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Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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Doing the Things that Last Forever | Inspiring Podcasts

April 07, 2022 04:24 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MB

Listen to episode 670 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Doing the Things that Last Forever. Edited and adapted from Things to Live For by James Russell Miller. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Whatever adds in even the smallest way to the world's brightness and cheer is worthwhile. The person who plants a flower in a bare place, where only bleakness was before, is a benefactor. The person who says an encouraging word to a disheartened neighbor, gives a look of love to a lonely one, or spea...

When in Doubt, Try Love's Way | Uplifiting Podcasts

April 05, 2022 02:48 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MB

Listen to episode 669 of the Inspirational Living podcast: When in Doubt, Try Love’s Way. Edited and adapted from Love’s Way by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Love's way is broad and generous. It respects the rights and feelings of others. Love does not try to correct defects, to change undesirable qualities or tendencies by continually calling attention to them and finding fault. It simply neutralizes them. Love drives those defects and bad qualities out of the nature,...

Now is the Time to Come to Yourself

March 31, 2022 08:06 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MB

Listen to episode 668 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Now is the Time to Come to Yourself. Edited and adapted from When a Man Comes to Himself by Woodrow Wilson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A very important change occurs when a person "comes to themselves". It is not only after periods of recklessness or infatuation (when we have played the spendthrift or the fool) that we come to ourselves. We come to ourselves after experiences of which we alone may be aware: when we have left off...

Putting Your Fears Behind You | Self-Help Podcasts

March 29, 2022 09:37 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MB

Listen to episode 667 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Putting Your Fears Behind You. Edited and adapted from How to Lick Our Fears by David V. Bush. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The person who knows how to face their fear has the best chance of being happy, for fear ruins happiness. Thus it’s important to teach our children how to conquer fear. We cannot rid our children of fears by teaching them that they should not be afraid, but only by helping them to understand rather than to fe...

Maintaining Lifelong Health & Youthfulness

March 24, 2022 08:39 - 9 minutes - 8.85 MB

Listen to episode 665b of the Inspirational Living podcast: Maintaining Lifelong Health & Youthfulness.Edited and adapted from Success Psychology by Coleman Hall Bush. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Remember that health is a normal condition in your life, and nature does everything she can to keep you in this normal condition, and to restore you to it when you depart from the norm. All is unity, and a friendly universe is working for your ultimate good. And part of that good is continued yo...

Finding the Way to Happiness | Inspiring Podcasts

March 22, 2022 08:41 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Listen to episode 665 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Finding the Way to Happiness | Inspiring Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The failure of many people to make a success of life is due to their blindness to the fact that living is an art, to be learned like any other art, adding skill to natural endowment until a masterful competency is attained. Most of us make meaningless daubs of our lives because we h...

The Pain that Leads Us to Greater Things | Our Sunday Talks

March 20, 2022 09:11 - 4 minutes - 4.55 MB

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This series has over 200 episodes, and deals with topics related to spirituality. 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 over 600 Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://l...

Your Possibilities are Unlimited | Optimism Podcasts

March 17, 2022 07:51 - 9 minutes - 9.04 MB

Listen to episode 664 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Possibilities are Unlimited | Optimism Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To make the success you deserve, you must know yourself. And that is often a more difficult problem than to know your business, and it is harder to learn. Most important of all, you must know people, know human nature, and know how to handle people. You aren’t doing your best if you don’t learn ...

Overcoming Hard Times | Inspirational Podcasts

March 15, 2022 04:15 - 10 minutes - 9.96 MB

Listen to episode 663 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Hard Times | Inspirational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When someone gets to talking "hard times," they have a tendency to make a prisoner of themselves. They deny themselves everything that is worthwhile. They don’t enjoy what they have. They don’t keep up with life. They cease to grow. They bring about the very condition which they had been seeking to av...

The Courage to Change Your Life | Motivational Podcasts

March 10, 2022 06:30 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MB

Listen to episode 662 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Courage to Change Your Life | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox. Motivational Podcast Transcript: There are two kinds of food: the kind that gives the body strength and beauty, and the kind that simply enables it to eke out a mere existence. And so there are two kinds of reading matter: the kind that makes people grow (the kind that gives a person ideas that help them to discover themse...

