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Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from "If I Were Twenty-One" by Dr. Frank Crane, published in 1917. Podcast Transcript: I have climbed the Hill of Life (and am past the summit, I suppose). And perhaps it may help those...

Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from Essays on the Meaning of Life by Carl Hilty, published in 1903. "I HAVE no time," that is not only the most familiar and convenient excuse for not doing something; it...

Spirituality Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book The Way of Peace by James Allen, published in 1907. Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is the mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven,...

Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book The Optimistic Life by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1907"¦ When writer Edith Wyatt was a student at Bryn Mawr College, she was known as "the girl in the...

Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from "Some Needed Notes on American Character" by Robert E. Speer, published in 1917. Ralph Waldo Emerson said that almost all people descend to meet. All association must be a compromise. And...

Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book "Seeing and Being" by H. Clay Trumbull, published in 1889. There is a universal truth that many of us fail to realize as we go through life. That is,...

Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book "The Power of Truth" by William George Jordan, published in 1902. Truth is the rock foundation of every great character. It is loyalty to what is right, as we...

Inspirational Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from a lecture by Dr. George Lincoln Walton, delivered to the Harvard Medical School in 1913. To stay calm in our stressful age means to achieve poise. And what I mean...

Motivational Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book The Architects of Fate by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1896"¦ It is a great purpose which gives meaning to life, it unifies all our powers, binds them...

Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from an essay entitled "Circles" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1841"¦. The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary picture...

Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been adapted from Henry David Thoreau's famous essay on Civil Disobedience, produced in celebration of Martin Luther King Day. Dr. King was a great admirer of Thoreau's essay, describing it as an eloquent argument for...

Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book The Mental Cure by Warren Felt Evans, published in 1874"¦ One of the principal mediums through which mind acts upon mind, is that of words, spoken or written. Words...

Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō, published in 1906. Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of...

Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book The Victorious Attitude by Dr. Orison Swett Marden, published in 1916"¦ Would you not think yourself fortunate to have an assistant of great ability who was available free of...

Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. This is our first podcast of 2016, and we would like to begin by thanking all the listeners who made our December launch so successful. If you would like to join others in helping us spread the word about...

Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, published in 1922. Podcast Transcript: Work is the essence of life. You work to keep pace with the Earth and the soul of the Earth. To...

Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book Friendship & Happiness by Arnold Bennett, published in 1911. Children divide their adult acquaintances into two categories—those who sympathize with them in this bizarre and trying adventure called life;...

Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been adapted from the famous Christmas editorial written by Francis Pharcellus Church, published in The New York Sun in 1897. Dear Editor— I am 8 years old. Some of my friends say there is no Santa Claus....

Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book entitled The Conquest of Fear by Basil King, published in 1921"¦ Fear of death is greatly diminished by recognizing the truth of everlasting growth. This truth is reflected in...

Podcast Transcript: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book entitled The Art of Being Alive by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, published in 1914"¦ LIFE means action, from the cradle to the grave. There are limitless possibilities in this life...

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