The Great Secret of Life | Inspirational Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
3.8 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 1036 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Life. Adapted from work by Elbert Hubbard that appears in The American Bible by Alice Hubbard.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The secret, which I am about to tell you, is the most valuable and far-reaching of any known to human kind. It is the key to health, happiness, wealth, power, success. It is the open sesame to Paradise, here and now. A secret is something known only to a few. But often the best way to retain a secret is to let others help you to keep it. Just as the only way to retain love is to give it away — art and religion the same.
This secret, which I am about to impart, will cause no thrill, save in the hearts of those who already know it. And all I can do for you, anyway, is to tell you the things you know, but which possibly you do not know you know until I tell you.
So, here, then, is the secret.......
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is David. You know, over the years I've started a number of businesses, like this podcast. Some have succeeded in, others have failed. But the common experience has been feeling rather alone at the start, and getting overwhelmed by all the things you have to do, all the different hats you have to wear. Finding the right tool that not only helps you |
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| 1:15.4 | Go to shopify.com slash inspirational. Go to Shopify.com slash inspirational. Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. |
| 1:37.7 | Today's reading has been edited and adapted from the work of Albert Hubbard, |
| 1:42.8 | collected in the book The American Bible by Alice Hubbard, |
| 1:47.0 | published in 1911. |
| 1:55.0 | Ideas are born. They have their infancy, their youth, their time of stress and struggle. |
| 2:03.6 | They succeed, they grow senile, they nod, they sleep, they die. |
| 2:10.6 | They are buried and remain in their graves for ages. |
| 2:15.6 | And then they come again in the garb of youth to slaughter and slay and |
| 2:22.7 | inspire and liberate. And this death and resurrection goes on forever. In time there is nothing |
| 2:32.5 | either new or old. |
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