this manner we are often cowed by an imaginary giant, and in the dread of our illusion, turn back on the road of progress.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop, published in 1899.

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Our Sunday Talks Excerpt: The school of difficulty is the best school — for nations and for individuals. Indeed, the history of difficulty is but a history of all the great and good things that have been accomplished. Wherever there is difficulty, the individual must come out for better or for worse. Encountering difficulty will train your strength, and discipline your skill; heartening you for future effort, just as a racer, by being trained to run up a high hill, runs on a track with speed and grace.

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Listen to episode 811 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Poverty Begins with Your Mindset. Edited and adapted from Peace, Power & Plenty by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We cannot travel toward prosperity until our mental attitude faces prosperity. As long as we look toward despair, we shall never arrive at the harbor of delight. The individual who persists in holding their mental attitude toward poverty, or who is always thinking of their hard luck and failures, cannot possibly go in the opposite direction, where the goal of prosperity lies.

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Listen to episode 810 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Gain the Victory of Life. Edited and adapted from The Call of Life by William L. White.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The world is yearning in its anxiety for proper development, for men and women who can think real thoughts, who can thoroughly disentangle the truth from the web of falsity and chance, who can test their thoughts and deeds in the acid bath of service, and whose minds are open to inspiration from all sources, and who will go forth cheerfully to battle for the things that need to be done, and thus gain the victory of life...

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin.

Our Sunday Talks Excerpt: I am going to share with you a powerful meditation that can be used every day or twice a day if possible (once upon waking up and a second time before retiring for the night).

Sit in a quiet place, relax your body, and concentrate upon these words:

Within me are infinite powers seeking expression. In the past, because I did not know of their existence, they have been....

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Listen to episode 809 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Most Thought Provoking Words of Hermann Hesse. Edited and adapted from the work of Hermann Hesse.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: You are more than just yourself; you also represent the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every person’s story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man and woman, as long as they live and fulfill the will of nature, is a wondrous creation, and worthy of consideration.

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Listen to episode 809 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Nine Tips to Greater Happiness. Adapted from Helps to Happiness by the Reverend N. B. Cooksey.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Gratitude is a due appreciation of favors received, and is an important help to happiness. There are two reasons why gratitude is necessary to human happiness: one is internal and the other is external. If we are not grateful for favors bestowed, it shows a littleness, and lack of character, that will destroy self-respect and produce a certain degree of self-condemnation.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Adventures in Common Sense by Dr. Frank Crane.

Our Sunday Talks Excerpt: "What fools these mortals be!" said Shakespeare. And I am inclined to agree with him when we observe: That all our greatness comes from struggle and danger, while we devote our lives to avoiding these things...

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Listen to episode 808 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Become a Force to Be Reckoned With. Edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life by T.L. Haines & L.W. Yaggy.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Whatever your position, you are a power; you are felt as a grand spirit; you are as one having true authority. Character creates confidence in people in every station of life. Character is also capital, and much surer to yield full returns than any other capital — for it is unaffected by panics and failures, and fruitful when all other investments lie dormant.

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Listen to episode 807 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Anger and Building a Good Temper. Edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life by T.L. Haines & L.W. Yaggy.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: My advice is, to keep cool under all circumstances, if possible. Learn to command your feelings and act prudently in all the ordinary affairs of life. This will better prepare you to meet sudden emergencies with calmness and fortitude. If you permit your feelings to be ruffled in small matters, you will be thrown into a whirlwind when big events overtake you.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Life in its Fullness by Charles Thomas Parnell, published in 1922.

Our Sunday Talks Excerpt: Professor William James, the great psychologist, asserted that each of us has resources of which we do not dream. He said (quote): ‘'There are infinite powers lying dormant in you, here and now — powers which, could you but catch a glimpse of, would endow your life on this planet with greater splendor, and impart to it a redoubled interest.”

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Listen to episode 806 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Mastering Your Fate & Destiny | Life Lessons. Edited and adapted from The Book of Business by Elbert Hubbard.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Courtesy, kindness, and concentration — this trinity forms the sesame that will unlock all doors. Good cheer is twin sister to good health. Prepare yourself for good work — for good work means a preparation for higher work. Success is easy. We do not ascend the mountain by standing in the valley and jumping over it. Success is only difficult for the one who is trying to lift themselves by tugging at their own boot-straps.

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Listen to episode 805 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Most Inspirational Wisdom of Plato. Edited and adapted from the works of Plato.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: “We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.” - Plato

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from At the Feet of the Master by Jiddu Krishnamurti, published in 1911. .

Our Sunday Talks Excerpt:In all the world, there are only two kinds of people — those who know, and those who do not know; and this knowledge is the thing which matters. What religion a person holds, to what race you belong — these things are not important. The really important thing is this knowledge — the knowledge of God's plan for us. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

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Listen to episode 804 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Be a Happy Person. Edited and adapted from Creed of the Dauntless by Frank B. Whitney.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To be a happy person, you must not be passive or lazy. You must take an active hold upon life if you would possess happiness. You must not place your trust in others to make you happy. You need to find happiness beyond the world of effects, the world of personality, the world of phantoms.

Where should you turn? Within yourself. The royal road points in that direction.

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Listen to episode 803 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Most Inspiring Words of Aristotle. Edited and adapted from the works of Aristotle.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: “Anybody can become angry — that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power, and it is not easy.”

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Mightier Than Circumstance by Frank B. Whitney (1939).

Our Sunday Talks Excerpt:Your ability to take a new hold on life depends upon your ability to break with the thoughts of the past and acquire a new outlook on the present and future. Taking a new hold, then, is simply a matter of gaining the right perspective of time. If the past continues to be something to you, then the unpleasant events of the past will continue to live. Their hold on you will prevent your taking a new hold on life.

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Listen to episode 802 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Get the Most Out of Life. Edited & adapted from The Aim of Life by Philip Stafford Moxom.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To the earnest soul, life is rich beyond price. When we think of all that we may do and become for humanity, how valuable time becomes and how short it seems! But the terms “long" and "short" have little meaning when applied to the life of the soul. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. The individual who most lives, thinks most, feels the noblest, and acts the best. Time misspent is not lived, but lost.

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Listen to episode 801 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living Without Fear or Anxiety | You are Powerful. Edited and adapted from How to Develop Your Will Power by Clare Tree Major.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The most destructive force in the world is FEAR. Almost all failure and almost all crime can be traced to one form or another of this most prevalent evil. Fear is the father of doubt, and doubt is the murderer of success. It shows itself in many forms, from physical fear to the more subtle and dangerous forms which attack our mental life and sap our strength at its very foundation.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from “Message of New Thought” by Abel Allen, published in 1914.

Our Sunday Talks Excerpt: Modern psychology has enabled us to discover ourselves.Through it, we are gaining faint glimpses of the powers of the great soul within, of that reservoir of intelligence and wisdom to which we may find access when we have learned the way. We are learning the potency of thought: that thought is our empire, that thought is the avenue to the infinite treasures of the subconscious mind, and that thought can control our entire personality.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from “Message of New Thought” by Abel Allen, published in 1914.

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Listen to episode 800 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret Science of Joy & Happiness. Edited and adapted from Your Right to Be Happy, by Frank & Marion Van Eps, published in 1922.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We must cultivate the attitude of joy and gladness — for his very state of mind is power, and it leads to effective operation and desired results. Nothing else will bring one to enjoy life, and everything in life, more than rejoicing as a persistent and cultivated attitude. It is the first step in mastering a situation. It is culture of the best kind.

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Listen to episode 799 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Navigate the Journey of Life. Edited and adapted from The Palace of Mirrors and Other Essays by Joseph Frank Thompson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We can either recall pleasant memories and contemplate cheerful possibilities; or we can muse upon our sad experiences and prospects that are dark and threatening. The first is evidently the way of wisdom. Yet how many people there are who do the last, thus enduring a thousand times those disappointments and heartaches which it is bad enough to have borne once.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from The Heart of New Though by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, published in 1902.

Today's Podcast Excerpt: NEVER say that you wish your situation were different! Never wish you had some other person's life, troubles, or worries. Accept your own as a working basis, the life that is best for you. Then go ahead and change whatever displeases you. Remember that you are the maker and molder of your own destiny.

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Listen to episode 798 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Let Go of Anger & Start Living a Happy Life. Edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: I have known people to carry for years feelings of bitter hatred and a desire for revenge, a determination to "get even" with those who injured them, until their whole characters were so changed that they became almost inhuman. Hatred, revenge, and jealousy are poisons just as fatal to all that is noblest in us as arsenic is fatal to the physical life.

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Listen to episode 797 of the Inspirational Living podcast: If You Want to Be Happy, Do These Things. Edited and adapted from The True Source of a Happy Life by Hugh Wayt.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: In the course of our lives, there are many times when thoughtless words are spoken by us which wound the hearts of others. And there are also many little occasions when a word of cheer is needed from us and we are silent. There are lives of wearisome monotony which one word of kindness can relieve. There is suffering which words of sympathy can make more endurable. And often, even in the midst of wealth and luxury, there are those who listen and long in vain for some expression of kindness.

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Listen to episode 796 of the Inspirational Living podcast: You Have Unlimited Power Within You. Edited and adapted from The Secret of the Ages by Robert Collier.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The power to be what you want to be, to get what you desire, to accomplish whatever you are striving for, abides within you. It rests with you only to bring it forth and put it to work. Of course you must know how to do that, but before you can learn how to use it, you must realize that you possess this power. So our first objective is to get acquainted with this power within.

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Listen to episode 795 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Make the Most of Life. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What is nerve? Nerve is that which enables a person to hang on and either lose everything or win out. It is undertaking more than ordinary things. It is taking big risks on one's own ability. It is holding the fort against all-comers. It is doing the thing which the ordinary person thinks is impossible. It is setting your standard twice as high as your colleagues would set it for you, and then reaching it. It is burning your bridges behind you and staking your all on your own endeavor.

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from 4 Minute Essays by Dr. Frank Crane, published in 1919.

Podcast Excerpt: I can do as I please. And I can always refuse. Hence I know that I am responsible for my actions. I will accept this responsibility and play my role honorably. I will not never seek excuses for my weakness. I know I do not understand all the secret springs of the acts of others, hence I will be charitable in my judgments. I know that "what I know" is to "what I don’t know" as the number one is to infinity, hence I will try always to be teachable.

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Listen to episode 794 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming the Biggest Obstacle to Success in Life. Edited and adapted from Self-Investment by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Ideas, thoughts, like everything else, attract what is akin to them. The thoughts which dominate the mind will tend to drive out their opposites. Optimism will drive out pessimism. Cheerfulness will drive out despondency; hope, discouragement. Fill the mind with the sunshine of love, and all hatred and jealousy will flee. These black shadows cannot live in love's sunshine.

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Listen to episode 793 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Break Bad Habits & Live a Larger Life. Edited and adapted from the book Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin.

Inspirational Podcasts: In order to find a way of escape from destructive habits and weaknesses of character, we must go deeper than actual deeds, for actions are effects of hidden causes. The cause of all action is thought. A thought is an action in the process of being born. It is true that we possess primitive desires and impulses, but these can be transmuted into noble actions and high achievement simply by directing our thoughts and attention to higher and better things.

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Listen to episode 792 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Mastering Your Fate & Destiny | Life Lessons. Edited and adapted from The Book of Business by Elbert Hubbard.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The common idea is that success means great sacrifice, and that you must buy it with a price. In one sense this is true. To succeed you must choose. If you want this, you cannot have that. Success demands concentration, oneness of aim, and desire. Choose this day whom you will serve.

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Listen to episode 791 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building a Worthwhile Life | Living with Purpose. Edited and adapted from The Art of Being Alive by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: "The Life Worthwhile" differs in the minds of individuals. The scientist in the laboratory, the painter in the studio, the preacher in the pulpit, the lawyer in the courtroom, the teacher in the classroom, the carpenter on the building site, all feel that they are living a life worthwhile. And indeed so long as there is deep interest, enthusiasm, and pleasure in the life we are living that life is worthwhile.

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This Sunday Talk was edited and adapted from Nuggets of New Thought by William Walker Atkinson, published in 1902.

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Listen to episode 790 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Road Map to Happiness. Edited and adapted from Working With God by Gardner Hunting.

Inspirational Podcasts: Let's use a little common sense. Isn't life a road that we should look upon exactly like any other road we have to travel? In the first place, all of us want to go places and do things, don't we?

All right, then, that means activity on our own part. If we don't want other people to get all our rewards, and have all our fun, we have to get off our butts. If we sit down idly, twiddle our thumbs and wait, some fruit may fall into our lap, but not much.

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Listen to episode 789 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Keys to Realizing Your Ambitions. Edited and adapted from Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: whatever your ambition may be, once you have started, stick to it, do not change until your object is achieved. If you choose wealth, continue to pursue it; if greatness, concentrate all your powers on winning it — affirm its accomplishment; visualize yourself having achieved the object of your endeavors. If you will do this, success will be yours.

To change about, however, is fatal. Success is largely a matter of concentration, but it is equally dependent upon staying power....

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This Sunday Talk was edited and adapted from A New Heaven and a New Earth by Charles Brodie Patterson, published in 1909.

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Listen to episode 788 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Visualization to Change Your Life. Edited and adapted from The Secret of the Ages by Robert Collier.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: In proverbs, it says that “without vision, the people perish". This bit of ancient wisdom does not refer to good eyesight. It was the eyes of the mind that counted in the days of old, just as they do today. Without them, we have just so much power as a driven ox — and we are worth only a little more than they. But given vision (imagination) the ability to visualize conditions and things a month or a year ahead, there is no limit to our value or capabilities.

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Listen to episode 787 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Conquering the Foes of Happiness. Edited an adapted from Happiness by Hugh Black.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: However, we define happiness, and whatever be the source to which we look for happiness, there are foes on every side. If much of our ordinary happiness comes from the outside (pleasant experiences and environments), we are at the mercy of any bad event. The more we look for happiness from outside amusements and surface delights, the more dependent we are on circumstances.

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Today's episode was edited and adapted from Light on Life's Difficulties by James Allen, published in 1912.

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Listen to episode 786 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Overcome Your Fear and Start Living. Edited and adapted from Little Builders by Dorothy Grenside.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: I have spoken to you in the past of the need for Courage, for all Success and Happiness depend on its possession. Yet you must not think that I am only speaking of the Courage that can face a sudden danger. I want you to learn such strength of mind that fear can gain no mastery in the smallest happenings of your life. There is cowardice of thought, as well as action, and if you fail when some great danger presses, it is because you could not meet (in thought) the little daily tests.

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Listen to episode 785 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Motivation for Self-Confidence | Success Can Be Yours. Edited and adapted from The Conquest of Worry by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Today, as yesterday, we are measured by the spirit that is in us. We are what our resolution makes us, what our grit and courage make us. If there is an excellent spirit within you, then the world takes note that you stand for something, that you are a builder, an achiever, an accomplisher. Your life is worthwhile; you are a contributor to civilization.

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Today's episode was edited and adapted from Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin, published in 1920.

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Listen to episode 784 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Art of Happiness. Edited and adapted from the book Happiness by Hugh Black.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is an art of happiness, which is like the art of living. No list of rules can cover all the ground — for life does not go in straight lines, and never runs exactly according to schedule. There is also the personal equation, the peculiar angle from which each person looks at life.

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Listen to episode 783 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How Successful People Think, Grow, and Win. Edited and adapted from Success & How to Win at Life by B.F. Austin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: How is Success Won? One great secret of success is found in Concentration. This consists in centering our thoughts upon a single object and holding this object in the mind's eye persistently. The thoughts, purposes, will power, effort and resources of every life should be united in some single great object. A life unified, united, concentrated, dominated by one great purpose, becomes mighty, while a life with a thousand diverging purposes must necessarily be weak.

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Listen to episode 781 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Traveling Your Road to Happiness. Edited and adapted from Happiness Road by Alice Hegan Rice.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To each thinking adult come hours of discouragement, depression, and despair. Were it not so, we would never seek to right the wrongs that exist all about us. But it is possible to build our characters, develop our abilities, and discipline our moods, so that we can attain an integrated personality which no change of fortune can permanently affect.

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Listen to episode 780 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Get the Life You Want. Edited and adapted from How to Get What You Want by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Men and women are human magnets. Just as a steel magnet drawn through a pile of rubbish will pull out only the things which have an affinity for it, so we are constantly drawing to us the things and the people that respond to our thoughts and ideals.

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Listen to episode 779 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living Each Day to the Fullest. Edited and adapted from A Way of Life by Sir William Osler.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Aristotle somewhere says that the person who wins out in the fight must be slow in their movements and deliberate in their speech — for by doing so, they will not be worried over the trifles which make people speak in shrill tones and rapidly move here and there.

By shutting close your life in hour-tight compartments, with the mind directed intensely upon the subject in hand, you will acquire the capacity to do more and more. And once that mental habit is established, you are safe for life.

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Listen to episode 778 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Dare to Live a Great Life. Edited and adapted from Happiness Road by Alice Hegan Rice.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Each day should be an adventure full of endless opportunities for constructive and creative living. Once we have established a channel through which thoughts of beauty and truth may travel, the current of the world's good flows through, enriching both us and others.

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Listen to episode 777 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power & Joy of Living in the Now. Edited an adapted The Joys of Living by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The reason why our lives can, at times, feel disappointing and ineffective, is because we do not really live in the day. We do not concentrate our energy, our ambition, our attention, our enthusiasm, upon the day we are living.

Resolve to enjoy yourself today. Enjoy today, and do not let the shadows of tomorrow, the forebodings, and the things you dread, rob you of what is yours today — your inalienable right to be happy today.

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Listen to episode 766 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Awakening the Great Artistic Life Within You. Edited and adapted from The Hidden Happiness by Stephen Berrien Stanton.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Many are the beings in us that are never born — many the lives beating their wings against our bars, seeking a freedom that we forbid. Until some enthusiasm is unleashed within us, we do not realize how partially, how timidly we have lived.

No longer let us keep our true selves under lock and key....

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Today's episode was edited and adapted from Byways to Blessedness by James Allen, published in 1904.

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Listen to episode 765 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Using the Power of the Indestructible You. How to Develop Your Will Power by Clare Tree Major.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The quality of pure matter is Inertia. The quality of pure spirit is Energy. From a combination of the two, worlds are made. You are a world in yourself. You are in your human life a combination of these fundamental parts: spirit and matter. You reflect their fundamental characteristics: Energy and Inertia. That is the beginning and end of your fight: to bring spirit triumphant from under the yoke of matter — to DO, not to give in.

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Listen to episode 764 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Dare to do Mighty Things | Motivational Podcasts. Edited from a speech by Theodore Roosevelt.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Although you may have leisure, it is not to be spent in idleness — for wisely-used leisure means merely that those who possess it (being free from the necessity of working for their livelihood) are all the more bound to carry on some kind of noble work in the sciences, the arts, in exploration of some kind — work of the type the world most needs, and the successful carrying out of which reflects great honor upon themselves and helps or inspires others.

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Listen to episode 763 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspiration for Clear and Positive Thinking. Edited and adapted from Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: You have heard me say in the past that you are what you think. But what DO you think? How orderly are your thought processes? How straight is your thinking? And how clean are your thoughts? There are certain mental cobwebs that clutter up the thinking of almost everyone, even the most brilliant minds. Negative feelings, emotions, passions — habits, beliefs and prejudices. Our thoughts become entangled in these webs.

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Listen to episode 762 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Art of Forgetting. Edited and adapted from Go Forward by J.R. Miller.

Inspirational Podcast Transcript: We are constantly being told to remember, and urgently counseled not to forget. “It is perilous to forget the sins of the past,” people say. But there is a sense also in which our only hope is in forgetting. We never can get on to higher things if we insist on clinging to our past and carrying it with us. We can make progress only by forgetting. We can go forward only by leaving behind what is past.

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Today's episode was edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1918.

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Listen to episode 761 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Experience the Joys of Living Now. Edited and adapted from The Joys of Living by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: So many of us today are not really settled, do not really live in the now, but we are sure we WILL live tomorrow, or next year, when business is better, our fortunes greater: when we move into our new house, get our new furnishings, our new car, get rid of things that annoy us, and have everything around us to make us comfortable. THEN we will be happy.

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Listen to episode 760 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Unseen Elements of Success & Greatness. Edited and adapted from Levels of Living by Henry Frederick Cope.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is an old mystical saying that the things which are not seen are essential to all success. We are blind if we can see only with our eyes, and we only are sensible when we know that there are many things beyond our senses. Practical people consider all the factors to every problem, and things are not less real to them because they might be intangible.

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Listen to episode 759 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Individuality & Character. Edited and adapted from Right Living by Susan H. Wixon.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Individuality gives personal beauty, even to plain features. One who is imbued with great independence stands out from among the public. They are a leader. They help to mold the times in which they live. They are a builder. By them individuals arise to higher altitudes. They are an inspirer, a stronghold, an uplifter of the human race. The strongly individualized character inspires others with energy and confidence.

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Listen to episode 758 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Make Today Unforgettable. Edited and adapted from Mightier Than Circumstance by Frank B. Whitney.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Each dawning day begins a new life. Not a single self-imposed limitation of yesterday can prevail in your new day. The world is yours. You have power within you to conquer every situation. Everything lies before you. You stand at the threshold of opportunities.

Each morning exalts a new existence for you. Think of yourself as reincarnated each night, invested with new wisdom and strength, empowered with new might to accomplish whatever you set out to do.

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Listen to episode 757 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The 3 Ingredients of a Happy Life. Edited and adapted from The True Source of a Happy Life by Hugh Wayt.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The law of happiness is fulfilled in one word — LOVE. It is the rich soil from which grows joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, meekness, and moderation. Out of it also grow self-control, largeness of heart and life, contentment, cheerfulness, kindness, and hopefulness. These elements enter largely into the happiness of every individual. They are the fruitful branches that grow on the vine of love.

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Listen to episode 756 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Success, Education & The School of Life. Edited and adapted from Youth and Opportunity by Thomas Tapper.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Education is the result of that process which liberates the power within us. With this power we work in our environment, and to the degree that we conquer environment itself, we succeed — for no person may be said truly to succeed who, instead of mastering the world, is overcome by it.

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Today's episode was edited and adapted from How to Be Happy by Grace Gold, published in 1893.

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Listen to episode 755 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Amazing Power of Breathing Right. Edited and adapted from Success Through Thought Habit by Benjamin Johnson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Your character represents the result of the habits you have formed. Your habits show your manner of thought. Your manner of thought is in turn affected by your method of breathing.

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Listen to episode 754 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Keeping Fit in Mind & Body | Greatness Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Be Good to Yourself by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Always ask yourself, “What is there in this thing I am going to do which will add to my lifework, increase my power, keep me in superb condition to do the best thing possible to me?”

There is nothing which pays greater dividends than self-investment; keeping yourself up to standard by buttressing your health in every possible way and using the utmost care and exactitude in regimen, in work habits, and in life habits.

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Listen to episode 753 of the Inspirational Living podcast: There is Nothing Impossible in Life. Edited and adapted from Stepping-Stones to Success by Horace D. Hitchcock.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When it comes to human accomplishment, the power of will is the greatest power in the world. In fact, no person can determine the limits of any individual mind; neither can they foretell the limits of human endeavor. The accomplishments of today would appear as positive impossibilities to those who lived ages ago. A safe maxim for the future thus might be: "There is nothing that is impossible."

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Listen to episode 752 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building the Temple of Your Mind. Edited and adapted from Peace, Power & Plenty by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: One of the greatest accomplishments of the finest character is the ability to order the mind and to exclude from it all the enemy thoughts — thoughts that bring friction and discord into the life, thoughts that depress, that stunt, that darken. No mind can do good work when clouded with unhappy or vicious thoughts. The mental sky must be clear or there can be no enthusiasm; no brightness, clearness, or efficiency in our mental work.

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Today's episode was edited and adapted from Making the Most of Life by J. R. Miller, published in 1891.

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Listen to episode 751 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Character is Your Destiny. Edited and adapted from The Aim of Life by Philip Stafford Moxom.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The process of character-formation involves the action and inter-action of many forces. The totality of a life, at any moment, is the product mainly of little things: trifling choices, insignificant exercises of will, unimportant acts often repeated, things seemingly of minor account — but these are the thousand tiny sculptors that are carving away continuously at the rough block of life, giving it shape and features.

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Listen to episode 750 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Achieve Happiness and Success in Life. Edited and adapted from Success by Lord Beaverbrook.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Success — that is the royal road we all want to tread, for it gives us the opportunity to exercise our abilities and activities to the full. Like all human affairs, success is partly a matter of predestination and partly of free will. You cannot make genius, but you can improve upon it or destroy it, and most people possess the assets which can be turned into success. But those who possess these precious gifts will have to gather and expand them.

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Listen to episode 749 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Believe in Yourself | Living Confidently. Edited and adapted from The Call of Life by William L. White.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The dictionary defines self-confidence as having confidence in one's unaided powers, judgment, ability, etc. In other words, it is the belief that you can produce results. When you insist that you can succeed, and are determined that you will succeed, there is nothing in the world that can stop you.

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Listen to episode 748 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Saying Goodbye to Anger and Hate. Edited and adapted from The Freedom of Life by Annie Payson Call.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If you repress an expression of irritability, anger, or hatred, it is there in your brain, just the same; and, in one form or another, you are in bondage to it. Sometimes it will express itself in little meannesses. Sometimes it will affect your body and make you ill. Often it will keep you from being entirely well. But of one thing we can be sure — it will make you the instrument of something harmful, in one way or another.

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Today's podcast is a special New Year's Eve edition, where I have a special gift for you. For the next 24 hours, I will be giving away our MAJESTY meditation, as well as our Break Free meditations for those who are struggling with addiction.

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Listen to episode 747 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Inspiration for A Richer, More Beautiful Life is Yours. Edited and adapted from The Pathway of Roses by Christian D. Larson.

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Listen to episode 746 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Every Life is a Vibration | Start Fine Tuning Yours. Edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every life is a vibration, and the quality of our lives is determined by the quality and the rate of our vibrations. Harmonious vibrations mean health, happiness, efficiency, success. Discordant vibrations mean strangulation, discord, thwarted ambition, a wrecked career.

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Listen to episode 745 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Opening the Gate of Opportunity. Edited and adapted from The Cause of Failure and How to Overcome It by Thomas Z. Davis.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What is a failure? It’s a spur to the one who receives it right, and it makes the spirit stir to go in once more and fight. If you never have failed, it’s an even guess you have never grabbed the highest rail.

What is a knock-down? A count of ten, which you may take for a rest. It will give you a chance to come up again and do your best.

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I would like to wish all of you a peaceful and joyful Christmas, one that rejuvenates you spiritually and mentally. To celebrate Christmas I am sharing an old episode (2017) of Our Sunday Talks, a series produced for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan, published in 1909.

Christmas Podcast Excerpt: The world’s attitude towards the birth of every great truth is focused in a single phrase in the simple story of the first Christmas, the greatest birthday since time began. Mary laid the infant Christ in a manger because (quote) —“there was no room for them in the inn.”

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Listen to episode 744 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Keys to Living a Long & Worthwhile Life Edited and adapted from Dollars & Sense by William Crosbie Hunter.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Smooth sailing doesn't bring out the stuff one is made of. It takes shadows to make sunlight appreciated. It takes reverses to make success. It takes hard knocks to polish you. And one of the most important things to learn early is to learn to say no.

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Listen to episode 743 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Attitude Towards Others is Everything. Edited and adapted from Think (a Book for Today) by William Crosbie Hunter.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The wise individual is the one who gets fullness out of life — happiness, respect, contentment, freedom from worry; who is busy doing useful things — busy helping others, busy training their children, busy spreading sunshine and love and the close-together feeling in their home circle.

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Listen to episode 742 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Positive Thinking for Success | Overcoming Negativity. Edited and adapted from Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Positive people are optimists, but they are not foolish or blind in their optimism. They are above being petty or mean, or selfish or cruel; neither do they let hate or anger sway them or influence their life or business. They inspire confidence, compel attention, are leaders rather than followers, and literally exude an atmosphere of success.

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Listen to episode 741 of the Inspirational Living podcast: We are the Master of Ourselves and Fate. Adapted from the book Concentration: The Key to Constructive Thought by C. W. Kyle.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The axiom, ''As you thinketh in your heart so you are,” is the most startling truth ever uttered about humankind. What an amazing statement it is — for it reveals that we are possessed of the power to create and rule ourselves and our environment by the choice and mastership of our thoughts!

The wonderful fascination of this saying lies in the all-embracing statement which it so directly makes. It covers every possible action we take, and clearly states that we are capable of exercising unlimited powers.

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Today's episode was edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

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Listen to episode 740 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Be Bold & Decisive. It's Time to Make Your Mark. Edited and adapted from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The women and men who have left a mark upon their century have been the ones of great and prompt decision. An undecided person, a person who is ever balancing between two opinions, forever debating which of two courses they will pursue, proclaims by their indecision that they cannot control themselves, that they were meant to be possessed by others. They are not in the arena, but in the stands.

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Listen to episode 738 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Path of All Successful People. Edited and adapted from Making the Grade by C.V. Mosby.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To many, success is a place somewhere. But like a material heaven, it is hard to locate by direction. However, there is one thing for sure: it is neither a city nor a country. It may be a harbor (landlocked and free from storm), but never has a material ship ridden at anchor upon its waves. What then is this prize? Where is this much-sought-for place? How is one to know when the goal has been won? By what process of reason can one prove that he or she has made the grade and has climbed the hill?

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Listen to episode 737 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Living in Abundance. Edited and adapted from How the Mind Works by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The person who gives much of themselves will be abundantly enriched because they place in life a large measure of themselves to be filled. The one who gives things may lose all that is given. But the one who gives of themselves (the best that is in themselves) loses nothing. Instead they gain a larger and a richer self.

To have an abundance of life is to have the power to help yourself and to re-create your own world according to your highest desires. The gift of life is therefore the highest gift. It is also the largest gift because it includes all gifts.

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I would like to wish all of our listeners in the United States a joyful Thanksgiving holiday. I thought today was the perfect time to remind you that you were made for happiness, not only happiness for yourself but for spreading happiness to others. And that is something for which we all can be surely grateful.

Listen to episode 736 of the Inspirational Living podcast: You Were Made to Be Happy. Edited and adapted from The Joys of Living by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Real happiness is born of noble endeavor, a useful life. It is extracted a little here, a little there, from a kind word, a noble deed, a generous act. We get a little bit from every right thought, from every kind word or deed, and it cannot be found anywhere else.

Happiness, it has been said, is a mosaic composed of little stones. Each taken singly is of little value; but when all are grouped together, combined and set, they form a pleasing and graceful whole — a costly jewel.

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Listen to episode 735 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Courage to Succeed in Life. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Thousands fail in life because they lack the grit to get right up and do the thing. It isn't always the brainiest people in the world who make the greatest successes. It's people who buckle down and do things; people who have will-power and initiative; people who are not afraid; who know, and know they know; people who will make themselves do the thing that needs to be done, regardless of how they feel about it; the women and men who make themselves do the thing, whether they like it or not, are the ones who have discovered the great secret.

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Listen to episode 734 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Build a Winning Personality. Edited and adapted from Leadership by George H. Knox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The need for personality development is universal. Power comes not from what we know, but from what we can express, and nine-tenths of expression is through personality. To other people we are a mere personality. We are to them big or little, positive or negative, a success or a failure, just as we appeal to them through our personality. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. And we are no stronger than our weakest point of personality.

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Listen to episode 733 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Get the Most Out of Life. Edited and adapted from A Man Worthwhile by John Phillips Meakin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The all-important question for everyone to ask of themselves if they have the slightest spark of intellectual ambition in them is, “How may I become a true individual?” Then another question will well up from the soul, namely: “What can I do to make life worth the living?” The answer will be: Look to the light, be true to your inner self, and have the faith of the poet who said: —

“Better to strive and climb

And never reach the goal,

Than to drift along with time

An aimless, worthless soul.

Aye, better to climb and fall,

Or sow, though the yield be small,

Than to throw away, day after day,

And never strive at all.”

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Listen to episode 732 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Happiness that Cures Anxiety & Fear. Edited and adapted from How to Stay Well by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: True happiness enjoys all things deeply, but serenely. And you can always know when you have had such happiness, because it makes your countenance radiant with a restful beauty.

To gain real happiness, the first essential is to train yourself to think constantly of the great value of such happiness — especially with regard to its health producing power. Such thinking will tend to produce a subconscious desire for happiness, and what the subconscious begins to desire it also begins to create.

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Listen to episode 731 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of the Truly Happy Person. Edited and adapted from Mightier Than Circumstance by Frank B. Whitney.

Happiness Podcast Excerpt: A search for happiness does not always bring it, because we look for it in the same spirit that we would look for a lost purse. We believe that happiness is found when we arrive at that place where we no longer have to seek for it. When we look for happiness, we do not have it. When we cease to look for it, we discover that it is ours.

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Listen to episode 730 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Have a Successful Day, Every Day! Edited and adapted from Lessons in Living by Elizabeth Towne.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The successful life is made up of a succession of successful days — every day being a little Marathon by itself. If we live a successful today, we make a wise preparation to live a successful tomorrow; and so on, day after day, year after year, through our whole lives.

Only today is ours. Today we can make the right preparation, make the right and easy start, run the successful race with time, and close the day a victor. This day it is possible to do that. So, how shall we prepare for it? How shall we manage our energy and direct our efforts?

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Listen to episode 729 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Creative Power of Waiting vs. Hurrying. Edited and adapted from Working With God by Gardner Hunting.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: People who do really great things never hurry. Nobody who writes a great book ever hurries. The great surgeon never hurries. The pilot of a great ship never hurries. The effective public speaker never hurries. Hurry never made a friend. It defeats the lover. Hurry never builds safely.

Hurry blinds the eyes to beauty. It destroys accuracy in the hand. It ruins judgment. It slurs action. Hurry is what causes heart failures and nervous breakdowns. It overlooks the important things and sees only the trifles.

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Listen to episode 727 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret Key to Success in Life. Edited and Adapted from The Road to Success by Henry Harrison Brown.

Many of you have probably asked yourself, “How can I be a success in life?” The answer is that we must win by that method by which humankind has ever won. And there is but one method. Study the life of any successful person, in any age, and along any chosen line of work. Seek one among your friends or acquaintances. What is the dominant mental quality that gave them success? Be they a gambler or poet, stock trader or entrepreneur, find the trait which gave them power. Find also among your friends those who have failed, and see what thoughts caused their failure...

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Listen to episode 726 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Unleashing Your Soul Power. Edited and Adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The vast majority of people make the fatal mistake of judging life (their own and others) by environments, and of estimating their possibilities of success by their surroundings. This is a lamentable error and contrary to all true philosophies of life. Successful lives grow from within outward. Every person must be happy, rich, and successful in thought, purpose, and desire before they become so in the realities of their everyday life.

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Listen to episode 725 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation for a Happy Life. Edited and adapted from Just Being Happy: A Little Book of Happy Thoughts, compiled by Grover Edwin Osgood.

Happiness Podcast Excerpt: THERE is a beautiful and an ugly way in which to say almost everything, and happiness depends upon which way we take. You can upset a person for the whole day by the harsh way in which you address them in the morning, or you may give them a beautiful start by the cheeriness of your greeting. So not only in words, but in all the little, common courtesies and duties of life, think of the beautiful way of doing them. — Delia L. Porter

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Listen to episode 724 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Live Up to Your Potential. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Cultivate the faculty of relying upon your own judgment. Stand alone. A person can't develop self-reliance and good judgment by waiting for someone else to take the responsibility. You must begin, must make the effort, even if you don’t do very well at first. Perfection is not a matter of days. It is the work of a lifetime.

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Listen to episode 723 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspirational Life Lessons from Carlos Castaneda. Edited and adapted from the works of Carlos Castaneda.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: “Before you embark on any path, ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path. The trouble is nobody asks the question; and when a person finally realizes that they have taken a path without a heart, the path is ready to kill them. At that point very few people can stop to deliberate and leave the path." - Carlos Castaneda

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Listen to episode 722 of the Inspirational Living podcast: A Great Life is Beckoning You. Edited and adapted from Out Into Life by Douglas Horton.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: The hero of this book is you. The adventurous figure which casts its shadow on every page is your own. Had it not been for you, this book would never have been dreamed of: it was written concerning you and for you. You may make it the most important and interesting one you have ever read.

At school you have studied sections of life — its literature, its science, its history, etc. — but now you must look at life as a whole. You must ask yourself the colossal question which marks the entrance into true adulthood: ‘‘How can I live a really great life?”

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Today's episode was edited and adapted from The Call of the Upper Road by Kathrine Ross Logan, published in 1924.

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Listen to episode 720 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Best of Meister Eckhart. Edited and adapted from the works of Meister Eckhart (1260-1328).

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: “The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.”

“Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.”

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Listen to episode 719 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Deciding | Time to Choose. Edited and adapted from The First Step in Mastery by W. Frederic Keeler.

Inspirational Podcast Transcript: The first step in mastery involves a re-education. You are to enter into a new realm of living. You are to think in new channels. You are to exercise a new mode of mental motion. You are to use the fourth dimension of thought. Be prepared for the new, and for the different. Be therefore a beginner, and have the power of newness and the freshness of a beginner.

An open mind is a prerequisite to progress. You certainly must realize that you are now thinking about fifty per cent disadvantageously by old methods. You often do not get where you wish with your thinking. By the use of ordinary and partly outgrown thinking methods, you are not always actualizing power and vigor. You are not sufficiently vitalizing your thoughts....

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Listen to episode 718 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Overcome Fear | Self-Confidence Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Everyday Efficiency: A Practical Guide to Efficient Living by C.H. Forbes-Lindsay.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Fear is the most devastating agency in life. It prevents initiative, paralyzes effort, promotes disease, hampers development and in a thousand ways mars the character. And yet, it is one of the most common defects in character. Most of us are subject to Fear in one form or another. We fear fate, we fear death, we fear disease, we fear poverty, we fear failure, we fear accident, we fear difficulties, we fear responsibility, and on and on.

While writers on the subject agree that Fear often becomes a vice, few offer any practical suggestions for its eradication. The reader is generally advised to use their Reason, which is well enough as far as it goes, but the fact remains that the conclusions of Reason are frequently not sufficient to control action.

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Listen to episode 717 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Cure for Unhappiness, Anger & Discord. Edited and adapted from Live and Grow Young by Arthur Edward Stilwell.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: One of the main reasons people do not live their best lives is that they spend most of their time defending the wrong right. The moment any remark is made, bearing on something which they may not believe in, or agree with, they take exception to it and start an argument. Because of this, they are sacrificing days that should be days of happiness and vitality, depleting their energy and reducing their life-giving atmosphere. They are protecting the wrong right.

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Listen to episode 716 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Enjoying a Great Middle Life. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We must guard ourselves against that tendency to stop growing, or even stop wanting to grow, which is the cause of the failure of so many people’s careers. Many promising young women and men never fulfill their promises because they come to the middle of life and quit. Tastes become fixed, habits become inflexible, prejudice supplants thought, and the whole life turns into mechanical routine.

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Listen to episode 715 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Breaking Routines Begins True Living. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We come, all too easily, to take ourselves and our circumstances for granted. We talk about our ‘‘disposition’” as if it were a fixed and unchangeable thing. If we are pessimistic, nervous, critical, indolent, or bad-tempered, we accept the fact as someone might accept bow-legs or a big nose. The time comes when we are thus in danger of ceasing to grow, because we have settled into certain habits; certain enjoyments, views of life, and limitations of endeavor.

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Listen to episode 714 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Personal Magnetism — Your Life Changing Power. Edited and adapted from Business Psychology by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Everyone knows that personal magnetism is real. But often we think that only some people have it. We don’t realize that this power exists in all of us — and that we just need to learn how to make it stronger.

The first principle to be fully established in the mind is this: your personal magnetism can be used upon yourself alone, and its function is to promote the best possible expression of all the active qualities in your own personality; or in other words, to heighten the effect of everything you may do.

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Listen to episode 713 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Onward! The Best of Life is Yet to Be! Edited and adapted from Life’s Byways and Waysides by J.R. Miller.

Inspirational Podcast Transcript: We should forget our past attainments — for nothing is so fatal to all progress, as a feeling of satisfaction with one's achievements. When a person sits down and says, "I am contented now; I have reached my goal. I am as good as I expect to be in this world. I never aspire to anything better than this work I have just finished," from that moment they cease to grow. They will strive no more, and make no new achievement.

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Listen to episode 712 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Best of Epictetus | Stoic Wisdom for Life. Edited and adapted from the works of Epictetus.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thank you to our newest monthly patron, Cesar Contreras. Cesar now has access to our full archive of over 600 podcasts, ad-free, plus the Our Sunday Talks series. To learn how you can become a patron for as little as $3 a month, please visit LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from the works of Epictetus, the Greek stoic philosopher who lived from 50 to 135 A.D.

"Other people's attitudes and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others. The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Let whatever appears to be the best, be to you an unbreakable law."

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Listen to episode 711 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building Greatness from Little Things. Edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life T.L Haines & L.W. Yaggy.

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Listen to episode 710 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Timeless Advice on Living | Life Lessons. Edited and adapted from Thoughts on Life by Sarah Ball Kitchen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Everything has been better said than I can say it. But our manner of saying something may touch some heart to which it has never appealed before. Therefore I offer you the following advice.

The force that has placed you here upon earth has meant your life to be of some purpose. See to it that it be not in vain. Find a purpose for your life; some noble aim; some useful goal towards which you are always striving.
To those who realize the responsibility of living, it is indeed a solemn thing to have been entrusted with the great gift of life. We only live once. Therefore, ask yourself, “What am I doing with my life?” And don’t forget to keep asking yourself that question, month by month, year by year.

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Listen to episode 709 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Charm & Mystery of Life | Inspiring Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Making a Life by Cortland Myers.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is an involved drama. It is a composition of forces. It is a combination of incidents. There are more semi-colons than full-stops. The judgment should be reserved for integers and not fractions. The process is not the result. The one who jumps to conclusions skips contentment and happiness.

Even though we often fail to recognize it, everything in life has some meaning, emphasis, and relation. Even failures and mistakes enter into the eternal harmony.

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Listen to episode 708 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Most Important Element of Success in Life. Edited and adapted from The Power of Mental Demand by Herbert Edward Law.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is no element so important to a successful business or a successful life as enthusiasm. Yet it is an element often not thoroughly understood, or very accurately measured. It is rarely given the degree of importance to which it is entitled. Indeed, it is often neglected altogether.

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Listen to episode 707 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Get More Happiness & Prosperity From Your Work. Edited and adapted from Stepping Stones to Success by Horace D. Hitchcock.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Efficiency in the business world means doing less work and getting more for it. In life it means conserving energy, avoiding waste, and getting more pleasure, happiness, and prosperity from your efforts. It’s been said that the average person is only fifteen to twenty per cent efficient. That is, we do only about one-fifth of what we might do.

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Listen to episode 706 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Live a Life Worthy of Immortality. Edited and adapted from Making a Life by Cortland Myers.

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Listen to episode 705 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Life's Magic Formula & The Secrets of Success. Edited and adapted from Four Minute Essays by Dr. Frank Crane.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Many people have philosophies of life, ideas on the subject of happiness, and dreams of success that are ludicrous and unfounded. I have met millionaires, successful business people, learned professors, gifted artists, and able preachers who have not the slightest notion of how to be happy.

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Listen to episode 704 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Face Life & Middle Age. Edited and adapted from How to Face Life by Stephen Samuel Wise.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If youth initiates, middle age achieves most and best serves. It best achieves because it is a time of fullness of intellectual strength and firmness of moral will. And it best serves because the excesses of self have been (or ought to have been) burnt out — leaving the capacity of selfless endeavors unrelated to personal gain or private advantage. The middle age that people find bare and unsatisfying is, in truth, only found among those who have not mastered the two arts of life: achieving and serving.

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Listen to episode 703 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Keystone of Life | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Business of Life by Asa Bushnell ZuTavern and Albert Ernest Bullock.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Of the equipment necessary for life’s journey, the pinnacle is character. After all is said and done, our fate is supported entirely by the type of character we possess or develop. Character is the keystone of life. If you have it, you don’t need to have much of anything else.

Perhaps no other word in the English language is used more and understood less than the term character. Many confuse character with personality, but there is little, if any, relationship between the two words...

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Listen to episode 702 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building an Attractive and Charming Personality. Edited and adapted from The Business of Life by Asa Bushnell ZuTavern and Albert Ernest Bullock.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The study of personality is extremely valuable, whether in the business, social, or political world — for it helps us to correct our own shortcomings, and to make our journey of life with others much easier. It also helps us to select our associates, and to know those people with whom we can deal agreeably in business, as well as those with whom we cannot deal without having unpleasant experiences.

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Listen to episode 701 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Success Requirements in Work & Life. Edited and adapted from The Business of Life by Asa Bushnell ZuTavern and Albert Ernest Bullock.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Imagination is important to success. But it is not the only thing required. You also need initiative, for while imagination thinks things, initiative does things. Initiative is doing what should be done without being told to do it. There is a proverb that says opportunity is hiding behind every corner. And it is — but only initiative finds it.

Remember that it is always possible to give a new slant to an old idea; therefore have the courage to begin things. We learn by doing. Most people imitate. Leaders initiate.

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Listen to episode 700 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Success Requirements in Work & Life. Edited and adapted from The Business of Life by Asa Bushnell ZuTavern and Albert Ernest Bullock.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What Is Success? A complete definition of success, satisfactory to all people, has perhaps never been found. Each person has their own idea of what success means to them, and this idea keeps changing with the passing of time. To some people, success means fame; to some it means fortune in money; to others it means only love and happiness. Young people, especially, are inclined to think that success is indicated by the accumulation of material wealth.

It is true that the successful person is able to manage their affairs in such a way that they are at all times self-sustaining and able to enjoy security, but it does not follow that they MUST amass a fortune. Success means far more than mere money-getting.

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Listen to episode 699 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Most Important Thing to Understand. Edited and adapted from The Business of Life by Asa Bushnell ZuTavern and Albert Ernest Bullock

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A passport is a permit — one that allows us to enter places from which we might otherwise be barred. In our daily life, it opens the gates to success and desired social contacts. The journey of life requires certain passports, and a certain amount of luggage. The expert traveler has learned to provide themselves with the necessary passports and baggage. They carry necessary tools, but no useless equipment. They foresee their actual needs, and, should an unexpected emergency arise, they are prepared to purchase their requirements, when and where they are needed.

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Listen to episode 698 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Navigating a Successful Journey of Life. Edited and adapted from The Business of Life by Asa Bushnell ZuTavern and Albert Ernest Bullock.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is a journey, which all of us make but once. There is no round-trip ticket. This journey (according to present-day reckoning) lasts about 75 years on average. Some people are able to extend the journey a little longer; others end it in much less time. It is not the number of years, but the values we get out of the years, that count the most. Whether to live at a slow pace over a long period of time, or whether to burn up energy at a lively pace (and have it over within a short period of time) is a question each individual can decide themselves.

