The Majesty of Calmness | William George Jordan
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2015
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Listen to episode 8 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Stay Calm & Motivated. Adapted from The Majesty of Calmness by William George Jordan.
Transcript Excerpt: Calmness is the rarest quality in human life. It is the signpost of a great nature, in harmony with itself and its ideals. It is the moral atmosphere of the life self-reliant and the self- controlled. Calmness is singleness of purpose, absolute confidence, and conscious power — ready to be focused in an instant to meet any crisis.
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| 2:07.4 | Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, |
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| 2:15.0 | Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book, |
| 2:20.3 | The Majesty of Calmness, by William George Jordan, published in 1900. |
| 2:27.3 | Calmness is the rarest quality in human life. It is the signpost of a great nature in harmony with itself and its ideals. |
| 2:38.0 | It is the moral atmosphere of the life self-reliant and the self-controlled. |
| 2:44.0 | Calmness is singleness of purpose, absolute confidence and conscious power, ready to be focused in an instant to meet |
| 2:54.1 | any crisis. No person lives their life more fully, more intensely, and more consciously |
| 3:01.9 | than the one who is calm. Fatalists are not calm, but coward slaves of their environment, hopelessly |
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