Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast.

Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from The Way of Peace by James Allen, published in 1907.

It is said that Michelangelo saw in every rough block of stone a thing of beauty awaiting

the master hand to bring it into reality.

Likewise, within each one of us, there reposes the divine image awaiting the master hand

of faith and the chisel of patience

to bring it into manifestation.

And that divine image is revealed and realized as stainless, selfless love.

Hidden deep in every human heart is the spirit of divine love. It is the truth within us.

It is that which is real and immortal. All else changes and passes away. This alone is permanent

and imperishable. And to realize this love by ceaseless diligence in the

practice of the highest good, to live in it and to become fully conscious in it, is to enter into

immortality here and now, is to become one with truth, one with spirit, one with the central heart of all

things, and to know our own divine and eternal nature. To reach this love, to understand and

experience it, we must work with great persistency and diligence upon our heart and mind,

must ever renew our patience and keep strong our faith, for there will be much to remove,

much to accomplish before it is realized.

Ever and anon as you proceed, all your work will seem to be futile, and your efforts

appear to be thrown away. There may be times when you imagine your work is almost completed,

only to find what you imagine to be the beautiful form of divine love utterly destroyed and you must begin again

with your past bitter experience to guide and help you the individual who has

resolutely set themselves to realize the highest recognizes no such thing as

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