Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast.

Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from essays on the meaning of life by Carl Hilty, published in 1903.

I have no time. That is not only the most familiar and convenient excuse for not doing something.

It is also, one must confess, the excuse which has in it the greatest appearance of truth.

Is it a good excuse?

I must admit that within certain limits the excuse is reasonable.

But I shall try to show how it is that this lack of time occurs, and how

one may, at least in some degree, find the time you need.

The most immediate reason for lack of time is to be found in the character of the present

age.

There is today a prevailing restlessness and a continuous mood of excitement, from which,

unless one makes themselves a hermit, one cannot wholly escape.

We say that time is money, yet people who have plenty of money seem to have no time.

Thus the modern world seems pitiless in its

exhortation to work. Human beings are driven like horses until they drop. Many

lives are ruined by the pace, but there are always more lives ready like horses

to be driven. Yet the results of this restless haste are generally not convincing.

There have been periods in history when people, without the restlessness and fatigue that now prevail,

accomplished far more in many forms of human activity than people achieve today.

Where are we now to find the scholars whose works fill thousands of volumes,

or the artists like Michelangelo and Raphael, who could be at once painters, architects,

sculptors, and poets? The nervous haste of our day cannot be wholly explained by assuming that

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