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Listen to episode 970 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Create Your Ideal Life. Edited and Adapted from the book Joy Philosophy by Elizabeth Towne. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: You and I are artists. But we are prone to look too long and often at our canvas (the results of our efforts) and too little at our Ideals, which are the source …
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Listen to episode 969 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Inspirational Wisdom of the Dalai Lama. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: “Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, “I am of no value”, is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought — so what are you lacking? If you have willpower, then …
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from Creed of the Dauntless by Frank B. Whitney, published in 1931. Podcast Excerpt: Is the kingdom of heaven right here, right now? Is it right where you are? Yes and no. It is not the world o…
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Listen to episode 968 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Joy of Doing | Happiness Podcasts. Edited and adapted from A Book of Friendly Thoughts by Nixon Waterman. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Half-way, half-hearted doings never amount to much. Battles are not won with flags at half-mast — they are run up to the very top and waved as far tow…
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Listen to episode 967 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Christmas & the Secret of Happiness. Adapted from a book by the same title by Arnold Bennett. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Children divide their adult acquaintances into two categories — those who sympathize with them in this bizarre and trying adventure called life; and those who don't. …
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan, published in 1909. Podcast Excerpt: For worldly success, fame, social prestige, laurel-crowned triumph, the inn is illuminated; welcomi…
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Listen to episode 966 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Originality & Living Up to Your Potential. Edited and adapted from Stepping-Stones to Success by Horace D. Hitchcock. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: In each of us there should be developed a liking for some one thing that brings us the thrill of enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is, indeed, a great to…
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Listen to episode 965 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Sincerity and Authenticity. Adapted from The Eight Pillars of Prosperity by James Allen. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The works, words, and deeds of great men and women are the heirlooms of the human race, and the world is not careless of their value. A thousand authors write…
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from the book “Message of New Thought” by Abel Allen, published in 1914. Podcast Excerpt: From the great soul within, we sometime feels the surging of an inexpressible power — a restless feelin…
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Listen to episode 964 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Simple Secret to Increased Vitality. Edited & adapted from Vitality Supreme by Bernarr Macfadden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The great need of today is the same as it ever was. We need stronger, more capable men; healthier, superior women. Force is supreme — the driver of all humank…
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Listen to episode 963 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Key to Love | Spirituality & Mystical Wisdom. Adapted from The Key to Health, Wealth & Love by Julia Seton. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: THE reason we do not have love is because we do not know how to get it. Everyone in this world does exactly the best as he or she knows how. When we…
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from On Life’s Threshold by Charles Wagner, published in 1905. Podcast Excerpt: We enter into life without having an awareness that we are alive — as do the trees, the flowers, and the bees, wh…
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Listen to episode 962 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Today is a New Day | Uplifting Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Growth in Silence, the Undertone of Life by Susanna Cocroft. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What a breeze of pure exhilaration there is when we open the eastern windows of the morning to the new day! The new day! Its surface i…
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Listen to episode 961of the Inspirational Living podcast: What You Need to Succeed. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox. Hardcover versions of our books of life lessons make for wonderful Christmas gifts that will be treasured for a lifetime. Order yours today at: Everest: 50 Motivational Life Lessons Evergreen: 50 Inspirational L…
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga by William Walker Atkinson, published in 1906. Podcast Excerpt: Throughout the operations of the Law of Karma, the manifestation of Perfect Justice is appa…
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Listen to episode 960 of the Inspirational Living podcast: A Thanksgiving of Gratitude, Hope, Charity and Joy. Edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life by T.L. Haines & L.W. Yaggy. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Nothing tenders the heart, and opens the gushing fountain of love, more than the exercise of gratitude. Like the showers of spring t…
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Listen to episode 959 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Self-Control: The Key to Success & Achievement. Edited and adapted from The Kingship of Self-Control by William George Jordan. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every person has two creators — their God and themselves. Our first creator furnishes us with the raw material of our lives and the l…