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Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. In response to listeners who have asked for longer readings, I am putting together new audiobook and “best of” collections, featuring books and authors that have appeared on this podcast. These collections will also include readings from our archive, which are no longer publicly available.

The first collection is today’s audiobook, which includes 9 readings from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas (1917). I have blended the readings together, and remastered them with alternating background musical tracks, which should hopefully make for a more pleasant listening experience. The entire reading runs for over 90 minutes. I hope you enjoy it. Thank you.

Included in this Personal Power Audiobook

Reading 1: Developing Your Personal Power

Reading 2: Climbing the Ladder of Success

Reading 3: Optimism & The Keys to Happiness

Reading 4: Overcoming Fear of Failure

Reading 5: Taking Stock of Yourself & Future

Reading 6: How to Create Good Luck

Reading 7: The Key that Unlocks the Heart

Reading 8: The Greatness of Little Things

Reading 9: Making the Most of Yourself

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Listen to episode 697 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Common Causes of Failure | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life's greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try and fail. The tragedy lies in the overwhelmingly large majority of people who fail, as compared to the few who succeed. I have had the privilege of analyzing several thousand men and women, 98% of whom were classed as "failures." My research and analysis showed that there were 27 major reasons for failure. Today I would like to provide you with a description of these causes for failure. As you listen to my list, check yourself by it, point by point, for the purpose of discovering how many of these causes-of-failure stand between you and success.

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Listen to episode 696 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Meditation: The Qualities of Great Leaders | Leadership Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

It is no disgrace to be a follower. On the other hand, it is no credit to remain a follower. Most great leaders began as a follower. They then became great leaders because they were INTELLIGENT followers. With few exceptions, the person who cannot follow a leader intelligently, cannot become an efficient leader. And the person who can follow a leader most efficiently, is usually the one who develops into leadership most rapidly.

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Listen to episode 695 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Meditation: The Gateway to Power. Edited and adapted from A New Heaven and a New Earth by Charles Brodie Patterson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Meditation is the gateway to power. Through this gateway we enter into consciousness of a new life. The highest form of meditation is a conscious oneness with the source of all life. It is not a state of mental activity, but rather a cessation of thought, and an entering into a new world of feeling.

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Listen to episode 694 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Imagination + An Idea. Edited and adapted from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thank you to our new monthly patron Guy Ellis. Learn how you can become our patron, and get ad-free podcasts, full transcripts, and more, for as little as $3 a month, by visiting LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you.

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein all plans are created. The impulse, the desire, is given shape, form, and action through the aid of the imaginative faculty of the mind.

Through the aid of our imaginative faculty, human kind has discovered (and harnessed) more of Nature's forces during the past 100 years than during the entire history of the human race prior to that.

Our only limitation, within reason, lies in the development and use of our imagination. We have not yet reached the apex of development of our imaginative faculty. We are still on the long climb upwards.

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Listen to episode 693 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Build Yourself a Beautiful Character. Edited and Adapted from A Life of Character by J.R. Miller.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The building of character is the most important business of life. It matters little what works you may leave in the world; your real success, is measured by what you have formed along the years in your own being.

It is a great thing for us to have a lofty thought of life, and ever to seek to reach it. Said Michelangelo: "Nothing makes the soul so pure, so religious, as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives for it, strives for something that is godlike." The seeking itself, makes us nobler, holier, purer, stronger. We grow ever toward that for which we long.

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Listen to episode 692 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Making the Most of Your Talents & Life. Edited and Adapted from The Call of Life by William L. White.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every individual has been created with one or more talents; that is, natural gifts, which, if put to use and properly directed, will enable them to produce results. It is thus your duty to discover what natural gifts or talents you possess, and to begin to map out definite plans for an active and progressive life which leads towards success.

When this discovery has been made, the next step is to determine the best methods to pursue, so that you can improve in the specific lines in which you are most gifted and interested. When you are convinced in which field of endeavor you are best suited, then you have discovered your talents, which, in turn, will lead you to discovering your calling in life.

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Due to temporary laryngitis brought on by Covid 19, today's episode is the rebroadcast of a reading from 2016. I should be able to resume new readings next week.

Listen to episode 691 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Ideal Made Real | Transformational Mindset. Edited and Adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To have ideals is not only simple but natural. It is just as natural for the mind to enter the ideal as it is to live. In fact, the ideal is an inseparable part of life; but to make the ideal real in every part of life is a problem, the solution of which appears to be anything but simple. To dream of the fair, the high, the beautiful, the perfect, the sublime, that everyone can do; but everyone has not learned how to make their dreams come true, nor realize in the practical world what they have discerned in the transcendental world.

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Listen to episode 690 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Timeless Thoughts About Life. Edited and Adapted from the book The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Some people say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “No, sorrow is the greater.” But I say to you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at the edge of the bed, remember that the other is asleep under the sheets.

Everyone recognizes that the soul is sometimes a battlefield, one where reason and judgment wage war against passions and appetites.

Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, so that it may sing. And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and (like the phoenix) rise above its own ashes.

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Listen to episode 689 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Greatest Lesson I’ve Learned. Edited and adapted from a lecture by Swami Vivekananda.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thank you to our newest monthly patrons: Afya Gabriel, Miss Kira, and Manuel. By becoming patrons (https://livinghour.org/patron), they now get access to over 250 podcasts in our private archive, podcasts such as the one we are featuring today. This podcast was requested from one of our listeners in India. So, we are making it publicly available again. This podcast was recorded back in 2016. It was edited and adapted from a lecture by Swami Vivekananda (Shāmi Bibekānondo), published in 1901.

One of the greatest lessons I have learned in my life is to pay as much attention to the means of work as to its end. It was from a great person that I learned this principle, and their own life was a practical demonstration of it. I have been always learning great lessons from that one principle, and it appears to me that all the secret of success is there: to pay as much attention to the means as to the end.

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Listen to episode 688 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Mastering Discouragement & Anger. Edited and adapted from The Secret of Success by Wilmot Henry Wheeler.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. I’d like to start today with a special announcement. Tomorrow (Wednesday the 15th) I am going to be conducting a Success Mindset Masterclass with Blisspot. Registration for the online webinar is free. To join, please visit LivingHour.org/masterclass. Thank you.

Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Better Way, or, Lessons in Trueness, Wisdom and Love, by Wilmot Henry Wheeler, published in 1896.

Recently I was asked the question, “Is it ever right to get angry?” Well, if by anger you mean simply a great disapproval of what someone has done, or is doing, then the answer is: “Yes, anger is sometimes right. But this is not the usual meaning of the word; for it nearly always refers to a more or less excited and unpitying disapproval of what someone has done, the excitement showing itself in a tendency to lose your self-control and act or feel unwisely or selfishly. And I venture to say that ninety-nine times out of a hundred, when we are forced to admit to others, or in our own secret thoughts, that when we are angry, this is the definition of anger which applies to our case. Is it right, then, to get angry? Most emphatically, No — now matter how great the provocation, for it is often rooted in selfishness.

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Listen to episode 687 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Success Habits for a Successful Life. Edited and adapted from The Secret of Success by Frank Everit Mitchell.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There are at least three kinds of people in the world: 1) those who do not know how to succeed, and do not think it worth their trouble to learn; 2) those who know how but fail because they do not live up to their knowledge; and 3) those who do succeed, because they practice the principles which are consistent with the end they have in view.

I have known people who had all the knowledge they needed to build a thriving business. And yet they were unsuccessful. Why? Because the ...

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Listen to episode 686 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Reaching Your Utopia | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Secret of Success by Frank Everit Mitchell.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: True success is not the result of luck, guess, or chance. It is the ripened fruit of persistent industry wedded to intelligent conception. And the reason why so few of those who try succeed is not that they set the standard too high, or that they have not the ability to reach it, but because they lose heart on the road, relax their effort, yield to discouragements, and thus become careless or indifferent. They lose sight of the end they had in view, and allow themselves to drift with the current, resting on their oars, waiting for something to turn up.

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Listen to episode 685 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Make a Decision Today | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is one habit which you should cultivate, not only for its usefulness in general, but especially for its value in developing true decision of character. That is, the habit of doing everything that should be done, precisely at the time when it ought to be done. Everything in human character goes to wreck under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding life and energy.

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Listen to episode 684 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation for the Courageous Life. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: The world owes much to its women and men and of courage. I do not mean physical courage, but the courage that displays itself in silent effort and endeavor — that dares to endure all, and suffer all, for truth and duty. Such courage is more truly heroic than the achievements of physical valor.

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Listen to episode 683 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Why Forgiveness Benefits You Most. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop.

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Listen to episode 682 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Mastering the Art of Self-Control. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A strong temper is not necessarily a bad temper. But the stronger the temper, the greater the need for self-discipline and self- control. It is not our faults that ruin us, so much as the manner in which we conduct ourselves after the faults have been committed. The wise person will profit by the suffering they cause, and avoid them in the future; but there are those on whom experience exerts no ripening influence, and who only grow narrower, bitterer, and more vicious with time.

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Listen to episode 681 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Turning Hard Times Into Blessings. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop.

Inspirational Podcast Transcript: You may go to school all your life and yet be a dunce. Your head may be a library stuffed with book knowledge, yet you may not know enough to hoe a hill of beans. You may lack that practical wisdom which make a success of life. You may have talents bright as the sun, yet be dependent on very ordinary people. You may be a know-everything, and a do-nothing.

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Listen to episode 680 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Make Your Life a Beacon of Light. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A character that is sound, that rings as the perfect bell does, is the character you must have if you would make the most of life. You cannot conceal your flaws. And any attempt to do so, will soon be detected. You must be what you seem to be, and what you profess to be. As in the making of a bell, the material that goes into the making of your character must be of good quality, and there must be no flaws in the casting. You are going to have heavy blows struck upon you in life, and a cracked character is a very poor possession to have on hand.

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Listen to episode 679 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Path of Cheerfulness | Happiness Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The influence that a cheerful person has on others is almost limitless. You probably have known people within whose company you felt uplifted, amiable and hopeful, equal to anything! I do not know a more enviable gift than the energy to sway others to good; to diffuse around others an atmosphere of cheerfulness, generosity, magnanimity. It is not a matter of great talent; nor entirely a matter of great energy; but rather of earnestness and honesty — a quiet, constant energy which is like soft rain gently penetrating the soil.

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Listen to episode 678 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Ultimate Aim of Life | Uplifting Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Fundamentals of Success by Hiram Abiff Boaz.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every person ought to have some definite goal, a specific purpose worthy of their best effort — for without this object in view, you cannot accomplish anything worthwhile, nor can your life reach its highest efficiency and significance.

There may be many secondary objects in view, some of them of more or less importance, but there ought to be some great ultimate aim that serves as your guiding star, one to which all the minor details are put into accord.

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Listen to episode 678 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspirational Thoughts on Happiness. Edited and adapted from Happiness by Arthur James Kappele, published in 1919.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Get the best essays of our podcast in a bundle of 3 e-books for only $9.99 by visiting InspirationalLifeLessons.com.

Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Happiness by Arthur James Kappele, published in 1919.

Today I would like to share with you some thoughts on happiness and living a happy life. First of all, be grateful for kindness shown to you. And see to it that you return a good deed, with interest, if the opportunity presents itself, or, better yet, make the opportunity — lest you forget.

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Listen to episode 677 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Avoid These Failure Traps | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Fundamentals of Success by Hiram Abiff Boaz.

And yet many do fail. Failures are on every hand. There must be some cause for all these unhappy failures. What is it? ...

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Listen to episode 676 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Mastering the Game of Life | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from C’mon Up by Franklin Fillmore Farrington.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Some people have called life a voyage, where we steer for a certain port. Some say it is a climb from the valleys of labor to some great mountain peak of rest. Others call it a journey down a sunlit road that now and then has a shadow. I do not disagree with any of this, but I call life a game. It is a wonderful game. And we all want to win, and we all may win.

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Listen to episode 675 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building the Habit of Right Thinking | Positive Affirmations. Edited and adapted from How to Stay Well by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Wrong thought is the root of all evil. Right thought is the cause of all good. The art of right thinking, therefore, becomes one of the highest arts in existence, and its attainment one of the noblest aims of the human soul. To think right is to think the truth. Therefore, the art of right thinking is cultivated by training the mind to think the truth.

The average mind has been thinking wrong thoughts for so long that wrong thinking has become a habit — a very undesirable habit, as we all know. This habit we must overcome if we would have perfect health, happiness, and success. And the only way to overcome bad habits is to cultivate good ones.

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Listen to episode 674 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Infinite Source of Health & Success. Edited and adapted from How to Stay Well by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thank you to our new monthly patron Gwendi Raia. Gwendi now has access to our entire archive of over 650 podcasts, with full transcripts and ad free. To learn how you can get these same benefits, visit livinghour.org/patron. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from How to Stay Well by Christian D. Larson, published in 1912.

The great essential for increasing thought power, and using that power to achieve better health and greater success, is to live constantly in the conviction that you have within yourself all the power that you may require for any purpose — for to think more power is to charge every thought with more power....

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Listen to episode 673 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Find and Use Your Inner Power. Edited and adapted from Find and Use Your Inner Power by Emmet Fox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: You think, and your thoughts materialize as experience, and thus it is, that you are weaving the pattern of your own destiny, here and now, by the way in which you allow yourself to think, day by day and all day long. It is altogether in your own hands. Nobody but yourself can keep you down. Nobody else can involve you in difficulty or limitation. Neither parents; nor wives, nor husbands; nor employers, nor neighbors; nor poverty, nor ignorance; nor any power whatever, can keep you down when once you have learned how to think. The Science of Living is the Science of Thought.

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Listen to episode 672 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Driving Fear From Your Life. Edited and adapted from Peace, Power, and Plenty by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Everywhere we see the terrible havoc that fear has wrought in human lives. The premature wrinkles, the gray hair, the stooping shoulders, the anxious faces we see on all sides, are the manifestation of foreboding fear thoughts.

We are like a haunted animal from the cradle to the grave, the victim of real or imaginary fears — not only our own, but those reflected upon us from superstitions, self-deceptions, false beliefs, and concrete errors of the whole human race, past and present.

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Listen to episode 671 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Never Be Discouraged | You Will Overcome. Edited and adapted from Things to Live For by James Russell Miller.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We are not apt to think of discouragement as either dangerous or harmful. Some people seem to think it a rather a pleasant experience — at least, they appear to find a sort of relief and satisfaction in dropping down now and then into a dispirited mood. They thus make no effort to overcome their sad disposition, or to climb out of the deep valley of shadows up to the mountaintops where the sun is shining. They even resent the kindly efforts of those who would help them to be cheerful, as if they were meddling with matters which do not belong to them...

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Listen to episode 670 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Doing the Things Worthwhile. Edited and adapted from Things to Live For by James Russell Miller.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Whatever adds in even the smallest way to the world's brightness and cheer is worthwhile. The person who plants a flower in a bare place, where only bleakness was before, is a benefactor. The person who says an encouraging word to a disheartened neighbor, gives a look of love to a lonely one, or speaks a sentence which may give strength, guidance, or comfort to another, does something worthwhile.

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Listen to episode 669 of the Inspirational Living podcast: When in Doubt, Try Love’s Way. Edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Love's way is broad and generous. It respects the rights and feelings of others. Love does not try to correct defects, to change undesirable qualities or tendencies by continually calling attention to them and finding fault. It simply neutralizes them. Love drives those defects and bad qualities out of the nature, just as the sun drives the darkness out of a room when the shutters are flung open.

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Listen to episode 668 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Now is the Time to Come to Yourself. Edited and adapted from When a Man Comes to Himself by Woodrow Wilson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A very important change occurs when a person "comes to themselves". It is not only after periods of recklessness or infatuation (when we have played the spendthrift or the fool) that we come to ourselves. We come to ourselves after experiences of which we alone may be aware: when we have left off being wholly preoccupied with our own interests, and with every petty plan we’ve mapped out; when we have cleared our eyes to see the world as it is, and our own true place and role within it.

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Listen to episode 667 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Putting Your Fears Behind You. Edited and adapted from How to Lick Our Fears by David V. Bush.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The person who knows how to face their fear has the best chance of being happy, for fear ruins happiness. Thus it’s important to teach our children how to conquer fear. We cannot rid our children of fears by teaching them that they should not be afraid, but only by helping them to understand rather than to fear; by teaching them that these things in their path, which have seemed to them ogres, are after all, on closer view and knowledge, friendly things designed to help, guide, and keep us from losing our way in the dark.

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Listen to episode 665b of the Inspirational Living podcast: Maintaining Lifelong Health & Youthfulness.Edited and adapted from Success Psychology by Coleman Hall Bush.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Remember that health is a normal condition in your life, and nature does everything she can to keep you in this normal condition, and to restore you to it when you depart from the norm. All is unity, and a friendly universe is working for your ultimate good. And part of that good is continued youthfulness.

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Listen to episode 665 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Finding the Way to Happiness | Inspiring Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The failure of many people to make a success of life is due to their blindness to the fact that living is an art, to be learned like any other art, adding skill to natural endowment until a masterful competency is attained. Most of us make meaningless daubs of our lives because we have not taught ourselves to live.

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Listen to episode 664 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Possibilities are Unlimited | Optimism Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To make the success you deserve, you must know yourself. And that is often a more difficult problem than to know your business, and it is harder to learn. Most important of all, you must know people, know human nature, and know how to handle people. You aren’t doing your best if you don’t learn this, and you aren’t doing yourself or anyone else justice.

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Listen to episode 663 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Hard Times | Inspirational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When someone gets to talking "hard times," they have a tendency to make a prisoner of themselves. They deny themselves everything that is worthwhile. They don’t enjoy what they have. They don’t keep up with life. They cease to grow. They bring about the very condition which they had been seeking to avoid.

"Hard times" has a good many relatives. It's the twin brother of the "blues." The "blues" is a condition which saps the very life out of a person. When the "blues" get possession of you, it dethrones hope, stifles courage, paralyzes ambition, ruins the personality, kills the desire to work, and falls like a blighting curse on every virtue.

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Listen to episode 662 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Courage to Change Your Life | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox.

Motivational Podcast Transcript: There are two kinds of food: the kind that gives the body strength and beauty, and the kind that simply enables it to eke out a mere existence. And so there are two kinds of reading matter: the kind that makes people grow (the kind that gives a person ideas that help them to discover themselves and opens their eyes to a great and glorious world of prosperity and happiness), and the other kind of reading, which is only trash. Yes, it may not be so very bad, it may not be bad at all in one sense, but there is nothing uplifting in it. It doesn't build you up. Like trashy food, it simply keeps you alive; that's all. It doesn't inspire you with hope or enthusiasm or any desire to pick yourself up and do a little better. It is the kind that makes us fail.

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Listen to episode 661 of the Inspirational Living podcast: What is the Meaning of Life? | Happiness Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Book of Courage by William James Dawson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The greatest of all questions is “What is the meaning of life?” Sooner or later every person has to find some sort of answer to that question. We can live neither wisely nor courageously without it. It may even be said that a wrong answer (or an answer only partially right) is better than none; for the person who thinks themselves right, even though they be wrong, will attain better ends than the one who is wholly uncertain as to the right or wrongness of their acts.

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Listen to episode 660 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Think on These Things: Inspirational Life Lessons. Edited and adapted from Morning Thoughts for Every Day in the Year by JR Miller.

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Listen to episode 659 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Taking on the Challenge of Life. Edited and adapted from The Challenge of Life by Charles Forrest Moore.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The most profitable experiences of my life have seldom been of my own choosing. They have come to me unbidden, and often times unannounced. Many of them indeed I would have avoided, if any way of escape had been open. And, moreover, I believe that most men and women who speak the truth, would, if called upon, say the same thing.

Most of us begin adulthood with more or less a planned course we want to pursue. But if we aim to be the architect of our own fortune, we are ordinarily obliged to revise our plans so often, and so radically, that sooner or later the original blue-prints must be discarded altogether.

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Listen to episode 658 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How Being Cheerful Will Change Your Life. Edited and adapted from Everyday Efficiency: A Practical Guide to Efficient Living by C.H. Forbes-Lindsay.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is a tremendous amount of satisfaction and pleasure to be got out of the hardest journey through life. The secret of finding it is to make Cheerfulness a constant daily habit. I have traveled a great deal around the world and off the beaten tracks with different companions. Some of them found the hardships and discomforts of the journey sources of genuine interest and amusement, while others were driven to despondency and irritability by the same conditions.

Cheerfulness is, as a matter of fact, one of the most easily acquired characteristics. Unlike most cultivable traits, it carries its reward in immediate effects, thus there is constant encouragement to persevere. Cheerfulness is infectious. Every ray of brightness that you throw out is reflected back upon you.

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Listen to episode 657 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Choosing Your Life’s Road. Edited and adapted from The Call of the Upper Road by Kathrine Ross Logan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:All roads start from where you are. They run in all directions, and you may wonder which is the best road to take. All have a way of their own of inviting you, and each has its own particular enticements. Roads seem to know you and expect you. They keep open for you both day and night. But there is a big difference in the roads, and it is most important that you choose the best.

At the beginning, the roads may look so very much alike that you may not hesitate much in your choice. You will find, however, as you journey on that the difference in the end is tremendous.

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Listen to episode 656 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Cure for Unhappiness. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is no cure for the unhappiness of regret, or the sorrow of bereavement, that is so effective as a well-defined purpose. Misery cannot live with resolution. As soon as we “make up our minds,” relief comes. A course of action is better for most cases of unhappiness than a course of medicine. People talk of “divine discontent” and of “ambition’s holy fire,” but these things are neither divine nor holy. Discontent no more incites to action than indigestion does to appetite. In both cases there is a gnawing hunger that can never be satisfied. Ambition is thus often a torture, a tempter, a whip without a bridle.

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Listen to episode 655 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Character & Happiness | Self-Development Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If you have smiles, let us behold them. If there is kindness in you, let it be seen in your actions and heard in your speech. No person, having a candle, hides it under a bushel. Also, a good tree is known by its fruits. What we are is what we have made ourselves to be. It is for us to engrave on our lives the symbols of the eternal, or to deface them with anger, hatred, jealousies, and all the petty vexations of the spirit.

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Listen to episode 654 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be Happy & Get Things Done. Adapted from Essays on the Meaning of Life by Carl Hilty.

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Listen to episode 653 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Self-Doubt | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Miracle of Right Thought by Orison Swett Marden.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: It is a superb faith (greater than any obstacle) that has made the great discoveries, that has been the great inventor, the great engineer, the great achiever in every line of human endeavor. There is little fear for the future of the young person who has a deep-seated faith in themselves. Self-faith has ever been more than a match for difficulties. It has been the poor person’s friend, their best capital.

People with no assets but colossal faith in themselves have accomplished wonders, when capital without self-faith has failed. If you believe in yourself, you will be much more likely to do the larger things you are capable of than if you were to hold a lack-of-confidence attitude.

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Listen to episode 651 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Self-Faith & Confidence. Edited and adapted from The Miracle of Right Thought by Orison Swett Marden.

Self-Help Podcast Excerpt: Faith is an optimist because it sees the way out. Doubt is a pessimist because it cannot see the way ahead, and it’s afraid because it can’t cope with the uncertain. Faith opens the door of ability and develops superiority. The habit of expecting great things of ourselves calls out the best that is in us.

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Listen to episode 650 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Getting Your Life in Tune | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Miracle of Right Thought by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is an orchestra, and your mind is the instrument. No matter how you use your mind, in whatever vocation you choose, you cannot afford to start your concert without getting it in tune. Whatever else you may do, do not play out of tune or work out of tune. Do not let your discordant instrument spoil your life. Because it will. Familiarity with discord will wreck your success perception.

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Listen to episode 649 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Growing in Spiritual Consciousness | Uplifting Podcasts. Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? What is the object of my existence here? These questions have been asked by people in all ages, and in every clime. For most of us, these questions still remain unanswered. We have sought, we have studied, we have believed, we have puzzled, we have theorized, we have guessed, and yet how much do we really know, how many of these deeper problems of our being have we actually solved in personal experience?

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Listen to episode 648 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Joy Nobody Can Take From You | Happiness Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Joy that No Man Taketh from You by Lilian Whiting.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Is it not true that there is an inner radiance, a joy that the world can neither give nor take away, which is an inalienable possession of the spirit, entirely independent of time, chance, or change? Cannot this joy be achieved by the soul, so that neither death nor privation, nor loss nor disappointment, nor trial in any of its many forms, shall dim its radiance or diminish its energy?

For if it can be achieved, it would be the most important discovery of our lives. Joy is the very elixir of energy and inspiration — the most invincible force. It is the power which is able to conquer and prevail...

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Listen to episode 647 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Achievement of Character. Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The inner life of every individual is a battle ground for opposing forces. Nobody is either wholly good or wholly bad. We are all sometimes good, and sometimes bad. We know that we are possessed of good impulses and evil ones, of tendencies upward and tendencies downward. There are times when we carry ourselves with a pride and arrogance that offends even our friends; there are other times when we live the quiet, humble, and unobtrusive life. We are sometimes selfish, and at other times unselfish.

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Listen to episode 646 of the Inspirational Living podcast: God, Unity & The Power Within You. Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The old materialistic idea of the universe, as a machine made up of physical matter, and run simply in accordance with certain physical laws, is no longer possible, and we are thinking today of the universe as an Organism, alive throughout, surcharged with vital energy, throbbing and pulsating with powers of mind from its very center to its farthest circumference; not a dead world, not a mechanical world, not a world once made by a God who sits far off, but an Organism which is living, breathing, and pulsating constantly, with infinite energy, infinite life, infinite power.

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Listen to episode 645 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Conquest of Fear and Anxiety (Pt. 2). Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: I remember once reading a short story where a young man worries himself into thinking that life is no longer worth living. A friend of the man says, "The trouble with you, my friend, is that you think things are worse than they are." Is not that the chief trouble with us all? We are all prone to "think things are worse than they are," and so we become addicted to the worry habit, forgetting that the worry is in the mind, and therefore can be controlled, whether we can control the object of our worry or not.

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Listen to episode 644 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Conquest of Fear and Anxiety (Pt. 1). Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We all come into life bringing with us a heritage of fears, many of which we outgrow, while others hold us in life-long bondage. It is always ignorance that is the mother of fear, and thus every advance into knowledge narrows the field in which fear operates. Freedom from fear does not necessarily mean blind recklessness. It may be the result of that wisdom which, while reverent and cautious, has nevertheless banished all fear thoughts forever.

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Listen to episode 644 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Awakening the Sleeping Power Within You (Pt. 2). Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The problem with most of us is that we don’t have confidence in our own selves, in our own ability and powers. We belittle ourselves and constantly underrate our abilities. If we are given a task, we often say to ourselves, "Well, I am afraid I can't do that." Or, when we attempt to solve a problem, we begin with the thought that perhaps we will fail. We are failing a dozen times every week because we have not enough faith in our power to do the thing, and do it better than anybody else in the world.

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Listen to episode 643 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Awakening the Sleeping Power Within You (Pt. 1). Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The task set before every individual is this: "Work out your own salvation," physically, mentally, morally, and spiritually. The assurance of ultimate victory is found in the truth, "For it is God who worketh in you."

However, most of us would acknowledge that we aren’t living up to our highest mental capacity. In our daily work, we aren’t expressing our very best ability. When we undertake some enterprise, we often don’t see it through with the power we believe ourselves truly capable of. How many times we come to the end of the week with the regretful feeling that if we could only retrace our steps and try it over again, we should succeed much better.

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Podcast Excerpt: “At sunrise every soul is born anew.” So rise today to a new consciousness of your new life. Let your soul unfold its wings and rise to grander and better things. Give up all unpleasant memories of the past. Yield to the past its own. Give to it all the beliefs in limitation that you have entertained about yourself or others. To the past give all your old thoughts of doubt, hate, fear, and disease. Cast from your mind all thought of age and death.

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Listen to episode 642 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Find Your Best Self (Pt. 2) | New Year’s Motivation. Edited and adapted from How to Get What You Want by Orison Swett Marden.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Last time we talked about the importance of self-discovery. The great problem is how to get at the force in the great within of ourselves, and then to put it to work to the best advantage. For whether life shall be a success or a failure depends upon the call we make on our resources, the extent to which we develop all our possibilities.

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Listen to episode 641 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Find Your Best Self (Pt. 1) | New Year’s Motivation. Edited and adapted from How to Get What You Want by Orison Swett Marden.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: There is a legend that when God was equipping man and woman for their life-journey of exploration, the attendant angel was about to add the gift of contentment and complete satisfaction. The Creator stayed the angel’s hand and said: "No, if we bestow that upon them, it will rob them forever of all joy of self-discovery."

The greatest moment in any life is the moment of self-discovery, the moment that gives a human being the first illuminating glimpse of their divine powers, that moment which opens the door into the great within of themselves and shows them their godlike possibilities.

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Listen to episode 640 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Feast of St. Friend | Christmas Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Friendship & Happiness by Arnold Bennett.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Children divide their adult acquaintances into two categories—those who sympathize with them in this bizarre and trying adventure called life; and those who don't. The second category is the much larger of the two. Very many people belong to it who think that they belong to the first. They may deceive themselves, but they cannot deceive a child.

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Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

This special Christmas Eve episode was edited and adapted from the famous Christmas editorial written by Francis Pharcellus Church, published in The New York Sun in 1897.

Podcast Transcript: Dear Editor—

I am 8 years old. Some of my friends say there is no Santa Claus. My daddy told me to write and ask you. Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

Sincerely Yours,

Virginia O'Hanlon

Dear Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible to their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be adult's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, we can catch only but a glimpse of the boundless world around us, only grasp but a fragment of the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion, which, as you know, are the things that give life its highest beauty and joy. Oh, how dreary would the world be if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable our existence on Earth.

We would have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus? You might as well not believe in fairies. You could get your father to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove?

Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor adults can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Probably not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You can tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus?! Thank God that is not so. Santa Claus lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

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Listen to episode 639 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Celebrating the Value of Life | Uplifting Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Life Lessons by Joseph Frank Thompson.

Podcast Excerpt: There are pessimistic philosophers who insist that life merely cheats us with the promise of a happiness that it seldom bestows; and that as soon as we have learned to know life as it truly is, it ceases to be an object of rational desire.

These pessimists point out the many physical ills from which no one is exempt; the disappointments in which our efforts to acquire wealth or fame so often end; the social mistakes for which there is no remedy; and the bereavements that deprive the brief joys of friendship and affection of their value. They claim that because of these things our existence is a gift for which we owe small thanks to the power that has bestowed it.

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Listen to episode 638 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspirational Life Lessons | Inspiring Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Life Lessons by Joseph Frank Thompson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Most of us have our ideal of what we ought to be, what we want to be, and what (in the main) we are really trying to be. But from time to time, in a thoughtless mood, or under the stress of an unexpected temptation, we do things contrary to our general purpose and usual tenor of our lives. Then comes remorse, the renewal of a right resolve and effort, and so, when better deeds are done, the recovery of our self-respect....

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Listen to episode 637 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Finding Enthusiasm in Everything | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from A Book of Friendly Thoughts by Nixon Waterman.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Half-way, half-hearted doings never amount to much. Battles are not won with flags at half-mast — they are run up to the very top and waved as far toward the heavens as possible.

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Listen to episode 636 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Finding the Happiness & Success that Lasts. Edited and adapted from The World Beautiful by Lilian Whiting.

No one has success until they have abounding life, which consists of energy, enthusiasm and gladness. It is springing to meet the day with the thrill of being alive. It is going forth to meet the morning in an ecstasy of joy. It is, indeed, that which you are; and not that which you do or which you have.

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Listen to episode 635 of the Inspirational Living podcast: What Affirmations Can Do & Can’t Do. Edited and adapted from The Life Power and How to Use it by Elizabeth Towne.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Merely repeating affirmations like "I Am Successful" will do little to help you. We must think the things we desire, and we must put our shoulder to the wheel. However, the person who is full of a sense of failure and defeat is likely to put their shoulder to the wrong side of the wheel. They are so discouraged, preoccupied, and worried that they think it doesn't matter much where they put their shoulder; the thing won't budge anyway. So they go along pressing their shoulder against the same old spot — the wrong spot. But let that person make up their mind that there is a way to budge that wheel, and they will find it; and they will see things move.

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Listen to episode 634 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Say Goodbye to Fear | Uplifting Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Joy Philosophy by Elizabeth Towne.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Quit looking at things and being afraid. Look to your ideals and desires, and remember the great source from which they spring: the infinite supply of the Creator. Keep dwelling mentally on God’s infinite supply; keep using that supply according to your ideals. Fears will drop away from you, and Power, Wisdom, and Love will flow into you and through you.

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Podcast Excerpt: There is one spirit, one power, one force in the universe. But its different manifestations or channels of operation are countless. It moves the breeze, the ocean, the avalanche, and the earth in its orbit. It moves the seed to grow, the plant to blossom, the flower to color itself with inimitable hues. It colors the bird's plumage and gives power to its wing. Its highest known expression is in humanity, because in us this force is most concentrated.

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Listen to episode 633 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Laws of Success | Maximizing Opportunities. Edited and adapted from As Others (Ithers) See Us by John Thomas Huddle.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Some people seem to be preordained to be lucky and successful, regardless of what they do, and others preordained to be failures, no matter how hard they try. This is all wrong. There is no such thing as luck. The law of every kingdom of the universe is "as we sow, so shall we reap." If a person is successful it is not because of blind chance, but the result of applying (whether consciously or unconsciously) the right means to the end in view. And if a person fails, it is not because the goddess of fortune is angry with them, but the result of the wrong means to an end.

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Listen to episode 632 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Self-Knowledge to a Higher Plane of Living. Edited and adapted from As Ithers (Others) See Us by John Thomas Huddle.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Today I would like to introduce you to a distinguished stranger, and that stranger is yourself. Knowledge as well as charity should begin at home. And it’s supremely important that we should occasionally step within and renew our acquaintance with ourselves. Above all others, we ought to know the one with whom we eat, work, and study — in whose companionship we are continually. For we have more to do with that person than with anybody else; we are responsible for their words and actions; they are the one person on earth committed especially to our care, and surely we ought to know them.

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Listen to episode 631 of the Inspirational Living podcast: You Were Made to Be a Conqueror. Edited and adapted from Be Good to Yourself by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thank you to our new monthly patron Stephanie Scuorzo. To become our monthly patron and gain access to our entire podcast archive, plus additional rewards, please visit LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Be Good to Yourself by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1910.

It is a rare thing to find a person who is really masterful in their personality, masterful in what they undertake; who approaches their task with the assurance of a conqueror; who is able to grapple vigorously with their life problems; who always keeps themselves in condition to do their best and biggest thing easily, without strain; who seizes with the grip of a master the precious opportunities which come to them.

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Listen to episode 630 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Attractive Power of Enthusiasm. Edited and adapted from The Secret of Success by William Walker Atkinson.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: You often have heard the word "Enthusiasm" used. You have used it often yourself. But have you ever thought about what the word really means — from what source it originated — what is its essential spirit? Few people have. The word "Enthusiasm" is derived from the Greek term meaning "to be inspired; to be possessed by the gods," the term having originally been used to describe the mindset of an inspired person who seems under the influence of a greater power.

A person filled with Enthusiasm indeed seems to be inspired by some power or being higher than themselves. They tap into a source of power of which they are not ordinarily conscious. And the result is that they become like a great magnet, radiating attractive force in all directions and influencing those within their field of influence — for Enthusiasm is contagious, and when really experienced by the individual, it renders them a source of power and center of mental influence.

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Listen to episode 629 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Greatest Opportunity Open for All. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The value of an individual life is not measured by the quantity of possessions, but by the quality of existence. The value of life comes not from having much, but from being much. And happiness is invariably a state of mind, coming not from what a person has, but from what they are. We must remember, however, that the person who is much will finally gain much, providing the powers in their possession are practically applied. And their gains will have high quality whether they be gains in the world of things, or in the world of mind, consciousness, and soul.

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Listen to episode 628 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Abundance and the Secret Power of Gratitude. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The grateful mind is constantly looking for the best — thus holding its attention upon the best and daily growing into the likeness of the best. The grateful mind expects only good things, and will always secure good things out of everything that comes. What we constantly expect, we receive. And when we constantly expect to get good out of everything, we cause everything to produce good. Therefore, to the grateful mind, all things will at all times work together for good, and this means perpetual increase in everything that can add to our happiness and welfare.

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Listen to episode 627 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Right Kind of Determination for Success in Life. Prosperity Through Thought Force by Bruce MacLelland.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Some people think they are determined when they are really only bullheaded. Determination is a quality that shouldn’t be confused with stubbornness — that fierce dominating desire to ride roughshod over everyone who has opposing views; the desire to bulldoze, overpower, and tyrannize, without regard to whether right or wrong. That kind of person is just as self-willed when shown they are in the wrong as before, and they will not be moved by reason, logic, or superior wisdom. They will sacrifice money, friends, and home; plunge their family into want, if by so doing they can only have their own way.

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Listen to episode 626 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Thought Power & The Law of Attraction. Prosperity Through Thought Force by Bruce MacLelland.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: You have the right to enjoy life, to follow the occupation you choose, to do as you please, so long as you injure no one, either in thought or action. This is your natural condition, and nothing but the action of your own mind can deprive you of it. It is a natural law. Live in the law and your development is assured.

It is literally true that conditions confront one precisely as they are expected. Expect poverty and failure, and you will get them. People think of you just as you think of yourself.

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Podcast Excerpt: Faith in the Divine promotes self-confidence, and self-confidence is a powerful factor for success. When self-confidence is based upon Divine Faith it is invincible. The spiritual part of your existence is in reality you, and if it lacks Faith in the Divine Intelligence, the source from whence it came, you cannot progress. You must reinforce Truth with Faith for continued progress.

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Listen to episode 625 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Making the Doors of Opportunity Fly Open. Edited and adapted from Heading for Victory; or, Getting the Most Out of Life; by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is an indefinable power in fine manners which unconsciously, irresistibly, and instantaneously wins admiration. Give a person courtesy and accomplishments, and you give them the mastery of palaces and fortunes wherever they go. The well-mannered can do without riches. All doors fly open to them, and they enter everywhere without money and without price. People instinctively know whether you are a genuine lady or gentleman, and respond accordingly.

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Listen to episode 624 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: You Were Made to Be an Original. Edited and adapted from Heading for Victory; or, Getting the Most Out of Life; by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Don’t be a copy. The dreamers are the builders. The woman and man with an idea has ever changed the face of the world. Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than weapons of war.

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Listen to episode 623 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Make Today a Red Letter Day in Your Life. Edited and adapted from Heading for Victory; or, Getting the Most Out of Life; by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When someone asked the great sculptor Herbert Ward the name of his best work, his masterpiece, the artist replied, “My next one”. The only way to make life a masterpiece is to make every day the best; to make each one an advance upon the previous day. The great masters who made their reputations by their wonderful mosaics and stained glass were extremely careful in the selection of the individual bits of marble or of glass which went into the particular thing they were making. Every piece had to be perfect, and no labor was too great to make it so.

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Listen to episode 622 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Building a Foundation for Success in Life. Edited and adapted from Heading for Victory; or, Getting the Most Out of Life; by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The foundation of all success, and of all happiness, lies in robust health. Health means confidence and assurance. It means hope and courage. It means faith in one’s self and faith in others. Health means virility, forcefulness, masterfulness. It means larger opportunity and greater possibilities. Health means initiative, efficiency, success and happiness. In short, everything we live for is so dependent upon good health that it becomes our first duty to keep ourselves in strong physical condition.

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Listen to episode 621 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Fulfilling Your Needs for a Better Life. Spunk: How to Look Fear by David V. Bush.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The more needs you have, the more should be your accomplishments in the future. Needs are Nature’s way of pushing you up, up, and up.

What are your needs? The more your needs, the more Nature grants you the dynamic urge and inward push to seek that which you want. If your needs are great, then you know that your fulfillment in the future will be great, provided you keep the right attitude of mind. Believe you will achieve, that you’re going to get there, that you can and will!

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Listen to episode 620 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Developing the Prosperity Habit. Spunk: How to Look Fear by David V. Bush.

Motivational Podcast Transcript: We get what we sow. If we sow corn, we get it. If we sow wheat, wheat is what we harvest. If we sow briar patches, briar patches are what will spring up. We get the thing we expect to get; therefore, you must create, maintain, and hold the prosperity habit of thinking. So many people expect to have prosperity and then go to work with a face downcast, a spirit that is broken, and a mental attitude of defeat!

Instead of blaming our circumstances, our conditions, our environment and fate because we are not successful, let us throw the searchlight into our own souls and see what our mental attitude is. Do you really believe in prosperity? Are you looking for it? Do you expect it to come? Are you confident it is yours? If you are, then one of these days you will garner a big harvest of the things you expect to get — prosperity, abundance, success.

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Listen to episode 619 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Life & This Amazing World of Ours. Edited and adapted from 4 Minute Essays by Dr. Frank Crane.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The Seven Wonders of the World are by no means the most wonderful things in the world. The wonders of life are abundant among familiar, every-day matters. Perhaps the most amazing, baffling, mysterious thing in all the universe is a seed. Look at an apple-tree. All of its trunk, the law of its branches, its leaves and their veins, its delicate blossoms and its red fruit, were contained in a little, brown, hard seed. Open the seed and you see nothing but a whitish filling; yet that substance has powers as strange as the human mind. It has a plan that includes wood, flowers, and apples.

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Listen to episode 618 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Becoming Rich and Full of Life. Edited and adapted from 4 Minute Essays by Dr. Frank Crane.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Have you lost your money? Has your business failed? Is poverty staring you in the face? Are you up against the wall, unsure of which way to turn? Do you sit and brood? Is despair your companion?

Go on! Move forward! Tomorrow lies before you. Who knows what is there? Perhaps the land of Success is just beyond the horizon and tomorrow’s sun will reveal it, palm-fringed and glistening. So what if you have lost your position, if you have lost your love. So what if disgrace has fallen upon you, disease has attacked you, friends have deserted you, or some other calamity shadows you.

Go on! Life is not a fixed point. Life is a stream, ever flowing. It is a moving picture continually unfolding. It is a strange tale. There will yet be another chapter after this. Let us see what is.

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Listen to episode 617 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Becoming Rich and Full of Life. Edited and adapted from Adventures in Common Sense by Dr. Frank Crane.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Give us riches! Rich hearts to love mightily; rich brains to think boldly; rich hands to work skillfully; rich bodies to live healthily; riches of culture to keep us out of the bogs of barbarism; riches of music, of sculpture, of architecture; riches of spirit to grasp the majesty of moral laws, and riches of money to secure our personal independence. The great individual is the one who is full life, and full of ideas.

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Listen to episode 616 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Manifesting Your Inner World to the Outer. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To change your fate, begin with yourself. If the environment in which you live is beneath your ideal, nothing can be gained by leaving that environment until the way is opened naturally to better things. If you simply get up and leave, you will gravitate into something elsewhere that will be just as uncongenial as those conditions you left behind.

First, find the reason why you are living in your present adverse environments, then proceed to remove that cause. There may be many reasons, but in most cases the principal reason is a lack of ability or power to apply the ability you possess. In such a case, you must remove inability by becoming more proficient, and as soon as you are competent to render better service, you will readily find a better place. This will mean larger remuneration, and you will thus be able to secure more desirable surroundings.

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Listen to episode 615 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Living Consciously for Greater Possibilities Ahead. Edited and adapted from Circles by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Today I would like to share with you one of our earliest episodes, back in 2017. It’s been edited and adapted from the essay "Circles" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This reading is one of the 200+ archival episodes that are no longer publicly available. But all of these episodes are available to our patrons at Patreon, plus our weekly series Our Sunday Talks and full transcripts. Learn how you can support us, and get these benefits in return, by visiting LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you.

Beware when the universe lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no one knows where it is safe, or when it will end.

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Listen to episode 614 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Creating Your Ideal Surroundings. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If the surroundings in which you live are not what you wish them to be, know that you can change them. You can make those surroundings ideal. You can make those surroundings better and better at every step in your advancement, thus making real higher and higher ideals in your life. This is a positive truth and should be impressed so deeply upon your mind that no former belief on the subject can cause you to doubt your possession of this power for a moment.

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Listen to episode 613 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Visualization & Building a Powerful Personal Atmosphere. Edited and adapted from Live and Grow Young by Arthur Edward Stilwell.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: All things have an individual atmosphere. Our atmosphere is created by our actions — by our material existence. We create it by our life, thoughts, and deeds. The hateful person has a disagreeable atmosphere; the kindly, loving person, a pleasing atmosphere. People feel these individual atmospheres just as they feel the shade of the trees or an approaching storm.

The atmosphere of many public women and men is felt by thousands, sometimes millions. Some have lived such grand and noble lives that their atmosphere seems almost visible. There are people who reflect such hope, joy, and sunshine in their atmosphere that they make a rainy day seem pleasant.

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Listen to episode 612 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Live and Grow Young. Edited and adapted from Live and Grow Young by Arthur Edward Stilwell.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Ralph Waldo Emerson said that we do not count a person’s years until they have nothing else to count. So keep on moving, keep on achieving, and give the world something else to count.

From time immemorial humanity has sought the elixir of life. Quests have been made in all lands for the fountain of youth. It has been the dream of every age to extend our earthly existence. But out of centuries of disappointment has come the realization that the prolongation of life can never come from without. It can only be the product of the within. It is the thinking and living of life that will banish years and give you health.

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Listen to episode 611 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Overcoming Anxiety, Worry, and Fear. Edited and adapted from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Quit fearing things that may never happen, just as you would quit any bad practice which has caused you suffering. Fill your mind with courage, hope, and confidence. Do not wait until fear thoughts become entrenched in your mind and your imagination. Do not dwell upon them. Apply the antidote instantly, and the enemies will flee.

There is no fear so great, or entrenched so deeply in the mind, that it cannot be neutralized or entirely eradicated by its opposite. You must drive out fear by putting a new idea into the mind. Fear, in any of its expressions, like worry or anxiety, cannot live an instant in your mind in the presence of the opposite thought: the image of courage, fearlessness, confidence, hope, self-assurance, self-reliance.

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Listen to episode 610 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Work, Play & Keeping a Youthful Spirit. Edited and adapted from Invincible Power by John Henry Remmers.

Podcast Transcript: If you are dissatisfied with your present occupation, and feel that you will never learn to like it, then seek some field of endeavor which strongly appeals to you. Having found it, put your whole self into each day's work, eliminating all other thoughts which might weaken the effectiveness of your efforts. But when the day's work is done, completely forget it. Close the gates of that reservoir and give it a chance to re-accumulate energy. Then seek play! Be like the childhood student who flings their books in a corner, takes up a ball or kite, and with a song on their lips, finds a wonderful joy in just being alive.

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Listen to episode 609 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Richest Type of Success | Uplifting Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin.