What is the Meaning of Life? | Happiness Podcasts

March 08, 2022 05:35 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MB

Listen to episode 661 of the Inspirational Living podcast: What is the Meaning of Life? | Happiness Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Book of Courage by William James Dawson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The greatest of all questions is “What is the meaning of life?” Sooner or later every person has to find some sort of answer to that question. We can live neither wisely nor courageously without it. It may even be said that a wrong answer (or an answer only partially right) is better ...

Think on These Things | Inspirational Life Lessons

March 03, 2022 05:01 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MB

Listen to episode 660 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Think on These Things: Inspirational Life Lessons. Edited and adapted from Morning Thoughts for Every Day in the Year by JR Miller. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Remember that we are all both sowers and fields. Our words, our acts, our influence, as we touch other lives, become the seeds. This is true not only of the good things that our lives scatter, but also the bad. Each life of ours is a little patch of ground on which other s...

Taking on the Challenge of Life | Inspiring Podcasts

March 01, 2022 05:52 - 10 minutes - 10.1 MB

Listen to episode 659 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Taking on the Challenge of Life. Edited and adapted from The Challenge of Life by Charles Forrest Moore. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The most profitable experiences of my life have seldom been of my own choosing. They have come to me unbidden, and often times unannounced. Many of them indeed I would have avoided, if any way of escape had been open. And, moreover, I believe that most men and women who speak the truth, would, if ca...

How Being Cheerful Will Change Your Life

February 24, 2022 06:51 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MB

Listen to episode 658 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How Being Cheerful Will Change Your Life. Edited and adapted from Everyday Efficiency: A Practical Guide to Efficient Living by C.H. Forbes-Lindsay. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is a tremendous amount of satisfaction and pleasure to be got out of the hardest journey through life. The secret of finding it is to make Cheerfulness a constant daily habit. I have traveled a great deal around the world and off the beaten tracks wi...

Choosing Your Life's Road | Inspirational Podcasts

February 22, 2022 07:16 - 10 minutes - 9.89 MB

Listen to episode 657 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Choosing Your Life’s Road. Edited and adapted from The Call of the Upper Road by Kathrine Ross Logan. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:All roads start from where you are. They run in all directions, and you may wonder which is the best road to take. All have a way of their own of inviting you, and each has its own particular enticements. Roads seem to know you and expect you. They keep open for you both day and night. But there is a bi...

Spiritual Strength for Fighting the Good Fight

February 20, 2022 07:08 - 5 minutes - 4.76 MB

Listen to this sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This series has over 200 episodes, and deals with topics related to spirituality. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month. Learn about the other benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donations Advertising Inquiries: h...

The Cure for Unhappiness | Life Changing Podcasts

February 17, 2022 05:01 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Listen to episode 656 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Cure for Unhappiness. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is no cure for the unhappiness of regret, or the sorrow of bereavement, that is so effective as a well-defined purpose. Misery cannot live with resolution. As soon as we “make up our minds,” relief comes. A course of action is better for most cases of unhappiness than a course of medicine. People talk...

The Cure for Unhappiness

February 17, 2022 05:01 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Listen to episode 656 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Cure for Unhappiness. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is no cure for the unhappiness of regret, or the sorrow of bereavement, that is so effective as a well-defined purpose. Misery cannot live with resolution. As soon as we “make up our minds,” relief comes. A course of action is better for most cases of unhappiness than a course of medicine. People talk...

Character & Happiness | Self-Development Podcasts

February 15, 2022 10:01 - 12 minutes - 11 MB

Listen to episode 655 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Character & Happiness | Self-Development Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If you have smiles, let us behold them. If there is kindness in you, let it be seen in your actions and heard in your speech. No person, having a candle, hides it under a bushel. Also, a good tree is known by its fruits. What we are is what we have made ourselves to be. It is for us...

How to Be Happy & Get Things Done

February 10, 2022 08:42 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MB

Listen to episode 654 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be Happy & Get Things Done. Adapted from Essays on the Meaning of Life by Carl Hilty. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: “I HAVE no time,” that is not only the most familiar and convenient excuse for not doing something; it is also, one must confess, the excuse which has in it the greatest appearance of truth. Is it a good excuse? I must admit that within certain limits the excuse is reasonable. But I shall try to show how it is ...

