Building the Temple of Your Mind
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 752 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building the Temple of Your Mind. Edited and adapted from Peace, Power & Plenty by Orison Swett Marden.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: One of the greatest accomplishments of the finest character is the ability to order the mind and to exclude from it all the enemy thoughts — thoughts that bring friction and discord into the life, thoughts that depress, that stunt, that darken. No mind can do good work when clouded with unhappy or vicious thoughts. The mental sky must be clear or there can be no enthusiasm; no brightness, clearness, or efficiency in our mental work.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Inspirational Living Podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from Peace, Power and Plenty by Orison Sweat Martin, published in 1909. |
| 0:28.8 | On a famous sundial it is written, I record none but hours of sunshine. |
| 0:42.3 | Every human life will be beautified by making this a life motto. |
| 0:48.6 | What a great thing it would be if we could only learn to wipe out of our memories forever, |
| 0:58.4 | everything unpleasant, everything which brings up bitter memories, unfortunate associations, and depressing, |
| 1:05.4 | discouraging suggestions. If we could only keep our minds filled with beautiful thoughts, |
| 1:11.9 | which uplift and encourage, the efficiency of our lives would be multiplied. |
| 1:19.7 | Are not some people so unfortunately constituted that they are unable to remember pleasant, |
| 1:26.0 | agreeable things? When you meet them, they always have some sad story to tell, |
| 1:30.6 | something that has happened to them, or is surely going to happen to them. They tell you about the accidents, narrow escapes, losses and afflictions they have |
| 1:38.7 | had. The bright days and happy experiences they seldom mention. |
| 1:49.1 | They recall the disagreeable, the ugly, the discordant. |
| 1:53.1 | The rainy days make such an impression upon their minds that they seem to think it rains about all of the time. |
| 1:58.1 | There are others who do just the reverse. |
| 2:04.0 | They always talk of the pleasant things, |
| 2:11.9 | good times, and agreeable experiences of their lives. I know some such people who have had all sorts of misfortunes, losses and sorrows, and yet they so seldom speak of them or refer to them, that |
| 2:20.7 | you would think they never had anything in their lives but good fortune, that they had never |
| 2:26.5 | had any enemies, that everybody had been kind to them. These are the people who attract us, |
| 2:34.1 | the people we love. The habit of turning one's |
| 2:38.3 | sunny side toward others is a result of the practice of holding charitable, loving, cheerful |
| 2:45.6 | thoughts perpetually in mind, while the gloomy, sarcastic, mean character is formed by harboring |
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