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Uplifting Podcast Excerpt: To be successful, we must be a striver. We must forever be seeking better things and to express ourselves more perfectly. The person who drifts through life, making no effort to rise to better things, is not worthy of the name “citizen”. The individual, to be worthy of life’s blessings, must be forever striving, overcoming, and rising.

Failure in life is always due to weakness of character. It is only strong characters who can withstand the blows of life and overcome its difficulties. The woman and man who would make their life worthy of respect, and who would rise to high achievement and service, will be confronted by difficulty at every turn. And this is as it should be, for it weeds out the weak and unworthy aspirants, and awards the spoils to those who exhibit faith and courage, steadfastness and patience, cheerfulness and strength of character.

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Listen to episode 608 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Power of Your Sub-Conscious Mind | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The sub-conscious mind can be made to do more and more work for us, if we will delegate definite work for it to deal with. The person who has learned thought control, who can take up a matter, consider it in all its bearings, and then dismiss the subject from their conscious thought, is able to increase their efficiency a hundred per cent, and reduce their mental fatigue almost to vanishing point — for instead of laboriously working out their problems and worrying and scheming over them, they simply dismiss them to their sub-conscious mind, to be dealt with by the Master Mind, which works unceasingly, with great rapidity, extreme accuracy, and entirely without effort.

It is necessary, however, to give the sub-conscious every available information, for it possesses no inspiration or super-human wisdom, but simply works things out logically, according to the facts you have supplied to it.....

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Listen to episode 607 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Developing a Greatness of Soul | Happiness Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Be Good to Yourself by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Some people have a faculty for touching the wrong keys. From the finest instrument they extract only discord. All their songs are in a minor key. They sound the note of pessimism everywhere. The shadows predominate in all their pictures. Their outlook is always gloomy; times are always hard and money tight. Everything in them seems to be contracting; nothing expanding or growing in their lives.

With others it is just the reverse. They cast no shadows. They radiate sunshine. Every bud they touch opens its petals and flings out its fragrance and beauty. They never approach you but to cheer; they never speak to you but to inspire; they scatter flowers wherever they go. They have that happy alchemy which turns prose to poetry, ugliness to beauty, discord to melody. They see the best in people and say pleasant and helpful things about them.

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Listen to episode 606 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: You Are a Mental Magnet | The Law of Attraction. Edited and adapted from How to Get What You Want by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What we think most about is constantly weaving itself into the fabric of our career. It is becoming a part of ourselves, increasing the power of our mental magnet to attract those things we most ardently desire.

When the architect looks at the plan of their building, they do not see merely the plan. That only suggests the building. It is the invisible building, the creation of their mind that they see. What they take in from the plan with the eyes is not the reality at all. They see in all its details the building of their mental vision. If they did not see it in this way, it would never become a reality. If they could see only the mechanical plans, they would not be an architect at all.

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Listen to episode 605 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Inspirational Power of Friendship and Nature. Edited and adapted from Invincible Power by John Henry Remmers.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The full realization of what Friendship means to life should grip you. It should inspire you with an intense desire to live in such a manner that those who have proved their genuineness will admit you into its noble realm. Once there, no one can predict the measure of your success. You may rise to the very heights of life.

True Friendship has opened the way upward for the most humble and sincere, and by its added force they rose to greatness. Upon the pages of history there are many examples which reveal this mighty truth. The person who fully appreciates the power of Friendship, and who through right living establishes it between themselves and the upright and strong, moves forward with that irresistible current which carries on to success.

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Listen to episode 604 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Key to Personal Growth and Self-Development. Edited and adapted from Invincible Power by John Henry Remmers.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To succeed in life and find happiness, it is of vital importance to comprehend and realize the element of Resistance. This element is always present, a part of the Divine plan, and no living thing can escape it. Its purpose is evolution. And in opposition to this element of Resistance stands Assertiveness. By the action of the two we have a result: either Failure or Success, according to the degree and nature of our Assertiveness.

An individual who governs themselves by the laws of progress, Assertively meets Resistance with Wisdom and Strength, and by this very contact promotes the growth of their Personality — the unfoldment of their Power, Evolution, and Success.

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Listen to episode 603 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: You Can What You Will to Be | Uplifting Podcasts. Edited and adapted from What All the World is a-Seeking by Ralph Waldo Trine.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpts: There is nothing more true in connection with human life than that we grow into the likeness of those things we contemplate. Literally and scientifically true is that old saying, "as you thinketh in your heart, so you be." The "be" part is your character. Your character is the sum total of your habits. Your habits have been formed by your conscious acts.

But every conscious act is, as I have said, preceded by a thought. And so we have thought on the one hand, and character, life, and destiny on the other. It is simply the thought of the present moment, and the next moment, and then the next, and so on through all time. We can in this way attain to whatever ideals we desire.

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Listen to episode 602 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The True Secret of Happiness, Power and Greatness. What All the World is a-Seeking by Ralph Waldo Trine.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: How can you make life yield its fullest and best? How can you know the true secret of power? How can you attain to a true and lasting greatness? How can you fill your whole of life with a happiness and peace, a joy and satisfaction, that is ever rich and abiding, that ever increases and never diminishes, that imparts to it a sparkle that never loses its luster, that ever fascinates and never wearies?

No questions, perhaps, in this form or that, have been asked more often than these. Millions in the past have asked them. Millions are asking them today. They will be asked by millions more yet unborn. Is there an answer, a true and safe one, for these many millions? Are youinterested in the answer?

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Our Sunday Talks Excerpt: There are for each one of us, two paths to take — the Living Life or the Passing Life, a life that renews itself or a life that exhausts itself, a life of a person who has preserved and retained the life-flowing vigor or the one whose life force has been lessened.

Life can be defined as the union of body and soul. And the definition of soul is the spiritual, rational, immortal part of woman and man. Therefore, we all have a compound existence: a mortal body and an immortal soul.

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Listen to episode 601 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Climbing the Ladder of Life to Greater Things. Edited and adapted from As Natural as Life by Charles Gordon Ames.

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Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from As Natural as Life by Charles Gordon Ames, published in 1895.

The years of a tree's life can be counted by the rings in its woody trunk. And, by looking at how these annual growths differ in thickness, we can tell or guess what years were friendly or backward, warm or cold, wet or dry. Thus the tree writes in itself the history of its life and the record of all passing seasons.

To an eye that sees all things as they are, each person’s inner being must contain the stored-up results of all their choices and conduct, and all the forces and principles that have affected their mind and heart. We number our days as the tree its years. They make of us what we are and what we are to be. Indeed, what we call our character is simply the sum of inward effects produced by thought, feeling, and action.

Worldly matters do not stand with any of us as they did a year ago. Our life has grown richer or poorer, deeper or shallower. We are better or worse (more under the rule of the truth and the right) or less so. The divine voice that calls us upward sounds nearer and clearer, or farther off and fainter, according to how we have heeded or neglected its invitations.

This means that some days count for more than others, because we put more into them and get more out of them. No day is bright when the mind is dull. No day is dull when the mind is bright, and those are the great days which yield great events. But what we call an "event" is always an outcropping of what went before. There comes a day when the blossoms open, when the ripe fruit falls, when the ship enters port, and, after weary climbing, we reach a terrace or summit, draw a deeper breath, survey a wider prospect, and feel rewarded for our toil.

The great days of life are not the days when something happens outside of us. They are the days when something happens inside — days of spiritual expansion; days of discovery or illumination when we gain a clearer perception of high realities, see deeper meanings in life; days of moral re-enforcement, when we make decisions and are prepared for worthier achievement. Our greater birthdays are the days when we enter into truer life and come into possession of a great character.

In reflecting on what the days have done or may do for us, we naturally think about life and time. What is life? No definition seems to make it plain; but perhaps we have a right to say that life is our share of God. While we touch the transient and then leave it, we live in the Eternal and never leave it. Our lives are set fast in the larger life, like the limbs and leaves of a tree. In the very act of contemplating ourselves, we look into the infinite — just as in contemplating a star we look into the boundlessness of space. The more we ponder, the more we wonder. The mystery of our own existence forever connects itself with that larger Mystery which makes our existence possible — and we feel with wonder and awe, "How good it is to be alive!"

What is time, but our present share in eternity. Duration, like space, is infinite. It has neither beginning nor end. But as the orbit of every star is a circle enclosing some tract of the immeasurable space, so our earthly life takes in some tract of the immeasurable duration. Our limited being can only take in a little. But these littles give us a hint of the large, as a drop is a hint of the ocean.

To us mortals, life and time, within these limitations of sense, are conditions of everything else. Emerson exclaims: "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." What can we do with health and a day? We can live (consciously or unconsciously) in infinite space and infinite time. We can take in something of the universal life and the Godlike forces. We can come in touch with nature, humanity, and the Supreme Spirit.

Between every rising and setting sun, we can gain visions of truth and beauty. We can put our powers of mind and body under the discipline of virtue and usefulness. We can live, learn, and love. We can do, enjoy, and grow.

Thus, in the very act of finding the world around us, we find ourselves, and acquire the use of our faculties. We store up the results of observation and reflection. We become acquainted with reality. We keep step with the larger order. We can convert the days and years into building material for the temple of a noble personality. How precious, then, is time. How sacred, then, is life!

At a funeral, I often find myself asking, "What did the person whose body lies here get out of their earthly years? They came into this world an infant, with empty hands. What did they carry with them when they left? They have moved about among their friends. They have looked on the earth and sky, and into human eyes. Thousands of days and nights have passed over their head. They have seen the flowers come and the leaves fall. They have felt the fever of desire and the chill of disappointment. They have heard words of truth, and soft inward calls of reason and conscience. God gave them time and opportunity. What did they do with their time? What use did they make of opportunity? What did they get out of life?"

But, for the dead, I know not how to answer these questions. But I do know this: let us not shrink from self-questioning. As the years go by, let us ask ourselves, “Has life acquired a deeper meaning and higher value? Do we care more for good things, and care most for the best? Are we more ready to take a suggestion of self-improvement, more open to admit our mistakes, more sensitive to the distinctions of right and wrong? Have we been growing more reasonable, calm, and self-possessed; more amenable to discipline; and more skillful in the worthy use of our abilities? Has this human world in which we live schooled us to a better understanding of what it is to be just and kind, pure and true, helpful and glad? Have we grown stronger to resist bad examples, and yet more tender in our compassion toward human frailty and folly? Have we been drawing closer in fellowship to all good people, and more willing to do our part in all good work?

If we can say yes to such questions, let us thank God, who has helped us to learn from our days the wisdom of the heavens. Every year is full of opportunities. Our pleasures and our pains; our victories and defeats; our gains and our losses; the flowers that have bloomed along our path, and the thorns that have torn our flesh — when we have left them all behind, can we not see in the review that they were part of our spiritual training?

"We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. The one who lives most is the one who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." By the right use of things that are seen and temporal, we rise into communion with things unseen and eternal. "All common things, each day's events, That with the hours begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rungs by which we may ascend."

In climbing this ladder of life, we leave the rungs behind, and they are soon forgotten. So must it be with the days themselves, and with what they bring. One glance backward tells this story of merciful forgetfulness. How many things now look little which once looked large! Who cares to remember their toilsome days or their tossing nights, the pains that wrenched our nerves, or the pangs that smote our heart? It is much the same with the pleasures, achievements, and applauses that gratified us most. The events that began with the hours, ended with the hours; and our entire past is rapidly gliding away to mingle with the vague memories of childhood.

Does the traveler remember their steps? Does the sailor remember the waves they crossed, or the winds that helped or hindered them? The steps must be taken, the voyage must be made; but the incidents by the way are forgotten at the destination.

Let us welcome the experiences that conduct us to wisdom and goodness, to power and peace! Welcome all "the rungs by which we may ascend"! Welcome, too, the oblivion which gently closes the past behind us as a brighter future opens before us.

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Listen to episode 600 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Gaining a True Understanding of Your Universe. Edited and adapted from As Natural as Life by Charles Gordon Ames.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: One lesson we are ever learning is the lesson of unity in variety, and variety in unity. Think how many features come together to make a face or a landscape — and what an assortment of objects we look upon whenever we open our eyes! The rocks are not like the streams; the forests are not like the fields; the hills are not like the plains; the birds are not like the flowers; the sky is not like the sea; the stars are not like the clouds; and the night is not like the day. Yet they all harmonize. They come together into a composite whole. They belong to a large system. We could not spare one curve or color, one light or shadow.

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Listen to episode 599 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Meaning of Success & How to Achieve It. Edited and adapted from Successward by Edward W. Bok.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Last time I talked with you about the most important element of success: knowing yourself. Today I would like to talk about what is success. Before anyone goes into business, I think that they should set themselves straight on one very important point, and that is what success in business really is and means. Unfortunately, not enough has been written on this topic. It is foolish for you to seek out the methods of success before you are really clear in your mind just what constitutes success — until, in other words, you find out the true definition of the word — which in fact very few have a proper and correct conception of.

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Listen to episode 598 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Most Essential Element of Success. Edited and adapted from Successward by Edward W. Bok.

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Listen to episode 597 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Turn in the Road that Changes Everything. Edited and adapted from The Power of Truth by William George Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When walking along a mountain trail there is sometimes a sudden sharp turn where, by seeming magic, the narrow path is transformed into the entrance of a vast panorama of Nature. We are stunned as we involuntarily stop short, rest and surrender to its majesty. The view exalts us, glorifies us, inspires us. We have a new high restful ground of contemplation. We have a new test of values, a new base of interpretation, a new relation to life....

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Listen to episode 596 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Don’t Wait Until it is Too Late. Edited and adapted from The Power of Truth by William George Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Love should be constantly made evident in little acts of thoughtfulness, words of sweetness and appreciation, smiles and handshakes of esteem. It should be shown to be a loving reality by our patience, forbearance, courtesy, and kindness. We should have roses of love, ever-blooming, ever-breathing perfume, instead of dried roses pressed in the family Bible, merely for reference, as a memorial of what was, instead of guarantee of what is.

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Listen to episode 595 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Connecting to the Life Changing Power Within You. Edited and adapted from You Can, But Will You? By Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Emerson says that we are weak when we look for help outside of ourselves; that it is only as we throw ourselves unhesitatingly on our thoughts that we instantly right ourselves, stand erect and work miracles. In other words, you will never do the biggest thing possible to you while you rely on outside help, upon others to boost you, to give you capital, or to start your business. It is only when, figuratively speaking, you throw everything else overboard and dive right into the great within of yourself that you find the spring of success, the achievement force, the power which does things in a big way.

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Listen to episode 594 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Self-Respect for a Joyful Life. Edited and adapted from You Can, But Will You? By Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: At the very outset of your professional life, you can make no better resolution than that, whatever happens, you will stand well with yourself, that you will never forfeit your self-respect, never besmirch your honor by perverting your divine nature to do mean, low, dishonorable things. If you firmly resolve that you will always have the good opinion of at least one person in the world (yourself), no one, no conditions or circumstances, can cheat you out of an honorable career, an honorable life.

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I would like to share with you today the 2nd variation of our popular Affirmations Sleep Meditation. Previously I shared with you the Ocean Sounds version. This 2nd version features our life changing affirmations spoken over a continuous stream of gently falling rain and rolling thunder. This recording will relax your mind to encourage a deep, restful sleep, and help create instructive dreams to solve problems, inspire new actions, and build a positive mindset.

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Listen to episode 593 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Avoiding Detours on Your Road to Success. Edited and adapted from C’mon Up by Franklin Fillmore Farrington.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Nobody who drives a car enjoys seeing the sign “Detour” — for it means the long and hard way. For some reason, the straight, smooth road has been closed, and we are asked to go out of our way and endure the consequences.

The person who lives an overly emotional life is constantly making detours, going the hard, difficult, “round about” way. The people who end the day with the expression, “I am so weary,” are generally emotional people. They do no great work but allow their energy to leak away in needless emotions.

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Listen to episode 592 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Power of Letting Go | Live NOW. Edited and adapted from C’mon Up by Franklin Fillmore Farrington.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Worry is the bugaboo of life! You have not yet lived unless you have learned to neutralize the acid thoughts of fear and anxiety. Sooner or later, mental unrest manifests itself physically, mentally, and financially. The old saying, “When about to let go, hold on,” should be revised to say, “When about to hold on—let go.”

One of the best ways of testing a person's physical and mental condition is to ascertain their ability to relax. When we tighten up mentally, we see an immediate effect on the body. High blood pressure, indigestion, headaches, the hardening of the arteries, and a score of other ailments are often a direct result of the desire to “hold on” instead of “letting go.”

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Listen to episode 591 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Power of the Subconscious Mind. Edited and adapted from Success Psychology by Coleman Hall Bush.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The conscious mind has the important duty of being the thinker for the other departments of our mind. It acts as the adviser and master suggestor for our sub-conscious mind, and the sub-conscious ALWAYS receives these suggestions from our conscious mind, whether we know it or not, and it has a follow-up-system of working them into realization that many people are blind to. In other words, we may get a “rotten patch of hard luck” today and wonder why, but THE ORDER was placed through our Conscious Mind, maybe years ago.

The conscious mind is the leader. It takes the leadership and initiative in all forms of development. When the conscious mind gives its order to the sub-conscious, that order is taken up and acted upon by the sub-conscious department of our mind, while we sleep, possibly, but it is taken up and acted upon A L W A Y S.

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Listen to episode 590 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: You Were Made for Greatness. Edited and adapted from The Cause of Failure and How to Overcome It by Thomas Z. Davis.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is no bigger shirker than the person who never does anything to help answer their own prayers. Opportunity is the gate that points to the way of success. If we would win the race of life that leads to the way of success, we must open the gate of opportunity ourselves. If the gate stood always open, it would not be doing the service of a gate. If passage through the gateway were perfectly free and unobstructed, then the one who passes in would have no more credit than the one who chooses to remain without.

But that is not the case. To the woman and man who overcomes barriers and surmounts obstacles, we take off our hats and acknowledge them as a victor. A gate then is a barrier to only those who would not try to push aside the barrier or overcome obstacles. And the gate of opportunity is shown to anyone with an honest purpose who asks the way to success. It is thus yours to open. Will you do it?

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Listen to episode 589 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Use Your Time & Money | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Gaining the Round Above, a Guide to Personal Efficiency, by Gustavus S. Kimball.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A wise philosopher once said, “Time is the stuff that life is made of.” Many people waste a great deal of time on trivialities, instead of putting their work where it will matter. When Drexillius was asked by a friend how he managed to accomplish so much, he replied: “The year has 365 days, or 8,760 hours. In so many hours great things can be done. The slow tortoise made a long journey by losing no time.”

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Listen to episode 588 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Ambition to Achieve Great Things. Edited and adapted from Gaining the Round Above, a Guide to Personal Efficiency, by Gustavus S. Kimball.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Many of the circumstances of our lives we cannot change, but it IS up to us how we respond to them. Let it be understood at the start, that the patient conquest of difficulties in business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success we seek, but necessary to that preparation of mind requisite for the enjoyment of our success, and for retaining it when gained.

It is the rule of Providence that the process of earning success shall be the preparation for its conversion and enjoyment. So, day after day, work on — and in that process, gain strength and symmetry, nerve and knowledge. No better advice was ever given to a young person than that conveyed in Emerson's maxim, "Hitch your wagon to a star."

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Podcast Excerpt: The richest person is the one who deserves the most friends. Wealth is a matter of the heart and not of the pocket. It is not that which others do for us that makes us possessors of great wealth, but that which we do for others. All true riches are self made. Only when the hand and the heart are put into one’s work does it yield a lasting worth. In the final true analysis, the picture forever belongs to the painter who paints it; the poem to the poet who writes it; the loaf of bread to the worker who earns it. Wealth may acquire these things but it cannot own them.

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Listen to episode 587 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Power of Suggestion | Authoring Your Destiny. Edited and adapted from Leadership by George H. Knox.

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THE natural state of the mind is consciousness. When we are awake, the mind is always conscious and acting, continually thinking, sometimes about things worthwhile, sometimes not, but always thinking. Too often our thoughts are permitted to ramble without any purpose, without even the consciousness of the energy exhausted or the time wasted. If you can train yourself to keep before your mind the right kind of mental pictures, you will transform your life. These suggestions will act and re-act upon you, and in turn accomplish (in you and for you) your best and most cherished purposes.

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Listen to episode 586 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Being a Leader in Every Day Life. Edited and adapted from Leadership by George H. Knox.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: There are some things in life that one needs to forget. And if we could forget, forgiving would be easy. To be able to forget slights and wrongs inflicted by others is a greater asset than to have a good memory. So, forget and forgive, and obliterate forever all the rankling animosities of the past. It will give you health and happiness, and purify your soul.

What good does it do to brood over a thing that can't be helped. If you have done wrong, right the wrong if possible, and then forget it. Outgrow it. Let the brain cells of unpleasant memories wither and die. Remove the thistle, and plant the flower. Lose sight of the wrong. Cling to the good.

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Listen to episode 585 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: You Have the Talent to Do Great Things. Edited and adapted from Leadership by George H. Knox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The tadpole becomes a frog or toad — something of more importance than a tadpole. The caterpillar becomes a butterfly. But the brightest child may live a hundred years, and never become a genuine woman or man — a true individual.

In becoming your true self there is more to do than finding enough to eat and a place to sleep. The animals do that. There are kind words to speak, loads to lift, and people to cheer, help, and save. There are intellectual problems to be solved, spiritual heights to be scaled, a passion for service and a love of humanity to be cultivated.

Every day, every year, can bring a higher state of existence, a more marvelous transformation. No person can estimate the influence or possibilities of a human life.

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Listen to episode 584 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Power of the Mind & How to Use It. Edited and adapted from Leadership by George H. Knox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:The mind is the key to power and the source of all power — the open door to fame and immortality. The mind is also the greatest factor in the development of personality. It is the one power, and the only power, that dominates and controls you. It is the one indestructible agency that survives time. It cannot be weighed or measured. It outreaches a million worlds. It is as limitless as the universe and as boundless as eternity.

In a mere instant, we can turn the mind back to the beginning of human history. Circumscribed by neither time nor space, its dwelling place is eternity, and in a single moment of flight, it can reach the most distant star, and then on and on and on.

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Listen to episode 583 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Mindset to Win Life’s Battles. Edited and adapted from How to Lick Our Fears by David V. Bush.

Motivation Podcast Excerpt: Not many people believe in witches and goblins anymore, but plenty of us have, through fear, worry, and shyness, conjured up numerous devils to beset our road, to rob us of our happiness, and sink us into the rut of despair. Borrowed troubles, magnified worries, these are the modern devils which camp on nearly everyone’s trail, and block many a successful highway.

What is there to fear? Nothing but fear. But thousands of us are haunted day and night by that particular devil of the imagination. Devils of worries, fear, and disappointment are barriers which only the mind can overcome.

Devils, like our troubles, are mostly in our minds. If we mix up a witches’ brew of fear and worry, we shall sip a bitter cup of unhappiness indeed. Loss may become such a devil, it could drive us to suicide today, as it has done to thousands in the past. And yet loss may be a blessing in disguise, or an incentive to drive us to greater accomplishments. Whatever effect it has on us depends upon the state of our mind. Loss may be as vinegar to the taste and wormwood to the soul. Or loss may help us to make friends and lay the foundation for success or riches.

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Listen to episode 582 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Overcome Your Fears. Edited and adapted from How to Lick Our Fears by David V. Bush.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, as special thank you to our new monthly patrons, Judith Ogedegbe, Jeri Neathery, and Andy Graham. Learn how you can become a patron for as little as $3 a month, to receive ad-free podcasts, full transcripts, and more, by visiting LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from How to Lick Fear by David V. Bush, published in 1924.

The common saying that you are making a mountain out of a molehill, contains more truth than poetry. When your imagination takes wings, and fancy runs wild, you can picture and anticipate more trouble in five minutes than you could actually bring upon yourself in a lifetime. Imagination can do almost anything: It can give us the right mental attitude for success, health, and happiness; but uncontrolled, it can build structures of doubt, sorrow, ill-health, and many a trouble.

Most of the troubles we have are imagined. Our worst troubles never come. Whether our troubles are real or imaginary, there is one way to meet them and rise superior to them — one easy, sure way to knock every fear in the head and throw it out of your mental picture gallery. It is so simple that you will wonder why the human family has not been taught it from infancy.

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Listen to episode 581 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Key to Health, Happiness, and Prosperity. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Talk happiness. When things look dark, talk happiness. When things look bright, talk more happiness. When others are sad, insist on being glad. Talk happiness, and they will soon feel better.

Talk happiness. It pays in every shape and form and manner. Give sunshine to others, and others will be more than pleased to give sunshine to you. Talk happiness, and your health will be better, your mind will be brighter, and your personality far more attractive. But the qualities that happiness will give to you, will also be given to those who have the pleasure to listen to you when you talk happiness.

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Listen to episode 580 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Inspirational Thoughts for Every-day Life. Edited and adapted from the work of Maltbie Davenport Babcock.

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Opportunities do not come with their value stamped upon them. Every one of them must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days. In it a single hour comes, quite like other hours. But in that day, and in that hour, the chance of a lifetime faces us. To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet the supreme opportunities when they come, whether recognized or disguised.

Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness, indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it, is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to live a wasted life. For in the end, we shall be judged not only by what we have done, but by what we could have done.

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Listen to episode 579 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Living a Joyful & Productive Life. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Live in a cheerful world, even if you have to create such a world in your own imagination. Resolve to be happy regardless of what comes. You cannot afford to be otherwise. Count everything joy. Meet everything in a spirit of joy, and expect everything to give you joy. By creating a cheerful world in your own imagination, you develop the tendency to a sunny disposition, and by meeting everything in an attitude of joy, you will soon meet only those things that naturally produce joy. Like does attract like. Much sunshine will gather more sunshine, and the happiest mind meets the most delightful experiences.

When exceptions occur, pass them by as of no consequence, because they ARE of no consequence to you. You are interested only in happy events. Therefore, there is no reason whatever why you should pay any attention to the other kind. It is a fact that the less attention we pay to unpleasant conditions, the less unpleasantness we meet in life. That person who looks for the disagreeable everywhere, and expects to find it everywhere, will certainly find what they are looking for in most places, if not in all places. On the other hand, the person who expects only the pleasant will seldom find anything else. We attract what we think of the most.

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Listen to episode 578 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Quality that Makes or Breaks You. Edited and adapted from The Making of the Man by Edward Ward Carmack.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The subject of my talk today isn’t the training of your intellectual faculties or the acquisition of knowledge. I would rather impress upon you that the strongest, most disciplined mind cannot of itself bring you honor or happiness, cannot make you a good and useful citizen, or entitle you to the respect of others. The great topic upon which I plan to speak is character — for the greatest women and men, whose names are honored and revered by all humankind, were not great because they were mighty in intellect, but because they were grand in soul.

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Listen to episode 577 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Turning a Mediocre Present into a Greater Future. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson.

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WHEN things are not to your liking, like them as they are. In other words, while you are working for greater things, make friends with the lesser things, and they will help you to reach your goal. The person who is dissatisfied with things as they are, and discontented because things are not to their liking, is standing in their own way. We cannot get away from present conditions so long as we antagonize those conditions — because we are held in bondage to that which we resist.

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Listen to episode 576 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Get the Best from Your Life. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Give your best to the world, no matter how insignificant that best may be, and the world will invariably give its best to you. When we give our best, we not only receive the best in return from the outer world, but we also receive the best from the inner world. When you give your best, you bring forth your best, and it is the bringing forth of your best that causes you to become better and better. And when you become better, you will meet better people, and enter into better environments, and everything in your life will change for the better, because like does attract like.

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Listen to episode 575 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Gift of Imagination | Living a Creative Life. Edited and adapted from Essays on Work and Culture by Hamilton Wright Mabie.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The greatest gift given to human beings is that of the imagination. The scientist, the engineer, the constructive individual in every department of work, uses the imagination quite as much as the artist — for the imagination is not a decorator and embellisher. It is a creator and constructor.

Wherever work is done along great lines, or life is lived in fields of constant abundance, the imagination is always the central and shaping power. Winston Churchill lifted statesmanship to a lofty plane by the use of it. Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla showed the world its magical quality. And many a millionaire owes their success more to imagination than to practical sagacity and factual knowledge.

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Listen to episode 574 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Become an Artist in Your Work & Life. Edited and adapted from Essays on Work and Culture by Hamilton Wright Mabie.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The person whose life is intelligently ordered is always preparing themselves for the highest demands of their work. They are not only doing their work with adequate skill from day to day, but always fitting themselves in advance for more exacting and difficult tasks.

If you are to become an artist in your work, your specific preparation for particular occasions and tasks must be part of a general preparation for ALLpossible occasions and tasks — because it is not only impossible to foresee opportunities, but often impossible to recognize their importance.

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Listen to episode 573 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Climbing the Ladder of Purpose and Success. Edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan.

Success Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thank you to our newest monthly patron, Sandra Hopper. To learn how you can become our patron and get access to ad free episodes, full transcripts, and more, please visit LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan, published in 1909.

Purpose gives a new impulse, a new impetus, a new interpretation to living. Purpose is the backbone of a life of courage. It shows that the highest justification for living is love, in some form. It may be for a cause, a country, an ideal, a family, or an individual. Purpose at its best means our mastery over conditions, our mastery over self, our dedication to something higher than self, fighting for the right and fighting it to the end. Were we able to follow a great purpose from its highest flights of effort, we might find its nest of inspiration in the heart of someone of whom the world knew nothing.

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Listen to episode 572 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Overcoming Sorrow to Live Happy Again. Edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To fight life's battles we must keep close to the firing-line. Pain, sorrow, anxiety, or trouble must be fought at close range. They cannot be evaded, ignored, nor deserted. We must vanquish them or they will vanquish us. We must look them squarely in the face and fight them to a finish. Retreat means simply deferring the battle until we are weaker, not stronger. It is running away from self — running away from life. It is as foolish as trying to dodge the atmosphere.

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Listen to episode 571 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: True Optimism for a Happy Life. Edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan.

Happiness Podcast Excerpt: Optimism is the sunshine of the soul in action. It is sturdy confidence that right must triumph, united to tireless courage to make it triumph. Optimism is the finest weapon in the armory of the individual. It unifies all the undaunted virtues of your strength into a force and inspiration. It means fighting for, or with, the battalions of right, love, justice, and truth — with a determination to win.

True optimism is something more than a continuous performance of hope. It is the joy of living — made an actual fact. It means seeking the best, living the best, doing the best. It means focusing all that is highest in our character to meet conditions.

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Listen to episode 570 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Fine Art of Living at Your Best. Edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Forgetting is one of the fine arts of living at your best. It is not that phase of non-remembering, where a name or a date or a fact has not strength enough to keep itself from sinking deep into memory’s sea of oblivion.

Fine forgetting means character asserting itself — not mind losing itself. It is the red pencil of wisdom — cutting out unnecessary words from the text of our living. It is individual kingship determining what thoughts it will permit to reside in its kingdom. It is the exclusion act of the soul — ejecting the unworthy and undesirable.

A great editor once said that the true secret of editing is to know what to put into the waste-basket. Forgetting is the soul’s way of discarding negative thoughts, depressing memories, mean ambitions, false standards, and low ideals.

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Listen to episode 569 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Hold on to Happiness. Edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan.

Happiness Podcast Excerpt: Happiness does not consist of what we have but what we are — not in our possessions but in our attitude towards them. It is the serenity of the soul in the presence of a joy. It is not absolute, requiring certain fixed conditions. It is relative. What would be a fast for one might prove a royal feast for another.

Happiness does not always require success, prosperity, or attainment. It is often the joy of hopeful struggle, the consecration of a purpose, and energy used to some good end. Real happiness ever has its root in unselfishness — its blossom in love of some kind. We make or mar our own happiness and that of others to a larger degree than we are willing to admit. It is easier to pose as a victim of conditions than to prove ourselves a victor.

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Listen to episode 568 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Crown of Individuality | Living Your Best Life. Edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: The supreme courage of life is the courage of the soul. It is living, day by day, sincerely, steadfastly, serenely — despite all opinions, all obstacles, all opposition. It means the wine of inspiration that comes from the crushed grapes of our sorrows. This courage makes the simplest life great. It makes the greatest life sublime. It means the royal dignity of fine individual living.

Every man and woman reigns a king or queen over the kingdom of self. They wear the crown of individuality that no hands but their own can ever remove. You should not only reign but rule. Your individuality is your true self, your best self, your highest self, your self victorious.

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Our Sunday Talks Excerpt: What is true spirituality? Many people have asked this, and just as many have answered it. I do not pretend to know more about this all important topic than others, but it seems to me that there should be a different answer given than the one we ordinarily hear....

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Listen to episode 567 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Making Room for Happiness in Your Life. Edited and adapted from The Adventure Beautiful by Lilian Whiting.

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Happiness Podcast Excerpt: The Flower of life is a gift, without money and without price. The supreme gift of the gods can neither be discussed nor deserved. Believe in Happiness; expect it; make room for it in your life. Happiness is so entirely a matter of the spirit that it indeed must be included among the eternal verities of life.

Possessions and gratifications have little to do with that which is the real joy of life — that order of happiness that is ecstasy and where "every touch should thrill". Happiness is really an intense spiritual force, one that acts upon conditions with the force of magic.

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Listen to episode 566 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Most Valuable Secret of Life. Edited an adapted from the work of Elbert Hubbard, collected in the book The American Bible by Alice Hubbard.

So, here, then, is the secret.....

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Listen to episode 565 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Mastering Your Moods | The Art of Arts. Edited and adapted from Every Man a King by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When things get hard for you, when everything seems to go against you, when you are thwarted on every side, when the sky is dark and you can see no light, that is just the time to exhibit your mettle, to show of what stuff you are made. If there is anything in you, adversity will bring it out. What you do in spite of circumstances, rather than because of them, is the measure of your success ability.

When you get up in the morning feeling blue and discouraged because disagreeable things confront you, make up your mind firmly that, come what may, you will make that particular day a "red-letter" day in your life. Then, instead of a probable failure and the loss of a day, you will at least accomplish infinitely more than you would have done if you had given way to your depressing mood.

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Listen to episode 564 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Rules of Success. Edited and adapted from Success Psychology by Coleman Hall Bush.

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Success Podcast Excerpt: We must have a clear idea of our Goal of Success, and where it is; then run in that direction only. In other words, we must have an AIM, and we must aim at the target if we would hit the bull’s-eye of Success.

Broadly speaking, we may say that success is that condition which gives us a “life more abundant” through growth in Health, Wealth, and Happiness. This, of course, can only be obtained through the constructive and creative power of right thinking. And it is this power which carries us directly to a study of all the departments of mind and body.

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Listen to episode 563 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Unlimited Business of Living. Edited and adapted from The Wonders of Life by Ida Luella Rettinghouse Lyon.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Get add free podcasts with full transcripts, plus our spiritual series Our Sunday Talks by visiting LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you.

I am indebted to Christian D. Larson for the pleasure of repeating the following inspiring truth, that is: “To simply think of an accumulation of energy within yourself will, if you are in a calm state, cause your energy to become stronger and stronger, until you feel that you are full of living powers. This method will also remove every condition of weariness, as well as threatened symptoms of every description. If you do not feel well, fill your system with new energy, and you will, even in a few minutes, feel like a new being."

The reason why this works is that our nerve-centers are "centers of force," and the greatest problem which confronts us is that of using them intelligently. That wonderful power-house, the human body (together with its subtle inner forces), represent the capital with which we begin the business of living — a business in which we are all engaged — and it rests with us whether that business shall be profitable or otherwise.

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Listen to episode 562 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Building the Habits to Set You Free. Edited and adapted from King of Mind, Body, and Circumstance by James Allen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Habit is repetition. We repeat the same thoughts, the same actions, the same experiences over and over again until they are incorporated within our being, until they are built into our character as part of ourselves. Faculty is fixed habit. Evolution is mental accumulation. Humanity, today, is the result of millions of repetitious thoughts and acts. We are not ready-made. We become, and are still becoming. Our character is predetermined by our own choice. The thought, the act, which we choose — that, by habit, we become.

Thus each person is an accumulation of thoughts and deeds. The characteristics which you manifest instinctively and without effort are lines of thought and action that become, by long repetition, automatic — for it is the nature of habit to become unconscious, to repeat itself without any apparent choice or effort on the part of its possessor. And in due time it takes such complete possession of the individual as to appear to render their will powerless to counteract it. This is the case with all habits, whether good or bad.

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Listen to episode 561 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Building a Personality that Attracts Other. Edited and adapted from The Secret of Success by William Walker Atkinson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A valuable trait of Personality is Self Respect. If you have real Self Respect, it will manifest itself in your outward demeanor and appearance. If you don’t have it, you had better start in and cultivate the appearance of Self Respect, and then Remember that you are a MAN, or WOMAN, as the case may be, and not a lowly, Human Door Mat.

Face the world firmly and fearlessly, keeping your eyes well to the front. HOLD UP YOUR HEAD! There is nothing like a stiff backbone and raised head for meeting the world. The person with bent head seems to apologize for living and being on the earth (and the world is apt to take such as their own valuation). An erect head enables one to walk past the dragons at the door of Success.

Think Self Respect and act Self Respect. Let the "I AM" within you manifest itself. Don’t crawl — don’t cringe — don’t grovel – but do be a Real Human Being.

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Listen to episode 560 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Finding the Energy to Accomplish Anything. Edited and adapted from The Secret of Success by William Walker Atkinson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Most of us have little or no conception of the reserve mental energies and forces contained within our being. We jog along at our customary gait, thinking that we are doing our best and getting all out of life there is — believing we are expressing ourselves to our utmost capacity. However, we are living only in the first-wind mental state. Behind our working mentality are stores of wonderful mental energy and power — faculties lying dormant, power lying latent, awaiting the magic command of the Will in order to awaken into activity and outward expression.

We are far greater beings than we have realized. We are giants of power, if we would but know it. Many of us are like young elephants that allow themselves to be mastered by weak men and put through their paces, little dreaming of the mighty strength and power concealed within us. On the hidden planes of our mind are untold possibilities — the raw materials for mighty mental tasks and achievement, the storage batteries of wonderful accomplishment.

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Listen to episode 559 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Power of Purpose. Edited and adapted from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden.

Success Podcast Excerpt: The woman and man who knows one thing, and can do it better than anybody else (even if it only be the art of raising turnips), receives the crown they merit. If they raise the best turnips by reason of concentrating all their energy to that end, they are a benefactor to the race and are recognized as such.

The giants of the human race have been people of concentration, who have struck sledgehammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful individuals of today are those with one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim — men and women of single and intense purpose.

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Listen to episode 558 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Keep Happy. Edited and adapted from Keep Happy by Eustace Miles.

Happiness Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. If you or someone you know would like to break free from an addiction to alcohol or cigarettes, our break free meditations can help. To learn more, please visit Livinghour.org/breakfree.

It is so easy to say to others, or to ourselves, “Keep happy”. But how do we keep happy? Here are a few of many helps.

People will sometimes ask, "What about trying circumstances? How can we keep happy in them, whether they be past, present, or future?"

Well, a good piece of general advice is to welcome the circumstances as you would welcome either a strong opponent or a contest handicap — that is, as a privilege, and an occasion for bringing out "one's best game."

Then, Turn Your Mind to Blessings, or think of your own blessings, not only in the past, but also the present. Think of all the conveniences of civilization. Contrast the hardships of a century ago — with no internet, no air-conditioners, no washing machines, and frequent back breaking labor. Think of today’s blessings and keep happy. Think also of the blessings of friends or family. Anything is better than giving attention to your supposed injuries, hardships, and sorrows, and resenting or bemoaning them.

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Listen to episode 557 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Gain Mastery of Your Fate. Edited and adapted from Mastery of Fate by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What you are, and what you do, determines in what conditions, circumstances, and environments you shall be placed. And since you can change yourself and your actions, you can determine what your fate is to be.

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Listen to episode 556 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Bringing Out the Best Within You. Edited and adapted from Mastery of Fate by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To bring out the best that is within you, you must not merely exist; you must live. When you actually live, you are what you are, and are ALL that you are. You stop trying to be something else, or someone else. You do not imitate, but continue to be yourself always. And this is one of the secrets in the creation of a greater destiny.

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Listen to episode 555 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Remarkable Power of the Human Mind Edited and adapted from How the Mind Works by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There are many things that the human mind can do, and all of them are remarkable. But one of the greatest and most wonderful is the power of mind to see through things; that is, to cause the rays of its insight and discernment to pass through the problems of life just as the X-ray passes through opaque and tangible objects.

When this power is highly developed, practically all mistakes can be avoided. The right thing can be done at the right time, and every opportunity can be taken advantage of when the psychological moment is at hand. We are all surrounded by possibilities that can never be measured, possibilities that, if employed even in a limited degree, would make life many times as rich and beautiful as it is now.

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Listen to episode 554 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How the Mind Works | Law of Attraction. Edited and adapted from How the Mind Works by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Through the law of attraction, we naturally meet in the external world what corresponds to our own internal world, that is, to what we are in ourselves. The self constitutes the magnet, and like attracts like. This inner self that constitutes the magnet is composed of all the active forces, desires, tendencies, motives, states, and thoughts that are at work in your mind or personality.

When you look at everything that is alive throughout your whole being (and put all those things together) you have what may be termed your present active self. And this self invariably attracts in the external world such conditions as correspond to its own nature.

This self (and all its parts within you) correspond to the thoughts that you have been creating in your mind. In fact, the nature of the self is actually composed of your thoughts, mental states, and mental activities. Therefore, when you change your thoughts, the nature of your inner self will change, and this change will be good or otherwise depending upon your changes of thought.

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Listen to episode 553 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Finding Your Place in Life | Personal Development. Edited and adapted from How the Mind Works by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is a belief among many that honest people ought to have the best that life can give. But the mere state of being honest is not sufficient. The best person in the world will be a failure if they do not employ their ability constructively — because it is doing things that counts. And to do things, the powers we possess must work in harmony and with a definite object in view.

In this regard, we must not forget that a mind that is pure, honest, and just can accomplish far more with a given ability than one who does not have these virtues. Virtues do not create, but they do have the power to give proper direction to the process of creation. It is constructive ability that does things. Character simply guides the doing so that the product may be of the highest order and the greatest worth.

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Listen to episode 552 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Greatest Power Within You. Edited and adapted from How the Mind Works by Christian D. Larson.

Self-Help Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. I have some exciting news about a beautiful, new short film that is going to feature audio from this podcast. The film is an irreverent story about a homeless man who stumbles upon an eccentric self-help program that guides him on his odyssey to become a fisherman. In addition to providing inspirational audio to the filmmakers, I am also one of the film’s producers.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from How the Mind Works by Christian D. Larson, published in 1912.

The powers and possibilities that are inherent in the human mind are practically unbounded — for virtually no limit can be found to anything in human nature. The discovery that everything in human nature contains a latent capacity for perpetual development should give us a new conception of ourselves, a conception which when applied will revolutionize the entire sphere of our thought and action.

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Listen to episode 551 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Training Your Mind for Complete Success. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If you want to make yourself great, it is worth a little trouble, and the habit of doing things in the best possible manner will make you do everything you undertake in the same spirit of thorough perfection. The same divine, creative spirit dwells in you that dwelt in Michelangelo, in Catherine the Great, in Plato and St. Paul. The only power that differentiated them from others and made them heroic figures shining brightly in the firmament of life was the power of mind. That same power will raise you above others, above your competitors in business, above the disabilities of your environment — that power and no other.

If you are to raise yourself intellectually the stimulus must come from yourself. You must make a point of training your mental faculties all day and every day, till you know what a vast power you have within you and how to use it.

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Listen to episode 550 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Planning for Success in Business & Life. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: In training the mental faculties, we should keep before us the Greek ideal of all-around-fitness. Too many people are foolishly anxious about discovering some particular branch of knowledge which it will pay them to study. Knowledge should be pursued for its own sake. It’s been said: “Seek fortune and it flies from you, treat it casually and it follows you.”

This means that if you go upon the principle of getting the most out of your daily life and doing the most work you can every day you live, your life's work will open itself out. Only by acquiring all the knowledge you can, will you find what particular branch of knowledge is of most use to you. Be sure that all information worth acquiring will be of use to you someday or other, sooner or later.

You can learn something worth knowing from everyone you meet — something which will be useful to you in later life, though the information may seem useless to you at the time. All the greats of history acquired knowledge wherever they could; they extracted it from all the people they met, stored it in their minds, and used it when the proper time came.

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Listen to episode 549 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Making the World a Better & Brighter Place. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: The nearer we get to the real source of the joy of life, the more real will become the beauties of the earth. The bright and beautiful things of the world shine in their sublimest splendor for those who see only the good in their fellow creatures. There are no dark or gloomy thoughts to dim the radiance of earth and heaven.

The first essential of that charm which attracts others is a belief in the innate goodness of humanity, and a strong desire to help it forward. Many a friendship has been broken by a loan of money, but friendships are never broken by understanding sympathy and practical help.

Out of a constant recognition of the good in others, and a persistent blindness to their faults and shortcomings, grows sympathy and tact. Many an action that seems harsh is seen to be necessary when all the circumstances of the case are known. Learn to make allowances and to judge others not from the standpoint of mental or moral superiority but of equal weakness. That is the way sympathetic natures are made.

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Listen to episode 548 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Overcoming Your Doubts & Fears | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: “For the timid and hesitating, everything is impossible, because it seems so," says Sir Walter Scott. The converse is expressed in the English proverb, "Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.”

The limit of our achievements is the power of our own thought. The mind grows on what it feeds upon. If you allow doubt to occupy any place at all in your mind, that doubt will grow there. A little hesitation will grow into a big doubt, and the habit of doubt will surely result in death to self-reliance, and good-bye to success.

Out with all your doubts and fears! They are unworthy of your mind, which should be in harmony with the Infinite. No task can ever come your way that you have not the power within you to fulfill....

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Listen to episode 547 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Self-Improvement: Making the Most of Your Life. Edited and adapted from The Psychology of Success by Newton N. Riddle.

Inspirational Podcast Transcript: Energy combined with emotion produces enthusiasm. Cultivate it. You must have it. Nothing worthwhile was ever accomplished without it. The student that lacks enthusiasm seldom does well. The teacher without it is a failure. The salesperson without enthusiasm sells little.

It all begins by increasing your mind power; by changing every intellectual faculty from negative to positive, and training all to work together, thereby giving capacity to perceive, to remember, to think, to know, and to do.

The person who doesn't notice is always short on the required information. The one who doesn't remember is constantly forgetting what they learn and neglect what they should attend to. The one who has not learned to think is a slave to other people's opinions, lacks judgment, initiative, and fails to think of the thing that should be thought of to make a success. All of these adverse conditions can be overcome.

