Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Byways of Blessedness by James Allen, published in 1904. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.

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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is great power in the words of a wise woman or man, but their silence is more powerful still. The greatest people teach us most effectively when they are purposely silent. The silent attitude of the great teacher (perhaps noted by only one or two disciples) is recorded and preserved through the ages; while the flamboyant words of the merely clever talker — heard by thousands, and at once popularized — are neglected and forgotten in, at most, a few generations.

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Listen to episode 1121 of the Inspirational Living podcast: What Are You Living For? Adapted from New Thought Common Sense and What Life Means to Me by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Do you ever stop and ask yourself for what you are living? Is it for "success" in some undertaking? Then what are you doing to produce success? No matter how hard you may be working, unless you are finding pleasure and pride in your work, and doing it with cheerfulness, you are not moving forward toward real success.

One month of such application of your powers will achieve more for you than a year of grumbling, dogged work, done with unwillingness and dislike of the task. Whatever you are doing, reason yourself into a love of your labor, until you can leave it for something more agreeable.

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Listen to episode 1120 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Dare to Become a Reformer. Edited & adapted from the book The Power of Truth by William George Jordan.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The reformers of the world are those men and women of mighty purpose. They are leaders with the courage of individual conviction who dare run counter to the criticism of the crowd. They are the souls who voluntarily bear crosses for what they accept as right, even without the guarantee of redemption. They are the heroes who gladly go down into the depths of silence, darkness and oblivion, only to emerge finally like divers, with pearls in their hands.

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