Overcoming Self-Doubt | Motivational Podcasts

February 08, 2022 09:14 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MB

Listen to episode 653 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Self-Doubt | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Miracle of Right Thought by Orison Swett Marden. Motivational Podcast Excerpt: It is a superb faith (greater than any obstacle) that has made the great discoveries, that has been the great inventor, the great engineer, the great achiever in every line of human endeavor. There is little fear for the future of the young person who has a deep-seated faith in the...

Overcoming Self-Doubt | Orison Swett Marden

February 08, 2022 09:14 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MB

Listen to episode 653 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Self-Doubt | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Miracle of Right Thought by Orison Swett Marden. Motivational Podcast Excerpt: It is a superb faith (greater than any obstacle) that has made the great discoveries, that has been the great inventor, the great engineer, the great achiever in every line of human endeavor. There is little fear for the future of the young person who has a deep-seated faith in the...

The Power of Self-Faith & Confidence | Self-Help Podcasts

February 03, 2022 08:38 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MB

Listen to episode 652 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Self-Faith & Confidence. Edited and adapted from The Miracle of Right Thought by Orison Swett Marden. Self-Help Podcast Excerpt: Faith is an optimist because it sees the way out. Doubt is a pessimist because it cannot see the way ahead, and it’s afraid because it can’t cope with the uncertain. Faith opens the door of ability and develops superiority. The habit of expecting great things of ourselves calls out the best th...

Getting Your Life in Tune | Success Podcasts

February 01, 2022 06:42 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MB

Listen to episode 651 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Getting Your Life in Tune | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Miracle of Right Thought by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is an orchestra, and your mind is the instrument. No matter how you use your mind, in whatever vocation you choose, you cannot afford to start your concert without getting it in tune. Whatever else you may do, do not play out of tune or work out of tune. Do not let your discor...

The Royal Path of Life | Our Sunday Talks Sample Episode

January 30, 2022 12:32 - 5 minutes - 5.06 MB

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This series has over 200 episodes, and deals with topics related to spirituality. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month. Learn about the other benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donations Advertising Inquiries: http...

Growing in Spiritual Consciousness | Uplifting Podcasts

January 27, 2022 09:32 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MB

Listen to episode 650 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Growing in Spiritual Consciousness | Uplifting Podcasts. Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? What is the object of my existence here? These questions have been asked by people in all ages, and in every clime. For most of us, these questions still remain unanswered. We have sought, we have studied, we have believed,...

The Joy Nobody Can Take From You | Happiness Podcasts

January 25, 2022 04:50 - 13 minutes - 12 MB

Listen to episode 649 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Joy Nobody Can Take From You | Happiness Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Joy that No Man Taketh from You by Lilian Whiting. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Is it not true that there is an inner radiance, a joy that the world can neither give nor take away, which is an inalienable possession of the spirit, entirely independent of time, chance, or change? Cannot this joy be achieved by the soul, so that neither death nor priv...

The Achievement of Character | Inspiring Podcasts

January 20, 2022 07:16 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MB

Listen to episode 648 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Achievement of Character. Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The inner life of every individual is a battle ground for opposing forces. Nobody is either wholly good or wholly bad. We are all sometimes good, and sometimes bad. We know that we are possessed of good impulses and evil ones, of tendencies upward and tendencies downward. There are times when we carry...

God, Unity & The Power Within You | Inspirational Podcasts

January 18, 2022 07:23 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Listen to episode 647 of the Inspirational Living podcast: God, Unity & The Power Within You. Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The old materialistic idea of the universe, as a machine made up of physical matter, and run simply in accordance with certain physical laws, is no longer possible, and we are thinking today of the universe as an Organism, alive throughout, surcharged with vital energy, throbbing and pulsating wi...

Conquering Fear & Anxiety (Pt 2) | Life Changing Podcasts

January 13, 2022 03:55 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Listen to episode 646 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Conquest of Fear and Anxiety (Pt. 2). Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall. If you want to relieve stress & anxiety, sleep better, or improve your focus, visit today's sponsor Headspace. Go to https://headspace.com/happiness to get 1 month free access to their entire library of meditations. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: I remember once reading a short story where a young man worries himself i...