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Listen to episode 546 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Science of Being Great. Edited and adapted from a book by the same title by Wallace D. Wattles.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Greatness is only attained by the constant thinking of great thoughts. No person can become great in outward personality until they are great internally; and no person can be great internally until they begin to THINK. No amount of education, reading, or study can make you great without thought; but thought can make you great with very little study. There are altogether too many people who are trying to make something of themselves by reading books without thinking; all such will fail. You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read.

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Listen to episode 545 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Living Up to Every Day’s Possibilities. Edited and adapted from The Power of Truth by William George Jordan.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If we would make our lives worthy of us, grand and noble, solid and impregnable, we must forsake air-castles of dreaming for strongholds of doing. Every person with an ideal has a right to live in the glow and inspiration of it, and to picture the joy of attainment, but the worker should never really worry about the future, think little of it except for inspiration. You should determine your course, as mariners study the stars; then make your plans wisely and prepare for that future by making each separate day the best and truest that you can.

Live up to the fullness of your possibilities each day. You have only one day of life — today. You did live yesterday, you may live tomorrow, but you have only today.

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Listen to episode 544 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Nature & Power of the Mind. Edited and adapted from Out From the Heart by James Allen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Your life proceeds from your heart and mind. You have compounded that mind by your own thoughts and deeds. It is within your power to refashion that mind by your choice of thought. And in this manner, you can transform your life.

To begin, remember that every established mental condition is an acquired habit, and it has become so by continuous repetition of thought. Despondency and cheerfulness, anger and calmness, covetousness and generosity — indeed, all states of mind — are habits built up by choice, until they have become automatic. A thought constantly repeated, at last becomes a fixed habit of mind, and from such habits proceeds one’s life.

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Listen to episode 543 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Finding Wisdom & Joy in Meditation. Edited and adapted from The Mastery of Destiny by James Allen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: By concentration we may acquire the wonderful comprehension and vast power of a Caesar; but by meditation we may reach the divine wisdom and perfect peace of a Buddha — for while the perfection of concentration is power, the perfection of meditation is wisdom.

By concentration, people acquire skill in the doing of the things of life (in science, art, trade, etc.), but by meditation, they acquire skill in life itself (in right living, enlightenment, wisdom, etc.) Saints, sages, saviors (wise women and men and divine teachers) are the finished products of spiritual meditation.

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Listen to episode 542 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Personal Salesmanship for a Life More Abundant. Edited and adapted from Success Psychology by Coleman Hall Bush.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Let us enjoy life to the full, as we bring to ourselves the thrills, the pleasures, and the joys of “life more abundant” — which in turn will increase our personal power and success, for power is the energy that overcomes resistance and does constructive work. It is the ability which puts over business deals. It is impersonal, invisible, impartial, directive, receptive, neutral, and PRESENT always! It is up to us to sell it to ourselves and use it in selling to others.

Power is impersonal because it serves all who choose to use it. It is invisible, for while we can see the results of power, we never can see THE power — just as we may see the apple fall, but we cannot see the invisible power of gravitation that pulls it to earth. It is impartial, serving friend and foe, and is no respecter of persons. It is receptive to our intelligent control, as long as we work in accordance with the natural laws which are inherent in its being. It is neutral, being neither conscious nor unconscious of us or the purpose we seek to use it for.

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Listen to episode 541 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Dare to Think Big | Planning for Greater Things. Edited and adapted from Three lectures on "The Laws of Financial Success" by B.F. Austin.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Financial success is won by those who dare to think big. Little thoughts, plans, and ideals beget little interest, little effort, little enthusiasm in the individual, and awaken little or no interest in the minds of others. The radical difference between the pop-corn vendor at the fair and the next Steve Jobs is in the size of their ideas and concepts. Popcorn ideas beget a popcorn life. Great ideas, projects, and enterprises rouse the soul of the individual to the effort, courage, and daring that is commensurate with grand ideas.

Great individuals cannot be approached with any project of a trifling character; time and mental force are too valuable to waste on things not "worthwhile." An entrepreneur should continually plan greater and still greater projects for themselves and have the courage and daring to embark upon these new enterprises, trusting in the unfolding powers of their own soul, in the great law of evolution, and in the "Star of Destiny" to crown their efforts with success.

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Listen to episode 540 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Motivation for Conquering Defeat to Win Success. Edited and adapted from Spunk: How to Lick Fear by David V. Bush.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: There is nothing but eternal victory for the person who can take defeat with smiling grace and a poised confidence in their ultimate triumph. Defeat is only another way of reaching one’s goal, and as a rule, the more defeats you have the greater will be your power in the end.

‘‘All the world’s a stage” and we are merely players. All life is a schoolroom where we learn our daily lessons, and the more obstacles we face in life’s lessons the more strength we shall have for accomplishing ultimate success.

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Listen to episode 539 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Building a Character to Win Life’s Battles. Edited and adapted from Young People’s Problems by J.R. Miller.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Don’t forget that you can help inspire others by sharing your favorite episodes on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Young People’s Problems by J.R. Miller, published in 1898.

This world is not a place merely to live in, nor a place only to do certain kinds of business. It is a great workshop in which to make women and men of character.

It is not easy for us to grow into a beautiful life and noble character. Sure, it’s not hard to take a lump of clay, and shape it into any form we desire. It’s fairly easy to take a piece of soft wood, and carve it into a figure of beauty. But it is harder to cut a block of marble into a form of loveliness, for the stone is hard. And it is harder still to take a block of flawed humanity, and make it into a great and noble being. Yet that is what life calls on us to do.

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Listen to episode 538 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Optimistic Mind | Positive Thinking Podcasts. Edited and adapted from the The Joy of Living by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. If you or someone you know is looking to stop smoking or drinking this year, my break free meditations can help them quit for good. Learn more by visiting https://livinghour.org/breakfree. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Joy of Living by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1913.

An optimistic mind is a prism that brings the rainbow colors out of things which are invisible to the pessimist. This prism does not make the colors in the spectrum. They are everywhere in the light before our eyes. The light is made up of all the different colors of the rainbow. The prism merely separates them and makes them visible to the eye.

Every person should have an optimistic lens which can distinguish the uncommon in the common, which can detect all the beauties there are in their environment. It is wicked to go about among your fellow citizens with a face which indicates that life has been a disappointment to you instead of a glorious joy. What a pitiable thing to see people go through life peddling vinegar, radiating bitterness, finding fault, and seeing only the ugly; the worrying; the fretting, cynical, and pessimistic!

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Listen to episode 537 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Counting Our Blessings | Happy New Year. Edited and adapted from The Pleasures of Life by Sir John Lubbock.

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Life must be measured by thought and action, not by time. It ought to be, bright, interesting, and happy. If we do our best; if we do not magnify trifling troubles; if we look resolutely at things as they really are; if we avail ourselves of the manifold blessings which surround us; we cannot but feel that life is indeed a glorious inheritance.

Few of us, however, realize the wonderful privilege of living, or the blessings we inherit; the glories and beauties of the Universe; the extent to which we can make ourselves what we wish to be; or the power we possess of securing peace, of triumphing over pain and sorrow.

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Listen to episode 536 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Mastering the Art of Life | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Joy of Living by Orison Swett Marden.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas and holiday season. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Joy of Living by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1913.

Is it not strange that while we ought to make a profession of living, most of us are not even amateurs in this art of arts? We never learn the business of real living. We become specialists in our profession or our business, but in right living (which makes or mars the happiness of life), we never become experts.

We know next to nothing about the human machine, which holds the secret of all our success and happiness. We pay much less attention to it than we do to our business mechanisms. The human machine is the only medium by which the soul and the mind connect with the material world, and this marvelous mechanism, this temple Beautiful, should be kept in the superbest condition — for whatever mars it, mars the soul's expression.

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Listen to episode 535 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Lord’s Prayer for Daily Life. Edited and adapted from the book by the same name.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. As this is Christmas week, I thought today might be a good time to share with you a reading from one of the chapters of my own book The Lord’s Prayer for Daily Life, which explores the meaning of the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples. I’ll be reading from Chapter 7 of the book, where I discuss the meaning of Our Daily Bread. You can read the entire book online for free by visiting LivingHour.org/prayer.

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Listen to episode 534 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Rising to the Summit of Life | Motivation Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas, published in 1917.

In work well done, there is a satisfaction which is the greatest reward of labor. The sense of achievement is at once a payment and a promise. It compensates you for the toil and drudgery. And it stimulates you with such a sense of power that your ambition seems nearer to realization. Those who plod on day by day, following well-defined roads and making no excursions away from the herded crowds into the byways of life where perils and adventures await, never know the joys of triumph that come to the person who has been battered and wounded in fierce fights, who has been hurled down into the depths of despair, and yet from those depths has started to climb again with undiminished cheerfulness and courage until they have painfully gained the heights.

Only the person who has been down, who, in the words of the world, “has failed," can know the exquisite pleasure of rising to the summits of life. They know that they are more than equal to whatever troubles may await them. They know that in the hour of danger their mental powers will take unto themselves such an access of strength that the perils will be overcome, that the struggle will be joyous, and that the triumph will be sweet.

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Listen to episode 533 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Be Continually Successful in Life. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Only the work that calls for original, creative thought brings you into the limelight, and endows you with the responsibilities that lead you to the heights of your profession. Think for yourself. Decide for yourself the method of life and work which will best accord with your own tastes, temperament, and abilities.

All the great women and men of the world have been mentally free. They were not bound by standards. They made standards by which other people judge themselves. If Columbus or Isaac Newton had bound themselves by the standards of their contemporaries, would the world have been the better for their having lived? No. Because they were mentally free, and because they acted and spoke and worked according to their own thoughts, they succeeded in their missions, and we feel their influence today.

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Listen to episode 532 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How Mistakes Lead to Greater Wisdom & Living. Adapted from The Power of Purpose by William George Jordan.

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Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Let us be glad of the dignity of our privilege to make mistakes, glad of the wisdom that enables us to recognize them, glad of the power that permits us to turn their light as a glowing illumination along the pathway of our future. Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom, the assessments we pay on our stock of experience, the raw material of error to be transformed into higher living.

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Listen to episode 531 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Thoughtfulness & Living a Loving Life. Edited and adapted from Young People’s Problems by J.R. Miller.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: One of the finest things in a complete, well-rounded character is thoughtfulness. It gives a wondrous charm to your life. It makes you a benediction wherever you go. It tempers all your conduct, softening all natural harshness into gentleness, and giving to your every word and act, and to all your bearing, a spirit of kindliness.

A thoughtful person does not have to be asked to help others — they help, as it were, instinctively. They are ever ready to do the obliging thing, to say the encouraging word, to show an interest in the life of others, to perform those countless little kindnesses which so brighten the common pathway.

The thoughtful person does not make their life an offence or irritation to others. They never meddle with other people’s affairs, but respects the individuality and the rights of everyone. They curb their curiosity, and do not pry into matters of which they have no right to know.

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Listen to episode 530 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Values for Climbing the Hill of Life. Edited and adapted from Making the Grade by C.V. Mosby.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: There is both a science and an art in the correct estimation of values. It takes training and mature judgment to pick the false from the true. And there is a fine art in the application of values to the things in life that are worthwhile. It is easy for us to fall into the error of thinking values are relative. Perspectives of value may indeed vary, but the inherent value remains. And the value of those things in life that assist in making the grade remain fixed and definite.

The value of patience, imagination, self-confidence, health, truth, and honesty of purpose remains the same, and will always be fixed and definite. It makes no difference what your estimation of them may be. A yardstick measures thirty-six inches. If one looks at a string that is thirty-six inches in length and says that it is only thirty-four, the thirty-six inches still remain; the value is not lost because some individual underestimated it.

A correct understanding of values that touch the great principles of life is an absolute necessity in making the grade. Your taste may differ from that of your neighbor; your likes and your dislikes may be entirely at variance; but all must agree on the worth of the cardinal factors that constitute a successful life.

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Listen to episode 529 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Courage & Patience to Achieve Success. Edited and adapted from Making the Grade by C.V. Mosby.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Patience means more than being able to stick to a task until it is finished. It means having a philosophy that makes one understand that it is continuous, well-directed efforts that win. Furthermore, patience must have an imaginative eye that sees the completed task and pronounces it well done.

A mule can plod up and down the field. It makes no difference to the mule whether cotton or weeds are being plowed, but the farmer would have little patience if they did not feel that they would harvest more than a crop of weeds.

To be patient, to keep plugging along, to keep climbing the hill, you must be inspired by, and buoyed up with, the hope of reaching the top. It is not patience, but hopelessness that keeps one working at a task that holds out absolutely no promise of ultimate successful completion. The patience that helps carry one up the hill is the cheerful, hopeful kind. It is the kind that realizes the necessity of well-directed, intelligent, continuous effort.

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Listen to episode 528 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Power of the Spoken Word. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: THE spoken word is the most powerful weapon you can command in your dealings with others. In conjunction with the eye, it conveys all your personal magnetism to the listener. The eye has a double use. It conveys impressions to the brain, and it conveys impressions from the brain. Both of these uses need cultivation.

You probably have never thought about the importance of your eyes in conversation, but if you are to make full use of your mental powers, it is quite necessary to do so. You need to cultivate a concentration of gaze, but not quite in the sense that a hypnotist does. I have heard people complain of others who gazed at them so fixedly that it made them feel uncomfortable. Do not be like that, or you will lose all the persuasive effect you want to create.

Get into the habit of looking straight at the person you are addressing, so that they can feel that they have your whole interest and attention. That is the impression you wish them to receive. People do not like your eyes to wander around the room while they are talking to you, nor do they want you to read something in your hand or on a desk. They want to see your eyes, because your eyes tell them what is going on in your mind.

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Listen to episode 527 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Manufacture the Key to Success. Edited and adapted from The Cause of Failure and How to Overcome It by Thomas Z. Davis.

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Motivational Podcast Excerpt: A great sculptor noticed a stone that had been rejected and thrown aside by the builders. In the stone he saw a beautiful angel. He chiseled the stone away and revealed the angel to the world. I want, if I can, to get you to look into the future and see yourself as a beautiful, successful character, and after getting the vision, reveal that character to the world.

Only through the hard gates where struggle gives her challenge and adversity demands her toll, is there an entrance to the valleys of achievement and the kingdoms of delight. Be true to yourself, be true to your friends, be true to the world. Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success, and that a whole clear glorious life lies before you.

Get an exact and definite mental picture of the ultimate end and aim of your life. Select the particular position you propose to reach. Picture yourself also as surrounded by all the good things that naturally go with the position selected. Be very definite about this, and do not be too modest. Let it be something well worth years of patient struggle to attain. Decide definitely that you will attain it, no matter what the effort or time required. Then hold to that vision. Keep it always before you like a distant beacon of light. Have a steady hand at the wheel. Strive for it persistently and continuously. And when the seas are foggy, have faith that it is there to be reached, even though you cannot for the moment see it.

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Listen to episode 526 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Make Your Life Marvelous | Motivation. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

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Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Put the joy of creation into everything you do. Let it be worthy of your mind, and let it be done as perfectly as you can do it. If your employers cannot use you to better advantage, fit yourself for more congenial work elsewhere. It is your own fault if you complain: the remedy is always in your own hands. Complaints are signs of weakness, and if you are in a chronic state of dissatisfaction, words will avail nothing. Only by your own actions can you alter your own condition of life. If you are busy complaining when you ought to be busily acting, you are likely to complain until the end of the chapter.

How can you enjoy your leisure, if your mind is brooding over your grievances? Instead of railing against circumstances, you should take yourself to task because you allow your environment to worry you, and because you are not forming some plan which will eventually improve your state of mind, as well as your state of work.

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Listen to episode 525 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Answering the Riddle of Life. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Be sure that whatever troubles come to you, if you face them with courage, they will pass by as the idle wind, and leave behind the prosperity of which they are only the harbingers. Everyone who has faced sorrow and disaster, who has come through the fires of adversity, knows well from their own experience that for every trouble life can bring, there is some greater compensating advantage.

It is true that “All things work together for good.” The snows of winter serve to warm the earth and protect the seeds that bring forth the glorious blooms of summer. All through Nature and all through life we see that the things which are gloomy and unpleasant inevitably develop into brightness and happiness.

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Listen to episode 524 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Heroism of Every Day Life. Edited and adapted from A Man’s Reach or Some Character Ideals by Charles Edward Locke.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: In every age, we hear much talk of heroes. We are fascinated by stories and tales that spur the imagination to the loftiest heroism. But I would call your attention to the greatest of all heroism: that heroism which does not receive the plaudits of the crowd, nor attract the eyes of the multitude. It is not richly rewarded with treasure, and does not have medals struck for its accomplishments.

I am thinking of the rescues and battles, the sacrifices and generosities, and the invincible courage which are unheralded, unrecorded, and unrewarded, but upon which the security and prosperity of our times depend.

Many a person in a moment of emergency would rush at the risk of their life to the rescue of an imperiled friend; but that same person may not possess the stalwart heroism necessary to withstand certain temptations which are ruining their life and bringing agony to those who love them.

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Listen to episode 523 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Overcoming Hurry, Worry, and Irritability. Edited and adapted from The Freedom of Life by Annie Payson Call.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Remember that worrying is resistance, and resistance is unwillingness. Unwillingness interferes with whatever we may want to accomplish. To be willing that this, that, or the other thing should happen seems quite difficult, when to our minds, this, that, or the other thing may bring disaster. And yet if we can once see clearly that worrying resistance tends toward disaster rather than away from it, or, at the very least, takes away our strength and endurance, it is only a matter of time before we become able to drop our resistance altogether.

However, it IS a matter of time, and not instantaneous. So, once we are faced toward freedom from worry, we must be patient and steady, and not expect to gain very rapidly. We must be persistent, and resist the temptation to do nothing to overcome our worries.

I remember a woman who once said to me, "Now I have got something to worry about for the rest of my life.” Her face was set toward worrying. Nothing but her own will could have turned it the other way, and yet she deliberately chose not to use it, and so she was fixed and settled in her self-made prison for the rest of her life.

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Listen to episode 522 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspiring Thoughts on Self-Development & Self-Growth. Edited and adapted from The Call of Life by William L. White.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The ushering in of a New Year brings with it to so many people New Year’s Resolutions. This is a splendid practice and I would not discount New Year Resolutions one iota, but instead give unto them strength. Indeed, I wish to encourage not only resolutions for the New Year, but to urge everyone to be on the alert, taking stock, visualizing, and planning to better not only ourselves, but our neighbors and that sphere of the world which we touch. And whenever a new thought for a better practice in the upbuilding of our lives crosses our minds, do not wait for the New Year to roll around to record it and start practicing it, but begin at once.

If the word resolution sounds "too tame," the words maxim or motto may be used. When carried to the final analysis it is “habit” that we are seeking, because after all, life consists of a bunch of habits. If everybody, especially young people, during the formative period of their lives, would give ten minutes to serious thought and write down on paper at least one resolution, maxim, or motto every week, which you intend to practice and actually incorporate into your life, we would see an astounding change for the better in the individual, which means, also, a rising generation.

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Listen to episode 521 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Becoming Rich in Knowledge & Wisdom | Education. Edited and adapted from Right Living by Susan H. Wixon.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: That which we know is all our own. The more we know (the more we absorb of useful knowledge) the richer we become. Science which can be shown, demonstrated, and realized, is the desirable thing. Think about it. Does not actual knowledge put to flight all extremes of error and misunderstanding? Take a fact in Nature. Prove it, and it becomes yours. And not all the hyenas and bloodhounds of ignorance can take it from you.

As someone has said before, "There are two valuable possessions which no search warrant can get at, and which no reverse of fortune can destroy: they are what a person puts into their head (i.e. knowledge), and what they put into their hands (i.e. skill)."

Is there any limit to the acquisition of knowledge? No. Nobody has gained the whole of knowledge, and no one knows so much that they may not acquire still more. Sir Isaac Newton said at the close of his illustrious life, that the great facts he had found by study and search, were but pebbles on the seashore, compared to the vast ocean of knowledge still untouched.

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Listen to episode 520 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Grand Secrets of Success | Self-Reliance. Edited and adapted from The Grand Secrets of Success, compiled by The Toronto News Company.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There are different ways of getting on in the world. It does not always mean making money, or being a great individual for people to look up to. Leaving off a bad habit for a good one is getting on in the world; to be clean and tidy instead of dirty and disorderly is getting on; to be careful and saving instead of thoughtless and wasteful is getting on; to be active and industrious, instead of idle and lazy is getting on; to be kind and forbearing, instead of ill-natured and quarrelsome, is getting on; to work as diligently in the boss's absence as in their presence is getting on.

In short, when we see anyone properly attentive to their duties, persevering through difficulties, to gain such knowledge as shall be of use to themselves and others, offering a good example to their acquaintances, we may be sure that they are getting on in the world.

Those who wish to get on in the world must have a stock of patience and perseverance, of hopeful confidence — a willingness to learn, and a disposition not easily cast down by difficulties and disappointments.

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Listen to episode 519 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Success Habits & The Character That Triumphs. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Man by John Priest Greene.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Let us talk about character. IS it grown, or engraved, or forged? All of these. We are born without character, but it soon sprouts, and then grows rapidly. The soil is the home, the school, the social life, the business world — different kinds of soil, each contributing its element to the growth of character.

Parents, teachers, companions, and business associates are the character-cultivators, and largely determine the quality of the product — but each one grows their own character. The word "character" is Greek, and means "engraved" — an ancient and beautiful conception. We (sometimes with the help of others) engrave our own characters when we begin to act on our own judgment, when we choose and do, and thus form habits.

A habit is a groove or a line cut in the soul, fixed, along which future action is almost sure to run. Many habits make an engraving, a permanent picture of the soul or character.

It may be truly said, also, that character is forged. The human soul is a piece of metal, without form and beauty. It must be worked over. In order to make it right, it must go into the hot fire and under the big hammer. If properly forged, it will come out with a permanent form of grace and beauty. False lines and deformities — bad habits of thought and action — must therefore be hammered out. They cannot be brushed off.

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Listen to episode 518 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspirational Life Lessons on Happiness. Edited and adapted from The True Source of a Happy Life by Hugh Wayt.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It will help much in learning the lesson of happiness if we persistently train ourselves to be cheerful and to see the bright things in our every-day life. There are some people who seem to have eyes only for the disagreeable things. They find every bit of roughness and hardness in life's pathway. They see at once (and see it magnified) every unpleasant thing that comes into their lives. They remember every unhappy experience they ever had. They keep on the walls of their memory pictures of all their vanished joys and faded hopes. They indelibly record all the trials, adversities and misfortunes they have ever suffered.

But, on the other hand, they are forgetful of all their blessings. They hang up no pictures of the joys they did not lose, which have filled their lives on so many bright days. They have poor memory for the things that beautify and gladden life. There are few habits more common than this: of remembering the unpleasant and forgetting the pleasant things — and there is no other habit which is a greater enemy of true joy.

The person who would be of good cheer must break this habit if it has fastened itself to your life. You must train yourself to see the beautiful things and be blind to the disagreeable things. There are, in the ordinary life, a thousand pleasant things (favors, joys, comforts, things to cheer) to one unpleasant thing, one real cause for unhappiness. It is a shame, therefore, to let the one bit of roughness, trial, or suffering spoil all the gladness of the thousand blessings, to let the one discordant note mar all the music of such splendid harmony.

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Listen to episode 517 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Vitality: Building a Healthy, Energetic Personality. Edited and adapted from Be Good to Yourself by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1910.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is nothing which pays greater dividends than self-investment; keeping yourself up to standard by buttressing your health in every possible way and using the utmost care and exactitude in regimen, in work habits, and in life habits.

In order to be well-balanced, self-poised, and broad-minded, one must have a great variety of experience. And for this, play is just as necessary as work. The person who is everlastingly working, who never gets time to play, to see their friends, to travel, or to go into the country, because they think time is too precious, that they must utilize every minute in practical work, is defeating the very purpose which they are trying to attain.

There must be spontaneity, buoyancy, elasticity, and vivacity in your activities. And everyone who wishes to get the maximum of achievement out of life should know all Nature’s methods of rejuvenation.

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Listen to episode 516 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Success Mindset: A Sense of Humor. Edited and adapted from Invincible Power by John Henry Remmers, published in 1922.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When life appears to be going against us, our first inclination is to frown and become irritable. This state of mind causes confusion and leads to despair, throwing us out of harmony with Faith. We lose the power of receptiveness and are unable to receive the Divine message and strength which would otherwise lead us out of the darkness back into the light.

On the other hand, when things seem all wrong and we hold onto Faith, reinforced by a sense of Humor, and a smile of confidence, we retain our receptive mood, and positively (very often swiftly) receive the intelligence to solve those problems confronting us.

If you truly wish to live successfully, it is important that you retain always your sense of Humor. Of course, there are times for seriousness and also solemnity, but do not allow any occurrence or condition to so burden your mind that you lose your sense of Humor. In other words, do not look upon life too seriously. It is only a burden if you make it so.

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Listen to episode 515 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Mental & Physical Fitness for Success in Life. Edited and adapted from Keeping Fit by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1914.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: The grandest work a human being can do is to keep themselves fit for the greatest thing they are capable of doing, the highest service they are capable of rendering; always up to the level of their greatest efficiency. To keep fit is to maintain perfect health. And perfect health depends upon a perfect balance of mind and body, unimpaired physical vigor, absolute inner harmony, and a calm, mental poise which nothing can disturb.

Every normal human being can, if they will, raise themselves to this condition. You can live in such a simple yet scientific manner that you will not only have great disease-resisting power, but you will also be at the maximum of your creative ability.

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Listen to episode 514 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Making the Most of Yourself | Life lessons. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Most people who are conscious of weaknesses of some kind or other, use the knowledge to avoid the work which would call their deficiencies into play. They lack self-confidence because they keep their weaknesses ever before their eyes. The wise individual relies on his or her strength. They take their stand upon what they can do. And when they are called upon to do something which will make use one of their weak faculties, they make up their mind to do the best they can, while they draw upon their strong qualities as much as possible.

The golden rule, therefore, is to keep your strong qualities in front of your eyes, so to speak, and ignore your weak ones. Do not pander to these latter ones. Treat them as if they were sources of strength, too. That is what Shakespeare means when he says, "Assume a virtue if you have it not.”

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Listen to episode 513 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Making the Most Out of the Day | Motivational. Edited and adapted from Youth and Opportunity by Thomas Tapper.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Youth and Opportunity by Thomas Tapper, published in 1912.

When Alexander Pope wrote the line, "Hope springs eternal in the human breast," he expressed a truth that (considered in the fullness of its suggestion) is electrifying. With the coming of the inspiring impulse of hope, we find again open to us the doors that have shut us in. We look out over a vast field of possibility.

Once more, we are in the presence of our rightful heritage. It lies, bright and enticing, before us; it beckons us to come; it speaks to us plainly; it promises much if we will only go forth and dwell as a worker in the fair field of its golden opportunities.

We feel no doubts arise within us about the reality of eternal hope. We are convinced that we may possess the best things of life to whatever extent we desire. We realize that we have only to be brave and pay the price. And the price is Work.

Shall we, then, with courage (and courage is rightly a quality of the heart) begin to labor for the rewards and blessings of hope — or shall we permit the light to fade from our sight, and entering again upon the way of darkness, grope in a poverty of opportunity?

Our decision in this matter, conditions all the success that may be our portion — for, curiously, this word “success” has a simple basic meaning: to go along. It implies motion toward the thing desired.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas, published in 1917.

It is the modern habit to worship bigness. The people we are told to admire are those who conceive of vast undertakings and carry them through successfully. There seems to be a romance about “thinking in millions,” which is apparently absent when dealing in smaller numbers.

I once knew a titan of industry. He was a man known for big thoughts, who did big things. He controlled hundreds of workers; he traveled all parts of the world; he was ever searching for ideas, and always seeking the expansion of his big undertakings. And yet, through it all, he was always most profoundly impressed with the vital importance of the little things of life. Thus we, who are so enamored with talk of bigness, may well consider the significance of this mature conclusion from a great captain of industry: that the small things may well be the greatest things after all.

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Listen to episode 511 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Key that Unlocks the Heart | Life Lessons. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas, published in 1917.

Our own mind is for our own use. We cannot exert any of its power without affecting ourselves. Feelings of anger affect us physically. Indeed, they hurt us, and do not harm the object of our displeasure.

Sympathy is a good sentiment. We were meant to be compassionate. And if a habit of mind is good, it must produce some good effect on our lives. The value of sympathy lies in its power to harmonize minds, so that one can become susceptible to the influence of another's thoughts.

You will find that the cultivation of sympathy will draw people toward you. They instinctively open their hearts to a sympathetic listener. When two brains are "tuned up" to sympathy, they will naturally convey and receive messages from one another. The action of the brain is similar to that of phone in its ability to generate waves. We do, in fact, project thought waves which are capable of penetrating space and affecting a brain that is in sympathy with our own.

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Listen to episode 510 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Create Good Luck | Success Tips. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas, published in 1917.

An old proverb says that "Good courage breaks ill luck.” In other words, mental power, rightly directed, is the only force that creates good luck. Hard work alone will not make you lucky. You must be ready to seize your good luck when it comes, and you must search for it until you find it.

Ask yourself now, "Am I lucky! Am I trying to be lucky? Am I determined to be lucky?" You are the only person who can decide. If you want to be lucky, you must train your mind to obey your will, and you must rule it with wisdom, courage, and foresight.

In what manner are you exercising your mind and keeping it fit? You must know that your mind will do a lot of work for you without any effort on your part if you train it carefully. For instance, the mind works while we sleep. Not only is this shown by our dreams, but there are countless instances where people have gone to bed worried and perplexed over some problem, and on waking in the morning have found the solution in their minds.

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Listen to episode 509 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Breathing for Vitality & Success | Healthy Living. Edited and adapted from Success Through Thought Habit by Benjamin Johnson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Your character represents the result of the habits you have formed. Your habits show your manner of thought. Your manner of thought is in turn affected by your method of breathing.

Would you like to succeed? Then breathe systematically, intelligently, and happily. The air is filled with life-giving oxygen ready for you to use. It is already yours. But you must give it space in which to do its work. Unless you have the force of will necessary to breathe correctly (not only once but many times a day), you have not sufficient will to develop your mental faculties to their greatest capacity — hence your thinking will be limited.

You have probably, like many other people, considered breathing as a natural process not worth bothering about. And so, like many other people, you have starved certain organs of your body, impoverished your brain, and then sought for some remedy to act as a tonic.

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Listen to episode 508 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Taking Stock of Yourself and Your Future. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas, published in 1912.

One of the greatest personal triumphs is to look back over a year and observe an advance in mental power and achievement. To know yourself a better person than you were twelve months ago, to have a finer record of good work done, and to have acquired greater ability for doing things, is a reward that is known only to the earnest worker. The idler, the prevaricator, and the shirker have no concept of this form of reward for labor. It is sweeter than praise, and better than money, inasmuch as power of the mind commands money, and is, therefore, superior to it.

Tomorrow ought to find you a better person than you were yesterday. Next year you ought to be capable of work that was unknown to you twelve months before. You can only discover what you are capable of by striking out on new lines of endeavor. And to do this successfully, you must seize every opportunity for more important work that comes your way.

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Listen to episode 507 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Fine Tuning the Vibration of Your Life. edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. If this podcast has inspired you, or helped you in any way, please do let me know by leaving us a positive review at the iTunes store or on Google Play. I always love hearing how this podcast has positively impacted your life. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1918.

Every life is a vibration, and the quality of our lives is determined by the quality and the rate of our vibrations. Harmonious vibrations mean health, happiness, efficiency, success. Discordant vibrations mean strangulation, discord, thwarted ambition, a wrecked career.

If we live in the midst of discordant vibrations which are antagonistic to one another, life will be whittled away at a terrific rate. If, on the other hand, we keep ourselves in tune with the infinite harmonies, we shall preserve the harmonious action of our brain, our nerves, our mental and physical being — and this harmony will heal, will increase our power, success, and happiness.

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Listen to episode 506 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Developing a Grander Vision of Life. Edited and adapted from The Call of Life by William L. White.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Call of Life by William L. White, published in 1922.

We need men and women of the heroic type, who are seeking a vision of life —those who have the courage to stand for the right regardless of criticism, and those who, when weighed in the balance, will not be found wanting. We must be loyal to our visions. It takes courage for a person to stand up for their convictions and ideas, particularly in this day of constant change, when one is so liable to be ridiculed as being impractical and old-fashioned.

The world is yearning in its anxiety for proper development, for men and women who can think real thoughts, who can thoroughly disentangle the truth from the web of falsity and chance, who can test their thoughts and deeds in the acid bath of service, and whose minds are open to inspiration from all sources, and who will go forth cheerfully to battle for the things that need to be done, and thus gain the victory of life.

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Listen to episode 505 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Taking Control of Your Life & Destiny. Edited and adapted from Realization by Elkanah M. Gibson.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: There are two roads open to every person. One leads to health, strength, beauty, long life, honor, and happiness; the other to sickness, sorrow, gloom, disease, and death. The allurements and temptations are many, and it requires courage and will-power to resist them.

There is nothing more utterly false and misleading than the idea that success is measured by the amount of money or property acquired. A successful life is a healthy, useful, happy life — regardless of the amount of money that’s been made. Right thinking and right living is the road to success. It IS success. Just as soon as we commence to think right and live right, we are already successful, and become more and more so every day we pursue this course.

The very thought that we are improving our condition and becoming stronger increases our confidence and happiness. Success is within the reach of all: the poor and the sick, as well as the rich and the strong. Just live right, think right, and act right. Be honest with yourself. You know what is right. Just simply have the courage to do what you know to be right in all things. And when you do, you have already entered the gateway to true happiness. You will have attained a success that is beautiful and lasting — one that will crown your life with honor and plenty.

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Listen to episode 504 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Believe in Yourself | Self-Confidence & Enthusiasm. Edited and adapted from The Call of Life by William L. White.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: As little as we tend to think about it, that ingredient which we call self-confidence makes up the larger portion of all the successes in this world. Of the countless women and men who have failed, a large percentage of them were actually capable of doing great things, but they did not have faith in themselves. They lacked self-confidence. Success was theirs only for the asking, but the go forward spirit and courage were missing.

In order to attain success, a person must continue to think in terms of success, for "As you thinketh, so you are." Generally speaking, we all agree with but do not act upon this belief. Two-thirds of the battle is already won, if we only believe in ourselves when undertaking a job.

The dictionary defines self-confidence as having confidence in one's unaided powers, judgment, ability, etc. In other words, it is the belief that you can produce results. When you insist that you can succeed, and are determined that you will succeed, there is nothing in the world that can stop you.

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Listen to episode 503 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspirational Thoughts on Happiness. Edited and adapted from Happiness by Arthur James Kappele, published in 1919.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Happiness by Arthur James Kappele, published in 1919.

On the other hand, if another person tries to show you their appreciation for some kind act, do not make it hard for them to repay you. Instead, anticipate their wish and meet them half way, thus assisting them on the road to happiness by helping them fulfill their desire. It is selfish to refuse their repayment. If you did your good act in the right spirit, you will remember the pleasure and satisfaction that you derived in so doing. Let the other person experience the same sensation. Don't look upon any kindness shown to you, with suspicion. There are still some sincere people in the world. Believe in them, and it will help them to be sincere.

Have you ever noticed how you are always certain when you have done a real good act? How it stimulates you, acting quicker than the strongest medicine and leaving nothing but good results? If you haven’t, try it. The truth of the matter is, the more good acts one does, the greater the pleasure. This is because the more you do, the more you are able to do, without giving the action any thought. In other words, the action becomes spontaneous and not studied. In fact, it becomes a habit. Get into the habit.

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Listen to episode 504 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Using Wealth to Bring Out the Best Within You. Edited and adapted from The Power of Mental Demand by Herbert Edward Law.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Your thoughts are a force. They are an absolute power. If you earnestly desire wealth by right means, that desire will draw to you all the proper forces which assist in its acquisition. If these thoughts and forces are for good; if they are for the purpose of acquiring wealth that you may enjoy it, but not hoard it; in a word, if your desire for wealth is for the good it can effect, it will accomplish that purpose; and every influence and every associated force will be for good.

Your success (desired and prosecuted on proper lines) will bring good to everyone with whom you come in contact. It will give employment to those about you; will provide sustenance for their families; will bring health where ill-health has been. It will give you the power to extend help to those who are in need. It will give you the power and mean with which to extend the good work and forces that bring about better conditions among those needing and deserving them.

In a word, it not only makes possible your own success, but in proportion as you succeed, does it also bring with it opportunities for accomplishing good, which without success would be absolutely out of your reach.

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Listen to episode 503 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Getting the Most from Criticism | Self-Growth. Edited and adapted from A Life of Character by J.R. Miller.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: No one's knowledge is really universal. None of us know more than a few fragments of the great mass of knowledge. There are some things somebody else knows better than you do, however wide your range of learning may be. There are very humble people who could give you suggestions well worth taking on certain matters concerning which they have more correct knowledge than you have. If you wish to make your work perfect, you must condescend to take information from anyone and everyone who may be ready to give it to you.

It is true, also, that others can see faults and imperfections in us — which we ourselves cannot see. We are too closely identified with our own life and work to be unprejudiced observers or just critics. We can never make the most and the best of our life, if we refuse to be taught by others than ourselves.

The best-made individual is the one who in their formative years has benefited from wholesome criticism. Their life is developed on all sides. Faults are corrected. Their nature is restrained at the points where the tendency is to overgrowth, while points of weakness are strengthened.

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Listen to episode 502 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Reducing the Friction of Life | Healthy Mindset. Edited and adapted from The Power of Mental Demand by Herbert Edward Law.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What is it that wears out and breaks down machinery? Friction. What is it that wears out and breaks down lives? Friction.

Friction retards action, reduces productivity, and wastes power. It wears, destroys, kills. Friction is the most constant problem in mechanics. It is the most destructive element in life.

When spoken of literally, friction applies only to physical objects. Figuratively and metaphorically, it applies to life and to individual and social relationships. As applied to life, it is so apt a figure of speech that we do not realize that it IS one until our attention is called to it.

We speak of friction in an organization, or between individuals, or in our own life, and realize that it is so wearing, wasteful, and needless that it seems the very same thing as the friction of mechanics. And while we have learned many ways for reducing friction in mechanics, we practice very few for reducing it in human life.

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Listen to episode 501 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation for an Enthusiastic Life. Edited and adapted from The Power of Mental Demand by Herbert Edward Law.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Power of Mental Demand by Herbert Edward Law, published in 1916.

THERE is no element so important to a successful business or a successful life as enthusiasm. Yet it is an element often not thoroughly understood, or very accurately measured. It is rarely given the degree of importance to which it is entitled. Indeed, it is often neglected altogether. Enthusiasm is faith in action — it puts your beliefs to the test. The enthusiast believes that the thing can be done. They have the faith to believe that it ought to be done; and they have the enthusiasm to do it.

To the unthinking, enthusiasm is but the foam on deeply stirred waters. In truth, it is the striving of the waters themselves. It is the very life of effort. It is to effort what fire is to coal, what steam is to the engine, what a lighted fuse is to a charge of dynamite — the vital force which brings action.

Enthusiasm gives a sparkle to your eye, light to your countenance, spring and action to your step, certainty to your effort, and force and vigor to your movements. It gives character and vitality to your desires. It is the difference between wish and determination; between the inanimate body and the living, acting human being.

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Listen to episode 500 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Sun Dial’s Motto | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Peace, Power & Plenty by Orison Swett Marden.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. If you enjoy today’s podcast, please help us spread the word by sharing it with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Peace, Power, and Plenty by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1909.

On a famous sun-dial it is written: "I record none but hours of sunshine." Every human life would be beautified by making this a life motto. What a great thing it would be if we could only learn to wipe out of our memories forever everything unpleasant, everything which brings up bitter memories, unfortunate associations, and depressing, discouraging suggestions! If we could only keep our minds filled with beautiful thoughts which uplift and encourage, the efficiency of our lives would be multiplied.

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Listen to episode 499 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming a Poverty Mindset| Law of Opulence. Edited and adapted from Peace, Power & Plenty by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Don’t forget to check out our collection of inspirational fashion and gifts at BookofZen.com. Each item features one of my own original thought-provoking sayings inside a zen enso circle. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Peace, Power, and Plenty by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1909.

The worst thing about poverty is the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal to progress in life. Holding the poverty thought keeps us in poverty-stricken and poverty-producing conditions.

Poverty is an abnormal condition. It does not fit any human being's constitution. It contradicts the promise and the prophecy of the divine within us. The Creator never intended that we should be a pauper or a slave. There is not a single thing in the wonderful human mechanism that indicates we were created for a life of poverty.

There is something larger and grander for us in the divine plan than perpetual slavery to the bread-winning problem. None of us can do our best work — bring out the best within us — while we feel want tugging at our heels, while we are hampered, restricted, forever at the mercy of pinching circumstances.

The very poor (those struggling to keep the wolf at bay) cannot be independent. They cannot order their lives. Often they cannot afford to express their opinions, or to have individual views. Poverty in its extreme form is narrowing, belittling, contracting, ambition-killing — an unmitigated curse. There is little hope in it, little prospect in it, little joy in it. It often develops the worst in us and kills love between those who would otherwise live happily together.

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Listen to episode 498 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming a Fear of Failure | Success Talks. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas, published in 1917.

When we go to a movie theater to see a film, we often marvel at the splendor of the scenic effects. A beautiful sunrise or sunset is reproduced on the screen with such fidelity that it stirs up emotions within us. Aided by the art of the actors and the drama of the music, the scene often affects us more than the real wonders of Nature which are going on around us every day. In the theater, these things are forced upon our attention and we realize their beauty, while the infinitely greater beauty of the real thing goes unnoticed.

As the old saying goes: "Eyes have we, and we see not". Why? Because we have not trained our eyes to see. Suppose, for one moment, that the sky had always been gray and overcast since you were born, and that one summer evening a wind sprang up and the clouds dispersed, revealing the majesty of the stars and all the wonders of the heavens. Would you not believe that a miracle had happened? Yet how often do you look up and see with discerning eyes this inspiring and uplifting spectacle?

All the gifts of Nature are to be had for the asking. They are your right. But, like all gifts worth having, they must be striven for. You must train your eye to look for them, and your brain to hear and understand. Then you will see how the earth can take on the form of Paradise, and will hear in its sounds the harmonies of heaven.

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Listen to episode 498 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming a Fear of Failure | Success Talks. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas, published in 1917.

How many people fail in life only because they are obsessed with a fear of failure! They so fill their minds with the thought of failing that they approach every task as if it were an impossibility. They start with the idea that perfect success (for some reason) is denied to them — that they are unlucky, as compared with those fortunate ones who seem to turn to gold everything they touch.

Someone said to me once: “I would rather start in a humble way and work up gradually, than start big and come down in the world.” But the people who are afraid to "start big" never achieve greatness. They are the very people who do come down in the world. They are so full of the idea of coming down that all thought of progress is crushed out of their minds.

If they would only fix their thoughts on big things and success, and be determined to move forward, instead of dreading to go backward, they would lose their fear of failure. And they would get so used to the thought of success that achievement would become natural to them.

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Listen to episode 497 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Becoming a Great Soul. Edited and adapted from Four Minute Essays by Frank Crane.
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Would you like a magic formula to help you though life? Here is one that I like to repeat over and over again. It goes like this: Mine own will come to me.
This statement is not provable. The deepest truths of life never are. The creeds of the world that have led humanity up out of barbarism into civilization, out of war into law, out of lust into love, are all open to doubt. We do not reach those sublime conclusions that transform our lives by building Babel Towers of bricks of Logic, for the end of all such work is a confusion of tongues. Instead, we fly to them by the airplanes of Faith.
We believe them. We do not know them. And the best things of existence are believed, not known. We believe them because we are drawn to them, because something in them appeals to something in us.
The most usable and persuasive wisdom has never been included in encyclopedias. It is felt by simple hearts, as sunshine is felt. It comes to us by affinities and repulsions that are as mysterious (yet as potent and undeniable) as electricity. So, that is how I know: Mine own will come to me.

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Listen to episode 496 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Being the Victor & Not the Victim of Circumstance. Edited and adapted from The Aim of Life by Philip Stafford Moxom.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Aim of Life by Philip Stafford Moxom, published in 1894.

CHARACTER is a very different thing from reputation, although the two often are used interchangeably. Reputation is what you are thought to be. Character is what you are. The one is opinion. The other is fact. Circumstances and associations (or even artful management) may give you a fictitious reputation for a time. But your character is yourself, and that at last makes your real reputation.

You may run away from a bad reputation, for that is something outside of yourself. But you can never run away from a bad character, for that IS yourself. Your reputation is like your shadow, which (according as the sun is high or low) may be longer or shorter than yourself, or may even disappear altogether, as when the sun is at its zenith. But your character is like the color of your eyes — look which way you will, it is the same.

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Listen to episode 495 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation for Making the World a Better Place. Edited and adapted from The Power of Truth by William George Jordan.
Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. If you have been helped by this podcast, please let me know by leaving this podcast a positive review at the iTunes store. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Power of Truth by William George Jordan, published in 1902.
This world would be a delightful place to live in — if it were not for the people sometimes. They really cause all the trouble. Our worst enemy is always ourselves. We began to throw the responsibility of our transgressions on someone else in the Garden of Eden, and we have been doing so ever since.
The greater part of the pain, sorrow, and misery in life is purely a human invention. It comes through breaking laws: laws natural, physical, civic, mental, or moral. These are laws which we all know, but we disregard. We take chances. We think we can dodge results in some way. But Nature says, "You who breaks my laws, pays.”
Nine tenths of the world's sorrow, misfortune, and unhappiness is preventable. The daily newspapers are the great chroniclers of the dominance of the unnecessary. Paragraph after paragraph, column after column, and page after page of the dark story (accidents, disasters, crime, scandal, human weakness and evil) might be checked off with the word "preventable."

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Listen to episode 494 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Royal Road to Happiness | William George Jordan. Edited and adapted from The Majesty of Calmness.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Majesty of Calmness by William George Jordan, published in 1900.

"During my whole life I have not had twenty-four hours of happiness." So said Prince Otto von Bismarck, one of the greatest statesmen of the nineteenth century. Imagine that! Eighty-three years of wealth, fame, honors, power, influence, prosperity and triumph – years when he held an empire in his fingers – but not one day of happiness!

Happiness is the greatest paradox in Nature. It can grow in any soil, live under any condition. It defies environment. It comes from within. It is the revelation of the depths of the inner life, as light and heat proclaim the sun from which they come.

Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. We are the creator of our own happiness. It is the aroma of a life lived in harmony with high ideals. For what we have may be dependent on others; what we are rests with us alone. And what we obtain in life is but an acquisition; what we attain is growth.

