How to Hold on to Happiness | Life Changing Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Listen to episode 569 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: How to Hold on to Happiness. Edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George Jordan.
Happiness Podcast Excerpt: Happiness does not consist of what we have but what we are — not in our possessions but in our attitude towards them. It is the serenity of the soul in the presence of a joy. It is not absolute, requiring certain fixed conditions. It is relative. What would be a fast for one might prove a royal feast for another.
Happiness does not always require success, prosperity, or attainment. It is often the joy of hopeful struggle, the consecration of a purpose, and energy used to some good end. Real happiness ever has its root in unselfishness — its blossom in love of some kind. We make or mar our own happiness and that of others to a larger degree than we are willing to admit. It is easier to pose as a victim of conditions than to prove ourselves a victor.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Inspirational Living Podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | Don't forget that if you enjoy our podcast, you can follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. |
| 0:23.5 | Thank you. |
| 0:25.0 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Crown of Individuality by William George |
| 0:31.8 | Jordan, published in 1909. |
| 0:38.8 | If we were to see someone idly roll a hundred dollar bill into a splint, hold a light and |
| 0:44.7 | match to it, and watch the charred fragments fall to the floor as a dead memorial to uselessness, |
| 0:52.0 | we would remember it for a lifetime. |
| 0:58.4 | We would tell the story many times in the years to come. |
| 1:01.5 | We would talk of the waste and the vanity, |
| 1:06.2 | the numerous ways in which that money could have been used for good. |
| 1:14.7 | In our everyday life, there are countless instances of happiness thrown away just as foolishly for a trifle, |
| 1:18.9 | often for just the fleeting gratification of a moment. |
| 1:22.9 | Our happiness rarely dies a natural death. |
| 1:29.3 | We slay it with our own hand, or others kill it for us. The smallest thing may keep it alive, the smallest thing may kill it, and yet selfishly, |
| 1:36.7 | blindly, we still the heart of our own happiness, or that of others. |
| 1:43.2 | We may even irreverently throw the blame on the universe, when we |
| 1:47.8 | alone are at fault. Happiness does not consist of what we have, but what we are, not in our |
| 1:57.1 | possessions, but in our attitude towards them. |
| 2:01.9 | It is the serenity of the soul in the presence of a joy. |
| 2:06.6 | It is not absolute, requiring certain fixed conditions. |
| 2:11.9 | It is relative. |
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