Building the Habits to Set You Free | Motivational
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Listen to episode 562 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Building the Habits to Set You Free. Edited and adapted from King of Mind, Body, and Circumstance by James Allen.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Habit is repetition. We repeat the same thoughts, the same actions, the same experiences over and over again until they are incorporated within our being, until they are built into our character as part of ourselves. Faculty is fixed habit. Evolution is mental accumulation. Humanity, today, is the result of millions of repetitious thoughts and acts. We are not ready-made. We become, and are still becoming. Our character is predetermined by our own choice. The thought, the act, which we choose — that, by habit, we become.
Thus each person is an accumulation of thoughts and deeds. The characteristics which you manifest instinctively and without effort are lines of thought and action that become, by long repetition, automatic — for it is the nature of habit to become unconscious, to repeat itself without any apparent choice or effort on the part of its possessor. And in due time it takes such complete possession of the individual as to appear to render their will powerless to counteract it. This is the case with all habits, whether good or bad.
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| 0:02.0 | What comes to mind when you hear the word gratitude? |
| 0:05.0 | Maybe it's a daily practice, or maybe it feels hard to be grateful right now. |
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| 0:45.3 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from King of Mind, Body and Circumstance, by James Allen, published in 1911. |
| 1:02.0 | Every person is subject to the law of habit. Are we then free? Yes, we are free. Humanity did not make life and its laws. |
| 1:14.6 | They are eternal. |
| 1:16.6 | We find ourselves involved in them, and we can understand and obey them. |
| 1:22.6 | Our power does not enable us to make laws of being. |
| 1:26.6 | It subsists in discrimination and choice. |
| 1:30.3 | Humanity did not create one jot of the universal conditions or laws. |
| 1:36.3 | They are the essential principles of things and are neither made nor unmade. |
| 1:42.3 | We discover them, not make them. |
| 1:47.8 | Ignorance of them is at the root of the world's pain. |
| 1:51.2 | To defy them is folly and bondage. |
| 1:54.5 | Who is the freer person, the thief who defies the laws of his or her country, or the honest citizen who obeys |
| 2:02.9 | them, who again is the freer individual, the fool who thinks they can live as they |
| 2:09.4 | like, or the wise person who chooses to do only that which is right. |
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