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Listen to episode 493 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Optimism & The Keys to Happiness. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. If you would like to give back to this podcast with a one-time financial donation, please visit LivingHour.org/donate. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas, published in 1917.
Free will means the power to rule our minds. We cannot rule unless we understand. It is not necessary that we should indulge in morbid introspection concerning ourselves. We can learn by studying human nature, and by pondering over the lives of the great women and men of the ages.
Self-control is the first lesson that life teaches us, because without it we cannot succeed in anything we undertake. Success is merely a relative term. To a number of people it stands for happiness; to some, contentment; to others, money. Money is not to be despised. After all, it is the visible and tangible sign of success in business. We must never forget, however, that success in business does not necessarily mean success in life. If you have money, you want to know how to use it so that it will bring you actually what you need, and this demands a cultivated and well-balanced mind.
There is one quality of the mind that makes for power and progress above all others. Without it, life must be a failure and a fraud, hopeless and despairing. With it, all the days are tinged with rose, and all our troubles, defeats, and disappointments are but the sign-posts marking our steps on the road to success and happiness. It is the philosopher's stone of life which turns all it touches to gold.

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Listen to episode 492 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Climbing the Ladder of Success. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.
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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas, Published in 1917.
Many companies have taken to adopting mottoes to keep always before the minds of their staff and stimulate them to efficient work. Years ago, one of the most popular to be seen hanging in an office was: "Do it now." An enterprising advertising firm later adapted this into the trade-marked phrase, “Do it better.”
Other popular mottos that I have come across include “Do the next thing” and “Do it at once and do it well.” A business friend once told me that he thought a good motto would be, "Do it yourself” — and within sensible limits the phrase is excellent, since many of us are too fond of leaving to others the things we should do ourselves.
It is a good idea to have some such guiding principle in life, some mental spur that will always make us produce our best. Indeed, take for your motto the words “Do your best,” and you will never have cause to complain of failure in life. Whatever you have to do, do it as well as you know how. The habit of doing everything as perfectly as you can will influence your character and your whole future.

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Listen to episode 491 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation for Patience & Perseverance. Edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun.
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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun, published in 1895.
If success were possible only to women and men of great talents, then there would be little success in the world. It has been rightly said that talent is just as much the ability to stick to a thing, as the aptitude to do it better than another.
Ulysses S. Grant once said, "I will fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." This statement of General Grant doesn’t indicate so much a man of genius, but rather a man of indomitable perseverance, a perseverance to which he owed all his success. The key to his character was tenacity.
The soldier who begins the battle in doubt is half beaten in advance. The entrepreneur who loses heart after one failure is a fool to have even started. There is a great deal in good preparation, but there is a great deal more in heroic perseverance.

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Listen to episode 490 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation for Developing Your Personal Power. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas.
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Motivational Podcast Transcript: "Be not afraid of greatness," says Shakespeare. "Some people are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Which are you? I will tell you. You were born great; you can achieve greatness if you will; and if you go about it the right way, you will have greatness thrust upon you.
The mistake so many people make is to confuse greatness with riches. The great person can have all they want, but they need not necessarily become rich. Carlyle was no more intended to be a millionaire than Andrew Carnegie was made to be a Milton. We cannot all be Shakespeares, or Darwins, or Rockefellers, but we can all be great.
If we want money we can get it; if we want power we can get it: the only condition being that we should want it badly enough. Whatever our desire is, we must be prepared to give up all pleasure and all ease to attain it. Fortune is a hard mistress and will brook no rivals. But to the person who is prepared to serve her whole-heartedly, she offers the sure promise of their heart's desire.

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Listen to episode 489 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Success, Education & The School of Life. Edited and adapted from Youth and Opportunity by Thomas Tapper.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every task you are called upon to do is not in itself a final act, but an initial act. Every task is suggestive of something higher than itself. Every task and object you contribute to the world is a real thing, something that other people will look at, and by it be more or less influenced.
Now, as every object or task that you contribute to your environment defines you, you should take care that it defines you correctly. The task and the thing are photographs of your mental vision. The more care you take with the negative, the better picture of your intentions you will present to your environment and your times.
The records of the past (and the amazing activities of the present) offer you numberless roads to follow. Whichever highway you elect to travel fixes your direction. You can travel the road both bravely and helpfully; bravely, in that you have faith that it leads you where you must go; helpfully, in that you leave evidence of the work of your mind and hands as you go along, and in that it shall inspire love of work in those who come after, and faith in the direction of the road.
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Listen to episode 488 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Taking Control of Your Mind & Body | Health Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Youth and Opportunity by Thomas Tapper.
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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The truth is that you will succeed in life just as you learn to do your work with mind and body as your two great servants. You must be able to say of yourself, as Jean Jacques Rousseau said of his friend Ignacio de Altuna, "His body was well formed for the residence of his mind."
If he want to have a strong body, you must devote your thought to strength. If you want to be rich in material things, you must think and plan and work thoughts of riches. If you want to be of great use in the world, you must direct your thought upon utilitarian activities. Any or all of these conditions will come about if you keep on thinking about them.
It sounds easy, does it not? And yet, most people fail to master mind and body, although success depends on this very mastery. Why do they fail? There are certain things about the mind and body which must be understood early in life if we wish to succeed. In the years of childhood and youth, and before we know just what we want to do in the world, mind and body are full of strength and freshness. We use them with little or no thought. We do not realize that they are our servants, and come to believe: "I am a mind and body. What they do, I am." But, in fact, we should believe, "I have a mind and a body. What I do with them, I am."

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Listen to episode 487 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Overcome Fear | Courageous Living. Edited and adapted from Everyday Efficiency: A Practical Guide to Efficient Living by C.H. Forbes-Lindsay.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Everyday Efficiency: A Practical Guide to Efficient Living by C.H. Forbes-Lindsay, published in 1918.

Fear is the most devastating agency in life. It prevents initiative, paralyzes effort, promotes disease, hampers development and in a thousand ways mars the character. And yet, it is one of the most common defects in character. Most of us are subject to Fear in one form or another. We fear fate, we fear death, we fear disease, we fear poverty, we fear failure, we fear accident, we fear difficulties, we fear responsibility, and on and on.

Lyman Abbott states that if we look back upon those times in our lives when we thought we were facing danger, we will see in retrospect that the lions were almost ways chained. We know from personal experience that situations which initially excited our fears, were rarely, if ever, as bad as our imagination had pictured them.

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Listen to episode 486 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The 3 Pillars of Success and Happiness. Edited and adapted from Success by Lord Beaverbrook.
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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Success — that is the royal road we all want to tread, for it gives us the opportunity to exercise our abilities and activities to the full. Like all human affairs, success is partly a matter of predestination and partly of free will. You cannot make genius, but you can improve upon it or destroy it, and most people possess the assets which can be turned into success. But those who possess these precious gifts will have to gather and expand them.
What are the qualities which make for success? They are three: Judgment, Industry, and Health, and perhaps the greatest of these is judgment — for in proclaiming the word judgment one has said everything. In the affairs of the world it is the supreme quality.
Surrounding good judgment there cluster many qualities, like the setting around a jewel: such as, the capacity to read the hearts of others; to draw an inexhaustible fountain of wisdom from every particle of experience in the past, and to turn the current of this knowledge into the dynamic action of the future.

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Listen to episode 485 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Cheerfulness & The Wheel of Life. Adapted from Everyday Efficiency by C.H. Forbes-Lindsay.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. To get the best essays from our podcast in heirloom hardcover or digital e-book, please visit InspirationalLifeLessons.com. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Everyday Efficiency: A Practical Guide to Efficient Living by C.H. Forbes-Lindsay, published in 1918.
Cheerfulness is the lubricant of the "Wheel of Life." It lightens labor, diminishes difficulties, and mitigates misfortunes. After what we may term the essential virtues, Cheerfulness is the most desirable human quality. And it is the most conspicuously absent among Americans. As Emerson once said, "I question if care and doubt ever wrote their names so legibly on the faces of any other population.”
With us the "wheel of life" is allowed to become rusted with worry and clogged with the dust and lint of petty frictions, so that the round of daily life is made doubly difficult and wearing. It IS possible for a cheerless person to achieve success, but they do so at terrible cost to themselves and others. They cannot enjoy money, position, and other attainments, for the power of enjoyment soon passes away from them. They never appreciate the truth that happiness is to be found in living, in endeavor, in the pursuit.
The object striven for seldom brings the anticipated happiness. The person who views life as a painful drudgery to be compensated for by the ultimate realization of a supreme desire has grievous disappointments in store for them — for as Stevenson said: "To travel hopefully is better than to arrive, and true success involves labor. Surely we must look for happiness along the road — not at the end of it.”

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Listen to episode 484 of the Inspirational Living podcast: We are the Master of Ourselves and Fate. Adapted from the book Concentration: The Key to Constructive Thought by C. W. Kyle.
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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The axiom, ''As you thinketh in your heart so you are,” is the most startling truth ever uttered about humankind. What an amazing statement it is — for it reveals that we are possessed of the power to create and rule ourselves and our environment by the choice and mastership of our thoughts!
The wonderful fascination of this saying lies in the all-embracing statement which it so directly makes. It covers every possible action we take, and clearly states that we are capable of exercising unlimited powers. Look which way we will, we cannot escape from the finality of this decree.
The beauty of this saying is that it is true, just as it is written. You ARE a world within yourself, and you ARE master of yourself. It matters not how well or ill you may exercise your powers of mastery. You are the unquestioned thinker of your own thoughts, which are the tools of your trade. You are the master craftsman of your own designs, and you build constructively or destructively as you will. You make yourself sick or well, rich or poor, strong or feeble, sorrowful or joyous by the character of the thoughts you think.

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Listen to episode 483 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Developing a Great and Powerful Personality. Edited and adapted from Leadership by George H. Knox.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: There is a force in the world that is all-powerful — something that transforms us into giants when we open our minds to the highest good. There is a power that enables you to multiply your mental force a thousand times, and even to increase your physical force until you can almost defy fatigue and disease. We see this power every day in the faces of women and men, in the painting of the artist, in the song of the poet, in all the great achievements of humankind.

What is this power? Perhaps no one knows for sure. But as we use electricity without knowing exactly what it is, so does this peculiar something exert an influence greater than that of electricity. Scientists tell us that the entire atmosphere is filled with energy, that there is an ocean of energy enveloping the world, and as we use this force or energy does it come to us in an ever-increasing supply. However, this phenomenon alone cannot account for our personality, nor how we can develop it; how we can become magnetic and attractive; how we can develop capacity for work and leadership.

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Listen to episode 482 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Wealth & Greatness Within You | Living Your Ideals. Edited and adapted from Levels of Living by Henry Frederick Cope.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. If you enjoy our podcast, you can help us out by leaving a positive review at the iTunes store. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Levels of Living (Essays on Everyday Ideals) by Henry Frederick Cope, published in 1908.
There is an old mystical saying that the things which are not seen are essential to all success. We are blind if we can see only with our eyes, and we only are sensible when we know that there are many things beyond our senses. Practical people consider all the factors to every problem, and things are not less real to them because they might be intangible.
The unseen things are imminent to us always. There are many things not yet pigeonholed by our science nor catalogued by our philosophies. You can dissect a daisy and enumerate its parts; but you never know a daisy until you have seen the unseen things thereof, until you have felt the subtle appeal of its beauty.
The danger is that in our hard workaday lives we shall forget the reality of the unseen; we shall get to thinking that gold, steel, land, and money are the only real things. How easy it is to measure everyone by their possessions of tangible things. How easy to make these our chief end in life — to slight the real prizes (the unseen wealth that lies so close at hand or already possessed), while we rush and strive for the rainbow of riches.

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Listen to episode 481 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Courage, Self-Mastery & Rising Above Our Failures. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Success is largely a matter of management. Self-mastery means more than doing right morally and controlling one's temper. You, indeed, must have something of a temper if you are going to be good for anything. Without a temper a person is like a piece of untempered steel. But while it’s necessary to have a temper, it is also necessary to control it, at least most of the time — all the time would be asking too much.

It is said that the person who can control their temper can control others and have things their own way. But sometimes our inclinations are harder to control than our temper. It is understood that we should control our thoughts and actions so far as not doing certain things is concerned, but it is doing things that we don’t like to do, or when we don’t like to do them, that is the real test — for there is such a thing as impulse, moods, and the blues that we must contend with.

It is said that a horse is a creature of impulse. If it wants grass it eats grass; if it wants to lie down it lies down. We are sometimes also a creature of impulse to a certain extent. When we feel like quitting, we too often quit, whether we are through or not. When we don’t like the work, we quit for the same reason. And when we get the blues; we quit simply because we are blue.

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Listen to episode 480 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Finding Yourself | Living Up to Your Potential. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thanks to our newest patrons: Lucy Burns and Afya Gabriel. I truly appreciate your financial support. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox, published in 1905.

There's not very much difference between the person who is succeeding and the other who isn't; between the person who is taking big strides onward, and the other who is doing only fairly well. One has discovered themselves; and the other has not. One knows they can do things; and the other is not sure.

We are more capable than we think we are. We don’t expect as much of ourselves as we should. We too frequently judge ourselves by what we are, instead of what we may become by adding just a little more energy and thought to our efforts.

The rate at which your capacity for doing things can be developed is wonderful. You can do but a little today, but by doing that little (and doing it with snap and energy), you are a stronger person tomorrow. You can do more. And the next day a new idea is evolved in your mind. You begin to think. And thinking is what makes the woman and man — not thinking alone, but thinking and putting those thoughts into action.

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Listen to episode 479 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Getting Started Right Each and Every Day. Edited and adapted from Byways of Blessedness by James Allen.
Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Life is full of beginnings. They are presented every day and every hour to every person. Most beginnings are small, and appear trivial and insignificant, but in reality they are the most important things in life.
See how in Nature everything proceeds from small beginnings. The mightiest river is at first a rivulet over which the grasshopper could leap; the great flood commences with a few drops of rain; the sturdy oak, which has endured the storms of a thousand winters, was once an acorn; and the smoldering match, carelessly dropped, may be the means of devastating a whole town by fire.
Have you yet discovered the vast importance of beginnings? Do you really know what is involved in a beginning? Do you know the number of beginnings you are continuously making, and realize their full importance? If not, come with me for a short time, and thoughtfully explore this much ignored pathway to success and a life well lived.
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Listen to episode 478 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Strengthen Your Will-Power | Motivation. Edited and adapted from Stepping-Stones to Success by Horace D. Hitchcock.
Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thanks to our newest patrons Krishno Sarkar and Zakhar. If you would like to become a patron and gain exclusive access to over 175 additional podcasts from our archive, as well as my new series of articles on how to run joyfully while completing the Couch to 5K program, visit LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you.
Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Stepping-Stones to Success by Horace D. Hitchcock, published in 1914.
When it comes to human accomplishment, the power of will is the greatest power in the world. In fact, no person can determine the limits of any individual mind; neither can they foretell the limits of human endeavor. The accomplishments of today would appear as positive impossibilities to those who lived ages ago. A safe maxim for the future thus might be: "There is nothing that is impossible."
The power of will is a force distinctly human, and involves that which cannot be fully understood or explained. Like electricity, we know its cause and effects, but we do not know exactly what it is. Thought power deals with the brain in activity, and it is a conscious power; in other words, "Will power."
No normal person lives who does not have some will power. The common phrase, "I have no will power” is a contradiction and an impossibility. “Nothing is impossible to the person who can will. That is the only law of success," said Mirabeau, the French revolutionary.

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Listen to episode 477 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Meaning of Money & How to Use It. Edited and adapted from Youth and Opportunity by Thomas Tapper.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. I’d like to start today by expressing my gratitude to all of you who listen to this podcast. We just passed the 10 million download mark, which is millions more than I ever thought we’d get when I started this podcast. So, thanks again. It is a real privilege to be part of your life each week.
Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Youth and Opportunity by Thomas Tapper, published in 1912.
When discussing the Factors of Success, comparatively few people would fail to insist that the one thing above all others in desirability and importance, is money. We give precedence to money because we believe in its power, and yet, at the same time, it is the most impotent of our many servants.
Rightly regarded, money is a wholesome possession. The amount of good it can be made to do is so astounding that it is no wonder we regard it as the greatest thing in the world. Yet it is not the greatest thing in the world. It is merely one essentially important thing, and about its importance everyone should rightly inform themselves.

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Listen to episode 476 of the Inspirational Living podcast: C25K Motivation for Running Couch to 5K | Runners High. Including motivational and uplifting quotes on running.
Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. The topic of today’s podcast is a little different. While I occasionally mention the importance of exercise and having a fit body, most of the time I talk about life lessons and success habits unrelated to fitness.
But not today. Today we are going to talk about running, because around 8 weeks ago I decided that I was going to take up running for the first time. While I played a lot of sports in my youth, I always hated running. But now at the age of 52, not having done any regular, aerobic exercise in many years, I decided to start running, AND that I was going to enjoy it. Not only that, I set a goal for myself of running a 10.5K mini-marathon by the end of the year.
I downloaded the free C25K app by Zen Labs, which thousands of other people have used successfully to take up running, and now am on week 7 of the program, looking forward to graduating soon to their free 10K training app.
The biggest challenge in getting this far is that I’ve had to radically change my old mindset of hating running. And (I’m happy to say) I’ve succeeded in that. Now, I actually do enjoy running. I genuinely look forward to it. I’ve even begun to get a “runner’s high” that lasts throughout the day. Indeed I’m starting to feel around 20 years younger — and all without the pain, struggle, and difficulties that cause so many beginning runners to quit.
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Now, on to today’s reading, which is a collection of inspirational quotes on the subject of running. For attribution, check out the full transcript which I have included with this podcast.
“Running! If there’s any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can’t think of what it might be. In running the mind flees with the body, the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with [your] feet and the swinging of [your] arms.” — Joyce Carol Oates
“For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself.” — Haruki Murakami
“Never limit where running can take you. I mean that geographically, spiritually, and, of course, physically.” — Bart Yasso
“Our running shoes have magic in them. The power to transform a bad day into a good day; frustration into speed; self-doubt into confidence; chocolate cake into muscle.” — Mina Samuels
“I don’t run to add days to my life, I run to add life to my days.” — Ronald Rook
“I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I run…to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that.” — Dean Karnazes
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle – when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.” — Christopher McDougall
“There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further yet, and what you have before you, laid bare, is the soul.” — Kristin Armstrong
“The Hopis consider running a form of prayer; they offer every step as a sacrifice to a loved one, and in return ask the Great Spirit to match their strength with some of its own.” — Christopher McDougall
“[My mantra while running] is to breathe in strength and breathe out weakness.” – Amy Hastings Cragg
“The more I run, the more I love my body. Not because it’s perfect, far from it, but because with every mile it is proving to me that I am capable of more than I ever thought possible.” — Unknown
“People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they’ll go to any length to live longer. But I don’t think that’s the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you’re going to while away the years, it’s far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe running helps you to do that.” — Haruki Murakami
“[When running] your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.” — Tim Noakes
“Every run is a work of art, a drawing on each day’s canvas. Some runs are shouts and some runs are whispers. Some runs are eulogies and others celebrations.” — Dagny Scott Barrio
“I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put one foot in front of the other, and come to the same conclusion I did: I run because it always takes me where I want to go.” — Dean Karnazes
“Your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. [Rather] they are moments in time when the running allows you to see how wonderful your life is.” — Kara Goucher
“I often hear someone say I’m not a real runner. We are all runners, some just run faster than others. I never met a fake runner.” — Bart Yasso
“We run to undo the damage we’ve done to body and spirit. We run to find some part of ourselves yet undiscovered.” — John Bingham
“An obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.” —George Sheehan
“Now, if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.” — George S. Patton
“No matter how slow you go you are still lapping everyone on the couch.” — Unknown
“Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible. Nothing unattainable.” — Kara Goucher
“One run can change your day, many runs can change your life.” — Unknown
“Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running.” — Julie Isphording

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How to Prepare for Couch to 5k Running Program
The C25K (Couch to 5k) running app aims to take you from the couch to running 5K in only 8 weeks. However, if you are over overweight and/or haven't done any regular aerobic exercise in many years, I do not recommend starting the program right away. This is especially true if you are someone who has always hated running and/or is over 50 years old.
You need to change your mindset about running, and that means doing everything you can to turn it into a very DOABLE and enjoyable experience. Here are my suggestions for getting started on the right foot:
TWO WEEK PREPARATION
1) Buy yourself a new pair of running shoes or sneakers. A small financial investment helps to establish a new habit and serves as symbol of your commitment. You don't need to spend lots of money on fancy running shoes, simply ones that feel very comfortable on your feet and seem well made. I was able to purchase my shoes for around $20 on sale and they have served me well.
2) Go for a 30-60 minute walk every day (14 days). During your walk occasionally jog for 20-30 yards, however long and fast you feel comfortable with. Just enough to raise your heart rate and breathing some, but never so far or fast that you get that tight, breathless feeling in your throat and/or feel like you need to bend over with hands resting on your thighs. I never want you to feel like that! The joyful running habit I've developed aims to avoid that feeling.
It's important that you don't miss a day during these first 14 days. Choose a start time that you'll most likely be able to commit to each day. For me, it has been 5 am. The Couch to 5K program is a 3 day a week program, but it is much easier to establish a new habit by working on it every day at the beginning. Once you complete the first 14 days of preparation, you'll find it much easier follow the 3 day a week program and will begin to look forward to your next run during your time-off, recovery days.
3) Begin compiling your running playlist of songs that are especially suited for motivating you while running, or listen to my playlist once you officially start the Couch to 5K program: The Couch to 5K Playlist for Awesome People.
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Listen to episode 475 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Personal Character: The Crown & Glory of Life. Edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. To make a one-time donation to our podcast, please visit LivingHour.org/donate. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from. How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun, published in 1895.

The crown and glory of life is Character. It is the noblest possession of the individual, constituting a rank in itself and an estate in the general good-will. Character dignifies every station, and exalts every position in society. It exercises a greater power than wealth, and secures all honor without the jealousies of fame. It carries with it an influence which always tells, for it is the result of proven honor, rectitude, and consistency — qualities which, perhaps, more than any other, command the general confidence and respect of one’s fellow citizens.

Character is human nature in its best form. It is moral order embodied in the individual. People of character are not only the conscience of society, but in every well-governed state, they are its best motive power — for it is moral qualities in the main which rule the world. Even in war, Napoleon said, the moral is to the physical as ten to one.

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Listen to episode 474 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Courage, Persistence & The Energetic Life. Edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Thomas Carlyle said that the first requisite to success is carefully to find your life work and then bravely carry it out. No soldier who won a succession of triumphs, nor business person who reached the top, did not find their beginning slow, arduous, and discouraging.

Courage is a prime essential to prosperity. Your progress may be slow in comparison with your ambition, but if you keep a brave heart and stick persistently to it, you will surely succeed in the end.

The forceful, energetic character, like the forceful soldier on the battle-field, not only moves forward to victory themselves, but their example has a stimulating influence on others.

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Listen to episode 473 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Gaining Freedom from Worry, Fear, Hatred & Suspicion. Edited and adapted from Youth and Opportunity by Thomas Tapper.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thanks to Jesse-Rodriguez-Wood for upgrading his patronage level. We have various patron levels for our podcast, each of which comes with its own unique rewards. To learn more, please visit, LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you.

Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Youth and Opportunity by Thomas Tapper, published in 1912.

When our tongues are tied we cannot speak; when our hands are tied we cannot labor; when our feet are tied we cannot travel. If we lived under a tyrant who, with little warning, tied our tongue, hands, and feet, and made us helpless, we should rebel and fight for freedom. And yet we live under just such a tyrant; or, rather, a family of tyrants, who not only tie our tongues, hands, and feet, but our ability, perseverance, happiness, and pleasures of life.

These tyrants are Fear, Worry, Suspicion, Hatred & Co. When a Roman tyrant threatened to put a Greek slave in jail, the slave laughed at him and said: "You can put my body in jail, but my spirit will be forever free." However, the tyrants we submit to actually put the spirit in prison; and thus we become helpless.

To succeed in life, we must work freely with our resources. Resources are positive things. They help us and increase us. They make it plain to us just where opportunity is to be found. And yet the tyrants that put the spirit in jail are not positive things. They are the worst possible form of impediment, and impediments never helped a person in all the history of the world.

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Listen to episode 472 of the Inspirational Living podcast: What You Ask for You Will get. Edited and adapted from Youth and Opportunity by Thomas Tapper.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting InspirationalLifeLessons.com. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Youth and Opportunity by Thomas Tapper, published in 1912.
There is an old expression coined by J.P. Morgan which says: "It is impossible to unscramble an egg." The logic of the statement is this: With an egg in hand, be sure you know what you want to do with it before you break the shell — for once the shell is broken, it is impossible again to restore it to wholeness. Exactly the same statement is true of life.
It is impossible to unscramble life. Hence, with life before us, we must be reasonably sure of the use we wish to make of it before we break the shell, but we must not wait too long; nor must we expect to undo, tomorrow, the act we have performed today.
The familiar expression, "many people, many minds," like all proverbs, is rich in meaning. We all fashion our own mansion, and we must dwell in it. If we turn to the records of literature, and, at the same time, observe those about us, we will learn a few principles about success that should ultimately make the mansion we are building a delightful and beautiful dwelling place.

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Listen to episode 471 of the Inspirational Living podcast: What You Ask for You Will Get. Edited and adapted from The Open Door by Hugh Black.
Inspiring Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thank you to our newest patron Letitia Worthy. Your monthly financial support helps me a lot in being able to continue this podcast. To learn how you can become my patron and get access to our full archive of podcasts, plus transcripts, please visit LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you.
Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Open Door by Hugh Black, published in 1914.
Always remember that what you request is given to you, and what you really will in your heart you attain. Life comes and says calmly and confidently, "Ask what I shall give you," and the door opens out into the place of your asking.
I know that this may seem at first an absurd statement that what we seek we find, and where we knock it is opened to us, but if you think a little you will see that it is true. We may not get the exact thing we most desire. The particular object on which we have set our hearts may be out of our reach, but we do get along the line of our desire.

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Listen to episode 470 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Importance of a Youthful Spirit | Non-Conformists. Edited and adapted from The Open Door by Hugh Black.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, and (if you are felling inspired) leaving us a positive review at the iTunes store is always greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Open Door by Hugh Black, published in 1914.
Youth stands at the magic door of life. It never remains the same, but seems to alter with each person. This is not strange, since youth itself does not stay the same. We speak of youth as if it were always of one texture and color, whereas it is a time of chaotic contradictions.
We talk of the hopefulness of youth, which is true enough, and yet some have known a childhood full of bitter despair never again equaled. We call it a time of impractical radicalism, and yet it is curiously conservative. We speak of its blithe carelessness, and yet it is sometimes marked by moods of brooding sadness.
Youth is like an April day flecked with alternate sun and shower. And whatever youth does, it does with zest: it believes more valiantly, doubts more tragically, hopes more buoyantly, fears more poignantly than ever again. All this because it is a time of dawning self-expression. It is for the first time fully conscious of being alive...

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Listen to episode 469 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Happy Life: Love, Hope & Friendship. Edited and adapted from The True Source of a Happy Life by Hugh Wayt.

Happiness Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Get the best essays from our podcast in heirloom hardcover by visiting the website InspirationalLifeLessons.com. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The True Source of a Happy Life by Hugh Wayt, published in 1909.

Those who would be happy must love. Not only parents, children, and friends; but unlovable people too. Love gives us the disposition to suffer long and still be kind — to see others with talent and riches surpassing ours and not envy them. It keeps us from boasting of our personal possessions and attainments.

Love makes us humble. It helps us to bear ourselves gently toward others. It makes us protective of the rights of others, as well as our own. It keeps us from being provoked by some supposed slight or insult. It makes us slow to suspect others of evil motives or evil designs. It causes us to rejoice in the triumph of truth. It makes us cover up the faults of others, as we desire others to overlook ours.

Love gives us confiding hearts. It makes us hopeful and trustful. It helps us to endure hardships and privations. These are all elements of happiness.

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Listen to episode 468 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The True Sources of Genuine Happiness. Edited and adapted from The True Source of a Happy Life by Hugh Wayt.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Greatness of mind and heart will give us the spirit to do and bear great things. It endures trials without sinking beneath them, stands face to face with danger and death without flinching, can smile favorably on the face of a foe, and rejoice in a competitor's success. It is calm under great provocations and endures unmoved both perils and privations for the sake of great principles and the common good.

True magnanimity consists of personal worth. One may be truly magnanimous and recognized as such, and at the same time be destitute of learning, scholarship, office, or rank. Such nobility, or largeness of life, is frequently found in people of humble circumstances. Acts worthy of heroes are being performed daily by people scarcely known at all.

The qualities which must be sought in order to secure such greatness of mind and heart are a lofty purpose, deep sympathies, and absolute self-sacrifice. These combine in a nobility of character and life which makes one happy.

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Listen to episode 467 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Self-Control: Letting Go of Anger, Hatred & Irritability. Edited and adapted from The Freedom of Life by Annie Payson Call.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. To get access to full transcripts and over 150 additional podcasts from our archive, please become our patron today by visiting LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Freedom of Life by Annie Payson Call, published in 1905.

To most people self-control means the control of appearances and not the control of realities. This is a radical mistake, and must be corrected if we are to get a clear idea of self-control, and if we are to make a fair start in acquiring it as a permanent habit.

You are what you are by virtue of your own motives of thought and action, by virtue of what your mind is, what your will is, and what you are in the resultant combination of mind and will. You are not necessarily what you appear from the outside. If someone is ugly to you, and you want to knock them down, and refrain from doing so simply because of what others might think, your desire to knock that person down is still a part of yourself, and you have not controlled yourself until you are absolutely free from that desire.

So long as you feel hatred toward another, you are in bondage to your hatred; and if (for the sake of appearances) you do not act or speak from that hatred, you are none the less at its mercy, and it will find an outlet somewhere.

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Listen to episode 466 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Self-Improvement Tools: Tolerance & Acceptance. Edited and adapted from The Power of Truth by William George Jordan.

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Self-Improvement Podcast Excerpt: Intolerance is part of the unnecessary friction of life. It is prejudice on the war-path. Intolerance acknowledges only one side of any question — its own. It is a monopoly in thinking: the attitude of a person who believes they have a corner on wisdom and truth.

Tolerance, on the other hand, is a calm, generous respect for the opinions of others, even one's enemies. It recognizes the right of every person to think their own thoughts, to live their own life, to be themselves in all things, so long as it does not run counter to the rights of others. It means giving to others the same freedom that we ourselves crave.

Tolerance is silent justice, blended with sympathy. If the one who is tolerant desires to show others the truth as they see it, they seek with gentleness and deference to point out the way in which they have found peace and certainty; they try to raise others to the recognition of higher ideals; they endeavor in a spirit of love and comradeship to lead others rather than to drive them, to persuade and convince rather than to overawe and eclipse.

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Listen to episode 465 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Meaning of Education. Edited and adapted from Character Building by Booker T. Washington.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. If you would like to help support the continuation of this podcast with a one-time financial donation, please visit LivingHour.org/donate. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Booker T. Washington’s book Character Building, which is a collection of Sunday evening talks he delivered to the students of the Tuskegee Institute, the first institution of higher education for African Americans. The book was published in 1902.

It may seem to some of you that I am continually talking to you about education — the right kind of education, how to get an education, and such kindred subjects — but surely no subject could be more pertinent, since the object for which you all are here is to get an education; and if you are to do this, you wish to get the best kind possible.

You will understand, then, I am sure, if I speak often about this, or refer to the subject frequently, that it is because I am very anxious that all of you go out from here with a definite and correct idea of what is meant by education, of what an education is meant to accomplish, what it may be expected to do for one.

We are very apt to get the idea that education means the memorizing of a number of dates, of being able to state when a certain battle took place, of being able to recall with accuracy this event or that event. We are likely to get the impression that education consists in being able to commit to memory a certain number of rules in grammar, a certain number of rules in arithmetic, and in being able to locate correctly on the earth's surface this mountain or that river, and to name this lake and that gulf.

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Listen to episode 464 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Eternal Soul | Life After Death. Edited and adapted from Growth in Silence, the Undertone of Life by Susanna Cocroft.

Spirituality Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. If you enjoy our podcast, please help us spread the word by sharing your favorite episodes on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Growth in Silence, the Undertone of Life by Susanna Cocroft, published in 1917.

High ideals and lofty sentiments, with the mind and heart alert for new light (fresh thoughts to weave into new pictures), keep the heart, brain, and body young and strong. There is no senility in progress. We do not (quote) "grow old." Age comes with the cessation of effort, in letting go. So long as we keep growing, we are young — new cells are being born. We are the chemical laboratories of life; and cheerful thoughts give inspiration to life's building.

Age is not measured by revolutions on the sundial. It is measured by the growth of the spirit, by the acceptance of new ideas. It may be the watching for a new flower each morning, or a new note in the song-bird's carol, or a new shade in heaven's blue. High ideals and lofty purposes; the frequent uplift to something better; the happy mental attitude; are Nature's rejuvenators. So let us admit no false limit to our youth.

There is negation in talking, in thinking death. Every emotion has its corresponding chemical activity. There is positive growth in thoughts of life. There is stimulation to growth in joy and happiness. Let us live longer by living more fully, more richly each day — richly because of richer thinking and more efficient doing.

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Listen to episode 463 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Self-Growth by Giving & Doing | Self-Development Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Growth in Silence, the Undertone of Life by Susanna Cocroft.

Self-Help Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. So many of you have taken advantage of our self-growth package that I’ve decided to extend the special for another week. Once again, what you’ll be receiving in this package is all 3 of our life lesson e-books, which feature 150 of the most popular inspirational essays that I’ve read on this podcast, as well as our MAJESTY meditation, our Ocean Sounds sleep meditation with positive affirmations, and all 3 of our Break Free from Addiction meditations.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Growth in Silence, the Undertone of Life by Susanna Cocroft, published in 1917.

What is education, what is knowledge, what is spiritual development, what is gladness and joy, but so much capital to spend, but an exhaustless storehouse from which we may draw?

Give to the world generously — your hands were made to open, as well as to close. It is more blessed to give than to receive because in giving we are growing. As the parable of the ten talents teaches, in proportion as you give shall your store be multiplied a hundredfold. This giving does not refer to money, but of yourself, for (quote) "ye have greater gifts than gold."

We can never expand the real inner self — never gain soul growth, never feel ourselves really worthwhile — unless we give of the self. The gift of money or goods means little unless accompanied by the heart. Then, giving helps the giver more than the receiver.

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Listen to episode 462 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Quiet Power of Nature Within You. Edited and adapted from The Power of Repose by Annie Payson Call.

Inspirational Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. I’d like to start today by telling you about a teaching resource that I have available online. It’s a reading comprehension course that I created for elementary and middle school students, as well as students of English as a Second Language. This fun, quiz-based course not only helps improve reading comprehension. It also boosts knowledge in the humanities, arts, and sciences.

It’s available at Udemy, who is now offering the course for only $10.99, which is 69% off the regular price. Learn more by going to LivingHour.org/reading. And if your friends have children, please share it with them too. Thank you.

Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Power of Repose by Annie Payson Call, published in 1891.

Within all of us there is an exquisite sense of growing power that comes from Nature. In studying Nature, we not only realize the strength that comes from following her lead, but we discover her within ourselves gently moving us onward.

We all believe that we look to Nature; but it is surprising how often we are mistaken. We all would profit much if we took but fifteen minutes every day simply to think of Nature and her methods of working, and to see at the same time how we constantly interfere with the best use of her powers. Try to realize the quiet power of all natural growth and movement: from a blade of grass, through a tree (a forest of trees), the entire vegetable growth on earth; the movement of the planets to the growth and involuntary vital operations of our own bodies.

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Listen to episode 461 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Motivation for Mastering Your Circumstances. Edited and adapted from The Freedom of Life by Annie Payson Call.

Motivational Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. I know that many of you are isolating at home now and wondering how to pass the time. Not surprisingly, my advice is to focus on self-growth. And if you need some tools, I’ve decided to offer all of our e-books and meditations for only $9. You’ll get all 3 of our life lesson books, plus our MAJESTY mediation, our Positive Affirmations Sleep Meditation, and our break-free from addiction meditations. Get this special package now by going to LivingHour.org/special. This $9 deal will only be available for a few days, so go now to LivingHour.org/special. Thank you.

Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Freedom of Life by Annie Payson Call, published in 1905.

IT is not the circumstances of life that trouble or weigh upon us. It is the way we take them. If a person is playing a difficult game of chess, the more intricate the moves, the more thoughtfully they look over their own and their opponent's pieces, and the more fully they are aroused to make the right move toward a checkmate. If, when the game became difficult, the player stopped to be depressed and disheartened, their opponent would probably always checkmate them. However, in most cases, the more difficult the game, the more thoroughly the players are aroused to do their best. And a difficult game is invariably a good one — the winner and the loser both feel it to be so, even though the loser may regret their loss.

“But,” you may say, “a game of chess is a game only — neither one's bread and butter nor one's life depend upon winning or losing it.” Well, yes, but if we need to be cool, quiet, and decisive for a game (which is merely an amusement), and if we play the game better for being cool, quiet, and decisive, why is not a quiet steadiness in wrestling with the circumstances of life just as necessary — not only that we may meet the particular problem of the moment truly, but that we may gain all the experience that may be helpful in meeting other difficult circumstances.

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Listen to episode 460 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Life of Freedom | Overcoming Self-Consciousness. Edited and adapted from The Freedom of Life by Annie Payson Call.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Self-consciousness may be truly defined as a person's inability to get out of their own way. There are, however, some people who are so entirely self-conscious that don’t even realize it. They are so completely in bondage to themselves that they have no glimpse of the possibility of freedom, and therefore this bondage is pleasant to them.

With these people there is nothing to do. It is only those who have begun to realize their bondage that can take any steps toward freedom. The self-satisfied slaves must stay in prison until they see where they are. It is both curious and sad to see them rejoicing in their bondage and miscalling it freedom. Indeed, it makes one long to see them struck by an emergency, bringing a flash of that inner light which is often the beginning of a new state of being.

When such enlightenment occurs, it is usually followed by a time of groping in the dark, and always by more or less suffering. But one must continue on the path, assured of the good results to come. Self-development requires that we be steadily patient, content to aim in the true direction day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute. If we fall, we must pick ourselves up and go right on. Whatever the stone may be that we have tripped over, we will have learned that it is there, and, while we may trip over the same stone many times, if we learn our lesson each time, it decreases the possible number of stumbles, and smooths our path more than we know.

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Listen to episode 459 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Inspiration for a Larger, Richer, More Beautiful Life. Edited and adapted from The Pathway of Roses by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The mind that lives in doubt can see limitations everywhere. The mind that lives in faith can see no limitations, and, in fact, knows that there are no limitations anywhere. The mind that lives in doubt is in bondage to these seeming limitations, and therefore realizes nothing more of life than what is confined within these seeming limitations. But the mind that lives in faith, lives in the freedom of the all of life, and is daily realizing more and more of everything that is contained in the all of life.

Faith can see that no matter how large or beautiful life may be now, there is always a larger and a more beautiful life to live for, to work for, and to realize in the days that are near at hand. In a life of faith, there is no end to anything; there is always something more, always something richer, always something greater, always something better.

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Listen to episode 458 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Faith that Moves Mountains | Spiritual Power. Edited and adapted from The Pathway of Roses by Christian D. Larson.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Pathway of Roses by Christian D. Larson, published in 1912.

To the person who has faith nothing is impossible. It matters not what you may wish to realize or what you may wish to do; if you have faith, it can be done.

But what do we mean by faith? Faith is not a passive belief; it is positive action. It is the power of the spirit within us, acting upon the life, mind, body, and the nature of our being; and by acting through us, it acts upon everything with which we may come in contact.

When we have faith, we do not simply believe in the form or that which may exist in the external. When we have faith, we enter into the spirit of that in which we express our faith. The secret of real faith, and the real power of such a faith, is therefore found in the spirit.

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Listen to episode 457 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Developing Vision and Perspective. Edited and adapted from The Pursuit of Happiness by George Hodges.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. To get the best of our podcast in heirloom hardcover or digital e-book, please visit InspirationalLifeLessons.com. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Pursuit of Happiness by George Hodges, published in 1906.

Last time, I talked with you about determination and regulation as helps to happiness. The 3rd quality which will assist you to be happy is Proportion. By proportion I mean a true perspective. Proportion ministers to happiness because it restrains us from the exaggeration of excitement. They who lack it are like newspapers which have used up all their biggest type on screaming bulletins of petty fights and hysterical gossip, and have nothing larger for a battle which is determining the destiny of nations.

It is well to distinguish between a scratch and a surgical operation. It is well to save our supreme emotions for supreme events. I do not mean an unnatural repression of feeling or of speech. But the truth is that great joys and sorrows come but seldom. So, let us not get excited every common day. Let us reserve some stirrings of the heart for the occasions that truly call for them.

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Listen to episode 456 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Secrets to the Pursuit of Happiness. Edited and adapted from The Pursuit of Happiness by George Hodges.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Pursuit of Happiness by George Hodges, published in 1906.

Today I would like to talk with you about certain helps to happiness. The first is Determination. And by that I mean the will to be happy — for happiness is largely an interior matter. It is subjective; it does not depend on any particular environment, but depends solely upon our relation to the great currents of life. If we resist, there is friction and distress; if we fling ourselves boldly into the eternal tides, we are swept into every form of beauty and truth.

This does not mean that we should try to attain that sort of contentment which lets the world go by without an effort to change it for the better. When bad conditions may be changed, it is the imperative of all good people to be persistently discontented until they change them.

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Listen to episode 455 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Power of Being Bold & Decisive. Edited and adapted from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: The women and men who have left a mark upon their century have been the ones of great and prompt decision. An undecided person, a person who is ever balancing between two opinions, forever debating which of two courses they will pursue, proclaims by their indecision that they cannot control themselves, that they were meant to be possessed by others. They are not in the arena, but in the stands.

The individual of decision, of prompt action, does not wait for favorable circumstances. They do not submit to events; events must submit to them.

The vacillating woman and man is ever at the mercy of the opinion of the person who talked with them last. They may see the right, but they drift toward the wrong. If they decide upon a course, they only follow it until somebody opposes it.

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Listen to episode 454 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Art of Conversation | Inspirational Podcast Tips. Edited and adapted from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To be a good conversationalist — to able to interest people, rivet their attention, draw them to you naturally by the very superiority of your conversational ability — is a great accomplishment, one that is superior to all others. It not only helps you to make a good impression upon strangers, it also helps you to make and keep friends. It opens doors and softens hearts. It makes you interesting in all sorts of company. It helps you to get on in the world. It sends you clients, patients, customers. It helps you into the best society of your peers.

A person who can talk well, who has the art of putting things in an attractive way, who can interest others immediately by their power of speech, has a great advantage over one who may know more than them, but who cannot express themselves with ease or eloquence.

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Listen to episode 453 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Success is Seldom Accidental | Your Opportunities. Edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun.
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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from. How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun, published in 1895.
A person may leap into sudden fortune at a bound, and without effort or foresight, but it is doubtful if any great permanent success ever was the outcome of blind chance.
The old adage, "Trust to luck," like many other adages that time has kept in unmerited circulation, is a bad one. The individual who trusts to luck for their clothing is apt to wear rags, and the one who depends on it for food is sure to go hungry.
We hear a great deal about the wonderful things that have been done by chance, but we seldom take the time to examine them. We read that sir Isaac Newton, sitting in his garden one day, "Chanced to see an apple fall to the ground," and this set him to thinking, and he discovered the laws of gravitation.
Now, ever since the first apple fell from the first tree in Eden, people have been watching that very commonplace occurrence. We might extend the field so as to embrace oranges, coconuts, and all the fruits and nuts which have been falling to the ground — yet they set no person to thinking, simply because not one of the millions of people who "chanced" to see the incident, "chanced" to have the reasoning powers of the great English scientist. The falling of the apple in Newton's garden thus was not a chance, but an ordinary incident, which was made much of in the mind of an extraordinary man.

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Listen to episode 452 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: What is Success? | Being Truly Successful. Edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. If our podcast has been a help to you, please let us know by writing a short review of our podcast on iTunes or Google Play. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from. How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun, published in 1895.

It has been said that "Nothing Succeeds Like Success." But what is Success? If we consult the dictionaries, they will give us the etymology of this much used word, and in general terms, the meaning will be (quote) "the accomplishment of a purpose." But as the goals in nearly every life differ, success cannot mean the same thing to all people. The artist's idea of success is very different from that of the business person, and the scientist differs from both, as does the politician from all three.

We read of successful gamblers, burglars, or charlatans, but no true success was ever won or ever can be won in such a manner. To win (so that we ourselves and the world shall be the better for our having lived), we must begin the struggle with a high purpose, keeping ever before our minds the characters and methods of the noble men and women who have succeeded along the same lines.

The young person beginning the battle of life should never lose sight of the fact that we live in an age of fierce competition, and that this competition must, in the nature of things, become more and more intense. Success is now less and less dependent on luck and chance. Instead, the prime requisites of those who win are a preparation for your chosen field of effort, an industry that is ever increasing, a hope that never flags, a patience that never grows weary, a courage that never wavers....

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Listen to episode 451 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Face Life & Not Grow Old. Edited and adapted from How to Face Life by Stephen Samuel Wise.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. To support our podcast with a one-time financial donation, please visit LivingHour.org/donate. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from How to Face Life by Stephen Samuel Wise, published in 1917.

OLD age depends largely upon our attitude toward the whole of life. Old age is not a joke, nor a bore, nor a trial, nor a calamity, though it may be any one of these, as all of life may be. What needs to be stressed is that old age has no content in itself apart from the whole of life. Little can come to old age that was not in and throughout life.

Age, like happiness, is neither to be sought nor evaded. It is a by-product of life rather than life's end. Not the aim nor goal of life, but the way of life must it be.

In the matter of revering old age, it sometimes is well to ask whether old age is to be respected as a virtue in itself — whether length of days should be regarded as a merit apart from what has gone before. One is sometimes moved to believe that if the aged are unhappy, it is because age brings with it not only opportunity for quiet meditation and serene retrospect, but the necessity of thinking about the great issues of life.

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Listen to episode 450 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Building Health, Energy & Personality. Edited and adapted from the work of Charles Atlas.

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The very first essential thing to do in securing radiant health and physical strength is the deep breathing of pure, outside air. We can live without food for many weeks, without water for many days, but we cannot live without air for more than a few minutes.

Air is equally a food as fruits and vegetables. When it enters into the composition of the body, its value cannot be over emphasized. Yet because it is so cheap we often ignore its real value.

Remember that oxygen is LIFE! The more oxygen you breathe, the more health and strength you will get. This life-giving oxygen furnishes the power to pump the blood through the heart. It assists in carrying off the waste products from the myriad of tiny cells in the body, and helps to build new and stronger cells.

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Listen to episode 449 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Living a Life of Sunshine & Success. Edited and adapted from Making the Grade by C.V. Mosby.

Motivational Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. To become our patron and gain access to over a hundred additional podcasts, please visit our Patreon page at LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Making the Grade by C.V. Mosby, published in 1917.

