Martin Luther King Jr. Inspires Me (Monday Moments ep. 221)

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John O'Leary

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🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Join me every Monday for a quick burst of inspiration on our “Monday Moment” segments.

“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

In honor of this great man’s birthday and national holiday, I am sharing an excerpt from my first book ON FIRE that best demonstrates the immense power of love in my own life + the three simple words that changed my life.

Not read ON FIRE yet? The first three people to email me at [email protected] will receive a personalized copy!

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0:00.0	Hello, my friends, and welcome to Live Inspired podcast with John O'Leary for this week's Monday
0:13.2	moment. We create these to help start your week on fire with a quick burst of inspiration.
0:19.7	One of the great heroes in my life, I have a picture of him
0:22.6	hanging on my office wall right across from my desk is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
0:29.3	And Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said this. I have decided to stick with love. Hate is to great
0:37.3	a burden to bear.
0:39.7	That is awesome. I'm going to say it again.
0:41.7	I have decided to stick with love.
0:46.2	Hate is too great a burden to bear.
0:50.1	Well, throughout the civil rights movement,
0:52.8	Martin Luther King, Jr. preached the importance of love over hate.
0:57.5	He recognized that the only hope for ending hate was to inject love.
1:04.3	In honor of this great man's birthday and the national holiday, I am sharing an excerpt from my book On Fire. This is the passage that opens chapter
1:14.5	seven. I think it best demonstrates the immense power of love that I've received in my life
1:19.9	and maybe what it might mean for you in your own. So here we go. This is from chapter seven.
1:24.6	It begins with a subtitle, Are You Ready? Are You Ready?
1:30.9	Fear and love are the two great motivators.
1:36.3	While fear suffocates, love liberates.
1:41.2	So, before the staff worked to save me, before my mother appeared and asked the extraordinary
1:48.0	inspired question, before anyone had a chance to do anything, the first person to visit me in the
1:55.7	emergency room was my dad.
1:59.0	It was a mighty inflection point for him, and certainly for me. Dad had not been told
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