Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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