Conquering Fear & Anxiety (Pt 2)

January 13, 2022 03:55 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Listen to episode 646 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Conquest of Fear and Anxiety (Pt. 2). Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall. If you want to relieve stress & anxiety, sleep better, or improve your focus, visit today's sponsor Headspace. Go to https://headspace.com/happiness to get 1 month free access to their entire library of meditations. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: I remember once reading a short story where a young man worries himself i...

Conquering Fear & Anxiety (Pt. 1) | Life Changing Podcasts

January 11, 2022 06:50 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MB

Listen to episode 645 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Conquest of Fear and Anxiety (Pt. 1). Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We all come into life bringing with us a heritage of fears, many of which we outgrow, while others hold us in life-long bondage. It is always ignorance that is the mother of fear, and thus every advance into knowledge narrows the field in which fear operates. Freedom from fear does not nec...

Conquering Fear & Anxiety (Pt. 1)

January 11, 2022 06:50 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MB

Listen to episode 645 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Conquest of Fear and Anxiety (Pt. 1). Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We all come into life bringing with us a heritage of fears, many of which we outgrow, while others hold us in life-long bondage. It is always ignorance that is the mother of fear, and thus every advance into knowledge narrows the field in which fear operates. Freedom from fear does not nec...

Awakening the Sleeping Power Within You (Pt. 2)

January 06, 2022 08:33 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MB

Listen to episode 644 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Awakening the Sleeping Power Within You (Pt. 2). Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The problem with most of us is that we don’t have confidence in our own selves, in our own ability and powers. We belittle ourselves and constantly underrate our abilities. If we are given a task, we often say to ourselves, "Well, I am afraid I can't do that." Or, when we attempt to...

Awakening the Sleeping Power Within You (Pt.1)

January 04, 2022 06:38 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MB

Listen to episode 643 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Awakening the Sleeping Power Within You (Pt. 1). Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The task set before every individual is this: "Work out your own salvation," physically, mentally, morally, and spiritually. The assurance of ultimate victory is found in the truth, "For it is God who worketh in you." However, most of us would acknowledge that we aren’t living up ...

Your Soul's Birthday | Our Sunday Talks Sample Episode

January 02, 2022 08:39 - 9 minutes - 9.08 MB

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This series has over 180 episodes, and deals with topics related to spirituality. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month. Learn about the other benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Podcast Excerpt: “At sunrise every soul is born anew.” So rise today to a new consciousness of your new lif...

How to Find Your Best Self (Pt. 2) | New Year's Motivation

December 30, 2021 07:45 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MB

Listen to episode 642 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Find Your Best Self (Pt. 2) | New Year’s Motivation. Edited and adapted from How to Get What You Want by Orison Swett Marden. Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Last time we talked about the importance of self-discovery. The great problem is how to get at the force in the great within of ourselves, and then to put it to work to the best advantage. For whether life shall be a success or a failure depends upon the call we make on ou...

How to Find Your Best Self (Pt. 1) | New Year's Motivation

December 28, 2021 07:31 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MB

Listen to episode 641 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Find Your Best Self (Pt. 1) | New Year’s Motivation. Edited and adapted from How to Get What You Want by Orison Swett Marden. Motivational Podcast Excerpt: There is a legend that when God was equipping man and woman for their life-journey of exploration, the attendant angel was about to add the gift of contentment and complete satisfaction. The Creator stayed the angel’s hand and said: "No, if we bestow that upon them, it wil...

The Feast of St. Friend | Christmas Podcasts

December 25, 2021 06:29 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MB

Listen to episode 640 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Feast of St. Friend | Christmas Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Friendship & Happiness 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. The second category is the much larger of the two. Very many people belong to it who think that they belong to the first. They ma...

Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Clause

December 24, 2021 10:34 - 3 minutes - 3.64 MB

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! This special Christmas Eve episode was edited and adapted from the famous Christmas editorial written by Francis Pharcellus Church, published in The New York Sun in 1897. Podcast Transcript: Dear Editor— I am 8 years old. Some of my friends say there is no Santa Claus. My daddy told me to write and ask you. Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? Sincerely Yours, Virginia O'Hanlon Dear Virginia, your little friends are wr...

