Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Mightier Than Circumstance by Frank B. Whitney, published in 1939. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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Podcast Excerpt: WHAT encouragement or assistance can we offer to those who think of themselves as misfits, unable to adapt themselves to so...

Listen to episode 1173 of the Inspirational Living podcast: A Guide to Health & Life | Naturopathy. Adapted from “A Guide to Health” by Mahatma Gandhi.

Podcast Excerpt: For more than twenty years, I have been paying special attention to the question of Health, and I have arrived at certain definite conclusions from that experience, and now set them down for the benefit of my readers.

As the familiar saying goes, “Prevention is better than cure.” It is far easier and safer to prevent illness by the observance of the laws of health than to set about curing an illne...

Listen to episode 1172 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Truth of Everlasting Growth. Edited & adapted from the book The Conquest of Fear by Basil King.

Podcast Excerpt: Fear of death is greatly diminished by recognizing the truth of everlasting growth. This truth is reflected in everything we know of life. Our observation of life is, of course, limited to this planet; but as far as it goes, it shows us a persistent and perpetual system of development. 

We have only to let our imaginations go back to the first stirrings of life in Earth’s pri...

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from the teachings of Gautama Buddha. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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Podcast Excerpt: “Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by bein...

Listen to episode 1171 of the Inspirational Living podcast: When To Compromise & When Not To. Adapted from “Some Needed Notes on American Character” by Robert E. Speer.

Podcast Excerpt: I do not believe anyone was ever permanently helped by compromise---for it gets us into more difficulty than it removes, because compromise throws together things that are not congruous or reconcilable. This is its very nature. It brings into one bed things that cannot sleep together, into one union things that cannot be tied. And it postpones real settlements in the interest of spurious arrangements, sacrificing some “greater good” for the...

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, so...

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from All These Things Added by James Allen, published in 1902. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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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...

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. 

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...

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Staying Out of Mental Ruts, published in 1883. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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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...

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 w...

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 su...

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Staying Out of Mental Ruts, published in 1883. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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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 oc...

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 A...

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 use...

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Mightier than Circumstance by Frank B. Whitney, published in 1939. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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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...

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 tha...

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...

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Mightier than Circumstance by Frank B. Whitney, published in 1939. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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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? Ca...

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...

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...

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Mightier than Circumstance by Frank B. Whitney, published in 1939. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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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 ca...

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...

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...

Listen to episode 1157 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Benefits of Growing Older. Edited and adapted from Essays of an Optimist by John William Kaye.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: One of the great advantages of age is that we are not wont to disturb ourselves by doing things that we do not like, simply for the look of the thing. There is absolute misery in pretentiousness of all kinds, and youth is infinitely more pretentious than age. There are some people who never outlive their vanity; but, as a general rule, it may be maintained that the longer...

Listen to episode 1156 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Tao Te Ching. Edited and adapted from Dwight Goddard’s translation of the Lao Tzu’s classic book Tao Te Ching.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The Tao that can be understood cannot be the primal, or cosmic, Tao, just as an idea that can be expressed in words cannot be the infinite idea.

And yet this ineffable Tao is the source of all spirit and matter, and being expressed is the mother of all created things.

Therefore not to desire the things of sense is to know...

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun, published in 1895. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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Podcast Excerpt: No person gives themselves up to the spirit of helpfulness without strengthening their own life to...

Listen to episode 1154 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Unchain the Giant Within. Edited and adapted from New Thought Healing Made Plain by Kate Atkinson Boehme.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The human being has always had many hitherto undiscovered powers, the horizon of the Impossible continually receding as we advance upon it. Let your limit line of belief, separating the possible from the impossible, be to you like the horizon line, which is really no line at all. It is merely where your sight stops, and depends upon the point where you stand.

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Listen to episode 1153 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Accomplish the Most in Your Life. Edited and adapted from Character Building by Booker T. Washington.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: In thought, in talk, in action, I think you will find that you can separate life into these two divisions: the dark side and the bright side, the discouraging side and the encouraging side. You will find, too, that there are two classes of people. There is one class that is schooling itself, and constantly training itself, to look upon the dark side of life; and there is...

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Nature & The Call of the Upper Road by Kathrine Ross Logan, published in 1924. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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Podcast Excerpt: Voices are everywhere calling in nature. There is ever all about you something that calls to you...

Listen to episode 1152 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Become a Well Rounded Person. Edited and adapted from Essays on Work and Culture by Hamilton Wright Mabie.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A person of original power can never be confined within the limits of a single field of interest, nor can they ever be content to use the skills of a single occupation. They cannot pour their whole force into one channel; there is always a reserve of power beyond the demands of the work which they have in hand at the moment. 

If you w...

Listen to episode 1151 of the Inspirational Living podcast: What is Your Ambition? Edited and adapted from Personal Efficiency by James Samuel Knox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The tragedy of life is to be found in the young individual who drifts aimlessly out into life's elements, only to be destroyed by the very forces which he or she, by divine right, should harness, master, and utilize in advancing them on their course. 

A ship that is going in the wrong direction can be turned because it is guided by a driving force. But you can do nothing w...

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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Podcast Excerpt: The school of difficulty is the best school of moral discipline — for nations and for individuals. Indeed, the history of di...

Listen to episode 1150 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Supreme Responsibility. Edited and adapted from The Majesty of Calmness by William George Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The only responsibility that we cannot evade in this life is the one we think of least — our personal influence. Our conscious influence, when posing to impress those around us, is woefully small. But our UNconscious influence, the silent, subtle radiation of our personality, the effect of our words and acts, the trifles we never consider — is tremendous. 

In every moment of life, we are changing to a degree the l...

Listen to episode 1149 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Spirit of Opulence & Beauty. Adapted from The Hidden Power by Thomas Troward.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Many of our problems in life are due to a misapprehension of the nature of our own power. If we clearly realize that the creative power in ourselves is unlimited, then there is no reason to limit the extent of what we can enjoy by means of this power.

When we are drawing from the infinite, we need never be afraid of taking more than our share. That is not where...

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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Podcast Excerpt: II am going to share with you a powerful meditation that can be used every day or twice a day if possible (once upo...

Listen to episode 1148 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Lost Art of Lying in Bed. Edited and Adapted from an essay by G.K. Chesterton.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience, if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. This, however, is not generally a part of the domestic apparatus.

I have fancied that it might be accomplished with several buckets of paint and a broom. But if one worked in a really sweeping and masterly way, and laid on the...

Listen to episode 1147 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building Courage for Success in Life. Edited and adapted from Assuming Responsibilities by Douglas Fairbanks. 

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: With courage we order our own lives and take orders only from those of superior wisdom. This we can never afford not to do. The courageous person of largest vision takes command by their power to reason logically, and therefore assumes the air of comradeship rather than "overseer" or "boss." Only through lack of moral and physical courage are we to become the slaves of anxiety. 

Courage — the child of H...

Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Life in its Fullness by Charles Thomas Parnell, published in 1922. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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Podcast Excerpt: In the smallest particle of matter is mirrored the infinitely great. The atom (with its ever busy group of el...