Sunshine is essential to life. Disease and crime breed and grow where there is darkness. A hopeless individual is already defeated. The poison has entered their soul and paralyzed their initiative. Pessimism has crowded the lower rungs of life's ladder and gives plenty of room to those who would go to the top.

All successful people are optimists. If they were not, they could not succeed. It is probable that some individuals who revel in pessimism have reached the top; but, like barnacles, they have ridden up fastened to the back of other people.

In the early days of the United States, Jim Hill was optimistic with reference to the future of the Northwest. To him that land was capable of being converted into the granary of the world. He believed in its future. In his imagination, he saw fields of grain waving golden in the sun; he saw a railroad, reaching across the forest, over the mountain, through the vale, on and on until it touched the tidewater of Puget Sound. He believed in the Northwest and made the Northwest what it is today. He was optimistic and his optimism enabled him to make the grade.

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Listen to episode 448 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Million Dollar Lecture Pt. 3 | Success Habits & Incentives. Edited and adapted from The Million Dollar Lecture by Professor Erwin Haskell Schell.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. If you enjoy our podcast, help us spread the word by sharing your favorite episode on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Million Dollar Lecture by Professor Erwin Haskell Schell, delivered to the 1920 graduating class of MIT.

When it comes to building good habits, don’t overlook the habit of success. Yes, there is such a thing. Make it a customary habit to surmount difficulties, even in little things. Perhaps the winning, in itself, will not be worth the effort, but in the strengthening of the habit, its value is immeasurable.

The world has a place for the women and men who finish that which they undertake. I wish that I could burn that point into your minds so that it would always be before you.

We cannot stand still in life. We must either go forward or backward. And I believe that one of the greatest elements in consistent progress lies in the increasing development and use of the success habit.

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Listen to episode 447 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Million Dollar Lecture Pt. 2 | Free MIT Lectures. Edited and adapted from The Million Dollar Lecture by Professor Erwin Haskell Schell.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Get inspirational gifts and apparel by visiting BookofZen.com, each item featuring one of my one original, thought-provoking sayings. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Million Dollar Lecture by Professor Erwin Haskell Schell, delivered to the 1920 graduating class of MIT.

Having talked with you about the importance of finding, making, and keeping friends, the next resource that I want to see upon the asset side of your personal balance sheet is ability in the art of cooperation. This is a characteristic in which the technically trained person is often found to be lamentably weak. But I think that the weakness may be readily explained and improved upon.

The scientific method in which we are all trained is a method of analysis. Analysis is essentially critical and our viewpoint tends to be likewise. The error which we frequently make is in assuming that the critical attitude demands individuality of action, as well as thought, and we then adopt a non-cooperative attitude.

We view industry through the eyes of a reformer, as something to be revolutionized, rather than evolutionized. Business, of course, does need independent thinkers and idealists. And the last thing we demand of executives is “mass thinking.” But business also demands of you a practical vision of present conditions and a willingness to enter the firing line and work with the others in an attempt to better a given situation.

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Listen to episode 446 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Million Dollar Lecture Pt. 1 | MIT Lectures Online. Edited and adapted from The Million Dollar Lecture by Professor Erwin Haskell Schell.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thanks to our new patron Clair Bilton. To learn how you can become our monthly patron for the price of a single latte a month, visit LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you.
Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Million Dollar Lecture by Professor Erwin Haskell Schell, delivered to the 1920 graduating class of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In this lecture I am going to lay down some rules of conduct which I am confident will reward each of you with 10 thousand dollars of additional income if you follow them faithfully. Therefore, to the one hundred or more students in this room, the lecture should have a potential value of a million dollars. This explains the title which I have given it.
Here at MIT, you have learned three things well. First, you have learned to think straight. Our technical problems in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and applied science offer precise solutions. There is no room for undisciplined thinking.
Second, you have learned to work hard. There is no question about that, and it will be one of your greatest assets....

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Listen to episode 445 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Doing What You Want to Do | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Getting a Start: First Aids to Success by Nathaniel C. Fowler.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. If you would like to support the continuation of our podcast with a one-time financial donation, please visit LivingHour.org/donate. Thank you.

Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Getting a Start: First Aids to Success by Nathaniel C. Fowler, published in 1915.

To feel the flush of success is to do what you most want to do, and what you can best do. Unless you can do well what you want to do, the fullness of result is impossible. Conversely, unless you want to do what you can do well, a small result is likely to follow.

I would advise you, first to consider what you want to do, and then determine whether or not you can do it. If you find that what you want to do you cannot do well, then make no attempt in that direction and choose something else which you want to do, and continue the process until what you want to do and what you can do connect. But, in the meantime, don't loaf around. Do something, even if you don't want to do it. Keep busy.

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Listen to episode 444 of the Inspirational Living podcast: From Poverty to Plenty | Inspirational Podcasts. Edited and Adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin, published in 1904.

Is your head filled with the idea that there is luck, accident, fate, when there's no such thing on earth? If you have not faith and confidence in yourself or in me, you must acquire confidence in the inner self and trust in everybody you are drawn to after first placing faith in your higher, spiritual self. That is the key to all success and has nothing to do with modern religiosity, creeds, or beliefs.

I will present one hundred gold dollars to any person over 16 years of age who fully follows my directions and having done so fails to get from poverty to plenty — and another hundred to the one who follows my directions to go from Philadelphia to New York and fails. The two are equally sure.

Obeying all of the following rules will make any person wealthy:

Number 1) Work always so faithfully that somebody other than your employer will seek your services at a higher rate of pay. Work temporarily at any kind of work, for any rate of pay you can get. Never grumble at any imposition put upon you — but by faith in your higher-self draw yourself into better circumstances.

Number 2) Conceal your dislikes, hold your tongue, and watch for something better. Do all your work as well as possible and let quantity be secondary. Never think evil.

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Listen to episode 443 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation to Go Beyond expectations. Edited and adapted from Getting a Start: First Aids to Success by Nathaniel C. Fowler.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Getting a Start: First Aids to Success by Nathaniel C. Fowler, published in 1915

IF you are faithful, ordinary success is yours. If you do what you are told to do, or what you have to do, you can't become a failure. But more than ordinary success, more than normal accomplishment, is due, not wholly to faithfulness, not entirely to your interest in your work, but to the fact that you do not only what you are told to do and have to do, but what you are not told to do and don't have to do.

For example, let us suppose that you are an assistant bookkeeper. You arrive promptly at the opening hour. That is good. You are attentive to business. That is fine. You don't neglect things. That will be appreciated. You are accurate and faithful. Your employer gives you credit. But all this faithfulness, and all this attention to duty, will not bring you more than a normal raise in salary, or permit you to occupy more than an ordinary position, unless you add to them what is not required, what your employer doesn't ask or expect you to do.

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Listen to episode 442 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Success Habits at the Workplace & Life. Edited and adapted from Getting a Start: First Aids to Success by Nathaniel C. Fowler.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. If you enjoy our podcast, you’ll love our books, featuring the best essays read on our podcast. Learn more at InspirationalLifeLessons.com. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Getting a Start: First Aids to Success by Nathaniel C. Fowler, published in 1915

BEING ahead of time may lose you a minute; but being behind time may spoil your whole day. You can't catch up with the time that has passed. Being late is foolhardy, unbusinesslike, disastrous, and dishonest. If you are expected at a certain time, or have agreed to be somewhere at an hour specified, you are dishonest to yourself and to the other person if you don't arrive on time.

Because you are expected, preparations are made for your arrival, and delay injures both you and the one to be seen. Promptness is a commodity, negotiable in every market — while tardiness stands for failure, and is a forerunner of disaster.

The behind-time woman or man can't be depended upon. "Being there" gives opportunity for "getting there." Better to be ahead of time, even at great inconvenience, than to be a minute late.

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Listen to episode 441 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Seizing Opportunities | Master of Your Fate. Edited and Adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: The Spanish have a proverb that half of the misfortunes in life come from holding in your horse while it is leaping. The rider who checks a horse when vaulting over a hedge or brook courts death or disaster. So, when the time comes for supreme effort (the grand vault that is to lift you over the obstacles in your path and introduce you to a higher and nobler arena), you must enter into the spirit and effort of the hour and not hold back your horse when it is leaping.

There comes to each life but a few of these moments, and when they do come they must be improved to the utmost. The one who would win in life's heavily contested conflicts must wisely lay aside everything that will hinder the fullest exercise of their powers or lessen their chances of winning success.

Every weight carried lessens the chances of victory; every weight discarded increases the prospects of success. Yet how many people enter life's great arena loaded down with weights, careless if not utterly oblivious of the handicap under which they struggle for fame and fortune and the higher success of character.

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Listen to episode 440 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Success Habits of Time, Money & Personal Power. Edited and Adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thanks to our newest patron, Lesa Williams. Learn how you can support our podcast for as little as 1 dollar a month by visiting LivingHour.org/patron. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin, published in 1904.

Economy is a much broader word than most people imagine. It applies to time, strength, talent, influence and effort, as well as to the prudent and saving use of money. The rule of life should be: Avoid all waste.

The hours squandered in idleness or senseless dissipation by many people would, if systematically improved, lead them to increased knowledge and skill — and likewise from poverty to comfort and independence. The common laborer who works for $15 an hour, may, by attaining skill, experience, and knowledge, command a much higher sum and soon better their material condition.

The vast majority of people who have risen from obscurity to power, and from power to affluence, have done so by careful and systematic improvement of the spare moments of their lives. "Time is money," it is said. But this very inadequately expresses the truth. Time is infinitely more than money. Time is, when improved: education, knowledge, enjoyment, skill, talent, and character.

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Listen to episode 439 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The First Step Toward Success in Life. Edited and Adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: All people desire success, but few attain their desire. Yet success, along some line, is a possibility in every life. The fact that many people attain success despite their unfavorable early environment, their ill health, misfortune, or friendless condition, proves that the way is open to all who will find the path and follow it.

Success is the rightful heritage of every life, and while, doubtless, all cannot reap the same measure of success in precisely the same lines, there is no question but that ninety-nine unsuccessful people in every hundred might find and pursue a path to power, peace, and plenty.

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Listen to episode 438 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How Your Thoughts Create Your Life. Edited and adapted from “The Message of New Thought” by Abel Allen.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from “Message of New Thought” by Abel Allen, published in 1914.

Nature does not thrust powers and accomplishments upon us. In her infinite wisdom she leaves us a work to perform. Endowed by nature with inherent powers, it is left to us to develop them or not.

Wisely it was ordained that we should eat our bread by the sweat of our brow — for labor is the propelling force of human progress and advancement. Without it, we would have placed no value on that which satisfies our wants and ministers to our comforts. We value the most that which we accomplish by our own efforts, either physical or mental.

"Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought," says Victor Hugo. In order to have a due appreciation of the forces and powers within us, we must learn to unfold and develop them for ourselves. This we can do only by the exercise of our own thought and will power.

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Listen to episode 437 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Importance of Achieving Perfect Poise. Edited and Adapted from Poise: How to Attain It by D. Starke.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Poise: How to Attain It by D. Starke, published in 1916.

Lack of poise has always been an obstacle to those who wish to succeed.

In every age, the awkwardness born of timidity has hindered those who suffered from it. But this defect has never been so great a drawback as in the life of today.

The celebrated phrase of the ancient Roman writer who said, "Fortune smiles on the brave," could very well serve as our motto nowadays, with this slight alteration: "Fortune smiles on those who are possessed of poise."

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Listen to episode 436 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Concentration, Visualization & Enthusiasm. Edited and Adapted from The Victorious Attitude by Orison Swett Marden.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Those who concentrate upon an idea, who continue to visualize their dreams, to nurse them, who never lose sight of their goal, no matter how dark or forbidding the way, get what they concentrate on. They make their minds powerful magnets to attract the thing on which they have concentrated. Sooner or later they realize their dreams.

What could have kept Beethoven from becoming a master musician? What could have kept Thomas Edison or Steve Jobs, whom no hardships frightened, from realizing their wonderful visions?

If you can concentrate your thought and hold it persistently (work with it along the line of your greatest ambition), nothing can keep you from its realization. But spasmodic concentration, spasmodic enthusiasm, however intense, will peter out. Dreaming without effort will only waste your power. It is holding your vision (together with persistent, concentrated endeavor) that wins.

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Listen to episode 435 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation to Live 2020 with a Great Purpose. Edited and Adapted from the book The Architects of Fate by Orison Swett Marden.

Podcast Excerpt: It is a great purpose which gives meaning to life, it unifies all our powers, binds them together in one cable; makes strong and united what was weak, separated, scattered.

To succeed today a person must concentrate all their faculties of mind on one unwavering aim, and have a tenacity of purpose, which means death or victory. Every other inclination which tempts you from your aim must be suppressed.

An individual may starve on a dozen half-learned trades or occupations, but grow rich and famous upon one trade thoroughly mastered, even though it be the humblest.

Do not struggle to do two things at once. Throw your entire strength upon whatever you do. An intense energy should characterize everything you undertake, even your recreation.

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Listen to episode 434 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Greatest Christmas Gift You Can Give. Edited and adapted from Evening Round Up by William Crosbie Hunter.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. I would like to wish all of you a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, and joyful holiday seasons. Today I would like to share with you an episode of the Our Sunday Talks series which we offer to our patrons.

Do you have a friend who has been a great help and comfort to you? I have such a friend. Tonight I am in the mood to think of that friend and write them a letter like this:

This is to You. It is for You. It is about You. You, I have in mind and the good influence you have had on me. It is a happiness and satisfaction to know you, and to bask in the atmosphere of you. The world is better because of you. You have helped to raise the average.

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Listen to episode 433 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Best Way to Use Desire & Ambition. Edited and adapted from How to Develop Your Personality by Clare Tree Major.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Ambition is desire, the desire for self-expression along the line of least resistance. Desire is a thing to be cultivated. Feed it with your imagination. But do not desire to have things. Greed and envy, and a host of other uglinesses, owe their birth to the desire to have. Desire to BE, and the things will come of themselves.

To be a great success, a master in your chosen business or profession, that is a legitimate desire — an ambition that will be an incentive to the exercise of your highest faculties. To desire to be rich in order that you may possess things stunts the mind and works against success.

The first and most important thing to do with regard to one's career is to focus one's ambitions. To scatter your energy over a number of things means that none of them is going to get your best work. Be one-pointed. Have a definite mental picture always of the thing you want to become and that will concentrate your effort toward its realization.

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Listen to episode 432 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation for Building Self-Confidence. Edited and adapted from How to Develop Your Personality by Clare Tree Major.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Self-confidence means the difference between a restricted and developed personality. Keep constantly convincing yourself that you have no fear, that you are bound to succeed, that you won't acknowledge obstacles.

If you are not all you would like yourself to be, build your ideal, and then strike out boldly to materialize it. Have the courage of your convictions. You owe it to yourself to leave nothing undone that will lead to your ultimate success.

Enjoy your work. There is beauty and joy in everything if you will look for it. Work that is loved is half done before it is begun, and everything in connection with it, well done. However, work that is disliked is only half done when it is supposed to be finished.

Get something out of everything, even the thing that you thought would be unpleasant. It will destroy your distaste for it, if you look for the valuable idea behind it.

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Listen to episode 431 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How You Create Your Destiny Every Day. Edited and adapted from How the Mind Works by Christian D. Larson.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. You can help support our podcast by spreading the word to your friends on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, or by leaving us a positive review at the iTunes store. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from How the Mind Works by Christian D. Larson, published in 1912.

Your destiny is being created hourly by you. And that something that determines what you are to create at any particular period in time is the sum total of your ideals. Your future is not preordained by some external power, nor is fate controlled by some strange and mysterious force that master minds can alone comprehend and apply. It is our ideals that control and determine our fate. And we all have ideals, whether we be aware of the fact or not.

To have ideals is to have definite objects in view, be those objects very high, very low, or anywhere in between. The ideals of any mind are simply the wants, the desires and the aims of that mind — and as every normal mind will invariably live, think, and work for that which is wanted by its present state of existence, it is evident that every mind must necessarily follow its ideals both consciously and unconsciously.

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Listen to episode 430 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Live a Larger Measure of Life. Edited and adapted from How the Mind Works by Christian D. Larson.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The person who gives much of themselves will be abundantly enriched because they place in life a large measure of themselves to be filled. The one who gives things may lose all that is given. But the one who gives of themselves (the best that is in themselves) loses nothing. Instead they gain a larger and a richer self.

To give one's life is to express in thought, word, or action, everything of worth that one may possess in mind or soul. That is, everything that one may live for. And how much we live for depends upon how largely the life is measured in our understanding.

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Listen to episode 429 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of the Spoken Word | Joy & Sadness. Edited and adapted from Divine Adjustment by Henry Thomas Hamblin, published in 1930.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Words appear to possess a power and vibration of their own, a power that differs according to their quality or character. Thus positive words have the ability to awaken in us feelings and powers akin to themselves.

We can easily prove this for ourselves. If, when discouraged or depressed, we repeat to ourselves the words: courage, strength, hope, faith, victory, joy, happiness, etc., we find that there is something within us that responds to the power and vibration of the words uttered, so that we are raised above our weakness and depression to such an extent that we are able once again to face up the difficulties and problems of life.

However, if we allow ourselves to become depressed and discouraged, we go down and down, life becoming more and more trying and difficult as we travel downwards. But if we overcome our depression and discouragement, we are able to rise to higher achievement and to a stable, satisfying success.

It is hardly necessary to add that if instead of making use of positive words, we make use of such expressions as: 'I am fed up', or 'Everything is against me', or 'Everything I do ends in failure', or 'Everyone has good luck except me', or 'What is the use of trying, it is always the same result: disappointment, failure, injustice, bad treatment from others', and so on, then the results are disastrous.

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Listen to episode 428 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Become Strong in Spirit and Life. Edited and adapted from Divine Adjustment by Henry Thomas Hamblin, published in 1930.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is necessary for us to develop strength and individuality. We have to become so strong that no dominating ego can have any power or influence over us. We have to maintain our liberty, and be free, individualized beings.

Now, many of us may recognize the necessity of being strongly individualistic and capable of resisting suggestion, but how are we to develop such strength?

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Listen to episode 427 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Creating a Success Mindset | I AM Success. Edited and adapted from Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin, published in 1921.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: It cannot be emphasized too much that success is not something to be won. It is a mental state, an attitude of the mind. The mind itself has unlimited power, and mental power (or thought) is the force that is greater than all forces. Therefore the power to accomplish all things is within us.

This potent power, however, cannot find expression in your life if your attitude of the mind is wrong. When the mind is naturally of the success type (or is made so by training), then its intense powers become focused into one powerful beam, which shapes and molds the outward life on the form of the inward pattern.

There is nothing of "magic" about this. It is capable of the simplest explanation. When your mind is of this type, the impulses sent to the sub-conscious mind can only result in successful actions. The sub-conscious mind is the seat of all action and contains unlimited power and energy.

This power and energy only needs directing into the right channel to accomplish anything that we may desire to accomplish. When the mind, therefore, is cast in the "Success" mold, only "success" thoughts and suggestions can go to the sub-conscious mind, and these in turn must of necessity be translated into successful actions.

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Listen to episode 426 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Truth (The Simple Truth About Life). Edited and adapted from The Power of Truth by William George Jordan.

Podcast Excerpt: The great question of life is not "What have l?" but "What am I?" Most of us are loyal to what we most desire. The individual who lies to save a dollar, merely proclaims that they esteem a dollar more than they do their honor. Those who sacrifice their ideals, truth and character, for mere money or position, are weighing their conscience in one pan of a scale against a bag of gold in the other. They are loyal to what they find the heavier, that which they desire the more — the money.

But this is not truth. Truth is the heart's loyalty to the abstract sense of right, made manifest in concrete instances. The professional who lies, cheats, misleads, or overcharges and then seeks to square themselves with their anaemic conscience by saying, “lying is absolutely necessary to business," is as untrue in their statement as they are in their acts. They justify themselves with the petty defense of the thief who says it is necessary to steal in order to live. The permanent business prosperity of an individual, a city, or a nation rests finally on commercial integrity alone, despite all that the cynics may say, or all the exceptions whose temporary success may mislead them. It is truth alone that lasts.

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Listen to episode 425 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspirational Life Lessons | Dr. Frank Crane. Adapted from “If I Were Twenty-One” by Dr. Frank Crane.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Learn the art of conversation, of small talk. Equip yourself to be able to entertain the grouchiest, most blasé people. For there is hardly a business in the world in which it is not a great advantage to be able to converse entertainingly. The secret of being a good conversationalist is a genuine, unselfish interest in others. That and practice. It consists more in making the other person talk, than in talking yourself.

In addition, do not argue. I never knew one person in my life that was convinced by argument. Discuss, yes; but not argue. The difference is this: in discussion you are searching for the truth, and in argument you want to prove that you are right. In discussion, therefore, you are anxious to know your neighbor’s views, and you listen to them. In argument, you don’t care anything about the other person’s opinions, you want them to hear yours; hence, while they are talking, you are simply thinking over what you are going to say as soon as you get a chance.

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Listen to episode 424 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Finding Success on the Hunt for Happiness. Edited and adapted from The Joys of Living by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We may not recognize our motives, but we are all trying to better ourselves, to get a little more comfort, a little easier position, a little more happiness, a little more out of life than we have been getting.

Real happiness, however, is not titillation of the nervous system. It does not come from eating, drinking, seeing, or hearing. It does not come from the gratification of desires or of possession. Real happiness is born of noble endeavor, a useful life. It is extracted a little here, a little there, from a kind word, a noble deed, a generous act. We get a little bit from every right thought, from every kind word or deed, and it cannot be found anywhere else.

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Listen to episode 423 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Importance of Self-Education | Forbes Magazine. Edited and adapted from Keys to Success by B.C. Forbes.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you by the kind financial support of listeners like you. To become our patron for as little as a dollar a month, please visit LivingHour.org/patron. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Keys to Success by B.C. Forbes, published in 1918.

Education is not merely “a” key to success. It could almost be called “the” key to success. No uneducated, uncultured person is really successful — for true success consists less of money than of mentality; it is an inward thing, not an outward one.

Education is both a means to an end and an end in itself. Without education, no man or woman can reach the highest pinnacle of success. But education does not consist of merely of school learning. Education comprises the sum total of what we know. It comes, or should come, from our daily experiences in life. Education is observation rather than perspiration.

Books form the groundwork of education. Without well-directed, diligent reading, few people can hope to become really educated or successful. But not all wisdom is contained between the covers of books. We can learn daily from all sorts of men, women, and children — from what we see going on around us, from what we hear.

Self-education can become one of the most enjoyable habits, and certainly it is of all habits the most profitable. Education — knowledge — means power. It begets ability, and ability means advancement.

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Listen to episode 422 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Combining Thought & Action for Lasting Success. Edited and adapted from Keys to Success by B.C. Forbes.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: The Empire State Building was once only a thought. Thousands of years ago an Egyptian king had a thought, and lo! every generation since then has gazed on its fulfillment — the Pyramids.

Thought is the parent of progress. Thought creates all. Everything springs from thought. Human beings are distinguished from other animals by this one power: the power of thought. The immortals of this world are they who thought deeper or more brilliantly than their fellow citizens.

Henry Ford once said: “My advice to business people is to read a lot, think a lot, and work a lot. I started that way. I kept on thinking and I am still thinking. The habit of analysis, the ability to get under the surface of things and at the vital essentials, gives you a tremendous advantage over those of your competitors who do not do likewise.”

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Listen to episode 421 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Make a Life Worth Living | Motivational. Edited and adapted from A Man Worthwhile by John Phillips Meakin.

Motivational Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Get the best of our podcast in heirloom hardcover or digital e-book by visiting InspirationalLifeLessons.com. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from A Man Worthwhile by John Phillips Meakin, published in 1913.

The all-important question for everyone to ask of themselves if they have the slightest spark of intellectual ambition in them is, “How may I become a true individual?” Then another question will well up from the soul, namely: “What can I do to make life worth the living?” The answer will be: Look to the light, be true to your inner self, and have the faith of the poet who said: —

“Better to strive and climb

And never reach the goal,

Than to drift along with time

An aimless, worthless soul.

Aye, better to climb and fall,

Or sow, though the yield be small,

Than to throw away, day after day,

And never strive at all.”

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Listen to episode 420 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Becoming Rich in Wisdom, Love & Happiness. Edited and adapted from A Man Worthwhile by John Phillips Meakin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Men and women of character are the need of the day. People whose minds are developed in strict integrity and honor; people who believe in truth, who are broad-minded, who are deep-hearted, full of love and wisdom — their hearts continually beating in true affection for humankind — just plain, true, honest, thinking men and women, imparting their influence of joy and sunshine not only in their immediate circle, but wherever they may go and to all they may meet on life’s rough highway.

Success in life does not only mean the winning of some great prize: it ought to mean the attainment of that physical and intellectual condition in the individual where all the various strings which make up the harp of life respond in fullest measure to the infinite vibrations of a throbbing, pulsing world.

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Listen to episode 419 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Be Pleasant & Live for a Great Goal. Edited and adapted from Think (a Book for Today) by William Crosbie Hunter.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Be pleasant to live with and you will have more pleasant things to live for. There will be kindnesses, kisses, beauty, health, peace, fun, happiness, and contentment coming your way all along the great big road of life you are traveling.

Be pleasant to live with and the people will turn to you as you pass, and reflect your cheerfulness like the sunflowers turn to face the sun.

Be pleasant. Don't be cross and crabbed because someone else in your household is not pleasant. Do your part. You will likely thereby cure the frown habit on the face of the unfortunate disturber of your peace.

Make yourself right before you criticize your life partner. And it all begins by answering this question: "Am I pleasant to live with?"

Don't fool yourself in the matter. Get right down to brass tacks with yourself. Watch your moves, acts, and attitude for ten days carefully before answering the question.

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Listen to episode 418 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Learn How to Say No & Working Until the End. Edited and adapted from Dollars & Sense by William Crosbie Hunter.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Since the age of ten years I’ve been thrust upon my own resources, and the 32 years since then have been years of study, work, and play — all blended into a happy life.

The jolts, the set-backs, the sorrows, worries, and discouragements are the things which made me strong. They were but experiences.

Smooth sailing doesn't bring out the stuff one is made of. It takes shadows to make sunlight appreciated. It takes reverses to make success. It takes hard knocks to polish you. And one of the most important things to learn early is to learn to say No.

Look over the history of the thousands who have failed in business, and you will find in nearly every instance the failure was due to an inability to say No.

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Listen to episode 417 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Importance of Perseverance & Punctuality. Edited and adapted from Right Living by Susan H. Wixon.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting InspirationalLifeLessons.com. There you’ll find our trilogy of essay compilations: Evergreen: 50 Inspirational Life Lessons, Everest: 50 Motivational Life Lessons, and Evermore: 50 Life Lessons for Spiritual Growth. Learn more at: InspiriationalLifeLessons.com. Thank you.

Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Right Living by Susan H. Wixon, published in 1894.

The accomplishment of goals, the successes in life, are due to concentration of effort — to energy and perseverance. We see persons plodding along day after day, not showing much for their work at first, but then finally astonishing everyone by their acquirements and prosperity.

"They have genius!" it is said. But what is genius? The French scientist George Buffon famously said "genius is only patience." But it is more than that. Genius is work. It is the power to start work with an object in view; to never let that object out of sight; to keep straight on, no matter what stumbling blocks are in the path. It is keeping steady at one job till the work is complete. It is not being discouraged.

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Listen to episode 416 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living the Golden Rule | The Way of Love. Edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1918.

After an ugly scar had been made by a stone quarry in the mountainside opposite John Ruskin's home, destroying the beauty of his favorite landscape, he placed a big chair in front of the window of his study, so that it would conceal the scar from him while working, because it disturbed the harmony of his thought.

If you have received an ugly scar from someone perhaps whom you trusted and believed in; if you have a sore spot, a tender spot anywhere that mars your happiness, don't aggravate your pain by looking at it, keeping the sore open by reviewing a painful experience or cherishing a grudge against the one who injured you. Cover your wound with the mantle of love instead, forgive and forget the injury, and your wound will soon heal.

If you would be truly happy "bless where others curse; love where others hate; forget where others condemn."

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Listen to episode 415 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Developing a Strong Personality & Perfect Poise. Edited and adapted from How to Develop Your Personality by Clare Tree Major.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. If you would like to help support our podcast you can do so easily by simply leaving us a positive review at the iTunes store. Or if you would like to make a one-time financial donation, go to LivingHour.org/donate. Thank you.

WHAT is "personality"? Webster interprets the meaning of the word as "individuality," but like many words that assume added meanings through common usage, personality also has acquired the suggestion of a quality not covered by the word "individuality."

You may be discussing a person you dislike very much, one who holds ideas that are rather loathsome, and while you might readily admit that such a person might be "individual," you would never for a moment say "So-and-so has personality." Why? Because the word "personality" has grown to mean magnetic power, the sort of power that consciously or unconsciously dominates and controls the individuals with whom it comes in contact. It is this magnetic power that is at the root of every successful career.

Review the life of any great individual. You will find that their success was the result, not only of careful study and of perseverance, but, more than all, of the subtle influence of personal magnetism. They succeeded because their personality convinced people that they were sincere, that they were strong, someone who could be relied upon. Without a well-developed personality, their good qualities would have lain unnoticed, and they would have been only another in the struggling, discouraged thousands.

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Listen to episode 414 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Happiness Cure | Being Healthy & Anxiety Free. Edited and adapted from How to Stay Well by Christian D. Larson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: True happiness enjoys all things deeply, but serenely. And you can always know when you have had such happiness, because it makes your countenance radiant with a restful beauty.

To gain real happiness, the first essential is to train yourself to think constantly of the great value of happiness — especially with regard to its health producing power. Such thinking will tend to produce a subconscious desire for happiness, and what the subconscious begins to desire it also begins to create.

Train yourself to think of happiness as a mental necessity (just as food is a physical necessity) and you will gradually train every element and force in your body to work for the creation of happiness. By creating within yourself a constant demand for happiness, you will inspire the elements of your own nature to produce the desired supply, and before long the happiness you desire will become a permanent part of your life.

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Listen to episode 413 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Art of Self-Reliance, Self-Control & Self-Respect. Edited and adapted from Right Living by Susan H. Wixon.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is observed in life, that successful people are the resolute and self-reliant. What is self-reliance? It is to be in harmony with all laws of Nature and the highest morality — the qualities that stand out, by themselves, alone, but are as firm as granite.

The march of life is onward. It does not stand still. We are on its ocean. We mark our course, or we drift, hither and yonder, at mercy of wave and wind. The person who relies on their own exertion, grows, enlarges, expands.

Never halt or waver when you know you are right. Never think you cannot succeed, but try — make an effort. You cannot know the elements that are in you to command success until you look within and bring out the hidden qualities latent there.

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Listen to episode 412 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Working Together for True Happiness & Success. Edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thanks to our newest patrons, Kristen Valenti, Shae Sterett, and Rosa De Souza. By becoming our patrons Kristen, Shae, and Rosa now get their own private podcast feed with full transcripts, delivered right to their smartphone. They also get access to our special series for patrons: Our Sunday Talks. To learn how you can get these same benefits for only $3 a month, please go to LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1918.

A single bee lacks the necessary intelligence to make honey. It is only when they work together that bees become productive. If all the bees in the hive were separated and forced to live alone they would make no honey, not even to sustain life. Through lack of individual intelligence they would die of starvation.

In other words, a hive of bees has a well-defined purpose, but one bee alone has no purpose, no plans, no intelligence. In short, a bee separated from its fellow bees is absolutely helpless, absolutely useless.

What is true of the bee is in a large degree true of a human being. A person separated from others, without any of the social advantages, conveniences, or facilities which community life affords, would be practically helpless. The strength of each one of us is dependent on our unity with all the others, because we are all parts of one whole.

History and experience show that humankind rises or falls together. Every real and permanent advance since the world began has been due to the action of the great principle of human brotherhood and sisterhood — the majority acting together for the good of all.

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Listen to episode 411 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Individuality, Originality & Character. Edited and adapted from Right Living by Susan H. Wixon.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Is it true that we are too apt to be copies of one another? Yes, it is true. We are often imitators, and not originators. It would appear, almost, at first sight, as if it were dangerous to walk a different path from the accepted highway. Yet there are many short-cuts across lots that bring one to town sooner than following the beaten track.

Instead, we go as others go. We do as others do, without thinking whether it be right or not. When deviating somewhat from the well-worn way, we are apt to be frightened, and to fear we are lost. Yet, we do not live to be exact copies of each other. Originality of action, of speech, of thought, is the necessity of the world. Great men and great women of this or of any period of the world's history, are always those of striking characteristics, of strong individuality.

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Listen to episode 410 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Live Right & Get the Most Out of Life. Edited and adapted from Right Living by Susan H. Wixon.

Motivational Podcast Transcript: "Living will teach you how to live better than any preacher or book," says Goethe. But what is it to live? Is it simply to eat, drink, and be merry? Is it to learn a little, here and there; to laugh and play; to sleep, weep, toil, and battle from day to day, and from year to year for food and shelter? Is it to bend every energy to the acquirement of wealth, fame, or position? Is it to sacrifice all for the applause of the multitude?

Life is more than that. It has larger uses. It contains greater and grander results. It holds loftier and nobler aspirations. Its measure is flaming with the fires of truth, glowing with the gold of understanding. Life, rightly lived is an inspiration, an incentive to high effort, a means of true and sure happiness.

The one who is worthy of the praise and gratitude of millions, is the individual who can impress upon the minds of others that there is more to life than just to dig and delve for food and necessities. They will receive even greater praise and honor if they can show people how to so employ their time as to get the most out of life without harm to themselves, or injury to others.

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Listen to episode 409 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Happiness is Within You. Edited and adapted from Mightier Than Circumstance by Frank B. Whitney.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: THERE are millions of people who would give almost all they possess in order to be happy. They go to various places and try every conceivable method for obtaining happiness. They yearn for things and think that by possessing them happiness will come to them. They turn to other people and to external things but still happiness eludes them.

A search for happiness does not always bring it, because we look for it in the same spirit that we would look for a lost purse. We believe that happiness is found when we arrive at that place in consciousness and experience where we no longer have to seek for it.

When we look for happiness, we do not have it. When we cease to look for it, we discover that it is ours.

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Listen to episode 408 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Seize the Day with a New Outlook on Life. Edited and adapted from Mightier Than Circumstance by Frank B. Whitney.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: HAVE you ever thought of the dawning of a day as the dawning of a new life and a new world? Last night the darkness of the night blotted out your mistakes of yesterday. This morning the bright and glorious sun saluted you in a new world with new opportunities.

Is this not a beautiful truth to contemplate? Does not its wisdom seem more and more convincing as you think about it?

To the person who thinks of life as a humdrum experience, today is just another day. It links them up with unfortunate experiences of yesterday, as well as the uncertainties of tomorrow. Their calendar reveals to them but a succession of days. Their experience in living through them is almost the same as that of a patient and plodding animal working a treadmill.

However, it need not be so — for last night the curtain of darkness closed upon your yesterday. In the darkness of night, in the progress of sleep, your old self died to things of the past. At dawn, a new day, a new life, and a new world were proclaimed to you. In the new day, nothing of the past comes forth.

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Listen to episode 407 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Finding Your Place in the World. Edited and adapted from Concentration: The Key to Constructive Thought by C. W. Kyle.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is a place for every human being in the world — a special place and a special work for each one of us to do; a work which no other person can do; a work that is essentially and wholly connected with every woman and man. To find this place in the world and to come to know the lessons that are best for you to learn, is a necessary step toward making a success of your life.

Neither of these problems is difficult to solve, if you but bring your common sense to bear upon them. To be cool and just in an examination of yourself; to gauge honestly and fairly the state of your growth; to take care of your health and fitness; is all that is necessary.

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Listen to episode 406 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Greatest Power for Self-Development & Personal Growth. Edited and adapted from Success Through Thought Habit by Benjamin Johnson.

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Today’s reading has been edited and adapted from “Success Through Thought Habit” by Benjamin Johnson, published in 1908.

Habit, whether conscious or automatic, is one of the most tremendous forces of life. In fact, we can truthfully call it the tremendous force in life. It is habit that makes us dislike anything that takes us away from our familiar paths of thought or work, that makes us resist any change or suggestion of doing things a different way, that makes us fussy, fretful, and sarcastic, as well as kind, sympathetic and amenable to suggestions.

It makes us cowards or heroes, self-assertive or timid, self-reliant or helpless, failures or successes. Consequently, the great thing in all of our education is to adopt the suggestion given by William James to (quote) "make our nervous system our ally and not our enemy."

We should hand over to the custodian of the automatic department many of the details of our daily life — for it is important to start our daily duties in such a manner that they almost carry themselves along and leave the mind free to develop on other lines.

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Listen to episode 405 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Live the Perfect Day. Edited and adapted from Lessons in Living by Elizabeth Towne.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: When Johnny Hayes won the Marathon in the Olympic Games, he trained for months before-hand. Every hindrance to his goal was laid aside; he ate the healthiest food, kept regular hours, trained carefully every day, kept his mind ever focused on the one thought of success in that race.

The successful life is made up of a succession of successful days — every day being a little Marathon by itself. If we live a successful today, we make a wise preparation to live a successful tomorrow; and so on, day after day, year after year, through our whole lives.

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Listen to episode 404 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Developing the Power of Memory for Success. Edited and adapted from Secrets of Mental Supremacy by W. R. C. Latson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: THE value of any person to themselves and to the world at large depends in great degree upon their memory — upon your ability to recall and to use at any desired moment the recollection of what you have seen, heard, experienced, or thought. Memory is really the stock in trade of our mental life. Our perceptions bring to us a vast mass of experiences — things that we have seen, heard, touched, tasted, and smelled — our thoughts and experiences. But these things are valuable only when they are held in the memory. For, unless they are remembered they cannot be used.

Most of us have forgotten much more than we remember. We have studied at school, at college, at home. We have read many, many books. We have had any number of interesting and instructive conversations. We have, some of us, traveled and seen many rare and curious things. And of it all, how much is in our possession at the moment — how much is at our ready command? Not one tenth — probably not one hundredth.

Imagine the enormous loss to us. Imagine the waste of time and effort. Imagine what it would mean to you or to me if, instead of possessing a memory which preserved for us only one hundredth of our experiences, we could remember and apply at will one half, three quarters, four fifths of what we have been through.

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Listen to episode 403 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspiration for Opening the Door to a Larger Life. Edited and adapted from The Open Door by Hugh Black.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Who can set limits to what is? Who can draw a line and declare that within its boundaries lies all that is possible? Who can say what forces there are unknown that one day may be utilized by us all? The world is not one definite thing, but is whatever we (with knowledge, courage, and faith) are able to make it.

When we reach the borders, there is ever an open door into a larger place. The world is just as big as we are big enough to inhabit. Like all true things, this idea is not completely new. We have always known it in other regions of human experience: aesthetically the world is to each of us what we are able to appreciate.

How different a single scene may appear to different views. Buttercups and daisies, the common flowers of the field, may be a delight to a child and a nuisance to a farmer. A single flower is one thing to a botanist, another to an artist, another to a gardener, and another to a lover.

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Listen to episode 402 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation for Making Your Life Great. Edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: J.R. Miller once said: ''Some day we shall learn that the little deeds of love made unconsciously as we pass on our way are greater in their helpfulness and shine more brightly in the life than the deeds of renown that we think now make a life great." Never was there a greater mistake than to think that heroism, courage, and daring, are confined to the field of battle. It doesn't matter what post we are assigned to in the battle of life, we have an opportunity to do heroic things every day.

If we have the spirit of love, if we are filled with the love of truth and justice, if we are determined always to stand for the right no matter what the cost, we are always battling for the higher things of life.

It is as heroic to take a firm stand for honesty, when it may cost you your job, or to rescue a person from a burning building or from drowning, as it is to go into military battle. It is heroic to stand for the right when others sneer and condemn you for doing so. Indeed, it often takes MORE courage to stand alone for the right, for justice, for principle (when those about you ridicule and caricature you for your stand), than it would be to walk up to a cannon's mouth in battle.

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Listen to episode 401 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Self-Control and Building a Healthy Mindset. Edited and adapted from Light on Life’s Difficulties by James Allen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Today, I’d like to offer some advice on the management of your mind. Before a person can see even the necessity for thorough and complete self-management, they have to throw off a great delusion that so many people have — the delusion of believing that their failures in life are entirely due to those around them, and not entirely to themselves.

"I could make far greater progress if I were not hindered by others," or "It is impossible for me to make any headway, seeing that I live with such negative people," are commonly expressed complaints that spring from the error of imagining that others are responsible for one’s own folly.

The violent or irritable person always blames those around them for their fits of anger. And by continually living in this delusion, they become more and more set in their irritable ways. For how can someone overcome — or even try to overcome — their weakness if they convince themselves that it springs entirely from the actions of others?

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Listen to episode 400 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Art of Speaking Eloquently | How to Speak Well. Edited and adapted from Personal Efficiency by James Samuel Knox.

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Today’s podcast has been edited and adapted from Personal Efficiency by James Samuel Knox, published in 1920.

Very few people have ever been taught how to talk well, how to express themselves effectively. Yet every person would greatly profit by a good course of instruction in public speaking — for as Elbert Hubbard once said: “Truth badly spoken dies and dries and blows away, while a lie well launched sometimes lives for ages." How true that is! It certainly took the world a long time to believe in the truth of democracy and human rights, and to recognize the falsehoods of tyranny and autocracy.

According to William Jennings Bryan, the greatest compliment any speaker can pay to the subject they are discussing is to tell the truth about it and tell it effectively. In other words, to know the truth is a great asset in itself, but to be able to tell it with skill and power is to greatly add to one's influence in a community.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, who knew a thing or two about public speaking, said that the work of eloquence is to change the opinions of a lifetime in twenty minutes. A thorough knowledge of one's subject is the beginning of such eloquence — for the great public speaker is the one who inwardly digests facts and whose speech, therefore, becomes a living product. Or as Socrates said: "Every person can speak eloquently on that which they clearly understand," while Benjamin Disraeli added: "Eloquence is logic on fire." Another way to express the same idea would be to say that eloquence is facts on fire, because logic is based upon facts.

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Listen to episode 399 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Positive Thinking for Success | Overcoming Negativity. Edited and adapted from Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Today’s podcast is about the importance of building a positive mindset. If you’d like additional tools and inspiration for becoming an optimist, be sure to check out the Simple Habit app.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin, published in 1917.

People are divided into two types, positive and negative. Let me try and describe each to you.

Positive people are magnetic, attractive, courageous, happy, cheerful, healthy, energetic — are full of vitality, power, and the ability to succeed. They never doubt their ability to win; they never worry when things go wrong; they don’t complain when things aren’t smooth.

If a positive person meets with a temporary set-back, they become the more determined to succeed. They do not lay upon other people the blame of their own mistakes, but instead learn a lesson from their temporary failure which shall be a guide and beacon in all their future undertakings....

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Listen to episode 398 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Ambition, Success, and the Inner Voice of Wisdom. Edited and adapted from Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: WHAT is success? To one person it means one thing and to another it may mean something quite different. Some people desire happiness and love above all things, and could they but gain these would count themselves successful in the highest degree, even though their circumstances remained humble and comparatively poor.

Some desire fame and distinction in science. Their ambition is to invent, to discover or investigate, to do something that has never been done before. The only reward that they seek is the joy of accomplishment.

Some desire to be great in music, painting, in sculpture, while others seek to be leaders in their chosen profession of business, medicine, law, or politics. Still others have ambitions to serve their day and generation, to give and be spent in the service of humanity.

Whatever your ambition may be, follow it. Whatever you have a taste for (whatever it is you have a burning desire to accomplish), follow it and strive after it. It is useless to try and be successful if you are a round peg in a square hole. Before you can make your life a full and abundant success, you must find your "niche" and fill it.

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Listen to episode 397 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Joy of Living Each Day to the Fullest. Edited and adapted from A Way of Life by Sir William Osler.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: I have told you that my success philosophy for life is to live for the day only, to disregard thoughts of the future and the past. But now let us speak of the day itself! What first? Be your own day-captain! and sigh not with Job for any mysterious intermediary. Prepare to lay your own firm hand upon the helm. Get into touch with the finite things of the day, and grasp in full enjoyment that sense of mastery in a machine working smoothly.

Join the whole creation of animate things in a deep, heartfelt joy that you are alive, that you see the sun, that you are on this glorious earth which nature has made so beautiful, and which is yours to conquer and to enjoy. Realize, in the words of Browning, that "There’s a world of opportunity for joy spread round about us, meant for us, inviting us."

What are your morning sensations — for remember that they control the day. Some of us are congenitally unhappy during the early hours; but the person who feels on awakening that life is a burden or a bore has been neglecting their machine, driving it too hard, stoking the engines too much, or not cleaning out the ashes and clinkers. Or they've been indulging too much in the ways of Bacchus.

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Listen to episode 396 of the Inspirational Living podcast: A Way of Life | A Success Philosophy for Daily Living. Edited and adapted from A Way of Life by Dr. William Osler, a founding professor of Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every person has a philosophy of life in thought, in word, or in deed — one that has been worked out in themselves unconsciously. Among the very best, they may not know of its existence. With the very worst, they may pride themselves as some kind of paragon. As this philosophy grows with our growth through adulthood, it cannot be taught to the young in formal lectures.

Why then should I trouble you? Because I have a message that may be helpful. It is not philosophical, nor is it strictly moral or religious, and yet in a way it is all three. It is the oldest and the freshest, the simplest and the most useful.

My message is but a word, a Way, an expression of the experience of a plain man whose life has never been worried by any philosophy higher than that of a farmer or shepherd. I simply wish to point out a path in which the wayfaring soul, though a fool, cannot err. Not a system to be worked out painfully, only to be discarded; not a formal scheme; simply a habit as easy or as hard to adopt as any other habit, good or bad.

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Listen to episode 395 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Get What You Want | Making Dreams Come True. Edited and adapted from How to Get What You Want by Orison Swett Marden.

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Motivational Podcast Excerpt: You are victory organized. You were born to conquer, to play a magnificent part in life’s great game. But you can never do anything great or grand until you have such a conviction of yourself and your ability.

How often do we hear it said of some person, “Everything they undertake succeeds,” or “Everything they touch turns to gold?” Why? Because that person is constantly picturing to themselves the success of their undertakings, and they are backing up their vision by their efforts.

By clinging to their vision (by vigorous resolution and persistent, determined endeavor) they are continually making themselves a powerful magnet to draw to them their dream. Consciously or unconsciously, they are using the divine intelligence or force by which every human being may mold themselves and their environment according to the pattern in their mind.

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Listen to episode 394 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Wake Me Up! How to Get the Day Started Right. Edited and adapted from Nerve Control and How to Gain It by H. Addington Bruce.

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Motivational Podcast Excerpt: I imagine that there are some of you who would say that things haven’t been going well with you lately — that you are nervous, easily tired, easily irritated. You may have been to the doctor, but they found nothing organically wrong with you. The doctor didn’t even find it necessary to modify your diet.

