The Secret of a Great Life | Spiritual Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Listen to episode 868 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Secret of the Great Life | Spiritual Podcasts. Edited and adapted from In the Light of the Spirit by Christian D. Larson.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We are not here to drift with the stream or to fold our arms passively and say that we will let the best come to pass. The truth is, that if there be anything we want, we must work for it. If we wish to make life ideal, we must make it so ourselves.
The things we desire do not come to us simply through mere passivity or expectation. We are living in an imperfect world, a world which is in the process of growth; therefore, we meet undeveloped conditions on every side...
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| 0:46.0 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from |
| 0:49.0 | In the Light of the Spirit by Christian D. Larson published in 1916. |
| 0:57.0 | When we examine our mode of living, we shall find that we dwell upon the spiritual side of life only on rare occasions. |
| 1:13.6 | Most of the time we allow our consciousness to reside upon the personal or material side of life, |
| 1:21.6 | and it will remain there for days, weeks, or months. |
| 1:26.6 | We find that during this period our soul activity becomes passive, |
| 1:32.3 | and consequently the personality does not have the benefit of that greater spiritual power, |
| 1:40.3 | which is necessary in order that we may meet and overcome every problem and condition in life. |
| 1:49.9 | This being true, it is important that we learn to live more and more upon the spiritual side of consciousness, |
| 1:59.9 | so that we may gain possession of a larger measure of this higher |
| 2:04.4 | power, which alone can emancipate the personality and give higher wisdom to the mind and intellect. |
| 2:14.1 | We are not here to drift with the stream or to fold our arms passively and say that we will let the best come to pass. |
| 2:25.8 | The truth is that if there be anything we want, we must work for it. |
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