Listen to episode 1170 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The True Source of Great Joy. Edited and adapted from Heretics by G.K. Chesterton.

Podcast Excerpt: When discussing the subject of strong drink, some people think it’s wise to suggest that wine or such stuff should only be drunk as a medicinal. With this I would venture to disagree with a peculiar ferocity. The one genuinely dangerous and immoral way of drinking wine is to drink it as a medicine. When a person drinks wine in order to obtain pleasure, they are trying to obtain something exceptional, something they do not expect every hour of the day, something which, unless they are a little insane, they will not try to get every hour of the day. 

But when a person drinks wine in order to obtain health, they are trying to get something natural; something, that is, that they ought not to be without; something that they may find it difficult to reconcile being without. Thus they may begin down the slippery slope of drinking alcohol to help ameliorate whatever happens to ail them.

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Podcast Excerpt: Goodness, simplicity, greatness — these three are one, and this trinity of perfection cannot be separated. All greatness springs from goodness, and all goodness is profoundly simple. Without goodness there is no greatness.

Some people pass through the world as destructive forces, like the tornado or the avalanche, but they are not great. They are to greatness as the avalanche is to the mountain. The work of greatness is enduring and preservative, and not violent and destructive. The greatest souls are the most gentle.

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Listen to episode 1169 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Achieving Better Health & Greater Success. Edited and adapted from Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin.

Podcast Excerpt: Our life follows the fortunes of our faith, and one brave push of trust will lead out into large and spacious ways. The cowardly proverbs are answered by the bolder sayings which tell us that if we never venture we can never win. They wave the flag of adventure in the eyes of youth, and at least suggest a better ideal than the world's stale wisdom of stodgy respectability and cautious prudence. 

Adventure is the true scientific attitude towards life, for science only advances by experiment. It is true that there are risks, but just because a chemist may sometimes blow himself up by a novel chemical composition, this does not stop experiments in chemistry. An experiment in social life may also go wrong by a wrong mixture of ingredients, but if we could not learn from our mistakes we could not learn at all. 

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Listen to episode 1168 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Achieving Better Health & Greater Success. Edited and adapted from Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin.

Podcast Excerpt: THERE are two great obstacles along the path to health and success. They are fear and hate. Not only do they bar your path to success, not only do they break down your health, but they also destroy all happiness and peace of mind.

They are the most negative of all negative qualities, and give rise to the most negative of thoughts and the most destructive emotions. They break down the fabric of the character, destroy the nervous system, and create disharmony and disturbance which effectually keep success, health, peace of mind, and happiness at a distance.

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Podcast Excerpt: No individual can convey their thoughts, ideas, and impressions entire to another. Language, either written or spoken, is but a symbol, and at best an imperfect vehicle to convey thought. The meaning of truth is deflected in its transmission. “Thought is deeper than speech; feeling deeper than thought; souls to souls can never teach what to themselves is taught.” Our mental and spiritual visions differ as the stars differ in magnitude. The same light does not shine with equal brilliancy on the pathway of each individual. What is light to one, may be a shadow to another.

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Listen to episode 1166 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret to Success in Anything. Edited and adapted from Sowing & Reaping by Booker T. Washington.

Podcast Excerpt: May the sparks of love brighten into a flame. May we kiss whom we please and please whom we kiss. Here is to Love in every breast, liberty in every heart, and learning in every head.

To The three F's: Friendship, Feeling, and Fidelity; Friendship without interest, Feeling for the depressed, Fidelity to truth. 

May Love and Reason be friends, and Beauty and Prudence marry. May those who escape the quick sands of jealousy never find themselves on the shoals of indifference. 

In the voyage of life, may Contentment be our fellow passenger. May we be happy, and our enemies know it. May our counsels be wise, and our commerce increase, and may we ever experience the blessings of peace. 

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Listen to episode 1166 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret to Success in Anything. Edited and adapted from Sowing & Reaping by Booker T. Washington.

Podcast Excerpt: What I am about to tell you now is true of all the pursuits of life. We get out of every venture just what we put into it; no more, no less. To attain success we must put forth hard and honest labor. At the back of all success there is hard, persistent labor. There is no royal road — those who think there is always fail. No person ever reaped any success in life who did not sow wisely. 

As each person takes up the serious business of life, they must do something — they must labor and wait. In order to reap something, something must be done. Value for value is the real standard of life's exchange of benefits.

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Podcast Excerpt: Those of us who would like to make rapid progress in the direction of truth must keep out of the ruts. We occasionally need to revise our opinions — politically, socially, religiously, and otherwise, just as we need, from time to time, to reset our watches, or adjust the variation of our magnetic needles.

We form our conclusions upon any given subject from the evidence before us at the time. However, we may not always be in possession of all the facts in the case. We may find that we have placed too much stress upon this point and not given that one sufficient importance. Hence, we are liable to err — even the wisest of us. And we notice that those who generally err the most, think they err the least.

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Listen to episode 1165 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Our Disabilities. Edited and adapted from The Book of Courage by William James Dawson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Nothing in the long story of human endeavor is more wonderful than the complete conquest of physical disability made by great spirits. It seems probable that Alexander, Caesar, and Napoleon — each a world-conqueror — were what we should now call epileptics. William of Orange was racked by asthma, and General Wolfe, the heroic conqueror of Quebec, was of a frail and ailing constitution. Beethoven was stone deaf. And Parkman, the most picturesque of American historians, could only read for an hour a day.