You yourself feel that the trouble is more mental than physical. You are worried by business conditions; the high cost of living weighs on your mind; you dread the bill collectors; etc.

You appreciate that worry will not mend matters for you. But what are you to do? If you could only afford to get away from everything for a while, you feel that you would be all right again. But you cannot leave your work.

There IS however one thing that you CAN do, at your own home, in the morning, that can change your mindset and avert the worry. It is a very simple thing...

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Listen to episode 393 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Beauty, Truth & The Upanishads. Edited and adapted from The Realisation of Life by Rabindranath Tagore.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every day our science is penetrating into the region formerly marked on the map as unexplored or unexplorable. Our sense of beauty is similarly engaged in ever pushing on from its conquests. Truth is everywhere, therefore everything is the object of our knowledge. Beauty is omnipresent, therefore everything is capable of giving us joy.

In the early days of human history, we took everything as a phenomenon of life. The science of life then began by creating a sharp distinction between life and non-life. But as science is proceeding further and further, the line of demarcation between the animate and inanimate is growing more and more vague. In the beginning of our understanding, the sharp lines of contrast were helpful to us, but as our comprehension becomes clearer they gradually fade away.

The Upanishads have said that all things are created and sustained by an infinite joy. To realize this principle of creation, we have to start with a division — the division into the beautiful and the non-beautiful. The apprehension of beauty has to come to us with a vigorous blow to awaken our consciousness from its primitive lethargy, and it attains its goal by the urgency of the contrast.

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Listen to episode 392 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Fight Fatigue | Working with More Energy. Edited and adapted from Nerve Control and How to Gain It by H. Addington Bruce.

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Today’s reading was edited an adapted from Nerve Control and How to Gain It by H. Addington Bruce, published in 1919.

IF you have work to do — as I trust you to — do your work in the right spirit. That is, do it gladly, recognizing work for what it really is, one of the greatest blessings of existence.

"That is all very fine," I hear someone objecting, "but there is quite a difference between working and working too hard. If I hate to work, it is because I have to work too hard. My work exhausts me."

There is, of course, such a thing as working too hard. If you are obliged to do that, I am indeed sorry for you. But are you sure that it is your work that exhausts you? May it not be that the real trouble is that you fail to keep yourself in proper fitness to do your work without becoming exhausted? This is a point many do not take into consideration. They attribute to overwork bad effects which actually result from some other cause.

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Listen to episode 380 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Wisdom of Nikola Tesla | My Inventions. Edited and adapted from the writing of Nikola Tesla.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from the writings of Nikola Tesla.

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.”

“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and yet be quite insane.”

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”

“If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.”

“Be alone, that is the secret of invention. Be alone, that is when ideas are born.”

“My brain is only a receiver. In the Universe, there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength, and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”

“What we now want is closer contact and a better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride, which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.”

“Everyone should consider their body as a priceless gift from one whom they love above all — a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and a mystery beyond human conception, one so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.”

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Listen to episode 306 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Dalai Lama on Life, Religion, and Education. Tibetan Buddhism.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from the writings and talks of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people.

“Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive. I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others. I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.”

“Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.”

“Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.”

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world, until we make peace with ourselves.”

“There is a saying in Tibet: ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’”

“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.”

“No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.”

“To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive, and persevere, and never give up.”

“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation.”

“The true hero is one who conquers their own anger and hatred…..In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess.”

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Listen to episode 301 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Albert Einstein: Thoughts on Science, Religion & Life. Edited and adapted from the writings of Albert Einstein.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. If you are having trouble sleeping, try our Living Hour sleep meditations, which combine the relaxing sounds of the ocean or rain with a binaural beat track and 50 positive affirmations to send you off into a deep and rejuvenating sleep. Learn more by visiting LivingHour.org/ocean. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from the writings of Albert Einstein.

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us the universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of our consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: one as though nothing is a miracle, and the other as though everything is a miracle.”

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge — for knowledge is limited, while imagination encircles the world.”

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when we contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if we try merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.”

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as a wonderful opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty, in the realm of the spirit, for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community — to which your later work belongs.”

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether they are the garbage man or the president of the university.”

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Listen to episode 298 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Concentration and Meditation. Edited and adapted from Concentration and Meditation by Swami Paramananda.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Concentration and Meditation by Swami Paramananda, published in 1921.

WE all possess the faculty of concentration, but with the majority it is instinctive and automatic, not conscious. Even among the animals, we see how a lion or tiger will gather their strength by a moment of absolute stillness before they spring upon their prey.That automatic, instinctive power of concentration is embedded in every living creature. But until we can gain conscious command over our mental and spiritual forces, we can never have complete concentration.

When the scattered mind is gathered together, it is like a bright searchlight, and by it we are able to investigate the latent powers which we possess, but of which we are not now wholly aware. And as we grow more conscious of these hidden forces and learn to use them, we become more and more proficient with them.

We never wish to be defeated, and yet how often our strength of mind or our physical capacities prove inadequate. It is because we have not the full and conscious possession of our whole being. We cannot achieve much unless we have free use of our hands and feet, free use of our eyes and ears, free use of our muscles, and above all free use of our mind and intelligence. But how many of us have the free use of all these? When we would make use of them, we find them hopelessly scattered and rebellious to our will.

The cause of this does not lie in any inherent lack of power, but in our inability to coordinate, and in our lack of a definite singular purpose. We miss the mark because we do not set our aim properly. Once in ancient India there was a tournament held to test marksmanship in archery. A wooden fish was set up on a high pole and the eye of the fish was the target. One by one, many valiant archers came and tried their skill but in vain.

Before each one shot their arrow, the teacher asked them what they saw, and invariably all replied that they saw a fish on a pole at a great height, with head, eyes, etc.; but Arjuna as he took his aim said: "I see the eye of the fish." — and he was the only one who succeeded in hitting the mark.

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Listen to episode 297 of the Inspirational Living podcast: C.S. Lewis: Inspirational Quotes & Wisdom. Edited and adapted from the works of C.S. Lewis.

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“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest… No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond… Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

“We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road. In that case, the person who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”

“Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make a person a more clever devil… The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good, will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

“Even in literature and art, no person who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring a whit how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”

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Listen to episode 296 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Getting Out of Ruts | How to Live Long & Love It. Edited and adapted from The Road to Seventy Years Young by Emily Mulkin Bishop, published in 1909.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from “The Road to Seventy Years Young or The Unhabitual Way” by Emily Mulkin Bishop, published in 1909.

A kind of mental laziness (which for lack of a better term may be called “an inertia of the will”) is, perhaps, the chief cause of old age. It is easy to dawdle mentally, for no action of will is required when the wheels of thought aimlessly revolve in accustomed grooves. Such come-as-you-please thoughts are practically automatic, the undirected response to some stimulus.

Directed thinking to some definite end (which is the only kind of thinking that makes for the retention of mental vigor) requires effort. If you are going to use your mind, use it with all your heart. A virile will takes the initiative. It is pioneering, daring, and definite. Inertia of the will manifests, instead, in such mental habits as treadmill thinking, mooning about, and vain longings.

During the early part of life, the strong stimuli afforded by school and college, study and sports, by the first few years of aggressive business and professional life, are sufficient to keep the brain quite generally active. But as time goes by, the early stimuli no longer stimulate. The result is that the average person of forty years thinks and feels principally in ruts — and thoughts and emotions control their acts.

It is well, occasionally, to take an inventory of our stock of ideas, of our staple lines of thought, and to close out those that have become "dead stock." To make room for the new, out must go the old prejudices, the antiquated ideas, the old business methods. True, this is setting a task that is difficult for some people. But what matter does it make, if growth follows.

Now, it may seem like we are losing a part of our very selves to give up certain long cherished ideas — for our opinions and habits of thought are very intimately associated with our identity. But if our mental furnishings have become shabby, no matter what their associations, they must be discarded. As it’s been said, "Angels must go, that archangels may come."

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Listen to episode 295 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Break Bad Habits | Character Building. Edited and adapted from the book Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin, published in 1920.

Character building is the greatest object in life. It has been said that character is the only thing we can take with us when we depart this life. That is perfectly true, therefore the object of all religion, mental training, and spiritual development should be the building of character.

A religion that does not build up character is worthless. Those who think that they can slide through life, who make no effort to improve their character, and through believing in a certain creed can miraculously become perfect, simply by dying, are deceiving themselves.

We do not become "perfect" — that is, a person of strong and perfect character — either by believing in a creed or through dying, but by attainment. God helps those who help themselves, and those people who will not strive after better things cut themselves off from all the great and wonderful possibilities of spiritual attainment.

Before, however, thinking about such lofty things as entering the Path of Attainment — and modeling ourselves after the Divine Image — the average person may wish to know how to overcome those bad habits and weaknesses of character which are keeping you down in life, and, possibly, undermining your health.

Most people are conscious of some wrong habits that ought to be overcome, and weaknesses of character which should be eradicated. Possibly they have fought against their habits or weaknesses for years, prayed until they are tired of praying, made innumerable attempts at turning over a new leaf, yet all in vain — for they are as firmly struggling as ever.

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Listen to episode 277 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Cultivate Courage | Mastering Fear & Anxiety. Edited and adapted from “Thoughts Are Things” by Prentice Mulford.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: COURAGE and presence of mind mean the same thing — for presence of mind implies command of mind. Cowardice and lack of mental control also mean about the same thing — for cowardice is rooted in hurry, the habit of hurry or lack of repose.

All degrees of success are based on courage — mental or physical. All degrees of failure are based on timidity. You can cultivate courage and increase it at every minute and hour of the day.

You can have the satisfaction of knowing that in everything you do, you have accomplished two things — namely, the doing of the thing itself and (by the manner of its doing), adding eternally to yourself another atom of the quality of courage. You can do this by the cultivation of deliberation — deliberation of speech, of walk, of writing, of eating — deliberation in everything.

There is always a bit of fear when there is a bit of hurry. When you hurry to the airport, you are in fear that you may be left behind, and with that comes fear of other possibilities resulting from that. When you hurry to work, or a meeting, or an appointment, you are in fear of some negative consequence of not being on time....

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Listen to episode 268 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Literary Life Lessons from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Edited and adapted from The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe. Translated by T. Bailey Saunders, and published in 1906.

THERE is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again. In the works of humankind, as in those of nature, it is really the motive which is chiefly worth our attention.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, but only by doing. Try to do your duty, and you will know at once what you are worth. But what is your duty? The claims of the day.

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are. If I know what your business is, I know what can be made of you.

Every person must think after their own fashion — for on your own path you find a truth, or a kind of truth, which helps you through life. But you must not give yourself free rein; you must control yourself. Mere naked instinct does not become you. Unbridled activity, of whatever kind, leads at last to bankruptcy.

In Botany there is a species of plants called Incomplete; and just in the same way, it can be said that there are people who are incomplete and imperfect. They are those whose desires and struggles are out of proportion to their actions and achievements. The most insignificant person can be complete if they work within the limits of their capacities (innate or acquired). But even fine talents can be obscured and destroyed by lack of this indispensable requirement of symmetry.

It is only men and women of practical ability, knowing their powers and using them with moderation and prudence, who will be successful in worldly affairs. It is a great error to take yourself for more than you are — or for less than you are worth.

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Listen to episode 265 of the Inspirational Living podcast: A Brahmin Guide for Living a Noble Life. Edited and adapted from The Economy of Human Life, translated from an ancient Brahmin manuscript by Robert Dodsley.

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Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Economy of Human Life, translated from an ancient Brahmin Manuscript by Robert Dodsley, published in 1839.

COMMUNE with yourself and consider for what reason you were made. Contemplate your powers, your wants, and your connections — so that you shall discover the duties of life, and be directed in all your ways.

Proceed not to speak or to act before you have weighed your words, and examined the tendency of every step you will take. By doing so, disgrace shall fly far from you, and in your house, shame shall be a stranger; repentance shall not visit you; nor sorrow dwell upon your cheek.

The thoughtless person speaks at random. They are entangled in the foolishness of their own words. They are like the person who runs in haste and leaps over a fence, only to fall into a pit on the other side, which they did not see — for they plunge suddenly into any action, not having considered the consequences.

Hearken therefore unto the voice of Consideration. Her words are the words of wisdom, and her paths shall lead you to truth and safety.

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Listen to episode 264 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Gautama Buddha | Inspirational Quotes. Edited and adapted from words and thoughts attributed to Gautama Buddha.

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Today’s reading has been edited and adapted from words and thoughts attributed to Gautama Buddha.

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”

“Three things cannot hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.”

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.”

“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.”

“To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.”

“Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.”

“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”

“‎Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.”

“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.”

"Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.”

“A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.”

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Listen to episode 237 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Carl Jung on Life, God & Religion. Edited and adapted from the work of Carl Jung.

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“The decisive question for humanity is: Are we related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of our lives. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance. The more we lay stress on false possessions, and the less sensitivity we have for what is essential, the less satisfying is our life. We feel limited because we have limited aims, and the result is envy and jealousy. If we understand, and feel, that here in this life we already have a link with the infinite, our desires and attitudes change.”

“An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become…..You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”

“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness…..As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”

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Listen to episode 236 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Live a Good Life | Lubbock, Seneca, Epictetus. Edited and adapted from edited and adapted from The Use of Life by Sir John Lubbock.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. To gain access to the full transcripts of our more than 200 podcasts, please become our monthly patron for less than the price of your favorite Latte. Learn more at LivingHour.org/patron. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from The Use of Life by Sir John Lubbock, published in 1894.

The most important thing to learn in life, is how to live. There is nothing people are so anxious to keep as life, and nothing they take so little pains to keep well. This is no simple matter. "Life is short. Art is long. Opportunity fleeting. Experiment uncertain, and Judgment difficult,'' says Hippocrates.

Happiness and success in life do not depend on our circumstances, but on ourselves. More people have ruined themselves than have ever been destroyed by others: more houses and cities have perished at the hands of men, than storms or earthquakes have ever destroyed."

There are two sorts of ruin; one is the work of time, the other of humankind. Of all ruins, the ruins of humanity are the saddest, and our worst enemy, as Seneca said, is the one in our breast. Providence does not create evil, but gives liberty, and if we misuse it we are sure to suffer, but have only ourselves to blame."

I am sometimes accused of being optimistic. But I have never ignored or denied the troubles and sorrows of life: I have never said that we all are happy, only that we might be so; and that if we aren’t, the fault is generally our own: that most of us throw away more happiness than we enjoy. And this makes it all the more melancholy. In other words, "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been."

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Listen to episode 214 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Wake up & Live | Mindfulness Exercises. Edited and adapted from Wake Up & Live by Dorothea Brande.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: There are dozens of small ways by which we can make our minds both keener and more flexible – two qualities that are necessary for those who intend to live successfully. We all succumb too easily to the temptation to find a routine which allows us to get our day’s tasks done with a minimum of effort and conscious attention — a fact which might have no unfortunate effects at all if we used the time we save by our routines to a good purpose.

But the cold truth is that we do nothing of the sort. We apply the habit of routines to our whole lives, growing mentally and spiritually more flaccid, more timorous, less experimental with every day we spend supported by the rigidity of habit. Habit takes care of most of our ordinary activities. We get through our work by using only that part of our intellect which has been trained to consider the work’s specific problems. When we meet a novel thought or situation, we fall back on an analogy and act according to the prejudice or emotion which it arouses in us.

Even those who think of themselves as extraordinarily hard workers are not usually in that state of mental training which allows them to get the most from their lives.....

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Listen to episode 200 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Build Personal Magnetism | Magnetic Charisma. Adapted Stepping-Stones to Success by Horace D. Hitchcock.

Self-Development Podcast Excerpt: Henry Ward Beecher once said: "There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure bearing, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like the bringing of a lamp there."

That is personal magnetism. It is that quality of personality which attracts, causes admiration in others, and is a compelling force to success and good living. A person may be beautiful and brilliant mentally, but if they lack "personal magnetism" they are dull and uninteresting to those with whom they come in contact.

Personal magnetism is the magic flame that lights up the inner soul. It is that wonderful charm which, when properly cultivated and used, is a priceless treasure.

It is true that all things of influence can be made to produce good or evil. The conventional terms "good influence" and "bad influence" pertain directly to the qualities of magnetic personality. This quality is inherent in all of us, yet very few people know of its possibilities or that it can be developed like any other quality of mind.

Once again we are reminded of that great principle: Like produces like. Good influence produces good influence and, inversely, bad influence produces a negative quality.

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Listen to episode 199 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Sun Tzu: The Art of War | Leadership and Management. Adapted from the classic work by Sun Tzu.

Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. If you value our podcast, don’t forget to like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to us on YouTube. If you feel inspired to leave us a review at the iTunes store, that would be much appreciated too. Today’s reading is a collection of quotes from Sun Tzu’s classic The Art of War, which was written in China during the 5th century B.C.

“If you know your opponent and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not your opponent, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither your opponent nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

“Supreme excellence consists of breaking your opponent’s resistance without fighting.” “There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colors, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen. There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavors than can ever be tasted.”

“When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteousness, and places confidence in them, they will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders.”

“There are roads which must not be followed, competitors who must not be attacked, positions which must not be contested, commands of the bureaucrats who must not be obeyed.”

“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.”

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Listen to episode 197 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Arthur Schopenhauer: Quotes, Wisdom & Philosophy Talk. Adapted from A Multitude of Counsellors by J.N. Larned.

Self-Help Podcast Excerpt: The most general survey shows us that the two foes of happiness are pain and boredom. We may go further, and say that in the degree in which we are fortunate enough to get away from the one, we approach the other. Life presents, in fact, a more or less violent oscillation between the two. Needy surroundings and poverty produce pain; while, if we are more than well off, we are bored. Nothing is so good a protection as inward wealth, the wealth of the mind, because the greater it grows the less room it leaves for boredom. . . .

The conclusion we come to is that the individual whom nature has endowed with intellectual wealth is the happiest. Men and women of inner wealth want nothing from outside but the gift of undisturbed leisure, to develop and mature their intellectual faculties, that is, to enjoy their wealth. In short, they want permission to be themselves, their whole life long, every day and every hour. . . .

The value we set upon the opinion of others, and our constant endeavor in respect of it, are each quite out of proportion to any result we may reasonably hope to attain; so that this attention to other people's attitude may be regarded as a kind of universal mania which everyone inherits. In all we do, almost the first thing we think about is, what will people say; and nearly half the troubles and bothers of life may be traced to our anxiety on this score. . . .

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Listen to episode 192 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Sowing & Reaping. Edited and adapted from a book by the same name by Booker T. Washington.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: What I am about to tell you now is true of all the pursuits of life. We get out of every venture just what we put into it; no more, no less. To attain success we must put forth hard and honest labor. At the back of all success there is hard, persistent labor. There is no royal road — those who think there is always fail.

No person ever reaped any success in life who did not sow wisely. As each person takes up the serious business of life, they must do something — they must labor and wait. In order to reap something, something must be done. Value for value is the real standard of life's exchange of benefits.

Show me someone who is always grumbling, always finding fault with their condition, never satisfied with their opportunities, and I will show you a person who does not appreciate the opportunities in the environment in which they are to work out their success or failure.

Hard labor is the keynote to success. One of the wisest things Ex-senator B. K. Bruce ever said was that "luck is a fool." So it is. There is no luck; it is all labor and patience.

Every man and woman who wants to succeed must learn the process of overlapping. That is, no person who wishes to succeed should be afraid of doing just a little more than lies in the direct line of their duty. They must be interested in their work and the ways in which it impacts the lives of others.

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Listen to episode 189 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Native American Wisdom | The Girl & Boy Scouts of America. Adapted from Indian Scout Talks: A Guide for Boy Scouts & Camp Fire Girls by Charles Eastman.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To be in harmony with nature, one must be true in thought, free in action, and clean in body, mind, and spirit. This is the solid granite foundation of character.

Have you ever wondered why most great men and women were born in humble homes and passed their early youth in the open country? There a child is accustomed to see the sun rise and set every day; there the rocks and trees are personal friends; the child’s geography is born with them, for they carry a map of the region in their head.

In civilization, there are many deaf ears and blind eyes. Because the average child in the town has been deprived of close contact and intimacy with nature; what they have learned from books they soon forget, or are unable to apply. All learning is a dead language to the student who gets it second hand.

It is necessary that you should live with nature, my friends, if only that you may verify to your own satisfaction your schoolroom lessons. Further than this, you may be able to correct some error, or even to learn something that will be a real contribution to the sum of human knowledge. That is by no means impossible to a sincere observer.

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Listen to episode 185 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Life is an Adventure: Dare to Live It. Adapted from The Open Door by Hugh Black.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: In faithless and bitter moods, people may sometimes say that there is nothing new under the sun, though we know as fact that there is nothing but the new. Dr. Johnson may say that a blade of grass is always a blade of grass whether in one country or another, but we know that there are no two blades of grass alike even in the same field.

Life speaks to us with many voices, and not one of them without significance. It speaks to us in the world without and in the world within, by the infinitely little and the infinitely great. The human comedy appeals to laughter and tears, pity and pride; and above all it calls to us to be more than mere spectators. We too are in the play, and must make our part in it as it goes along unrehearsed.

By faith the human mind makes its journey through the world for knowledge, and by faith the soul makes its journey through life. The true heart is not afraid to make either journey, and tastes the relish of living.

Generations ago artists used to discuss solemnly and tragically the great question of whether life is worth living, and wrote books and articles and poems on the subject. The only answer of any value was that of the rogue, who replied that it all depended on the liver. The jaundiced eye will see everything blurred in a haze of yellow. The value of life will only be known by living, and the adventurous nature has at least all the chance there is.

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Listen to episode 182 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Art of Becoming You | The Power to Be Oneself. Adapted from The Aim of Life by Philip Stafford Moxom.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: The thoughts that I wish to present to you now gather themselves naturally about two simple propositions: The first of these is: Every one ought consciously to have an aim in life. Whether we are conscious of it or not, everyone has a ruling tendency; but everyone should also have a controlling and persistent purpose in life.

No one has a right to live aimlessly, for no one has a right to abandon reason and self-control, and consent to be a mere waif drifting like a plaything of the winds. We are endowed with powers that make us capable of good and often great achievement. We are gifted with reason and conscience and will, in order that we may both become and do that which is noble and beneficent.

In the mythology of the Greeks, Phaethon aspired to drive the flaming chariot of the sun. The task was beyond his human powers, and his disastrous rashness resulted in his death by a bolt hurled from the hand of Zeus; but the Naiads, who buried him, wrote in his epitaph: "He could not rule his father's car of fire; Yet it was much so nobly to aspire."

The individual who drifts aimlessly through the years from youth to age does not truly live. Indeed, those whose aim is even lower than the highest, less than the greatest, is nobler than those who have no conscious purpose in life. But, besides being ignoble, a purposeless life is inefficient; to aim at nothing is to hit nothing.

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Listen to episode 181 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Daily Success Habits: Be Proactive, Decisive & Tactful. Adapted from Beginning Right (How to Succeed) by Nathaniel C. Fowler.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: LIFE has three seasons: yesterday, today, and tomorrow. What you did yesterday overlaps into today, and what you do today is carried over into tomorrow. Which is the most important of the three? No single one of them, because any one by itself is incomplete. If you did your duty yesterday, the work of today becomes easier to accomplish. If you attend to the work of today, tomorrow will be open to you and its duties will not be so difficult to perform.

While each day has its place — yesterday, today, and tomorrow — inattention to any one of those days will materially affect the life and action of the remaining two. You cannot recover yesterday. It has passed out of your life forever.

If it was a day of mistakes, they must be corrected today or tomorrow. The importance of today is not vested wholly in today. It is in tomorrow as well. Today is yours. Tomorrow may be. Unless you anticipate the morrow today, tomorrow you will not have tomorrow well in hand.

Individuals of great accomplishment do not consider any one day as all-important. They do today's work not wholly because it is of today, but because it will affect tomorrow. Regret yesterday if you will. Be sorry for your backsliding. You may have lost a day. If you have, you must make it up today and tomorrow.

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Listen to episode 172 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Emotional Intelligence & Interpretive Dance. Edited and adapted from How to Develop Your Personality by Clare Tree Major.

Self-Development Podcast Excerpt: HAVE we forgotten how to feel? Life today is so external that it almost seems as though we have. However, our personal ideal will not be realized unless every part of our nature is developed, the emotional as well as the physical and mental. We must know how to feel, to feel keenly, but also to control our feelings.

Are you looking at a beautiful painting? Don't merely catalogue it in your mind. Sit down before it and let it sink into your soul. See the sunset as a real thing, not as exquisite painted coloring. Go up on the hill-top with the artist. Sit with them there until the vision they saw of the opening of the heavens thrills your own feeling into responsiveness.

There are some feelings that we can neither put into word nor into action, and they are sometimes the very deepest, most sacred feelings of which the soul is capable. There are unconscious depths from which our more familiar and external characteristics spring.

Did you ever stand alone on the seashore and let the song of the mighty ocean fill your soul with its transcendent melody? You look out to the horizon across the roaring, foaming billows, and you know that far, far beyond your vision still rolls and tosses this great mass of living water. And your soul is thrilled with a sense of the insignificance of the trivialities of life, and some glimpse of the destiny of humanity comes to you, so that you go home conscious of a strange uplift that helps you to see above and beyond the petty annoyance of the daily grind, that helps to keep you in that perfect poise which is the essence of individuality.

It is in moments like these, when all that is external is forgotten, when the inner self is bathed in the glory of its natural life, that we gain the perspective that is needed if we are to make of ourselves all we are capable of becoming.

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Listen to episode 171 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Soul Growth & Spiritual Evolution (Theosophy). Edited and adapted from Self-Development & The Way to Power by L.W. Rogers.

Spirituality Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. I’d like to start today with some special news. Starting this Sunday, June 25th, we will be launching a new podcast exclusively for our patrons at Patreon.com. The show is called “Our Sunday Talks” and it will deal with topics related to spirituality from both Eastern and Western perspectives.

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Now, on to today’s reading, which was edited and adapted from Self-Development and The Way to Power by L.W. Rogers, published in 1916.....

It is the natural right of every human being to be happy — to escape all the miseries of life. Happiness is the normal condition, as natural as the landscapes and the seasons. It is unnatural to suffer, and it is only because of our ignorance that we do suffer. Happiness is the product of wisdom. To attain perfect wisdom, to comprehend fully the purpose of life, to realize completely the relationship of human beings to each other, is to put an end to all suffering, to escape every ill and evil that afflicts us. Perfect wisdom is unshadowed joy.

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Listen to episode 170 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Laugh and Live: Douglas Fairbanks' Healthy Lifestyle. Edited and adapted from the work of Douglas Fairbanks Sr.

Self-Help Podcast Excerpt: We must also remember that out of energy and enthusiasm comes something else that must not be neglected ... in fact it must be cultivated and guarded from the very beginning . . . laughter. The mere possession of energy and enthusiasm makes us feel like laughing. We want to leap and jump and dance and sing. If we feel like doing so, don't let us be afraid to do it.

Get out in the air and run like a child. Jump ditches, vault fences, swing the arms! Never fail to get next to nature when responsive to the call. Indeed, we may woo this call from within ourselves until it comes to be second nature.

When we rise in the morning, let us be determined that we will start the day with a hearty laugh. Laugh because you are alive, laugh with everything. Let yourself go. That is the secret — the ability to let one's self go! If you follow this religiously you will be surprised how successful the day will be. Everything gives way before it. There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure — happiness is for all who strive to be happy — and those who laugh are happy.

Everybody is eligible — you — me— the other guys and gals. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind — not a state of body. And mind controls. Indeed it is possible to stand with one foot on the inevitable "banana peel" of life with both eyes peering into the Great Beyond, and still be happy, comfortable, and serene — if we will but so much as smile.

It's all a state of mind, I tell you — and I'm sure of what I say. That's why I have taken up my proverbial fountain pen. Do you ever laugh? I mean do you ever laugh right out loud — spontaneously — joyfully. Well, if you don't, you should. Start off the morning with a laugh and you needn't worry about the rest of the day.

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Listen to episode 168 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Ben Franklin’s Wisdom. Edited and adapted from Poor Richard’s Almanack, a yearly publication produced by Benjamin Franklin from 1732 to 1758.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If you could have Half your Wishes, you would double your Troubles.

Anger is never without a Reason, but seldom with a good One.

Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

A Fool is one who cannot conceal their Wisdom.

Think of three things: whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

Pride dines on Vanity, sips on Contempt. The Proud hate Pride – in others, that is.

Well done is better than well said.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

The Sun never repents of the good it does, nor does it ever demand compensation.

Fear to do ill, and you need fear nothing else.

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Glass, China, and a Reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.

Fish & House Guests stink in 3 days.

Wink at small faults; remember that you have great ones.

Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

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Listen to episode 167 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Positive Success Principles: Integrity, Laughter & Love. Edited and adapted from How Success is Won by Bernarr Macfadden.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: My message today is sent forth with the hope that it will enthuse you who are struggling at the bottom of the ladder of life, and that it may help you to understand that the greatest rewards are easily within reach of those who are willing to struggle on persistently, with a definite and unswerving aim continuously in view.

In the strongest terms, I want to emphasize the importance of interest in your work. I maintain that without it success was never achieved by anyone. The one straight road to success is to learn to love your business. You can do best that which you love best. If you have started in a business which you cannot learn to love, then you should go into some other business. You will never succeed in our age of competition unless you can find real pleasure in your work.

The mere making of money is not a sufficient incentive. You must find your highest enjoyment in the task itself. No person who works along that line can fade. That is my judgment based on my own experience and observation. Determination, persistence, attention to detail, in fact nearly every necessary characteristic in accomplishing results in any sphere of life, depends upon love for your work.

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Listen to episode 162 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Confucius Wisdom (The Best Quotes & Sayings) Edited & adapted from The Analects of Confucius.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

A person who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

When anger rises, think of the consequences. It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

The individual who conquers themselves is the mightiest warrior.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest. Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and Third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect their work must first sharpen their tools.

A person who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at their door.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved; when true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere; when the will is sincere, then the heart is set right; when the heart is set right, then the personal life is cultivated; when the personal life is cultivated, then the family life is regulated; when the family life is regulated, then the national life is orderly; and when the national life is orderly, then there is peace in this world.

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Listen to episode 161 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Yoga & The Science of Breath (Pranayama Yogic Breathing). Edited & adapted from The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath by William Walker Atkinson.

Self-Development Podcast Excerpt: To breathe is to live, and without breath there is no life. Not only are we dependent upon breath for life and health, but all animal life must breathe to live, and plant life is likewise dependent upon the air for continued existence.

The new-born baby draws in a long, deep breath, retains it for a moment to extract from it its life-giving properties, and then exhales it in a long wail, and lo! its life upon earth has begun. The old senior gives a faint gasp, ceases to breathe, and life is over. From the first faint breath of the infant to the last gasp of the dying grandparent, it is one long story of continued breathing. Life is but a series of breaths.

Breathing may be considered the most important of all of the functions of the body, for, indeed, all the other functions depend upon it. A person may exist some time without eating; a shorter time without drinking; but without breathing their existence may be measured by a few minutes. And not only are we dependent upon Breath for life, but we are largely dependent upon correct habits of breathing for continued vitality and freedom from disease.

An intelligent control of our breathing power will lengthen our days upon earth by giving us increased vitality and powers of resistance. On the other hand, unintelligent and careless breathing will tend to shorten our days, by decreasing our vitality and laying us open to disease.

Humankind in its normal state had no need of instruction in breathing. Like the lower animals and the child, we breathed naturally and properly, as nature intended us to do, but civilization has changed us in this and other respects. We have contracted improper methods and attitudes of walking, standing, and sitting, which have robbed us of our birthright of natural and correct breathing. We have paid a high price for civilization.

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Listen to episode 159 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Self-Made Men & Women. Edited & adapted from a lecture by Frederick Douglass.

Self-Help Podcast Excerpt: Self-made men and women are those who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, or friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education; who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other people usually rise in the world and achieve great results.

In fact, they are the men and women who are not brought up but who are obliged to come up, not only without the assistance or friendly co-operation of society, but often in open and derisive defiance of all the efforts of society, and the tendency of circumstances to repress, retard, and keep them down.

They are the individuals who (in a world of schools, academies, colleges, and other institutions of learning) are often compelled by unfriendly circumstances to acquire their education elsewhere and, amidst unfavorable conditions, to create for themselves a way to success, and thus become the architects of their own good fortunes.

They are, in a peculiar sense, indebted to themselves for themselves. If they have traveled far, they have made the road on which they have travelled. If they have ascended high, they have built their own ladder. From the depths of poverty, they often rise. Flung overboard in the midnight storm on the broad and tempest-tossed ocean of life (left without ropes, planks, oars, or life-preservers), they have bravely fought the waves and have risen in safety and life where others (supplied with the best appliances for safety and success), have fainted, despaired, and gone down forever.

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Listen to episode 157 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Positive Psychology of Success (Being Successful). Edited & adapted from The Psychology of Success by Newton N. Riddell.

Self-Help Podcast Excerpt: There are elements of genius in every man and woman that if awakened and trained will enable them to do something worthwhile. There are stores of energy and ambition in every brain that if unlocked and given expression in action will supply the force necessary to bring things to pass.

There are germs of goodness and divinity in every soul that if quickened by love and wrought into character will enable them to live a clean, self-respecting, moral life. Awaken the genius, unlock the energies, quicken the divinity in a person, change them from negative to positive, combine their intellect, energy, and conscience in harmonious expression, and you have given to that person the positive psychology of success.

What is Success? What constitutes success? If we are to see things alike, we must have the same viewpoint. Briefly, success is the accomplishment of anything attempted. But we must get a larger view of the subject. We must measure success first from the viewpoint of the individual, and second from their relation to society.

We must measure success in the individual not wholly by their objective achievements in the few years that belong to the earth life, but in the light of the fact that the influence of their life extends far into the future.....

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Listen to episode 143 of the Inspirational Living podcast: A Guide to Health & Life | Naturopathy. Adapted from “A Guide to Health” by Mahatma Gandhi.

Self-Help Podcast Excerpt: We have got into the habit of calling in a doctor for the most trivial diseases. And where there is no regular doctor available, we take the advice of mere quacks. We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to humankind than any other evil.

It is, of course, necessary that our diseases should be cured, but many cannot be cured by medicines. Not only are medicines often useless, but at times even positively harmful. For a diseased person to take drugs and medicines is often as foolish as to try to cover up the filth that has accumulated in the inside of our house. The more we cover up the filth, the more rapidly does putrefaction go on.

The same is the case with the human body. Illness or disease is Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be wise to allow Nature to remove the muck, instead of covering it up by the help of medicines. Those who take medicines are often rendering the task of Nature doubly difficult.

It is, on the other hand, quite easy for us to help Nature in her task by remembering certain elementary principles — by fasting, for instance, so that the toxins may not accumulate all the more, and by vigorous exercise in the open air, so that some of the pollutant may escape in the form of perspiration. And the one thing that is supremely necessary is to keep our minds strictly under control.

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Listen to episode 122 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Autosuggestion & Self-Mastery. Adapted from the book Self-Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion by Emile Coué.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Suggestion, or rather Autosuggestion, is quite a new subject, and yet at the same time it is as old as the world. It is new in the sense that until now it has been wrongly studied and in consequence wrongly understood; it is old because it dates from the appearance of human beings on earth. In fact, autosuggestion is an instrument that we possess at birth, and in this instrument, or rather in this force, resides a marvelous and incalculable power, which according to circumstances produces the best or the worst results.

Knowledge of this force is useful to each one of us, but it is especially indispensable to doctors, judges, lawyers, and to those engaged in the work of education. By knowing how to practice autosuggestion consciously it is possible, in the first place, to avoid provoking in others bad autosuggestions which may have disastrous consequences, and secondly, consciously to provoke good ones instead, thus bringing physical health to the sick, and moral health to the neurotic and the erring, the unconscious victims of earlier autosuggestions, and to guide into the right path those who had a tendency to take the wrong one.

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Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Listen to episode 115 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance. Adapted from the famous essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Life is now. Power exists not in repose, but in that moment of transition from the past to a new state of being. This is the one fact that the world hates, that the soul becomes; for this knowledge forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to shame, and shoves the saint and sinner equally aside.

The soul requires self-reliance. Because self-reliance is power. And power is in nature the essential measure of life. We are in desperate need of greater self-reliance throughout our society: in our religions; in our schools and universities; in our work and ways of living; in our governments, and more. Remember to always follow your inner genius and never imitate.

Your own unique talents are something that you can offer others at every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation. But if you try to imitate the talents of another, you will only ever succeed by half. That which you can do best, none but your Maker can teach. And no person yet knows what your gifts are, nor can they, until you have shown them.

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Listen to episode 113 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Majesty of Calmness. Adapted from a book of the same name by William George Jordan.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Hurry is the deathblow to calmness, to dignity, to poise. Hurry means the breakdown of the nerves. It is the royal road to perpetual worry. Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, the surer is its lasting success.

Mushrooms attain their full power in a night; oaks require decades. A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries. If you are sure you are right, do not let the voice of the world, or of friends, or of family swerve you for a moment from your purpose. Accept slow growth if it must be slow, and know the results must come, as you would accept the long, lonely hours of the night — with absolute assurance that the heavy-leaded moments must bring the morning.

Let us as individuals banish the word "Hurry" from our lives. Let us care for nothing so much that we would pay honor and self-respect as the price of hurrying it. Let us cultivate calmness, restfulness, poise, kindness — doing our best, bearing all things as bravely as we can; living our life undisturbed by the prosperity of the dishonest or the malice of the envious. Let us not be impatient, chafing at delay, fretting over failure, wearying over results, and weakening under opposition....

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Listen to episode 108 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Tao Te Ching. Edited and adapted from Dwight Goddard’s translation of the Lao Tzu’s classic book Tao Te Ching.

Spirituality Podcast Excerpt: The Tao has three treasures which it guards and cherishes. The first is called compassion; the second is called economy; the third is called humility. A person who is compassionate can 'be truly brave; a person who is economical can be truly generous; a person who is humble can become a useful servant.

If we discard compassion and are still brave, abandon economy and are still generous, forsake humility and still seek to be serviceable, our days are numbered. On the other hand, if we are truly compassionate, in battle we will be a conqueror and in defense we will be secure. When even Heaven helps people it is because of compassion that she does so.

My words are very easy to understand and very easy to put into practice, yet in all the world no one appears to understand them or to practice them. Words have an ancestor (a preceding idea), deeds have a master (a preceding purpose), and just as these are often not understood, so I am not understood.

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Listen to episode 106 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Is There Life After Death? Edited and adapted from “Does the Soul Exist After Death?” by Swami Abhedananda. Spiritual Podcast Excerpt: From ancient times there have been thinkers in India who denied the existence of the soul after the death of the body. They are known as Charvákas. They believe that the body is the soul, and that the soul does not exist outside of the body, and that when the body dies, the soul is also dead and gone. They believe in nothing that cannot be perceived by the senses. The followers of such thinkers are spreading very rapidly, and their number is increasing every day. They are now known as atheists, materialists, etc. According to this class of thinkers, those who believe in the existence of the soul as separate from the body, or in a life after death, are ignorant and superstitious fools, while those who follow their ideas are clever and intelligent beings. Most of them hold that there is no such thing as a soul. No argument can convince them or change their views, because they will not admit the existence of anything which lies beyond the reach of their senses, or which cannot be perceived by the limited powers of the senses. They have written volumes after volumes against the existence of the soul, and have tried to stop such useless questions of the mind; but in spite of their efforts, have they succeeded in stopping that innate question, "What remains after death?" — which rises spontaneously in almost every human heart? No...

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Listen to episode 99 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspirational Quotes & Meditations On Life. Edited and adapted from The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

Self-Help Podcast Excerpt: What can shake your belief in the goodness of humankind? The cruelty of others? Remember that we have come here for each other, and that people act out of ignorance. Have mercy on them. Have faith. Everything happens within a larger Order. You will find this to be true if you watch the world carefully. Don’t look at things the way wrong-doers do. Don’t look at things as wrong-doers want you too, either. Instead, strive to see things in truth, as they really are. Never value the things that will force you to lie, lose self-respect, hate, or deceive.

Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives. Oh, how peaceful it is to stop looking at what our neighbors say and do and think, and simply strive to bring our own lives into alignment with truth and kindness. Let us live simply and modestly – and if anyone says that we do not live a simple, modest life, let us not be angry with them, nor change our direction. If we hold to our ideals, we will move through life with purity and peace of mind.

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Listen to episode 94 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be Self-Confident (Overcoming the Confidence Gap). Edited and adapted from Psychology & Higher Life by William McKeever, published in 1905.

Self-Development Podcast Excerpt: The self-confident person, of necessity, believes in other people. Old as I am, it stirs me up to put forth greater effort to have people believe in me. The ordinary little child will do their utmost to come up to the standard fixed for them by the expressed opinions of their elders. The self-reliant person, therefore, is a benefactor of his or her associates. It is such an easy matter to drift down to the level of a gossip, and later to that of a defamer of character, and finally to that of the chronic misanthrope.

If one goes about looking for the meanness in other people's character, you can surely find it. But so can you find the good — more of it than you can enumerate in a lifetime. Happy indeed is the individual who has formed the habit of looking for the good. And so in every clime, we find the stalwart, self-reliant character, who, in the language of the statesman might say: "Master of human destinies am I: Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait." Another of the great promoters of self-confidence, as well as of long life and happiness, is love. Everyone should by all means fall in love with something or somebody, or, better yet, with everybody...

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Listen to episode 93 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be Successful & Influence Others to Succeed. Edited and adapted from The Majesty of Calmness by William George Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: In every moment of life, we are changing to a degree the life of the whole world. Every person has an atmosphere which is affecting every other. So silent and unconsciously is this influence working, that we may forget that it exists. All the forces of Nature — heat, light, electricity, and gravitation — are silent and invisible. We never see them; we only know that they exist by seeing the effects they produce. In all Nature, the wonders of the "seen" are dwarfed into insignificance, when compared with the majesty and glory of the "unseen".

In a thousand ways, Nature constantly seeks to lead us to a keener and deeper realization of the power and the wonder of the invisible. Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or for evil — the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of our lives. This is simply the constant radiation of what we really are, not what we pretend to be.

Every individual, by their mere living, is radiating sympathy, or sorrow, or morbidness, or cynicism, or happiness, or hope, or any of a hundred other qualities. Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations. There are men and women whose presence seems to radiate sunshine, cheer, and optimism. You feel calmed and rested and restored to a new and stronger faith in humanity.

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Listen to episode 92 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Mental & Physical Fitness: Get Fit, Motivated & Inspired. Edited and adapted from Assuming Responsibilities by Douglas Fairbanks.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: The person who rises in the morning from a healthy slumber and plunges into the bath after some vigorous exercise is prepared to undertake anything. Their world seems fair, and though the sun may not be shining literally, it is to all intents and purposes. Thus, they go swinging along with a cheery smile, carrying the message of hope and joy to all those with whom they come in contact.

Of course, mental fitness is equally important to physical fitness. And the character of a man and woman expresses itself by the books they read. Every well-informed person since the invention of the printing press has been a close reader of a few books that stand out from among the many. We read of Lincoln devouring the few books he had over and over again and studying from cover to cover and word for word the Webster's dictionary of his day.

As the poet Robert Heath once wrote, "A few good books, digested well, do feed the mind." Feed the mind! That's the idea — but how shall we feed it? The answer is easy — with something worthwhile — something that will inform and inspire. We can cram our minds to the point of indigestion with useless, frivolous information, just as easily as we may cram our stomachs with certain foods that tear down rather than build up.

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Listen to episode 90 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be a Gentleman & Lady. Edited and adapted from The Man Who Pleases and The Woman Who Fascinates by John Albert Cone.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is almost the definition of a gentleman and lady to say that they are ones who never inflict pain. They carefully avoid whatever may cause a jar or a jolt in the minds of those with whom they are with, keeping an eye on the sensibilities of all their company. They are tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absurd. They avoid unreasonable allusions on topics which may irritate; they are seldom prominent in conversation, and never wearisome.

Another delightful trait of the true lady and gentleman is that they make light of favors when they bestow them, and seem to be receiving when they are conferring. They never speak of themselves except when compelled, never defend themselves by a mere retort. They have no ears for slander or gossip; are scrupulous in imputing motives to those who interfere with them, and interprets everything for the best. They are never mean or small in their disputes, never insinuate evil which they dare not say out loud. They have too much good sense to be affronted by insults, and are too busy with enjoying life to remember injuries. They may be right or wrong in their opinions, but they are too clear-headed to be unjust.

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Listen to episode 89 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspirational Life Lessons for Adults (Young & Old). Edited and adapted from Our Sunday Talks by James J. Owen.

Self-Help Podcast Excerpt: The materialist may balk at talk of the soul — for they view the physical world as the all in all of the universe. They see reality only in those coarser forms of matter that appeal to the physical senses. In fact, they deny the existence of any and everything that their senses cannot grasp, forgetting that there may be keener senses than those of their own organism.

We use the term "coarser forms of matter" because to the undeveloped mind, those are the only forms that make an impact upon the senses. But science is constantly unfolding new and imponderable forms of which the senses take no note. Traversing the field of matter, it enters a new and unexplored domain which seemingly lies outside the boundaries of matter. And here in a maze of subtle forces and forms, the unfolded mind is lost in wonder and reverence.

We should therefore be modest in our denial or rejection of what we do not know to be true. Comparatively speaking, there is very little that we can know of anything save the simplest rudiments. Whoever dogmatically asserts that a thing is NOT so, because they do not KNOW it to be so, simply advertises their ignorance to the world — and that goes for scientists as well as religious preachers.

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Listen to episode 88 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Simple Life Habits & Cultivating Joy. Edited and adapted from The Simple Life by Charles Wagner.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Wherever life is simple and sane, true pleasure accompanies it as fragrance does uncultivated flowers. Even when this life hard, hampered, devoid of all things ordinarily considered as the very conditions of pleasure, the rare and delicate plant, joy, flourishes there. It springs up between the flags of the pavement, on an arid wall, in the fissure of a rock. We ask ourselves how it comes, and whence: but it lives. No one seems to doubt the immense human interest attached to joy. It is a sacred flame that must be fed, and it throws a splendid radiance over life.

The individual who takes pains to foster it accomplishes a work as profitable for humanity as those who build bridges, pierce tunnels, invent technology, or cultivate the ground. To order one’s life so as to keep (amid toils and suffering) the faculty of happiness, and be able to propagate it in a sort of salutary contagion among one’s fellow citizens, is to do a work of fraternity in the noblest sense. To give a simple pleasure, smooth an anxious brow, bring a little light into dark paths, is truly a divine office in the midst of this poor humanity. But it is only in great simplicity of heart that one succeeds in fulfilling it.

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Listen to episode 86 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Meditate & Visualize. Edited and adapted from The Key to Health, Wealth & Love by Julia Seton.

