Recovering Your Happiness & Joy

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

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

3.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Listen to episode 895 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Recovering Your Happiness & Joy. Edited and adapted from The Joy that No Man Taketh from You by Lilian Whiting.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is true that many troubles are inevitable. They are a component part of life. Death is the universal human experience. Illness is largely so (in slight or serious degree). Misfortunes are, practically, universal, in some form or other. There can be no woman or man who is so great, or so good, or so distinguished, or so rich, or so fortunately placed in this world, who is not liable to almost any kind of misfortune.

And yet.....

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast.
0:15.0	Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Joy That No Man Takeeth from You by Lillium Whiting, published in 1905.
0:32.9	Isn't not true that there is an inner radiance, a joy that the world can neither give nor take away,
0:41.3	which is an inalienable possession of the spirit, entirely independent of time, chance or change?
0:50.3	Cannot this joy be achieved by the soul, so that neither death nor privation, nor loss,
0:57.4	nor disappointment, nor trial in any of its many forms, shall dim its radiance or diminish its
1:05.6	energy? For if it can be achieved, it would be the most important discovery of our lives.
1:14.0	Joy is the very elixir of energy and inspiration, the most invincible force.
1:20.9	It is the power which is able to conquer and prevail.
1:25.3	And our ability to achieve this joy is constantly proclaimed by God.
1:31.3	Jesus says,
1:33.3	Ask and receive so that your joy may be full.
1:38.3	Spiritual truth is not a ceremonial ritual for occasional attention, it is the very breath of the soul,
1:48.1	not something to be held as a religious luxury, but as the most absolute necessity of life.
1:56.3	Love, which is the supreme degree of spiritual truth, is the unerring law of guidance.
2:03.6	Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, pleads no excuse of impossibility,
2:11.6	for it thinks all things possible.
2:14.6	It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many a thing. Love is active,
2:23.3	sincere, affectionate, pleasant, and amiable. It is also courageous, patient, faithful, and never seeking itself. Truly, love is the very motor of living.
2:39.5	It can achieve the impossible. It can endure the unendurable with serenity and with faith in the better
2:47.4	conditions to come. Sorrow is a condition of time,
2:52.6	but joy is the condition of eternity.
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