The Art of Right & Natural Living
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
3.8 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Podcast Excerpt: We are living in a world where a constant readjustment is required. The demands of today are inadequate for tomorrow. It is through meeting new difficulties that we develop new powers — through overcoming that we grow strong. It is only through the facing and fighting of perplexities and troubles that we come to know life as it really is — that we truly learn the lessons of life.
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| 1:38.3 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Will to Be Well by Charles Brody Patterson, published in 1906. |
| 1:57.2 | To live naturally in any age means to adjust yourself naturally to your environment and the requirements of your being. |
| 2:09.6 | When we live naturally, we live harmoniously. A naturalness in any degree creates discord. But God lives in every life, |
| 2:23.3 | lives fully, unfailingly, despite apparent setbacks. Nothing can really separate us from God, and by God I mean the great universal life that is in us, through us, and above us, the universal love that floods our being whenever we are open to it. |
| 2:48.0 | We are living in a world where a constant readjustment is required. |
| 2:56.5 | The demands of today are inadequate for tomorrow. |
| 3:01.9 | It is through meeting new difficulties that we develop new powers, through overcoming that we grow strong. |
| 3:12.1 | It is only through the facing and fighting of perplexities and troubles that we come to know |
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