Inspirational Living: Life Lessons For Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 1099 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Letting Divine Love Into Your Life. Adapted from The Way of Peace by James Allen.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is said that Michelangelo saw in every rough block of stone a thing of beauty awaiting the master-hand to bring it into reality. Likewise, within each one of us there reposes the Divine Image awaiting the master-hand of Faith and the chisel of Patience to bring it into manifestation. And that Divine Image is revealed and realized as stainless, selfless Love.Hidden deep in every human heart is the spirit of Divine Love. It is the Truth within us; it is that which is real and immortal. All else changes and passes away; this alone is permanent and imperishable; and to realize this Love by ceaseless diligence in the practice of the highest good, to live in it and to become fully conscious in it, is to enter into immortality here and now, is to become one with Truth, one with spirit, one with the central Heart of all things, and to know our o

Listen to episode 1098 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Understanding the Art of Persuasion. Edited and adapted from the Psychology of Persuasion by William Macpherson.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The starting-point of all persuasion, of ourselves or others, is a belief or wish. Holding a certain belief (or desiring that a certain course of action shall be pursued) we set out to justify our belief and the conduct that it implies. Thus, before a professional speaker begins a speech, he or she (whose aim is persuasion) has already present in their mind a belief or wish, fully formed, from which all their arguments and appeals flow. ---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with th

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1911. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: "What is the best education?" someone asked Plato many centuries ago. "It is," he replied, "that which gives to the body and soul all the beauty and perfection of which they are capable."The life that would be complete; that would be sweet and sane, as well as strong, must be decorated, softened, and enriched by a love of the beautiful.There is a lack in the make-up of a person who has no appreciation of beauty, who does not thrill before a great picture, or an entrancing sunset, or a glimpse of beauty in natur

Listen to episode 1097 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Understanding Success & How to Achieve It. Edited and adapted from “The Power of Concentration” by William Walker Atkinson.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There are elements of genius in every man and woman that if awakened and trained will enable them to do something worthwhile. There are stores of energy and ambition in every brain that if unlocked and given expression in action will supply the force necessary to bring things to pass. ---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATIONOur Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/inspirationalSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com

Listen to episode 1096 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be Successful at Selling Anything. Adapted from The Mental Highway by Thomas Parker Boyd.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We each have in ourselves the potential elements of genius. Our business is to find out how to set them free and get them into effective operation. Remember that a one-talent person working at their highest efficiency is worth a hundred undeveloped ten-talent people. While we all may differ in the degree and variety of natural endowments, everyone has the potential elements of success. ---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATIONOur Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Happiness Road by Alice Hegan Rice, published in 1942. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Even as the stone of the fruit must break so that the seed may stand in the sun, so we must know pain. But pain is not, like joy, an end in itself. It is often the result of mistakes (conscious or unconscious), and carries with it self-condemnation, regret, and remorse.When a pain is necessary for some desired end, we can bear it with a degree of resignation. But the futile pain that deprives us of usefulness, breaks our spirit, and renders us a burden to others, is hard to bear. Few of us can rise to the heights of St. Paul and glory in our i

Listen to episode 1095 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living a Life of Self-Confidence. Edited and adapted from “You Can. But Will You?” by Orison Swett Marden.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Do you know that you will never accomplish anything great unless you not only hold the conviction that victory is your birthright, but also show evidence of it in your face, in your manner and bearing? No person can expect to be a conqueror while they carry the confession of defeat in their face. You must not only feel like a winner, but you must also appear and act like one. You must show victory in your very expression. It is not difficult to pick out a successful person among a multitude. If you are a leader, a person who relies upon yourself, every step, every movement, will indicate it. You are covered all over with telltale signs. There is assurance, confidence in your face and bearing. You walk like a master and talk like one. Everyone knows that you believe in yourself and in your mission. ------------------

Listen to episode 1094 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspiration for Lovers | Valentine’s Day Podcasts. Adapted from the book “Hints for Lovers” by Arnold Haultain.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: THE beginning, the middle, and the end of love — is a sigh. All things point to the infinite; and love more than all things else. Complex as is the character of love, there are two things which love always does: always it ..."Refines the thoughts and enlarges the heart." Nothing stands still in this world, not even love: it must grow or it withers. And, perhaps, the strongest love is that which surmounts the greatest number of obstacles. Love to some is an intoxicant; to others an ailment. To all it is a necessity. As is one's character, so is one's love. Perhaps the deepest love is the quietest.---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts a

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Levels of Living (Essays on Everyday Ideals) by Henry Frederick Cope, published in 1908. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you.Podcast Excerpt: Every force in the world works with the woman and man who seeks the good. This is a good world, and only those who fight against the good, face the unconquerable. Yes, we may meet rebuffs, the tides of battle may sweep back and forth, but in the end, we are bound to win. This is as true in the individual life of every fighter, as nature and history show it to be in universal life. ---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://l

Listen to episode 1093 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Timeless Wisdom of William Blake. Adapted from “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” by William Blake.Podcast Transcript: As I was walking among the fires of hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius (which to Angels look like torment and insanity), I collected some of their Proverbs: thinking that as the sayings used in a nation, mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell, show the nature of Infernal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments.How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way,Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.Our Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/inspirationalSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt

