How to Overcome Despair with Joy

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

3.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. Listen to the full series by becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/inspirationalpodcasts/.

This episode is edited and adapted from The Philosophy of Despair by David Starr Jordan, published in 1902.

Podcast Excerpt: Very few young men or young women of strength and feeling fail to pass through a period of Pessimism. With some it is merely an affectation caught from the cheap literature of decadence. With others, Pessimism has deeper roots and finds its expression in the poetry or philosophy of real despair. This adolescent Pessimism cannot be wrought into action. The mood disappears when real action is demanded.

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1:16.9	Thank you. Welcome to Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the inspirational living podcast.
1:39.2	Today's talk was edited and adapted from The Philosophy of Despair by David Starr Jordan, published in 1902.
1:54.5	The poetry of Omar Kayam is perhaps our best expression of the sadness and the grandeur of insoluble problems.
2:09.6	It is the sweetness of philosophical sorrow, which has no kinship with misery or distress.
2:18.3	In the strains of the saddest music, the soul finds the keenest delight.
2:26.3	The same sweet sorrowful pleasure is felt in the play of mind about the riddles which it cannot solve.
2:35.0	In the presence of the infinite problem of life, the voice of science is dumb, for science
2:43.0	is the coordinate and corrected expression of human experience, and human experience must
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