Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Working with God by Gardner Hunting.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Today I would like to talk with you about a spiritual law. The law is that what you give out comes back to you multiplied. Therefore, the way to success of any kind (as you may convince yourself by experience) is to begin giving out what you want to have come back. If you have no money, obviousl...

Listen to episode 1028 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Qualities of Genius | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from A Book of Cheerful Counsel by Nixon Waterman, published in 1909.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Helvetius, the famous French philosopher, says: "Genius is nothing but a continued attention," and Buffon tells us that "genius is only a protracted patience." William Turner, the great landscape ...

Listen to episode 1027 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Supreme Value of Skeptics & Free Thinkers. Edited and adapted from All’s Right with the World by Charles B. Newcomb.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The word "skeptic" is from the Greek. Its root meaning is "one who is looking for the truth," "who is thoughtful," "who considers," "an inquirer after facts." Yet we are often war...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from All’s Right with the World by Charles B. Newcomb.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We are just beginning to recognize as a scientific fact that "all action is in mind." So far, we have dealt mainly with the external expressions rather than with true causes. The science of thought has not been included in our studies. All our life as yet is "miracle....

Listen to episode 1026 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Develop Your Memory to Achieve Success. Edited and adapted from Secrets of Mental Supremacy by W. R. C. LATSON.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: THE value of any person to themselves and to the world at large depends in great degree upon their memory — upon your ability to recall and to use at any desired moment the recollection of what you have seen, heard, experience...

Listen to episode 1025 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Albert Einstein: Inspirational Wisdom and Quotes. Edited and adapted from the writings of Albert Einstein.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: “A human being is a part of the whole called by us the universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of our consciousness. ...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from The Gift of the Spirit by Prentice Mulford..

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What is the aim of life? To get the most happiness out of it; to learn to live so that every coming day will be looked for in the assurance that it will be as full of pleasure as the day which we now live in; to banish even the recollection that time can hang heavily on our hands; to be ...

Listen to episode 1024 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Our Duty to Be Happy. Edited and adapted from the book Happiness by Hugh Black, published in 1911.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful countenance, and it is the cheerful countenance that spreads cheer to make other hearts merry. The sunny soul brings sunshine e...

Listen to episode 1023 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Life Hacks: Turning Bad News Into Good. Edited and adapted from Working With God by Gardner Hunting.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Bad news is what seems to upset us most in our efforts to live a triumphant life. We try to fulfill the conditions of what we think is our destiny, and then we begin to look forward to receiving the fruits of our labors. When the particular thi...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, edited and adapted from Discovery of a Lost Trail by Charles B. Newcomb.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We exhaust our strength in our impatience at our work and the conditions that surround us. There is nothing that comes to us which we could not do easily if we adjusted our energies, but we waste our forces in our worries. It is our leverage that is at fault. When that is changed, we...

Listen to episode 1022 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Rewire Your Brain for Optimism and Success. Adapted from the book Success is For You by Dorothy Quigley.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Try to see how the laws of nature work and be an optimist. Be a liberal, tolerant one. The jokester says, “A pessimist is one who has met an optimist.” That's a fine hint not to make your optimism too ill-advised, too belligerent. You w...

Listen to episode 1022 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Your Pain & Sorrow. Edited & adapted from The Path to Prosperity by James Allen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Is there no way of escape from pain and sorrow? Are there no means by which bonds of evil may be broken? Is permanent happiness, secure prosperity, and abiding peace a foolish dream?

No, there is a way, and I speak it with gladness, by which evil...

Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks. Edited and adapted from “What is Worth While?” by Anna Robertson Brown.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Thinking is a spiritual activity, and consists of the reaction of the Individual against the Universal Mind. “I think, therefore I am,” when “I cease to think, I cease to exist.” 

Thinking is the only activity which spirit possesses. Spirit is creative. Thinking therefore is a creative...

Listen to episode 1021 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Spirituality and The Art of Living. Adapted from the book Method of New Thought by Abel Allen.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To know the art of living, we must know much of Nature. Until we catch its deeper meanings, until it kindles in us a sense of beauty, of order, of proportion and sublimity, the valuable ideals of life have evaded us.

When we can recognize an intellig...

Listen to episode 1020 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The World as Looking Glass. Edited and adapted from The Palace of Mirrors and Other Essays by Joseph Frank Thompson.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The world is full of looking-glasses in which we behold our own reflection. Any given mirror may be cracked or otherwise defective (so that the image fails to do us justice), but, more or less, the thing reflected is the thing t...

Listen to episode 1019 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Success Habits of Money & Time. Edited and Adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The vast majority of people who have risen from obscurity to power, and from power to affluence, have done so by careful and systematic improvement of the spare moments of their lives. "Time is money," it is said. But this very ina...

Listen to an episode of Our Sunday Talks. Edited and adapted from “What is Worth While?” by Anna Robertson Brown.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The question of life is not, “How much time have we?” — for in each day, each of us has exactly the same amount: we have "all there is." The question is, “What shall we do with it?” Shall we let this priceless gift slip away from us in haphazard deeds, or shall we adopt some plan of...

Listen to episode 1018 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Million Dollar Lecture Pt. 3 | Success Habits & Incentives. Edited and adapted from The Million Dollar Lecture by Professor Erwin Haskell Schell.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When it comes to building good habits, don’t overlook the habit of success. Yes, there is such a thing. Make it a customary habit to surmount difficulties, even in little things. Perhaps the ...

Listen to episode 1017 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Million Dollar Lecture Pt. 2 | MIT Lectures. Edited and adapted from The Million Dollar Lecture by Professor Erwin Haskell Schell, delivered to the 1920 graduating class of MIT.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Having talked with you about the importance of finding, making, and keeping friends, the next resource that I want to see upon the asset side of your personal bala...