Listen to episode 1092 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Key to Being a Great Leader. Edited & adapted from “Getting On” by Orison Swett Marden.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The leaders of the world (be it in business, science, or the arts) have ever been precedent breakers. Timid people, no matter how able, never make leaders. Fearlessness and originality are characteristic of all leaders of progress. They have no reverence for the old simply because it is old; with them it is always a question of pushing forward, of improving on the past, instead of slavishly copying it. ---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATIONOur Sponsors:* Check out S

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Creative Mind by Ernest Holmes published in 1919. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you.Podcast Excerpt: WHAT is true spirituality? Many people have asked this, and just as many have answered it. I do not pretend to know more about this all important topic than others, but it seems to me that there should be a different answer given than the one we ordinarily hear.Many religious people think that spirituality must manifest in some unnatural way, such as giving up all personal pleasure and becoming resigned to whatever happens; that we must give up most of what life holds here; that in some far-off future perhaps we may attain true bliss.---------------------       

Listen to episode 1091 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Character Building & The Law of Reciprocity. Edited and adapted from The Rhythm of Life by Charles Brodie Patterson.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We have the power within ourselves to feel, to think, and to act — and it is the use or misuse of this power that makes for character or the lack of it. The ideal person is the individual who is thoroughly rounded out, who has used to the full the attributes of soul, the faculties of mind, and the physical senses — and who through their use has developed soul, and mind, and body to their fullest extent. When we say that a person has a strong character, we mean that they are living life in a strong, true way — that they have strength of mind and purpose, and that they are able to carry both into their daily work. Such an individual commands the respect of their neighbors and co-workers. But the weak, characterless person (the one who is negative in all their thinking and doing) is neither respected nor

Listen to episode 1090 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Stay Young & Full of Life? Edited and adapted from “The Road to Seventy Years Young or The Unhabitual Way” by Emily Bishop.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The man or woman, who daily lives up to the habit of the unhabitual, will never become dull, uninteresting, prejudiced — nor as old, in any sense, as they otherwise might be. There is an everlasting struggle in every mind between the tendency to keep unchanged, and the tendency to renovate, its ideas.To wage warfare against this tendency to keep not only our ideas unchanged, but our physical actions, our associations, and to ally ourselves enthusiastically with the new and unexpected, is to take the safest road across the intervening years from Now to Then — to the future kingdom of "Seventy Years Young."---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from A Book of Friendly Thoughts by Nixon Waterman, published in 1919. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you.Podcast Manuscript: The richest person is the one who deserves the most friends. Wealth is a matter of the heart and not of the pocket. It is not that which others do for us that makes us possessors of great wealth, but that which we do for others. All true riches are self made. Only when the hand and the heart are put into one’s work does it yield a lasting worth. In the final true analysis, the picture forever belongs to the painter who paints it; the poem to the poet who writes it; the loaf of bread to the worker who earns it. Wealth may acquire these things b

Listen to episode 1089 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Importance of Your Inward Life. Adapted from the book “Courage” by Charles Wagner.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We cannot be reminded too often of the necessity of the inward life. Two of the conditions of its development are meditation and solitude. When the noise of the world is stilled, and the dust of the human conflict is dissipated, the inward voice awakes, and the eyes of the soul discern all things more clearly. ---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATIONOur Sponsors:* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/livingSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/

Listen to episode 1088 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Why Choosing the Right Friends Matters. Adapted from the book Friendship by Hugh Black.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is nothing so important as the choice of friendship; for it both reflects character and affects it. We are known by the company we keep. It is an in- fallible test; for our thoughts, and desires, and ambitions, and loves are revealed there. It also affects our character; for it is the atmosphere we breathe. It enters our blood and makes the circuit of our veins. Or as the old saying goes, “All love assimilates to what it loves." ---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRAT

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Live and Grow Young by Arthur Edward Stillwell, published in 1921.. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you.Podcast Manuscript: Just like the stars, you have your own atmosphere. It is partly inherited, but mostly made by you yourself. It is this atmosphere that is the life force of the human body. And when it is strong, steady, and unchanging, the body works in perfect harmony.There are healthy atmospheres and unhealthy ones, just as there is a healthy atmosphere on the mountain tops and unhealthy ones in the swamps. You are master of your thoughts and deeds. You have the power to create a healthy body with a living, vitalizing atmosphere, and thereby lengthen and s

Listen to episode 1087 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret to Great Accomplishments. Adapted from Beginning Right (How to Succeed) by Nathanial C. Fowler.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: LIFE has three seasons: yesterday, today, and tomorrow. What you did yesterday overlaps into today, and what you do today is carried over into tomorrow. Which is the most important of the three? No single one of them, because any one by itself is incomplete.If you did your duty yesterday, the work of today becomes easier to accomplish. If you attend to the work of today, tomorrow will be open to you and its duties will not be so difficult to perform. While each day has its place — yesterday, today, and tomorrow — inattention to any one of those days will materially affect the life and action of the remaining two.---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and w

Listen to episode 1086 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Way to True Happiness. Edited and Adapted from Marriage: a Lifelong Honeymoon by Bernarr Macfadden.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life, from birth to death, represents an almost continuous struggle for happiness. When the new-born babe first becomes conscious of their surroundings, appropriate food and warmth are about all that are essential to happiness. But as the little one increases in size, their necessities multiply vastly. Happiness begins to mean something more than the satisfying of the appetite and the maintenance of warmth. ---------------------                                 Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/booksGet our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty. Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATIONOur Sponsors: