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Welcome to the inspirational living podcast.

Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from Thoughts Are Things by Prentice Mulford, published in 1898.

The tendency of many people, after they are a little advanced in years is to look backward with regret. The looking should be the other way. Forward.

If you want to go backward in every sense, mental and physical, keep on cultivating the mood of living regretfully in your

past life. It is one of the chief characteristics of the material mind to hold tenaciously to the

past. It likes to recall the past and mourn over it. The material mind has a never-ending

series of solemn amusement in recalling past joys, and feeling sad because they are never to come again.

But the real self, the spirit, cares relatively little for its past. It courts change.

It expects to be a different individual in thought, a year hence from what it is today.

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