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from The Open Door by Hugh Black, published in 1914. Podcast Excerpt: Death is the greatest adventure in life, and to have faced it and settled how it must be met is the largest part of our tota…
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Listen to episode 958 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Maintain Everlasting Joy. Edited and adapted from The Springs of Joy by Robert F. Horton. Hardcover versions of our books of life lessons make for wonderful Christmas gifts that will be treasured for a lifetime. Order yours today at: Everest: 50 Motivational Life Lessons Evergreen: 5…
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Listen to episode 957 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Building the Endurance to Succeed. Edited and adapted from Making the Grade by C.V. Mosby. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Success in life depends largely on endurance. And endurance is dependent upon a sound body and a determined will. There are many flabby wills housed in a physically soun…
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from Being and Becoming by Fenwicke L. Holmes. Podcast Excerpt: Where in an egg shall we find the secret of the chicken? Not one drop of blood, nor so much as the daintiest shadow of down would …
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Listen to episode 956 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Great Lesson of Seeing Possibilities. Edited and adapted from Leadership by George H. Knox. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: One great lesson we should all learn is to see possibilities — in ourselves and in others. It is a great satisfaction to see other people climb through our assistan…
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Listen to episode 955 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How Does One Conquer Life? Edited and adapted from Gaining the Round Above by Gustavus S. Kimball. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A more modern definition says that the ideal life, the life of success, is the well-rounded life with broad views, broad culture, broad sympathies, and broad pur…
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from Volume IV of Harper's magazine, published in 1852. Podcast Excerpt: There is an aim which all Nature seeks. The flower that opens from the bud (the light that breaks the cloud into a thousa…
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Listen to episode 954 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Fate is in Your Hands. Adapted from the book Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There come times in person's life when they move heaven and earth (figuratively speaking); pray until they can pray no more; sacrifice, perhaps, their money, the…
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Listen to episode 953 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Succeed & Get What You Want. Edited and adapted from “How to Develop Your Will Power” by Clare Tree Major. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Humanity is the supreme creation. All life, all power, is available to you. The first essential, then, is to realize that you are an invisible, im…
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast.This episode is edited and adapted from a lecture delivered by Neville Goddard in the 1950s. Podcast Excerpt: Your own wonderful human imagination is the actual creative power of God within you. It is your savior. If you were thir…
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Listen to episode 952 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspirational Life Lessons in Gratitude. Edited and adapted from “The Power of Truth” by William George Jordan. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Gratitude is being thankful, and then turning that feeling into action. It is the instinctive radiation of justice — giving new life and energy to t…
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Listen to episode 951 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Great Power of Forgiveness. Edited & adapted from “The Ideal Made Real” by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The person who finds it easier to forgive than to condemn is on the verge of superior wisdom and higher spiritual power. They have entered the path to real grea…
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Listen to episode 950 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Great Power of Honest Labor. Edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life by T.L. Haines and L.W. Yaggy. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Don't live in hope with your arms folded. Fortune smiles on those who roll up their sleeves, and put their shoulders to the wheel. You cannot dream y…
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Listen to episode 949 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Being Happy & Successful in Any Career. Edited and adapted from How to Get On by Bernard Feeney. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is but one prize worth all the energy of a human soul; and that is a prize which does not depend on the world's favor, and which death cannot snatch from us.…
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Listen to episode 948 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Nothing Happens By Chance. Edited and adapted from The Kybalion. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The Principle of Cause and Effect embodies the truth that Law pervades the Universe; that nothing happens by Chance; that Chance is merely a term indicating a cause that exists but not readily re…
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Listen to episode 946 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Courtesy. Edited and adapted from How to be Happy Though Civil by E.J. Hardy. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: How seldom does one see the well-rounded man, the well-rounded woman, what the ancient Greeks called the harmonious one — that is, someone developed equally in all parts…
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Listen to episode 945 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Key to Health, Wealth & Love. Edited and adapted from The Key to Health, Wealth & Love by Julia Seton. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: At some time or another in our lives, we all come to a place where two or more paths open up for us, and we stand at the cross-roads undecided which way …
