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Podcast Excerpt: The liberated individual distinguishes themselves from by their intelligent curiosity, their play of mind beyond the narrow field of instinct, their perception of cause and effect, their appreciation of motive, and a calculation of results. They are interested in the world about them (and of the great universe of which it forms a part), not merely as a thing they would...
Podcast Excerpt: We do not want our poetry from grammarians, nor our tales from linguists, nor our history from theorists. Their human nature is subtly transmuted into something less broad and embracing of the general world. Neither do we want our political economy from professional traders nor our statesmanship from mere politicians, but from those who see more, and care for more, than...
Podcast Excerpt: The truest criterion of a person's character and conduct, is, invariably, to be found in the opinion of their nearest friends and family, who having daily and hourly opportunities of forming a judgment of them, will not fail in doing so. It is a far higher testimony in your favor, for you to secure the esteem and love of a few...
Podcast Excerpt: "You are more than just yourself; you also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every person's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man and woman, as long as they live and fulfill the will of...
Podcast Excerpt: It is characteristic of many wild animals that they rarely raise their gaze above the level of their own eyes. To be safe from attack, we need only climb a tree, and watch the beast that stalks us pass blindly underneath. Isn't it a curious thing that humanity, observing and knowing such a thing, doesn't see the object lesson in it?...
 Podcast Excerpt: The people who do big things, the history makers, carry themselves like winners; they give the impression of conquerors. We know that they are victory organized by the very impression they make on us. They have a triumphant expression in their faces. They look the part they play in life, and act as people who are in the habit of doing...
 Podcast Excerpt: Do we create evils? Certainly; all the evils there are — just by thinking evil. Do we create good? Absolutely; simply by thinking good. All thought is constructive. "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." We construct destruction when we think destruction. We create war by thinking about it. We create what we do not like...
Podcast Excerpt: Let me not hear you complain about growing old. We are not growing old; we are growing eternally young. All our life up to today has been merely preparation for today. This is the greatest, wisest, happiest day in all our lives. As we overcome, we ascend the Mountain of Life. We rise above the legacy of our limitations. We rise above...
Podcast Excerpt: Industry is one of the important helps to happiness. All else being equal, the industrious person is the happiest. Take a look at the farmer at the plow, the mechanic at the bench, the merchant at the counter, the lawyer at the bar, the doctor in the sick room, and the minister in the pulpit; are they not the happiest of...
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Podcast Excerpt: Take care that your pleasures are real and not imaginary. We do many things because they are called pleasure, which we should hate if they went by any other name. Many people think they are having pleasure, merely because they are not working. Others seem to use the word as if it applied only to the senses, while, on the contrary,...
Podcast Excerpt: One young woman, who always arranged her day's work ahead of time, told me that the very hardest lesson she had to learn was having her plans disrupted. She said she used to get so angry when she was not allowed to accomplish things as she had planned that she would have a sick headache for days. Finally, one day, when...
Podcast Excerpt: Whatever else you may forget, remember that it is not work, but overwork that kills. Exercise gained through good, wholesome work is the greatest life-preserver humanity has yet discovered. The ones who live the longest and best lives are the cheerful workers, those who find a good excuse for liking the task that comes to their hands. The greatest joy and...
Podcast Excerpt: Keep in mind the fact that there are only two known elements in the whole universe: energy and matter. It is a well-known fact that matter may be broken down into units of molecules, atoms, and electrons. These are units of matter which may be isolated, separated, and analyzed. Likewise, there are units of energy. The human mind is a form of...
Podcast Excerpt: From every person according to their ability; to every person according to their needs. The larger responsibilities are placed upon those to whom are given the larger means of achievement. So it is a mistake to fancy that the possession of great riches will relieve us from doing all the tasks and duties that are inevitably essential for the health and...
Podcast Excerpt: For the individual who celebrates freedom, the only "infidelity" is the worship of the golden calf, the reverence for things material rather than things spiritual and mindful — for it is this that results in a spirit extinguished. It leads to dishonest professions of faith, justice, and service, which are required by conventionality, but not accepted by the heart. A "radical" is...
Podcast Excerpt: One of the happiest observers of life and its higher purposes Anne Gilchrist says: "I used to think it was great to disregard happiness, to press to a high goal, while being careless and disdainful of it. But now I see there is nothing so great as to be capable of happiness, to pluck it out of each moment, and, whatever...
Podcast Excerpt: Patience and perseverance are the qualities that enable you to work out your problems in school and your larger problems in the big university of life. Toil holds all genius as its own, for in its grasp a strength is hid to make of polished words or stone A poem or a pyramid. It has been truly said that if we...
Podcast Excerpt: Every inch and every moment of this world, all its aspects and performances, and every act of our senses, invite us to look into their significance---calling us, if not to a Credo, yet to an Admirer. All facts, from stars to blades of grass, from the death of Caesar to the death of a mouse, are for wonder and thereby for...
Podcast Excerpt: Habit is also the foundation of personality. Biologists tell us that it is the constant (and not the occasional) in the environment that impresses itself on an organism. So it is that the habitual in our lives builds itself into our character and personality. In a very real sense, we ARE what we are in the habit of doing and thinking. Our...
Podcast Excerpt: The evolutionary processes of Nature have culminated in the production of a being who walks the earth in an erect position, brain at the summit, who is capable of thought, of emotion, and of abstract reasoning. We are the highest type that has yet appeared upon the earth. We are also a religious being, conscious of our own individuality, our own...
Podcast Excerpt: Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. I'm currently on vacation for the holidays and unable to record a new podcast this week. So, as a special holiday gift to our listeners, I am going to play for you a reading from Our Sunday Talks, a weekly series that is available exclusively to our patrons. If you enjoy today's reading, please do...
Podcast Excerpt: The meek individual is triumphant in defeat. Socrates lives the more by being put to death. In the crucified Jesus, the risen Christ is revealed. That which is real cannot be destroyed — but only that which is unreal. When you find within yourself that which is real, which is constant, abiding, changeless, and eternal, you enter into that Reality, and...
Podcast Excerpt: If we honestly seek to live our best at all times, that determination is visible in every moment of our living, and no trifle in our lives can be too insignificant to reflect this principle of living. The sun illuminates a fallen leaf by the roadside as impartially as a towering mountain peak in the Alps. Every drop of water in...
Podcast Excerpt: The practice of public speaking, the effort to marshal all one's forces in a logical and forceful manner, to bring to a focus all the power one possesses, is a great awakener of all the faculties. The sense of power that comes from holding the attention, stirring the emotions, or convincing the reason of an audience, gives self-confidence, assurance, self-reliance, arouses...
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Podcast Excerpt: There are some people who have the happy gift of putting moral oxygen into the atmosphere, so that all can breathe more freely. We habitually underestimate these buoyant and vivacious souls, who do so much to brighten the lot of their friends. We often take it as a matter of course, and sometimes do not realize how they warmed, and cheered,...