Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 1158 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Improve Your Personality. Edited and adapted from Laugh and Live by Douglas Fairbanks.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A healthy and robust personality is the fulfillment of self-development — physically, mentally, and spiritually. But all robust personalities are not healthy, for it often shows in the faces of those who are selfish at heart. Therefore, all personality is not for the good of the world. It is only of the healthy and generous kind that we speak. And to those who possess it, the goal is divine.

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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.

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Podcast Excerpt: AN old world legend tells of a powerful giant whose motto was "I serve the strongest." At first he served the mayor of his town, until he discovered that the mayor was under a duke who was far more powerful than he. Thereupon he left the mayor to serve the duke, until he found that the latter had to obey one greater than any duke, the emperor. Then he transferred his allegiance to the emperor, whom he served until one day he heard the emperor say that he was afraid of the devil.

"What! you afraid of the devil!" cried the giant. "Is the emperor afraid of anything? Is there anyone stronger than the emperor? If so, I will serve him."

Leaving the emperor, he hunted for the devil, whom he found and served. But he soon learned that the devil was afraid of someone more powerful than himself, the Christ.

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Listen to episode 1157 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Benefits of Growing Older. 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. 

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Listen to episode 1156 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.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The Tao that can be understood cannot be the primal, or cosmic, Tao, just as an idea that can be expressed in words cannot be the infinite idea.

And yet this ineffable Tao is the source of all spirit and matter, and being expressed is the mother of all created things.

Therefore not to desire the things of sense is to know the freedom of spirituality; and to desire is to learn the limitation of matter. These two things, spirit and matter, so different in nature, have the same origin. This unity of origin is the mystery of mysteries, and it is the gateway to spirituality.

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Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun, published in 1895. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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Podcast 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 1154 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Unchain the Giant Within. Edited and adapted from New Thought Healing Made Plain by Kate Atkinson Boehme.

Inspirational 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.

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Listen to episode 1153 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Accomplish the Most in Your Life. Edited and adapted from Character Building by Booker T. Washington.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: In thought, in talk, in action, I think you will find that you can separate life into these two divisions: the dark side and the bright side, the discouraging side and the encouraging side. You will find, too, that there are two classes of people. There is one class that is schooling itself, and constantly training itself, to look upon the dark side of life; and there is another class, made up of people who are, consciously or unconsciously, constantly training themselves to look upon the bright side of life.

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Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Nature & The Call of the Upper Road by Kathrine Ross Logan, published in 1924. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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Podcast Excerpt: Voices are everywhere calling in nature. There is ever all about you something that calls to your soul, and invites you, as the poet says, to “Come out of your cage, Come out of your cage, And take your soul on a pilgrimage.” It is the call of the Upper Road. The call of the Upper Road is the call of God. He speaks to us through all that He has created. There is no place where God’s voice may not be heard.

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Listen to episode 1152 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Become a Well Rounded Person. Edited and adapted from Essays on Work and Culture by Hamilton Wright Mabie.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A person of original power can never be confined within the limits of a single field of interest, nor can they ever be content to use the skills of a single occupation. They cannot pour their whole force into one channel; there is always a reserve of power beyond the demands of the work which they have in hand at the moment. 

If you wish to become a person of such power, remember this. 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.  

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Listen to episode 1151 of the Inspirational Living podcast: What is Your Ambition? Edited and adapted from Personal Efficiency by James Samuel Knox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The tragedy of life is to be found in the young individual who drifts aimlessly out into life's elements, only to be destroyed by the very forces which he or she, by divine right, should harness, master, and utilize in advancing them on their course. 

A ship that is going in the wrong direction can be turned because it is guided by a driving force. But you can do nothing with a ship that is drifting. It has no driving force. It is at the mercy of the elements. 

You can convert a man or woman who has a mistaken purpose. You can show them the error of their ways. But you can do little with the lazy and indolent who are drifting through life without purpose, and therefore without hope, without courage, and without enthusiasm. 

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