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Listen to episode 944 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Feel Younger Again. Edited and adapted from Turn Back the Years by Harry J. Gardener. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If most human beings only knew it, the actual price of youth is the lowest of any "bargain" in all the markets of the world. The purchase price is merely self- analysi…
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Listen to episode 943 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Karma & The Ultimate Goal of Life. Edited and adapted from a lecture by Swami Vivekenanda. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Ultimately, we find that misery and happiness are equal factors in the formation of character. Good and evil have an equal share, and in some instances misery is a great…
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Listen to episode 942 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Being the Best at Anything. Edited and adapted from Up and Doing by C. P. McDonald. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Try enthusiasm on your job. It is the greatest of all pre-requisites of Success. It leads to better things — to the coveted, attainable prizes we strive for. It is enthusiasm t…
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from a baccalaureate address delivered by John Williamson Nevin in 1853. Listen to the full series by becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/inspirationalpodcasts/ Podcast Excerpt: Why am I …
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Listen to episode 941 of the Inspirational Living podcast: A Key to the Life Worthwhile. Edited and adapted from “The Message of New Thought” by Abel Allen. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is not built to any fixed plan. One ideal will not suffice for all lives. Individuals cannot follow the same guide, because all persons differ and the orbits…
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Listen to episode 940 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Sleep Deep & Well. Edited and adapted from Peace, Power, and Plenty by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is a great art to be able to shut the gates of the mind on retiring to bed, to control oneself, to put oneself in tune with the Infinite, in sympathy with tho…
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from The Pathway of Roses by Christian D. Larson. Listen to the full series by becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/inspirationalpodcasts/ Podcast Excerpt: We are searching for pathways to…
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Listen to episode 939 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Life is a Mission - What is Yours?. Edited & adapted from The Aim of Life by Philip Stafford Moxom. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is a mission. Every other definition of life is false, and leads all who accept it astray. Religion, science, philosophy, though still at variance upon man…
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Listen to episode 938 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Truth (The Simple Truth About Life). Edited and adapted from The Power of Truth by William George Jordan. Podcast Excerpt: Truth is the rock foundation of every great character. It is loyalty to what is right, as we see it. It is the courageous living of our lives in harmony wi…
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Listen to episode 937 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Follow these Rules and Wealth is Guaranteed. Edited and Adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: No one has success until they have an abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold activity of energy, enthusiasm, and gladness. It is to spring …
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Listen to episode 936 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Develop a Powerful Personality. Edited and adapted from How to Develop Your Personality by Clare Tree Major. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Review the life of any great individual. You will find that their success was the result, not only of careful study and of perseverance, but, mo…
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Listen to episode 935 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Mind Controls Your Destiny. Edited and adapted from How the Mind Works by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Your destiny is being created hourly by you. And that something that determines what you are to create at any particular period in time is the sum total of your…
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Listen to episode 934 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Live a Better & Larger Life. Edited and adapted from Right Living by Susan H. Wixon. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: "Living will teach you how to live better than any preacher or book," says Goethe. But what is it to live? Is it simply to eat, drink, and be merry? Is it to learn a li…
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Listen to episode 933 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Character that Powers Success in Life. Edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It has been said that "Nothing Succeeds Like Success." But what is Success? If we consult the dictionaries, they will give us the etymology of …
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Listen to episode 932 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Choose Your Vocation in Life. Edited and adapted from Getting a Start: First Aids to Success by Nathaniel C. Fowler. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:To feel the flush of success is to do what you most want to do, and what you can best do. Unless you can do well what you want to do, the…
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Listen to episode 931 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How Proportion Helps Create Happiness. Edited and adapted from The Pursuit of Happiness by George Hodges. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Proportion ministers to happiness because it preserves us from pessimism. Pessimism is an exaggeration of the evil of the world. It is the easiest of fall…
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