In all such cases, the restless tenant of the body was visibly at work — visibly and mightily. Deafness, blindness, sickness — all these daunting deprivations have been overcome, treated as though they were not, under the command of a firm and dauntless spirit — a divine power of will. 

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Listen to episode 1164 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Wake Up & Live | Mindfulness Exercises. Edited and adapted from Wake Up & Live by Dorothea Brande.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: THERE are dozens of small ways by which we can make our minds both keener and more flexible – two qualities that are necessary for those who intend to live successfully. We all succumb too easily to the temptation to find a routine which allows us to get our day’s tasks done with a minimum of effort and conscious attention — a fact which might have no unfortunate effects at all if we used the time we save by our routines to a good purpose.

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Podcast Excerpt: All my life I have known in a vague way that getting money is the result of earning it, but I have never had a perfect vision of that fact till recently. If I give to anybody service of a kind that they want, I shall get back the benefit myself. If I give more service, I shall get more benefit. If I give a great deal more, I shall get a great deal more. I shall get back more than I give. 

If I give more to my employer than they expect of me, they will give me a raise, and on no other condition. What is more, their giving me a raise does not depend on my employer’s fair-mindedness. They have to give it to me or lose me, because if they do not appreciate me, somebody else will.

But this is only part of it. If I give help to the co-worker whose desk is next to mine, it will come back to me multiplied, even if they are apparently a rival. What I give to them, I give to the firm, and the firm will value it, because it is teamwork in the organization that the firm primarily wants, not brilliant individual performance.

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Listen to episode 1163 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Success Principles: Integrity, Laughter & Love. Edited and adapted from How Success is Won by Bernarr Macfadden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life’s greatest hurdles are encountered in our struggle for success. Though there are a few general principles that can be used as a guide, no person can tell another exactly how to succeed. Each one must work out their own salvation in this regard. 

The greatest successes are achieved by bringing out individual capacity or talents. Human beings who simply work by rule, who can only transmit that which has been impressed upon them by others, can never attain more than ordinary success. It is by developing one’s personality, by bringing out your individual characteristics, that superior abilities are attainable. 

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Listen to episode 1161 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Autosuggestion & Self-Mastery. Adapted from the book Self-Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion by Emile Coué.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: In order to understand properly the phenomena of suggestion, or to speak more correctly of autosuggestion, it is necessary to know that two absolutely distinct selves exist within us. Both are intelligent, but while one is conscious, the other is unconscious. For this reason the existence of the latter generally escapes notice. It is however easy to prove its existence if one merely takes the trouble to examine certain phenomena and to reflect a few moments upon them. Let us take for instance the following examples:

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Podcast Excerpt: HAVE you gained the right perspective on life? Are you able to take the right mental view of a situation? Can you look at the little circumstances of the day and see all things in their right proportion? 

The word "perspective" is defined as (quote) "the interrelation of parts in a subject being viewed; the aspect of an object from a particular standpoint." We gain the right perspective when we reach that point of view in which we see all things in their true proportion. With this point of view, we do not exaggerate the importance of insignificant matters; we do not see persons and things out of proportion in their relation to ourselves. 

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Listen to episode 1161 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Autosuggestion & Self-Mastery. Adapted from the book Self-Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion by Emile Coué.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: In order to understand properly the phenomena of suggestion, or to speak more correctly of autosuggestion, it is necessary to know that two absolutely distinct selves exist within us. Both are intelligent, but while one is conscious, the other is unconscious. For this reason the existence of the latter generally escapes notice. It is however easy to prove its existence if one merely takes the trouble to examine certain phenomena and to reflect a few moments upon them. Let us take for instance the following examples:

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Listen to episode 1160 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Eternal Nature of the Soul. Edited and adapted from “Does the Soul Exist After Death?” by Swami Abhedananda.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: One of the most poetical of the Upanishads begins with this inquiry: "There is this doubt: when a person dies, some say that they are gone forever, that they do not exist, while others hold that they still live; which of these is true?" 

Various answers have been given to this question. Metaphysics, philosophy, science, and religion have tried to solve this problem. At the same time, attempts also have been made to suppress this question and prevent inquiry as to whether or not we exist after death. Hundreds of thinkers have brought forward all sorts of arguments to do away with questions bearing upon this momentous subject. 

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Podcast Excerpt: What is the method of praying most effectively? How can I pray and always be sure of being answered? How can I be confident, when I pray, that it is God’s will for my prayer to be answered? 

How many times these questions come to us and how simple are the answers! The most effective prayer is the clear realization that we already have that which we seek — that in Spirit we already have that which we desire, and thus are ready to behold it coming into visibility and manifestation. 

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Listen to episode 1159 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Harmony is the Key Success. Edited and adapted from Success Through Thought Habit by Benjamin Johnson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Success means different things to everyone. But they all must share something in common. Philosophers, poets, and religious seekers have for ages struggled to discover that mysterious something that will make the problem of living a simpler and more enjoyable process. And, ultimately, they have all arrived at the same conclusion: that the one thing necessary to the living of a perfect life is the possession of the quality familiar to many but really known to few — it’s called Harmony. 

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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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