Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to episode 1013 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Unlock the Heart | Life Lessons. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Our own mind is for our own use. We cannot exert any of its power without affecting ourselves. Feelings of anger affect us physically. Indeed, they hurt us, and do not harm the object of our displeasure.  Ther...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. Today's episode was edited an adapted from Nuggets of New Thought by William Walker Atkinson, published in 1902. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : There is plenty of sunshine in life, if you only look for it. And there is plenty of shadow in life, if you only look for it. But...

Listen to episode 1012 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret Power of Habit. Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from The Wonders of Life by Ida Lyon. Motivational Podcast Excerpt : A habit is a dominating power which, when in full control, is master of the situation, and so subtly does it gain control of us that we do not realize what a tremendous power it is, until we try to loos...

Listen to episode 1011 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Discovering Your Hidden Talents. Adapted from The College and The Higher Life by Elmer Hewitt Capen. Inspirational Podcast Transcript :Let me remind you that your talent, your endowment of intellect and moral perception, is a gift. This is what you brought with you into the world. It affords no ground for vanity, nor even of self-congratu...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. Today's episode was edited an adapted from Week-day Religion by James Russell Miller, published in 1880 Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Life is very critical. Any word may be our last. Any farewell, even amid glee and merriment, may be forever. If this truth were but burned...

Listen to episode 1010 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Magic Voice Within You | Creative Power. Edited and adapted from Working With God by Gardner Hunting. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : As Emerson says in that very essay, the creative urge within you is stirring for expression. And that very urge — in the man or woman who pays attention to it — is the source of achievement, and fortune...

Listen to episode 1009 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Your Fears. Edited and adapted from “Thoughts Are Things” by Prentice Mulford. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : You can cultivate courage and increase it at every minute and hour of the day. You can have the satisfaction of knowing that in everything you do, you have accomplished two things -- namely, the doing of the thing itse...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode includes prayers from the Sioux, Lakota, Cherokee, Chinook, and Aztec. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Oh, Great Mystery, teach me how to trust my heart, my mind, my intuition, my inner knowing: the senses of my body, the blessings of my spirit..... ----------------...

Listen to episode 1008 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Positive Affirmations | Building Right Thinking. Edited and adapted from How to Stay Well by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : If we would overcome the habit of wrong thinking, we must cultivate the habit of right thinking; and for this purpose there is no method that is superior to that of concentrating the mind upon p...

Listen to episode 1007 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Using the Law of Attraction. Adapted from The Creative Mind & Success by Ernest Holmes. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : In the presence of some people, we feel as though nothing were too great to undertake. We are uplifted. We are inspired to do great things, to accomplish. We feel strong, steady, sure. What a power we feel in the pre...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from Working with God by Gardner Hunting. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : It ought to be easy for me to give to God. To give Him my troubles, for instance; to give Him the responsibility for the result of my efforts; to give Him the care of my...

Listen to episode 1006 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Law that Governs the World. Adapted from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Compensation.” Inspirational Living Podcast : Nature hates monopolies, and exceptions. The waves of the sea do not more speedily seek a level from their loftiest tossing, than the varieties of a condition tend to equalize themselves. There is always some leveling ci...

Listen to episode 1005 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be a Genius in Business. Edited and adapted from The Book of Business by Elbert Hubbard. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The great 21st century retailer must be a leader in taste. They are an educator. They stand for economy, color, proportion, harmony and increased happiness. They inspire the imagination by bringing from the far c...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from The Vedic Way of Blessedness, edited and adapted from a lecture by Swami Abhedananda. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : When we understand the true meaning of life, we know that life is opposed to death, as light is opposed to darkness. Lif...

Listen to episode 1004 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Making Your Ideals Real. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christopher D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The belief that it is impossible to make real the ideal has no foundation whatever in truth. It is simply an illusion produced by fear and has no place in the exact science of life. When you discern an ideal you d...

Listen to episode 1003 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Words of Power. Adapted from Your Forces and How to Use Them by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Every word that is spoken exercises a power in your personal life, and that power will work either for or against you, depending upon the nature of the word. You can talk yourself into trouble, poverty, or disease. And...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from Working With God by Gardner Hunting, published in 1934. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : What do you suppose those people got out of contact with you? Do you know? Of course you don't. You think that they forget you. Well, they don&#39...

Listen to episode 1002 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Circles of Life & Success. Edited and adapted from the essay "Circles" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Old age should not creep upon a human mind. In nature every moment is new; the past is always swallowed and forgotten; the coming only is sacred. Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energiz...

Listen to episode 1001 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Happiness. Adapted from The Wonders of Life by Ida Luella Rettinghouse Lyon. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Life holds for everyone some different meaning. Out of its great storehouse of treasures, every person endeavors to secure that which, for them, means happiness. Many people early give up the struggle to acquire more...

Listen to the 1000th episode of the Inspirational Living podcast: Essay on Self-Reliance – 1000 th Episode w/ Free eBook Giveaway. Edited and adapted from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essay on Self-Reliance. Get your free Kindle eBook edition of our motivational books Evergreen, Everest, and Evermore until April 19th by visiting https://livinghour.org/books or looking them up on Amazon.com. Inspirational...

Listen to episode 999 of the Inspirational Living podcast: You Can Develop a Powerful Concentration. Adapted from Thought Force in Business & Every Day Life by William Walker Atkinson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The individual who can concentrate has a sure remedy for the "blues." How so? Why, just by shutting off the unpleasant thoughts and concentrating on a brighter subject. Th...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was Edited and adapted from Working With God by Gardner Hunting. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : People suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for you to be cheated by anyone but yourself, as it is...

Listen to episode 998 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living an Authentic Life | Originality vs. Conformity. Edited and adapted from Working with God by Gardner Hunting. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : Isn't it pitiful, how we so often conform: conform to style, to custom, to mode, to trend. And if we think about it, we come upon a curious anomaly. The world is actually crying out for ori...

Listen to episode 997 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Great Power of Perseverance. Edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life by T.L. Haines & L.W. Yaggy. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : "Continual drops wear out the stone." So persevering labor gains our objectives. Perseverance is the virtue wanted — a lion-hearted purpose of victory. It is this that builds; constructs;...

Listen to episode 996 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Earning Your Wisdom and Happiness. Edited & adapted from a speech by David Starr Jordan. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt : The greatest source of failure in life comes from this. It is easier to be almost right than to be right; to wish, than to gain. In default of gold, there is always something almost as good, and which glitters equall...