Self-Help Podcast Transcript: At some time or another in our lives, we all come to a place where two or more paths open up for us, and we stand at the cross-roads undecided which way to go. There is no friend near to whom we can seek advice. It is here, that the person who has developed the power of meditation (of inner communion), can rest awhile and find within themselves the solution to all difficulties.

This inner adviser has been called "The still small voice,” "Our Higher Self,” and many other symbolical terms which have served their purpose to awaken the mind to the existence of an inner consciousness. But whatever we name it, it is that guidance we gain when we can control our objective senses and link our mind with the Universal storehouse of knowledge.

This Infinite source is the place where all may, if they will, become at one with such knowledge and wisdom as can only be dimly glimpsed in the terms of human language. Here is the source of all wisdom ever sung, written, or spoken by the world's sages of all time, and there is no deeper source. Higher than this no mind can go.

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Listen to episode 85 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Modern Manners & The Power of Courtesy (Etiquette). Edited and adapted from How to be Happy Though Civil by E.J. Hardy.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The two chief rules for manners are, first: think of others; and second: do not think of yourself. And these cannot be carried out without sympathy. We must be able to go out of ourselves and realize the feelings and circumstances of another if we would confer pleasure and avoid inflicting pain. It is want of sympathy which constitutes the hard individual---the one who (without committing anything that might be called a fault) rides roughly over the most sensitive feelings of your nature.

Good manners is the art of putting our associates at ease. Whoever makes the fewest persons uncomfortable is the best-mannered person in a room, and also the most tactful. Most of us have a notion of what tact is, but it is difficult to define it. The word is derived from the Latin for "to touch.” Tact is the (quote) “touch faculty of body and soul.” It enables its possessor to get into touch with people and to gain an influence over them. Tact, or savoir faire, is a tenth muse, more inspiring than any of the nine. As an insidious gentle sunshine makes us take off our great-coat sooner than a blustering north wind, so tact is more efficacious than other forces which seem to be stronger.

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Listen to episode 83 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Karma Yoga & The Goal of Life. Edited and adapted from a lecture by Swami Vivekananda.

Spirituality Podcast Excerpt: The word Karma is derived from the Sanskrit "Kri”, meaning to do. Everything that is done is Karma. Technically, the word Karma also means the effects of actions. In connection with metaphysics, it sometimes means the effects of which our past actions were the causes. But in Karma Yoga, the word ''Karma" simply means work.

The goal of all human-kind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy. Pleasure is not the ultimate goal, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness come to an end. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that we foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal — but after a time, we find that it is not happiness but knowledge towards where we are going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers, that we learn as much from evil as from good.

As pleasure and pain pass before our soul, they leave upon it different pictures, and the result of these combined impressions is what is called our ''character." If you study the character of any person, what is it really but the tendencies, the sum total of the bent of his or her mind?

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Listen to episode 81 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Sleep Well. Edited and adapted from Peace, Power, and Plenty by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Never allow yourself, under any circumstances, to retire in a discouraged, despondent, gloomy mood, or in a fit of temper. Never lie down with a frown on your brow; with a perplexed, troubled expression on your face. Smooth out the wrinkles; drive away grudges, jealousies, all the enemies of your peace of mind. Let nothing tempt you to go to sleep with an unkind, critical, jealous thought toward another person.

It is bad enough to feel unkindly toward others when under severe provocation, or when in a hot temper, but you cannot afford to deliberately continue this state of mind after the provocation has stopped and thus spoil your sleep. You cannot afford the wear and tear. It takes too much out of you. Life is too short, time too precious to spend any part of it in unprofitable, health-wrecking, soul-racking thoughts.

Be at peace with all the world at least once in every twenty-four hours. You cannot afford to allow the enemies of your happiness to etch their miserable images deeper and deeper into your character as you sleep. Erase them all. Start every night with a clean slate...

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Listen to episode 80 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Do Your Best & Love Much. Edited and adapted from The Pathway of Roses by Christian D. Larson.

Spiritual Podcast Excerpt: We have looked far and wide for the remedies to our problems, but in our search we have overlooked one of the greatest of all; and that is love. Not the love of the person; not mere sentiment or emotion, but that strong, spiritual feeling that makes every atom in your being thrill with the purest sympathy and the highest kindness; and that makes you feel that every creature in existence deserves your most tender care and attention.

When everything goes wrong with us, we blame fate, environment, or the world. We forget that the world does to us what we have done to the world. When we blame the world for everything, the world will so act that it is to blame; but when we love the entire world with our whole heart, the world will change toward us accordingly and be kind. When you do not succeed, when no one seems to care for your service, or for your talents, there are two things to do: do your best and love much.

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Listen to episode 79 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Healthy Benefits of Aging (Aging Well with Grace). Edited and adapted from Essays of an Optimist by John William Kaye.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: One of the great advantages of age is that we are not wont to disturb ourselves by doing things that we do not like, simply for the look of the thing. There is absolute misery in pretentiousness of all kinds, and youth is infinitely more pretentious than age.

There are some people who never outlive their vanity; but, as a general rule, it may be maintained that the longer we live, the less we care what others think of us, and the less we strive after effect. We learn, in time, how little we can ever know, and how ridiculous we make ourselves by pretending to know everything. When we have learned to say, "I am as ignorant as a child on this or that subject" or, "as powerless as a baby to do this or that thing," we have mastered one of the great difficulties of life; we have entered upon a new stage of our career....

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Listen to episode 78 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Awaken the Sleeping Giant (The Power Within). Edited and adapted from New Thought Healing Made Plain by Kate Atkinson Boehme.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: The human being has always had many hitherto undiscovered powers, the horizon of the Impossible continually receding as we advance upon it. Let your limit line of belief, separating the possible from the impossible, be to you like the horizon line, which is really no line at all. It is merely where your sight stops, and depends upon the point where you stand. Advance and your horizon moves with you, showing a beyond not before visible.

Someone else may tell you that your ideals are impossible to realize. This I also deny, for I know beyond all doubt that nothing is impossible that your mind can fashion or your heart long for. The impossible is only that which you fail to reach by stopping at the fatigue point because your mind is weary of waiting and hoping, and stops short of the ''Second Wind." Simply to know that higher levels of energy exist and can be tapped will stimulate you to go on and tap them. That has been my experience, and from what I know of universal human characteristics, I judge it will be your experience also....

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Listen to episode 77 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Bright Side of Life (Guide for a Rational Optimist). Edited and adapted from Character Building by Booker T. Washington.

Educational Podcast Excerpt: If you want to be happy, if you want to live a contented life, if you want to live a life of genuine pleasure, do something for somebody else. When you feel unhappy, disagreeable, and miserable, go to someone else who is miserable and do that person an act of kindness, and you will find that you will be made happy.

The miserable persons in this world are the ones whose hearts are narrow and hard; the happy ones are those who have great big hearts. Such persons are always happy. Now, this is not to say, you won’t have difficulties, nor face obstacles and discouragement. You most certainly will. But I would suggest to you that such difficulties, as an element in life, are for a purpose.

I do not believe that anything, any element of your lives, is put there without a purpose. I believe that every effort that we are obliged to make to overcome obstacles gives us strength, and also a confidence in ourselves that nothing else can give us.

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Listen to episode 76 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be a Well Rounded Person. Edited and adapted from Essays on Work and Culture by Hamilton Wright Mabie.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Wherever you may find your place and whatever work may come to your hand, you must always be aware of the larger movement of life which encloses your special task. You must have the consciousness of that central power from which all activities are inadequate manifestations. You must remain open to the whole range of human interests, and never escape the conviction that life is a unity under all its complexities; that all activities stand vitally related to each other; that truth, beauty, knowledge, and character must be harmonized and blended in every real and adequate development of the human spirit. To the growth of every flower, the earth, sun, and atmosphere must contribute. In the making of an individual, all the rich forces of nature and civilization must have place....

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Listen to episode 75 of the Inspirational Living podcast: What is Your Ambition? (Finding Your Life's Purpose). Edited and adapted from Personal Efficiency by James Samuel Knox.

Self-Help Podcast Excerpt: The individual of definite purpose is the person of conquering spirit. They are the leaders and the molders of our environment. They set the pace for others and point the way. They know which way they are traveling, and why they are traveling, because they have a vision. They can see the end from the beginning, because they have created it in their imagination.

Show me a young person who has set their definite mark, who has driven their imaginary stake, who has created within their imagination the position they propose to fill twenty years hence, and I shall show you someone who will work out in real life the pictures they first created in their imagination. But set no mark, dream no dream, build no air castles, have no definite aim, no vision of a larger self and a larger life, and you will be eternally doomed to drift and fail. You cannot avoid it. It is the law of life....

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Listen to episode 74 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Creating Harmony and Success. Edited and adapted from Success Through Thought Habit by Benjamin Johnson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: "Secure Harmony First" is the best advice---for where Harmony exists, there can be no nervous tension, sorrow, bitterness, recrimination, resentment, unhappiness, envy, or anger. Instead there will be exemplified peace of mind, health of body, a contented spirit, freedom from want and abundance for all desires.

The very word "Harmony" is in itself a marvelous combination of sounds. There is something strangely soothing about it, a hidden meaning that implies far more than the accepted definition of being in accord with things. It seems to hint at latent power. And just as any observer notes that harmonious sounds will control, influence, and uplift an audience, so a truly harmonious personality influences everyone for good and leaves a memory full of inspiration.

John Ruskin once said, "Hundreds can talk to one who can think; thousands can think to one who can see", and so with Harmony, hundreds can talk of it, thousands can think of it, but only one in a thousand will really see and thoroughly experience it...

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Listen to episode 73 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Improve Your Personality (Me Plus You). Edited and adapted from Laugh and Live by Douglas Fairbanks.

Self-Help Podcast Excerpt: Nothing brings a greater self-reward than a service done in an hour of need, or a favor granted during a day's grind. The generous person who climbs to the top of the ladder helps many others on their way. The more we do for someone else, the more we do for ourselves. The stronger we become—the greater our influence in our communities. Doing things for others may not bring in bankable dividends but it does bring in happiness. Such actions scorn a monetary reward. We have only to try this out to learn the truth for ourselves.

A good place to begin is at home--then, the office, or wherever life leads us. In doing these things we will laugh as we go along—we will laugh and get the most out of living. Our little day-by-day kindnesses when added together constitute, in time, a huge asset on the right side of our ledger of life. We should start the day with something that helps another person get through THEIR day ... even if it isn't anything more than a smile and a wave of the hand. They will remember us for it....

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Listen to episode 72 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Science of Eternal Life. Edited and adapted from The Philosophy of Long Life by Jean Finot. Educational Podcast Excerpt: Grizzly bears, when they wake after their hibernation, at once destroy their stored up provisions. Without destruction there is no vital creation. Without death there is no life. Organic creation, Life, is unimaginable without the physico-chemical phenomena of destruction. Always and everywhere death and life succeed each other, and mingle in a mysterious embrace. There are as many of the principles of life in death as principles of death in life. We might express their curious intimacy by a formula of the precision of a chemical combination: Life-Death applying to life, and Death-Life summing up the essence of death. The principle of life seems so deeply rooted in organized bodies that it ends up triumphant, in spite of all the obstacles which spring up in its path. There is no death in nature. Its youth is eternal, like its activity and its fertility. Death is an idea relating to perishable beings, to these fugitive forms upon which the beam of life shines successively, and it is these uninterrupted trans- formations which constitute the order and the matter of the universe....

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Listen to episode 71 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Discipline Your Mind with The Power of Self-Discipline. Edited and adapted from How to Develop Your Will Power by Clare Tree Major. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Self-control is emotional control. Like all forces inherent in human nature, the emotional forces work equally thoroughly in either direction, as builders or as destroyers. You are, whether you like it or not, dealing with forces, with laws, with energy, which must expend themselves, must carry out their predestined mission — forces as blind and as inevitable as the forces of electricity or the laws of gravitation. You must either be hurled to destruction by them, or you must control and use them. You cannot escape them. They are part of your nature. The more vital and intense your nature, the greater your possibilities of power. The fact that you are awake enough to be interested in self-development is sufficient proof of your own possibility of superseding in development the masses which make up the great average class of humanity. Make your great emotional forces serve you. The secret of happiness is bound up in their control. The first emotion to present itself to your mind in self- examination is often Anger. Anger is almost invariably the outgrowth of Fear, fear of injury to one's self or to someone or something belonging to you. It is grounded largely on Irritation....

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Listen to episode 70 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Keys to Success & Motivation | B.C. Forbe's Manifesto. Edited and adapted from The Keys to Success by B.C. Forbes.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Nobody can hand you a ready-made key to open the door of success. You must fashion your own key and find the combination of the lock for yourself. No magician can waft you to the heights of fortune and fame. You cannot fly there on the wings of an airplane. The road, often rocky, has to be traversed on foot. You, and you alone, can supply the motive power. You, and you alone, must put forth the necessary exertion.

No one can remove from your shoulders the burden of the effort. You must do your own climbing. Nor are there any mystic short-cuts. The full distance must be honestly, even painstakingly traveled. While there are no escalators to the hilltop of success, and while every man and woman must do his and her own climbing, yet there is a right road to travel, and it all depends on you....

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Listen to episode 69 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Optimist's Guide to Living the Philosophy of Optimism. Edited and adapted from Helen Keller’s essay on optimism.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Although there are still great evils which have not been subdued (and the optimist is not blind to them), we are yet full of hope. Despondency has no place in our creed, for we believe in the imperishable dignity of every man and every woman. History records humanity’s ascent. Each halt in our progress has been but a pause before a mighty leap forward.

Our present time is not out of joint. If indeed some of the temples we worshiped in have fallen, we will build new ones on the sacred sites, loftier and wiser than those which have crumbled. If we are losing some of the heroic physical qualities of our ancestors, we shall replace them with a spiritual nobleness that turns aside wrath and binds up the wounds of the vanquished. All the past attainments of humankind are ours; and what’s more, their day-dreams have become our clear realities. Therein lies our hope and sure faith....

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Listen to episode 68 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret Power of Imagination. Edited and adapted from The Power of Awareness by Neville Goddard.

Self-Help Podcast Excerpt: Your consciousness is all that you think and desire and love, all that you believe is true and consent to. That is why a change of consciousness is necessary before you can change your outer world. Rain falls as a result of a change in the temperature in the higher regions of the atmosphere. So, in like manner, a change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness.

To be transformed, the whole basis of your thoughts must change. But your thoughts cannot change unless you have new ideas, for you think from your ideas. All transformation begins with an intense, burning desire to be transformed. The first step in the “renewing of the mind” is desire. You must want to be different (and intend to be different) before you can begin to change yourself.....

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Listen to episode 67 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Leadership, Character & Democracy. Edited and adapted from a speech by Teddy Roosevelt.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: It is not the critic who counts; not the one who points out how the strong person has stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the men and women who are actually in the arena, whose faces are marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strive valiantly; who err; who come short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming.

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Listen to episode 66 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Way of Wonder. Edited and adapted from a classic book of essays by Stephen Paget.

Educational Podcast Excerpt: This much I remember of Aristotle, that he calls Wonder the beginning of the love of Wisdom. To have a right judgment of our surroundings, we must wonder at them, and be surprised that they and we are met together. So long as we exercise this quickening sense of wonder, there is hope for us, and some justification of our presence here on earth---because we all are on the road that leads toward wisdom. And they alone are incorrigible fools to whom Nature comes natural.

Once we have fallen into the bad habit of taking for granted what Nature gives us, and have ceased to be amazed, it may be fairly said that in the midst of life we are in death. For one might as well be dead as alive, to look with dull eyes at the world, not finding it wonderful....

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Listen to episode 65 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Stop Worrying (Start Living Anxiety Free). Edited and adapted from: Your Right to Be Happy by Frank & Marion Van Eps.

Self-Help Podcast Excerpt: You might be ready to embark on a new enterprise, but your imagination conjures up all sorts of obstacles and difficulties, and you are afraid to begin, lest you fail. But this is, actually, just where the turn of success is made. Daniel Webster, when he first started in his career as a lawyer, felt as if he were utterly incompetent and could never succeed. But he persevered and did not run away or give up, and he eventually became one of the most famous American statesmen of the 19th century. Had he yielded to that feeling of fear, he would never have amounted to anything; but having overcome that, all things were set in his favor.

On the eve of any great achievement, it is not unusual to feel the most like a failure or that your goals are unreachable. It is this point of apparent collapse that is so important in everyone’s career. Just when failure and disaster seem unavoidable is the time to push right on through and disregard appearances. More will power and determination put forth at that time will turn the tide, and glorious results are certain.

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Listen to episode 64 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Persuasion, Influence & Reason (Science of the Mind). Adapted from a classic book by the same title by William Macpherson.

Educational Podcast Excerpt: Humanity has been described as a reasoning animal; and everyone likes to think that the description applies to them. In reality, we do not, usually, act rationally in the sense that we first carefully calculate the means to realize our objectives, and only then act. Even when we do make such calculations, the fundamental source of our actions is always some instinct or emotion that they seek to satisfy.

To say this is to say nothing derogatory about human nature. Indeed, as we all know, to act on impulse is often much more respectable than to act from reasoned calculation. If much of the wrong-doing of the world may be attributed to the uncontrolled working of selfish impulses, it should also be remembered that impulse is the source of art and science, and of many of the best things in life.

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Listen to episode 63 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living a Magical Life: Creative Motivation for Inspired People. Adapted from the book Concentration: The Key to Constructive Thought by C. W. Kyle.

It will take a psychological operation to rid you of your self-imposed limitations. Well, here it is. Words have a magic power. You have made yourself just what you are, and you have the power to change yourself into a being greater and more powerful than it is possible for you to conceive. You are possessed of unlimited powers. And if limited you now are, you, yourself, have raised the walls of limitation, and you have the power to remove them or let them stand.

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Listen to episode 62 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to See, Hear, and Remember. Adapted from “Memory: How to Develop, Train, and Use It” by William Walker Atkinson.

Educational Podcast Excerpt: The trouble with most of us is that we have been looking without seeing— gazing but not observing. The objects around you have been out of your mental focus. If you will but change your mental focus, by means of will and attention, you will be able to cure yourself of the careless methods of seeing and observing that have been hindrances to your success.

We have been blaming forgetfulness on our memories, but the fault is with our perception. How can the memory remember, when it is not given anything in the way of clear impressions? We have been like young infants in this matter— now it is time for you to begin to “sit up and take notice” no matter how old you may be.

The whole thing in a nut-shell is this: In order to remember the things that pass before your sight, you must begin to see with your mind, instead of with your retina. Let the impression get beyond your retina and into your mind. If you will do this, you will find that memory will "do the rest."

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Listen to episode 61 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Law of Compensation & Karma. Adapted from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Compensation".

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The universe is represented in every one of its particles. Everything in nature contains all the powers of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is a compendium of the world, and a correlative of every other. Each individual is an entire emblem of human life; of its good and ill, its trials, its enemies, its course, and its end. And each one must somehow reside within the whole person, and deliver his or her destiny.

The world globes itself in a drop of dew. So do we put our life into every act. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God reappears completely in every blade of grass and every cobweb. The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point. If the good is there, so is the evil; if the affinity, so the repulsion; if the force, so the limitation.

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Listen to episode 60 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Spoken words. Adapted from Your Forces and How to Use Them by Christian D. Larson.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: In daily conversation, the law of constructive speech should be conscientiously applied. What we say to others will determine to a considerable degree what they are to think, and what tendencies their mental actions are to follow; and since we are the product of our thoughts, conversation becomes a most important factor in the development of ourselves and others.

We steadily grow into the likeness of that which we think of the most, and what we are to think about depends largely upon the mode, the nature and the subject matter of our conversation. When conversation originates or intensifies the tendency to think about the wrong, the ordinary or the inferior, it becomes destructive, and likewise it tends to keep before mind the faults and defects that may exist in human nature.

To be constructive, conversation should tend to turn attention upon the better side, the stronger side, the superior side of all things, and should give the ideal the most prominent place in thought, speech, or expression....

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Listen to episode 59 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Adversity with Optimism. Adapted from the essay Optimism by Helen Keller.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: A poet once said that I must be happy because I do not see the bare, cold present, but live in a beautiful dream. I do live in a beautiful dream; but that dream is the actual, the present —not cold, but warm; not bare, but furnished with a thousand blessings. The very evil which the poet supposed would be a cruel disillusionment is necessary to the fullest knowledge of joy. Only by contact with evil could I have learned to feel by contrast the beauty of truth and love and goodness.

It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference. It is not enough to say that the twenty-first century is the best age in the history of mankind, and to take refuge from the evils of the world in ethereal dreams of good.

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Listen to episode 58 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Joy of Selfless Love. Adapted from The Way of Peace by James Allen.

Spiritual Podcast Excerpt: Divine or selfless Love is not a mere sentiment or emotion; it is a state of knowledge which destroys the dominion of evil and the belief in evil, and lifts the soul into the joyful realization of the supreme Good. To the divinely wise, knowledge and Love are one and inseparable. There is no arbitrary power in the universe, and the strongest chains of fate by which we are bound are self-forged.

We are chained to that which causes suffering because we desire to be so, because we love our chains, because we think our little dark prison of self is sweet and beautiful, and are afraid that if we desert that prison we will lose all that is real and worth having.

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Listen to episode 57 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Art of Happiness & Change (Getting Past Your Past). Adapted from The Wonders of Life by Ida Luella Rettinghouse Lyon.

Self-Help Podcast Excerpt: "Deal gently with the old, for they have come a long way; and be kind to the young, for they have a long journey before them." I do not know to whom we owe this excellent advice, but it is a beautiful thought well expressed. There are delightful old people who have kept their hearts young and hopeful amidst the changes and disappointments which the passing years have brought; men and women who are charming companions for the young or old.

It is not always those who have had the most trying experiences who have acquired a hard and bitter feeling, and have convinced themselves that they are ill-used and the victims of an unkind fate. It is, in most cases, those who have lived and who still live for themselves alone, and have thus missed half — indeed, more than half — of the joy of living.

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Listen to episode 56 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Magic of Possibilities (Thinking Big For Success). Adapted from The Power of Purpose by William George Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We are placed into life not a finality, but a beginning; not a manufactured article, but raw material; not a statue, but an unpolished stone, ready alike for the firm chisel of defined purpose or the subtle attrition of circumstances and conditions.

It is only what you make of yourself that really counts. You must disinfect your mind from that weakening thought that you have an absolutely predetermined capacity, like a freight-car with its weight and tonnage painted on the side. You are growing, expansive, unlimited: self-adjusting to increased responsibility, progressively able for large duties and higher possibilities as you realize them and live up to them. You should feel this sense of the limitless — physically, mentally, morally, spiritually.

There is none so obscure that they cannot make the lives of those around them marvelously changed, brightened, and inspired, if they would merely progressively live up to their expanding possibilities in the way of kindness, thoughtfulness, cheer, good-will, influence, and optimism....

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Listen to episode 55 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Using the Law of Attraction. Adapted from The Creative Mind & Success by Ernest Holmes.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Every person is surrounded by a thought atmosphere. This mental atmosphere is the direct result of thought, which in its turn becomes the direct reason for the cause of that which comes into our lives. Through this power we are either attracting or repelling. Like attracts like and we attract to us just what we are in mind. It is also true that we become attracted to something that is greater than our previous experience by first embodying the atmosphere of our desire.

Every business, every place, every person, everything has a certain mental atmosphere of its own. This atmosphere decides what is to be drawn to it. For instance, you never saw a successful person who went around with an atmosphere of failure. Successful people think about success. They are filled with that subtle something which permeates everything that they do with an atmosphere of confidence and strength. In the presence of some people, we feel as though nothing were too great to undertake. We are uplifted. We are inspired to do great things, to accomplish. We feel strong, steady, sure....

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Listen to episode 54 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Spiritual Growth & The Limits of Friendship. Adapted from the book Friendship by Hugh Black.

Spiritual Podcast Excerpt: Human love can ask too much, and it asks too much when it would break down the individual will and conscience. We cannot renounce our rights as living souls without losing our souls. No person can pay the debt of life for us. No individual can take the burden of life from us. To no person can we hand over the reins unreservedly. It would be cowardice, and cowardice is sin.

The first axiom of the spiritual life is the sacredness of our individuality. We must respect each other's personality. Even when we have rights over other people, these rights are strictly limited, and carry with them a corresponding duty to respect their rights also. The one intolerable despotism in the world is the attempt to put a yoke on the souls of others, and there are some forms of intimacy which approach that despotism. To transgress the moral bounds set to friendship is to make the highest forms of friendship impossible; for these are only reached when free individuals meet in the unity of the spirit.....

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Listen to episode 53 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Authentic Happiness. Edited and adapted from The Wonders of Life by Ida Luella Rettinghouse Lyon.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is folly to think that the happiness of our lives has passed, and to linger regretfully in the flowery byways of the past. If we look forward with hopeful hearts, we shall find as we progress, undreamed of joys and marvelous manifestations of a power which ever leads the willing follower into paths where new delights await them. One should never grow too old, or too unfortunate, to have friends to love, and to keep in touch with the world in which we live.

While our consciousness is expanding into a wider comprehension of the hidden powers of the universe, we are not getting away from materialism. We are taking materialism with us into this realm of subtle power; for there is nothing more mysterious than the material part of the universe. Life offers us grand opportunities in giving us these wonderful mental and physical powers, though most of us don’t know what to do with them. But, as we learned to walk by walking, in spite of the bumps and tumbles, so we learn to live by living, and are, by slow degrees, mastering the art of using the powers in our possession; and there is no more fascinating art, or one more worthy of cultivation.

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Listen to episode 52 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living a Joyful Life Now: Motivation for Feeling Good. Adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christian D. Larson.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Every person desires to make the most of themselves, but to accomplish this all latent power must be awakened, and there is nothing that will bring forth our latent powers more thoroughly than the doing of what seems difficult. When you find yourself shrinking from certain tasks, you have discovered a weakness within yourself. Refuse to let that weakness remain in such a condition.

Go and do what you feared to do and let nothing hold you back. In this way, the weak faculty will be made strong, and your entire nature will pass through a valuable discipline and training. Nothing is really disagreeable unless we think so. That is, we may approach the disagreeable in such a way that it ceases to be disagreeable. And the secret to doing this is: count everything joy. You may enter darkness and gloom, but if you are living in a world of brightness and cheer, that darkness will not be darkness to you, nor will gloom enter your mind for a moment. You can remain in your own happy world, no matter what may happen, no matter what may take place in your immediate environment.

When you resolve to do certain things and proceed with a conviction that you will enjoy the work thoroughly, you will find real pleasure in that work. In addition, you will do the work very well. Pleasure comes from within, and when the fountain of joy within is overflowing, it will give joy to everything that exists about you. To cause this fountain within to overflow at all times, count everything joy at all times....

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Listen to episode 51 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Psychology of Love & Marriage. Adapted from The Mental Highway by Thomas Parker Boyd.

Educational Podcast Excerpt: The truth is, we are never in love with a man or woman. We love a perfect ideal, and someone who more or less fills that ideal, steps into the picture and furnishes an objective upon which love may express itself. Such an objective may move into the picture at anytime, and he or she may move out at anytime, because they no longer fill the picture, while another who more perfectly fills the ideal takes the place.

This may seem to make love a fickle and undependable thing. However, its fickleness is not in the love, nor in the lover, but in the objective that has failed to fill the ideal, which has failed to grow and more perfectly express the perfect spiritual reality in objective form. The glamour of love is likely to be dimmed the moment that the humdrum of life renders the relationship commonplace.

A common idea after the marriage ceremony is: "Now I have my mate, I don’t need to work at making myself any better and more appealing." That thought is the death knell of love, and the first step toward the divorce court.

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Listen to episode 50 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of the Eternal Now (Living in the Moment). Adapted from How to Stay Young by Christian D. Larson.

Spiritual Podcast Excerpt: The forces of the mind will create and express every quality or condition that is held in consciousness. This is one of the most important of all metaphysical laws, because it is principally through this law that you determine what your personal life is to be.

A true conception of time is extremely important in placing the mind in the proper attitude towards the laws that govern your being; and this true conception is based upon the principle that time IS. Time neither comes nor goes. It is the movements of nature that come and go, not time. What we call time is but the now of eternity, and this now is eternally in the now; therefore there can be no passing of time.

It is only in the now that you can live. You can live neither in the past nor in the future. You may think of the past or the future, but you can live only in the now. To train the mind to concentrate the whole of attention upon the great eternal now is to develop the consciousness of the "isness" of the now, and to consciously feel that its purpose is to eliminate the consciousness of age completely....

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Listen to episode 49 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Sell Yourself (Success and Entrepreneurship). Adapted from The Mental Highway by Thomas Parker Boyd.

Motivational Podcast Transcript: We each have in ourselves the potential elements of genius. Our business is to find out how to set them free and get them into effective operation. Remember that a one-talent person working at their highest efficiency is worth a hundred undeveloped ten-talent people.

While we all may differ in the degree and variety of natural endowments, everyone has the potential elements of success. Success consists in realizing that you have it in you, that you are worthy to succeed, then carrying your qualities to market. For no matter how high the quality of your faculties and abilities may be, they do not spell success until you market them. The art of selling yourself hinges on a right idea about your goods and how to get that right idea across to the mind of the potential buyer or employer. This resolves itself into the following formula that operates in the following order....

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Today's podcast (Episode 48) is dedicated to Martin Luther King. Many people attribute Dr. King with establishing the concept of the arc of the moral universe. But it actually was derived from a sermon by 19th century Unitarian minister Theodore Parker, whose works MLK read and admired. This particular sermon dealing with justice and the moral universe can be found in the book 10 Sermons of Religion by Theodore Parker, from which today's podcast has been adapted.

Spiritual Podcast Excerpt: I find that justice is the object of my conscience, fitting that, as light the eye and truth the mind. There is a perfect agreement between the moral object and the moral subject. Finding it fits me thus, I know that justice will work for my welfare and that of all humankind. Look at the facts of the world. And you will see a slow but continual and progressive triumph of what is right. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe. The arc is a long one; my eye reaches but a little way. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight. But I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see, I am sure it bends towards justice.....

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Listen to episode 47 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Sustainable Success (Living on the Edge of Joy). Edited and adapted from the book Joy Philosophy by Elizabeth Towne.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Perhaps you feel that you are too old; or that your burdens are too great; that you have no time or energy to pursue your Ideals. I say that it is never too late to drop your burdens and use your energy to some joyful purpose. All one has to do is to declare “I have no burdens. Life is a play-ground!“ and stick to it.

There are many serious people who say, “Life is real. Life is earnest.” But I say to you that “Life is really what you think it.” It is a great game, a tragedy, or a sentence of hard labor, just as you will. If you don’t like what it has been, use your ingenuity to make it different.

Above all things, drop the burdens. Refuse to make bricks without straw. If the world won’t let you go, just go anyhow.There is always a Red Sea to cut off pursuers and obliterate your tracks—unless perchance you dig up your old tracks and lug them through the wilderness. If you do, I give you fair warning, you’ll never get across the border into the land flowing with milk and honey...

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Listen to episode 46 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Develop a Powerful Concentration. Adapted from Thought Force in Business & Every Day Life by William Walker Atkinson.

Educational Podcast Excerpt: Every person who has succeeded in life has developed the art of concentration. They may not realize it, but they have, just the same. And more, any person who will develop the art of concentration will be successful. The individual who can concentrate has a sure remedy for the "blues." How so? Why, just by shutting off the unpleasant thoughts and concentrating on a brighter subject.

Thousands of people have found this plan a specific remedy for the "blues," discouragement, worry, fear, and the rest. Try it, and you will find that life will appear entirely different to you. Try it, and you will begin to feel the thrill of life again, and will thank God that you are alive, instead of cursing the day when you were born. You will do your work better; you will feel better; you will BE better. Is it not worth trying it out?...

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Listen to episode 44 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Overcome Self-Pity. Adapted from the book Health Through Will Power by Dr. James J. Walsh.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: The old Greeks did not hesitate (in spite of their deep appreciation of the beauty of nature and enthusiasm for the joy of living) to emphasize the tragedy in life. They were inclined to think that the sense of contrast produced by tragedy heightened the actual enjoyment of life, and that indeed all pleasure was founded on contrast rather than positive enjoyment. One may not be ready to agree with the saying that the only thing that makes life worthwhile is contrast, but certainly suffering as a background enhances happiness as nothing else can.

Aristotle declared that tragedy purges life, that is, that only through the lens of death and misfortune can one see life free from the dross of the sordid and merely material to which it is attached. His meaning was that tragedy lifts us above the selfishness of mere individualism. And by showing us the misfortunes of others, it prepares us to struggle against whatever misfortunes might come, as they almost inevitably will. At the same time, tragedy lifts us above the trifles of daily life into a higher, broader sphere of living, where we better realize our true selves and powers.....

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Listen to episode 42 of the Inspirational Living podcast: What Do You Live For? Adapted from the book New Thought Common Sense and What Life Means to Me by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Everything comes when we are fully ready. The law never fails. You may believe yourself worthy of better things than what has fallen to your lot, but there is some reason, some cause in yourself, if you have not what you desire.If you encounter people who are disagreeable, be so agreeable that you force them into a pleasant mood. Bring out the best in everybody by giving them the best that is in yourself.

The poet Madeline Bridges put this great truth into the simple words: "Give to the world the best you have, And the best shall come to you."Just so sure as you live these lines, so sure shall be your reward. But to do all this you must be ALIVE: Alive every hour of the day, and all of you (brain, soul and body) must be alive. Once you roll the stone away and come forth, alive, you will vibrate at such a rate that worry, disease, poverty, despondency, gloom, and melancholy will be unable to stay with you.....

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Listen to episode 41 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Think & Grow Rich Without Money. Adapted from the work of Orison Swett Marden.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: We assume importance and become a power in the world, just as soon as it is found that we stand for something; that we are not for sale; that we will not lease our ideals for salary, for any amount of money or for any influence or position; that we will not lend our name to anything which we cannot endorse.

The trouble with so many people today is that they do not stand for anything outside their vocation. They may be well educated, well up in their specialties, may have a lot of expert knowledge, but they cannot be depended upon. There is some flaw in them which takes the edge off their virtue. They may be fairly honest, but you cannot bank on them...

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Listen to episode 40 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Duality & Rhythm of Life. Adapted from the Kybalion, published in 1912 by the Yogi Publication Society.

Spiritual Podcast Excerpt: The Principle of Polarity, as taught by the ancient mystics, was that everything is dual. Everything has two poles. Everything has its pair of opposites---and that "opposites" are really only the two extremes of the same thing, with many varying degrees between them. Where does darkness leave off, and light begin? What is the difference between Large and Small? Between Hard and Soft? Between Black and White? Between Sharp and Dull? Between Noise and Quiet? Between High and Low? Between Positive and Negative?

The Principle of Polarity explains these paradoxes, and no other Principle can supersede it. The same Principle operates on the Mental Plane. Let us take a radical and extreme example—that of Love and Hate, two mental states apparently totally different. And yet there are degrees of Hate and degrees of Love, and a middle point in which we use the terms “Like” or “Dislike,” which shade into each other so gradually that sometimes we are at a loss to know whether we "like" or "dislike" or "neither" ...

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Listen to episode 39 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Change Your Life Around. Adapted from a 1952 lecture by Neville Goddard.

Podcast Excerpt: As an individual, you move and live in time, but your true being is in eternity. Think of the vertical line of the cross as the line of being upon which there are unnumbered levels of awareness. Time cannot make you better or wiser. In fact, time cannot do a thing towards changing your level of being, for change is all on the vertical line where you move to higher or lower levels of your own being.

Because change is imminent, we speak of it as infinite imminence---as nearer than near and sooner than now. The person you would like to be is imminent: is nearer than near. The ideal you dream of being is sooner than now and is brought into being by a change in your reactions to life...

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Listen to episode 35 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Spiritual Meditation. Edited & adapted from The Way of Peace by James Allen.

Podcast Excerpt: Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is the mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace. Without its aid, you cannot grow into the divine state, and the fadeless glories and joys of Truth will remain hidden from you. Tell me that which you most frequently and intensely think about (that to which, in your silent hours, your soul most naturally turns), and I will tell you to what place of pain or peace you are traveling, and whether you are growing into the likeness of the divine or the mundane...

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Listen to episode 34 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Cheerfulness: The Benefits of Smiling and Laughing. Adapted from The Optimistic Life by Orison Swett Marden.

Podcast Excerpt: No matter what your work may be, learn to find happiness everywhere. The love of cheerfulness can be cultivated like any other faculty — and in practical life, it will be worth more to you than a college education with-out it. This is wealth that all can accumulate — the wealth of joy. No matter how hard your lot, how dark the day may seem, if you work a little good humor into it, it will lift your life above a humdrum existence.

If you manage to get in a good laugh during the day, your work will not seem nearly as hard. It will relieve the grind and dreariness. A dull, serious mood all day will not only make you very uninteresting to others, but it makes your own load heavier. A good laugh does away with cares, worries, doubts, and relieves the great strain of modern life....

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Listen to episode 30 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be Calm, Cool & Collected. Adapted from a Harvard lecture by Dr. George Lincoln Walton.

Podcast Excerpt: We live in an age where discretion is the better part of valor. The person who exercises this discretion is less at risk for harm, but does not see so much of life as the more forceful individual. It is true that the hypochondriac is prone to live longer, but what a life! The time has past when the young child can say, "And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.” Now the prayer is more like this: "Don't even mention death to me or I shall lie awake all night!"

Today’s parents are raising children in ways that bring into prominence the little worries; that cause the tempest in the teapot; that bring about the worship of the intangible, and the magnification of the unessential. If we had lived in another age, we might have dreamt of the eternal happiness of saving our neck, but in this one we fret because someone said something that offended us....

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Listen to episode 28 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Kahlil Gibran on Love & Marriage (Soul Mates). Edited and adapted from Gibran’s book The Prophet.

Podcast Excerpt: If love leads you to marriage, remember this: You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. You shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Fill each other’s cup, but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread, but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone---just as the strings of a lute are alone, though they quiver with the same music.....

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Listen to episode 27 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Build Better Life Habits (Getting Unstuck). Adapted from book The Mind & Its Education by George Herbert Betts.

Podcast Excerpt: Building better habits will require something of heroism on our part. For to follow the well-beaten path of custom is easy and pleasant, while to break out of the rut of habit and start a new line of action is difficult and disturbing. Most people prefer to keep doing things as they always have done them, to continue reading and thinking and believing as they have long been in the habit of doing, not so much because they feel that their way is best, but because it is easier than to change.

Hence the great mass of us settle down on the plane of mediocrity, and become "old fogies." We learn to do things passably well, cease to think about improving our ways of doing them, and fall into a rut. Only the few go on. They make use of habits as the rest do, but they also continue to modify them at critical points of action, and so make their habits an ally instead of accepting them as a tyrant.

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Listen to episode 25 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Succeed in Anything. Edited and adapted from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

Podcast Excerpt: Persistence is an essential factor of success in life. And the basis of persistence is the POWER OF WILL. Will-power and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair. People who achieve great success are sometimes known as ruthless. Often they are misunderstood. What they have is will-power, which they mix with persistence, to insure the attainment of their objectives.

Most people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. Only a few carry on despite all opposition, until they attain their goal: the Steve Jobses, the Andrew Carnegies, the Mahatma Gandhis, the Thomas Edisons. While there may be no heroic connotation to the word "persistence," the quality is to the character of a person what carbon is to steel....

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Listen to episode 24 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Words. Edited and adapted from The Mental Cure by Warren Felt Evans.

Podcast Excerpt: Words are the index of character. They enclose within them our thoughts, and the tone with which they are spoken indicates the state of our affections. The utterance of a single word can reveal the love, fear, or hate that lurks within it, and, as such, our life and character are laid open to public view. By the effect of our words, others can perceive the cause. The heart is the fountain; words are the stream. If the fountain is clear as crystal, the issuing spring will be the water of life....

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Listen to episode 22 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Book of Tea | Zen & The Art of Tea Drinking. Edited and adapted from The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō.

Podcast Excerpt: There is a subtle charm in the taste of tea which makes it irresistible and capable of idealization. Western humorists were not slow to mingle the fragrance of their thought with its aroma. It has not the arrogance of wine, the self-consciousness of coffee, nor the simpering innocence of cocoa.

Samuel Johnson draws his own portrait as "a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of the fascinating plant; who with tea amused the evening, with tea solaced the midnight, and with tea welcomed the morning.

Teaism is the art of concealing beauty that you may discover it, of suggesting what you dare not reveal. It is the noble secret of laughing at yourself, calmly yet thoroughly, and is thus humor itself—the smile of philosophy. All genuine humorists may in this sense be called tea-philosophers---Thackeray, for instance, and of course, Shakespeare. In this imperfect world of ours, it is perhaps in our demure contemplation of the Imperfect that the West and the East can meet in mutual consolation.....

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Listen to episode 21 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Sleep Better, Peacefully & Fast. Edited and Adapted from the book The Victorious Attitude by Orison Swett Marden.

Self-Help Podcast Excerpt: We never awake the same exact being as when we went to sleep. We are either better or worse. We changed while we slept. While our senses were wrapped in slumber, the subjective mind was busily at work. It was either building up or tearing down. If we go to bed holding a grudge against a neighbor, with a resolve to "get back" at somebody who has hurt us; if we have hatred or jealousy in our heart; if we are envious of another's success, and if we go to sleep nursing these feelings, we awake in a depressed, exhausted state, feeling bitter, pessimistic, irritable, and unhappy.

The destructive spirit was at work all night, running amuck among the delicate brain and nerve cells, furiously tearing down what beneficent Nature had taken such pains to upbuild. But, when we take pleasant, kindly, loving thoughts to bed with us, we awake refreshed, in a happy, contented frame of mind. Our sleepless faculties spent the hours in upbuilding, performing friendly functions for us during the night.

Few people ever think of preparing the mind for sleep, yet it is even more necessary than it is to prepare the body. Most of us take great pains to put the latter in order; we undress, maybe take a warm bath, perhaps massage the face with lotion; we make sure that our bedroom is properly heated or cooled, and that our bed is clean and comfortable, but to the matter of preparing our minds, we don’t give it a thought.

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Listen to episode 20 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Transform Your Life & Thinking (Neville Goddard). Edited and Adapted from a lecture by Neville Goddard.

Podcast Excerpt: The purpose of today’s talk is to bring about a psychological change in you, the individual. Humanity, understood psychologically, is an infinite series of levels of awareness. And you, individually, are what you are according to where you are in the series. Consciousness is the only reality. And where you are conscious of being psychologically determines the circumstances of your life. The ancients knew this great truth, but our modern teachers have yet to discover it. There is only one substance in the world. Our scientists call it energy, while scripture defines it as consciousness.....

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Listen to episode 10 of the Inspirational Living podcast: What the World Needs From You. Adapted from the book The Art of Being Alive by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Podcast Excerpt: LIFE means action, from the cradle to the grave. There are limitless possibilities in this life to bring into realization whatever hopes or aspirations we desire. If we only but begin… There is no such thing as inaction during this life. We are continually going forward or backward. You are either stronger or weaker this year than you were last year. You are braver or more cowardly. You are more hopeful or more pessimistic. You are more capable mentally or less so. You have better or poorer command of your forces. You have more efficiency or not as much. You are nearer your goal or farther from it. You are a better human being or not as good.....

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Listen to episode 8 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Stay Calm & Motivated. Adapted from The Majesty of Calmness by William George Jordan.

Transcript Excerpt: Calmness is the rarest quality in human life. It is the signpost of a great nature, in harmony with itself and its ideals. It is the moral atmosphere of the life self-reliant and the self- controlled. Calmness is singleness of purpose, absolute confidence, and conscious power — ready to be focused in an instant to meet any crisis.

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Listen to episode 6 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How Thoughts Shape Your Destiny. Edited & adapted from the book As a Man Thinketh by James Allen.

Transcript Excerpt: The world is your kaleidoscope. The varying color combinations are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts. You are literally what you think, your character being the complete sum of all your thoughts. As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every action springs from the hidden seeds of thought and could not have appeared without them.

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Listen to episode 5 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Thinking Body. Edited & adapted from the book How to Get What You Want by Dr. Orison Marden.

Transcript Excerpt: We are apt to think of the body as a collection of different organs and that these organs are in a way separate, of different material or construction. But we are simply one enormous mass of tiny cells closely related to one another. Because the bones, for example, are harder than the brain, we think there can be little affinity between them, but, as a matter of fact, what affects one cell anywhere in the body affects all. Each cell is an entity or little self, and we are made up of these billions of our little selves or cells.

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Listen to episode 4 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Art of Being Alive. Edited & adapted from the book The Art of Being Alive by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Transcript Excerpt: Stop wondering why you were born into this world. Stop looking for faults and flaws. Rise up today with joy and say, “I am going to be alive!" In every thousand people who are living on this earth, not more than one is alive. To be really alive means more than to be a moving, breathing, eating, drinking, and talking human being. Those who are actually alive find the days too short to pursue all the wonderful explorations which life offers them. They find life itself a continual adventure, an unfolding panorama, with opportunities for pleasure and achievement at every turn....

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Listen to episode 3 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Daring Greatly: Finding the Courage to Lead. Edited & adapted from the book The Power of Truth by William George Jordan.

Transcript Excerpt: The reformers of the world are those men and women of mighty purpose. They are leaders with the courage of individual conviction who dare run counter to the criticism of the crowd. They are the souls who voluntarily bear crosses for what they accept as right, even without the guarantee of redemption. They are the heroes who gladly go down into the depths of silence, darkness and oblivion, only to emerge finally like divers, with pearls in their hands...

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Listen to episode 2 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Living the Immortal Life, edited & adapted from Theodore Parker's Unitarian sermon on immortality.

Transcript Excerpt: It is the belief of many that we shall all live forever. This is not a doctrine of Christianity alone. It belongs to the human race. But how did we come by this belief? Our ancestors did not sit down and think it out; never waited till they could prove it by logic and metaphysics; did not delay their belief till a miraculous revelation came to confirm it. It came to them by intuition; by instinctive belief, the belief which comes unavoidably from our nature. In this same way came the belief in a higher power; the redeeming power of love; and the yearning for justice.

Some faculties of the body act spontaneously at first---so others of the spirit. Immortality is a fact of human nature; it is thus a part of the universe, just as the sun is a fact in the heavens and a part of the universe....

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Listen to episode 1 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Love & Live True to Yourself. Edited & adapted from Emerson's classic essay on self-reliance.

Transcript Excerpt: The power that resides in you is new in nature, and no one but you knows what you can do, nor will you know until you have tried. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place that divine providence has found for you in the society of your contemporaries. Great men and women have always done so, devoting themselves childlike to the genius of their age, with all of their being. Like those who have come before us, we must accept with highest mind our transcendent destiny; and behave not like cowards fleeing before a revolution, but like fearless guides helping others advance through the Chaos and the Dark...

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