Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 1142 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Advice to Young Artists. Edited and adapted from an Oscar Wilde lecture to art students.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Today, I do not desire to give you any abstract definition of beauty. For we who are working in art cannot accept any theory of beauty in exchange for beauty itself, and, rather than desiring to isolate it in a formula appealing to the intellect, we, on the contrary, seek to materialize it in a form that gives joy to the soul through the senses. We want to create art, not to define it. The definition should follow the work: the work should not adapt itself to the definition.

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: for you will be constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.

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Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin, published in 1904. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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Inspirational 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 your former lives.

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Listen to episode 1141 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living a Life Driven by Your Ideals. Edited and adapted from How to Fight the Battles of Life by Carl Hilty.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: True idealism is not the deceiving of oneself about reality, or the intentional ignoring of reality, or the hiding from reality, or the creating for oneself a world of unreality. Idealism, on the contrary, is reached by a deeper interpretation of the world, by victory over it, and especially by victory over oneself. For we, too, are an integral part of the world and we cannot conquer the whole unless, first of all, we conquer our own part of it, by strength of principles and force of habit. 

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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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Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from from from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin, published in 1904. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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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.

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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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