Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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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