Becoming Helpful & Useful to Others
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 26 April 2026
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Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: According to scripture, we can make the most of our life by losing it. Jesus says that in losing our life we are saving it. There is a lower self that must be trampled down and trampled to death by the higher self. The alabaster vase must be broken, so that the ointment may flow out to fill the house. The grapes must be crushed so that there is wine to drink. The wheat must be bruised before it can become bread to feed the hungry.
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| 0:13.0 | authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Welcome to our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the inspirational living podcast. |
| 0:35.3 | Today's talk was edited and adapted from Making the Most of Life by J.R. Miller, |
| 0:43.2 | published in 1891. |
| 0:49.2 | According to Scripture, we can make the most of our life by losing it. |
| 0:56.0 | Jesus says that in losing our life, we are saving it. |
| 1:00.0 | There is a lower self that must be trampled down and trampled the death by the higher self. |
| 1:09.0 | The alabaster vase must be broken so that the ointment may flow out to fill the house. |
| 1:17.6 | The grapes must be crushed, so that there is wine to drink. |
| 1:22.6 | The wheat must be bruised before it can become bread to feed the hungry. It is so in life. Whole unbruised |
| 1:32.9 | unbroken people are of but little use. True living is really a succession of battles in which the |
| 1:41.2 | better triumphs over the worse, the spirit over the flesh. |
| 1:46.7 | Until we cease to live for self, we have not begun to live at all. |
| 1:52.7 | We can never become truly useful and helpful to others, until we have learned this lesson. |
| 2:00.3 | One may live for self and yet do many pleasant things for others, |
| 2:05.3 | but one's life can never become the greatest blessing to the world it was meant to be, |
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