Celebrating the Value of Life | Uplifting Podcasts

December 23, 2021 08:53 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MB

Listen to episode 639 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Celebrating the Value of Life | Uplifting Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Life Lessons by Joseph Frank Thompson. Podcast Excerpt: There are pessimistic philosophers who insist that life merely cheats us with the promise of a happiness that it seldom bestows; and that as soon as we have learned to know life as it truly is, it ceases to be an object of rational desire. These pessimists point out the many physical ills from which n...

Inspirational Life Lessons | Inspiring Podcasts

December 21, 2021 10:21 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MB

Listen to episode 638 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspirational Life Lessons | Inspiring Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Life Lessons by Joseph Frank Thompson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Most of us have our ideal of what we ought to be, what we want to be, and what (in the main) we are really trying to be. But from time to time, in a thoughtless mood, or under the stress of an unexpected temptation, we do things contrary to our general purpose and usual tenor of our lives. Th...

Finding Enthusiasm in Everything | Motivational Podcasts

December 16, 2021 08:54 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MB

Listen to episode 637 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Finding Enthusiasm in Everything | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from A Book of Friendly Thoughts by Nixon Waterman. Motivational 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 toward the heavens as possible. If we lack enthusiasm, we are almost as certain to fail of achieving an end. A listless, lackadai...

Finding the Happiness & Success that Lasts

December 14, 2021 08:59 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MB

Visit our Book of Zen shop at Design by Humans for your last minute Christmas shopping. Get t-shirts, hoodies, iPhone cases, and more. All designs and sayings were created by us: https://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/bookofzen/ ------------ Listen to episode 636 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Finding the Happiness & Success that Lasts. Edited and adapted from The World Beautiful by Lilian Whiting. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Success in life is too largely attributed to special gift...

What Affirmations Can Do & Can't Do

December 09, 2021 08:19 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MB

Listen to episode 635 of the Inspirational Living podcast: What Affirmations Can Do & Can’t Do. Edited and adapted from The Life Power and How to Use it by Elizabeth Towne. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Merely repeating affirmations like "I Am Successful" will do little to help you. We must think the things we desire, and we must put our shoulder to the wheel. However, the person who is full of a sense of failure and defeat is likely to put their shoulder to the wrong side of the wheel. Th...

Say Goodbye to Fear | Uplifting Podcasts

December 07, 2021 08:05 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MB

Listen to episode 634 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Say Goodbye to Fear | Uplifting Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Joy Philosophy by Elizabeth Towne. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Quit looking at things and being afraid. Look to your ideals and desires, and remember the great source from which they spring: the infinite supply of the Creator. Keep dwelling mentally on God’s infinite supply; keep using that supply according to your ideals. Fears will drop away from you, and Power, ...

Using Your Spiritual Gifts | Sunday Talks Sample Episode

December 05, 2021 08:30 - 5 minutes - 5.01 MB

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This series has over 180 episodes, and deals with topics related to spirituality. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month. Learn about the other benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Podcast Excerpt: There is one spirit, one power, one force in the universe. But its different manifestation...

The Laws of Success | Maximizing Opportunities

December 02, 2021 05:08 - 12 minutes - 11 MB

Listen to episode 633 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Laws of Success | Maximizing Opportunities. Edited and adapted from As Others (Ithers) See Us by John Thomas Huddle. Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Some people seem to be preordained to be lucky and successful, regardless of what they do, and others preordained to be failures, no matter how hard they try. This is all wrong. There is no such thing as luck. The law of every kingdom of the universe is "as we sow, so shall we reap." ...

Self-Knowledge to a Higher Plane of Living

November 30, 2021 05:00 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MB

Listen to episode 632 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Self-Knowledge to a Higher Plane of Living. Edited and adapted from As Ithers (Others) See Us by John Thomas Huddle. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Today I would like to introduce you to a distinguished stranger, and that stranger is yourself. Knowledge as well as charity should begin at home. And it’s supremely important that we should occasionally step within and renew our acquaintance with ourselves. Above all others, we ought to...

You Were Made to be a Conqueror

November 25, 2021 09:06 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MB

Listen to episode 631 of the Inspirational Living podcast: You Were Made to Be a Conqueror. Edited and adapted from Be Good to Yourself by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. A special thank you to our new monthly patron Stephanie Scuorzo. To become our monthly patron and gain access to our entire podcast archive, plus additional rewards, please visit LivingHour.org/patron. Thank you. Today’s reading was edited and adapted from Be...