Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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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Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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Podcast Excerpt: The school of difficulty is the best school of moral discipline — 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 1150 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Supreme Responsibility. Edited and adapted from The Majesty of Calmness by William George Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The only responsibility that we cannot evade in this life is the one we think of least — our personal influence. Our conscious influence, when posing to impress those around us, is woefully small. But our UNconscious influence, the silent, subtle radiation of our personality, the effect of our words and acts, the trifles we never consider — is tremendous. 

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. 

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Listen to episode 1149 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Spirit of Opulence & Beauty. Adapted from The Hidden Power by Thomas Troward.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Many of our problems in life are due to a misapprehension of the nature of our own power. If we clearly realize that the creative power in ourselves is unlimited, then there is no reason to limit the extent of what we can enjoy by means of this power.

When we are drawing from the infinite, we need never be afraid of taking more than our share. That is not where the danger lies. The danger is in NOT sufficiently realizing our own richness, and in viewing the externalized products of our creative power as being the true riches, instead of the creative power of spirit itself.

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Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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Podcast Excerpt: II 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 stifled and suppressed. Now I "will" that they shall be called into activity, and find perfect and full expression in my body in the form of perfect health, in my life in the form of success and achievement, and in my heart in the form of a mighty upwelling of joy and happiness....

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